Attributes

How well can the lens of your capacities focus the will of your intent?

Each is determined at character creation by rolling 3d6.
Use in place of a skill for an untrained attempt at a task by rolling under with a d20.

Accurate

strike, sharpen, refine, score, predict, brew
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18 Your hands move at the speed of your senses, missing nothing they touch

Cunning

know, discern, illuminate, comprehend, remember, seek
3 Your mind has opened to the chaos from which all rises and to which all returns.
In the wash of its turbulence, all but the basest thoughts are lost.
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18 The world sings before you in its elegance, a weaving of fact and numericity.
There is nothing more divine to you than knowledge.

Discrete

ambush, smuggle, slink, encipher, deliver, steal
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Persuasive

convince, intimidate, empathize, advise, fascinate, sway
3 By choice or by necessity, you wear your solitude like a coat of iron.
Wherever you go, none will follow.
7 The things you cannot hide make most suspicious.
Your beliefs may align, but it's rare that others can see it.
10 Welcome at the pub, eyed at the courts.
As foolish or foolhardy as any, and every bit as compelling.
14 An open ear, a rousing song, a sense of purpose that makes most look twice.
Wanted or not, someone is always following in your footsteps.
18 A few words can unbar a kingdom. They drip across your tongue.
You are enthralling to speak to, or terrifying.

Quick

chase, surprise, outrun, react, pursue, dodge
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Resolute

resist, resume, withstand, repel, endure, forgo
3 There is no value for belief in a dying world, nothing beyond here and now.
Whim ridden, you drown in the joyous decadence of the moment.
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18 Your view holds the entire horizon, your focus on the eternal.
Even in the greatest of storms, your gaze will not sway.

Strong

bend, break, lift, carry, push, pull
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Vigilant

notice, observe, track, recognize, perceive, distinguish
3 Your senses rarely speak to you, your body a distant echo.
The living world stands little against the fascination of imagination's labyrinth.
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18 A tapestry of infinite detail splays before you, all of it perceptible in an instant.
Even the invisibile is within the grasp of your sight.