[X] Study the Blood
[X] Heedless War
Some ideas for Defining Advancements taken from the Knight Commander. I don't know if this counts as fanwork, but if it does, that's cool. 500 wordsish?
[ ] Evening Sky - Eventide Plate (4 picks) - Heavy may the horizon be, the evening stands unbowed.
The twilight tide, the subtle knife, the incursion against the noonday blue. Yet for all its trickery and subtlety, the evening too has its pride. Cast aside the cloth and arm yourself in the armor that holds back both the day and the night, that dares to see the world that is and find it wanting. Now is the time to dream of a cycle broken, a world where we paint the clouds in neither light nor dark-- but the colors of the liminal in between. Levy your blades; steady your nerves; ready your hearts-- for tomorrow we sally forth against the sky.
We stand unbowed.
Defining Advancement - You may currently have no more than three Defining Advancements.
Protection now scales with one's Strength and Wisdom.
Double the value of all Protection +s.
Gain the ability to Sally Forth, shrouding up to as many people with the same level of protection as currently afforded to you, dubbing them as Eventide Knights. This is mildly spiritually straining, and you can currently sustain four Eventide Knights at a time.
Gain the Trait: Unbowed, which weakens the conceptual strength of anything you do not recognize as holding authority over you. Weapons lose their sharpness, kings lose their mandate, magic disperses under the might of your Pride. This scales both with Rank and Protection.
Lose all bonuses previously gained from Evening Sky. The cloaks are for peace, the plate is for war.
Gain Heroic Passion: Pride.
[ ] Forebear's Blade - Sword of the Knight-Errant (4 picks) - Our code is all we are.
When you take away the sword, the plate, and the mount, what is left of a man? Nothing but their word. But what is one's word without the power to make it real? Nothing but a fairy tale. Marshal your honor and your blade, right your wrongs, and test yourself against the world. Make them remember you in songs and chants and let them never forget that you were more than a man, you were an ideal.
Defining Advancement - You may currently have no more than three Defining Advancements.
Construct a Code: Impose three rules on yourself in the pursuit of an ideal. Some examples would be (Never kill or maim an unarmed combatant, never tell a lie, never refuse an honest cry for help.) Gain tremendous benefits depending upon the rule imposed. An oath to never kill would make killing blows against your person merely glancing, and the resilience of one's body inviolable. An oath to never lie would ensure unfailing loyalty in one's subordinates, not out of supernatural compulsion, but out of the shining purity of ones ideal that makes them worthy of loyalty. The greater the restriction, the greater the boon. Once an oath is broken, lose all benefits derived from that oath. The lost slot can never be refilled.
Double all gains to Will+s.
Might now scales with one's Will.
Halve rank gains of an immoral or tyrannical nature, Triple rank gains from following your Code.
Worsen the Apocryphal Curse by 5%.
