The Long Road

Wilds-Keeper

A warden who reads sky and ground a day ahead — storms met with tents already staked, camps set where the wild is kindest, and a company that is never again surprised by the land it walks.

• L6 Read the Sky — You read weather a day out and ground a half-mile out: the company is never surprised by storm or terrain you have seen coming, and your camps sit where the wild is kindest (wild rest risk one step lighter).
• L10 Friend of Beast and Bird — Wild beasts do not startle at you and working animals trust you; once per session you may read what a beast or bird lately saw (the GM answers honestly, in images).

Unlock gift (L6): Oilskin Field-Kit — A wax-sealed roll of snares, lines and weather-tells; once per long rest, advantage on a survival or beastcraft check. (+30 gold)

Shadow-Hunter

A grim tallykeeper of the Shadow’s creatures who feels a wrongness before it shows its teeth — one of the few walking who can look at a too-perfect stranger and know the lie for what it is.

• L6 Feel the Wrongness — The Shadow's creatures read as WRONG to you at a glance — and a woven Seeming itches: you are one of the few who may pierce a Sovereign's disguise (a Sense check the GM calls).
• L10 The Long Hunt — Once marked in your tally-book, a creature of the Shadow cannot lose you by mundane flight: you track it across regions, and your first arrow against it each fight strikes with advantage.

Unlock gift (L6): Hunter's Tally-Book — A grim little ledger of banes and habits; once per session, declare you KNOW this creature of the Shadow — advantage on the next roll against it. (+35 gold)

Oath of the Wall

A soldier sworn to the space between the enemy and the ones behind — the shield that does not step back, and the last name read out with honor when the horn finally sounds.

• L6 Interpose — When a creature you can reach strikes at a companion beside you, you may take the blow instead: the attack resolves against you. The wall is not a place; it is a decision.
• L10 Hold the Door — In a doorway, on a bridge, at a stair — where only one can pass, you count as a wall: enemies cannot press past you while you stand, and your interpose reach widens to anyone behind you.

Unlock gift (L6): Wall-Oath Cloakpin — A plain iron pin of the garrison; once per long rest, take a blow meant for a companion at your side — the attack resolves against you, at disadvantage. (+40 gold)

Axe of the Vein

A garrison axe of the deep holds, drilled where the corridors are narrow and the dark fights back — every swing measured to end the matter before it reaches the lamps.

• L6 The Deep Swing — Your two-handed blows carry the hold's weight: when you fell a foe, the follow-through may carry into an adjacent enemy (the GM grants the cleave when the fiction earns it).
• L10 Garrison Temper — Pain banks, it does not spend: while below half your health you strike as if fresh — your attacks suffer no penalty from fear, wounds or Weariness.

Unlock gift (L6): Garrison Greataxe — Irongate issue, notched and true; once per short rest, reroll one damage die and take the new roll. (+40 gold)

Banner-Captain

A leader whose voice is a rallying-point — the horn-call that unbreaks a line, the raised standard that turns a huddle of frightened neighbors into a company that holds.

• L6 The Rallying Word — Your voice carries orders through chaos: once per fight, a companion who hears you may immediately shake a fear effect or re-form (stand, re-grip, re-set) without losing their action.
• L10 Banner of the Free — Where you plant your standard, the line holds: companions fighting within sight of your banner test loyalty and courage at advantage, and the militia you drill counts as soldiers for one night.

Unlock gift (L6): The Company Horn — A bound war-horn, small cousin of the Unblown Horn of Greywatch; once per long rest, SOUND IT — rally the company (each ally shakes one fear effect, the next roll of one ally is at advantage) or call any aid within earshot. (+50 gold)

Quiet Hand

A burglar of the old discipline — waxed picks, patient hands, and the professional pride of leaving a room exactly as it was found, minus one carefully chosen thing.

• L6 Soft Entry — Locks, latches and shutters open to you without noise or trace; a room you have burgled cannot prove you were ever in it.
• L10 Pocket the Moment — Once per scene you may already HAVE done the small sleight — the guard's key lifted, the letter swapped, the coin palmed — declared after the fact, if the fiction allows you were close enough.

Unlock gift (L6): Wax-Boxed Picks — Fine picks bedded in wax so they never ring; once per long rest, advantage on a thievery check. (+30 gold)

Riddle-Master

A gambler and riddle-wit who plays people as surely as games — bluffs read like open books, wagers steered by a smile, and riddling doors that answer a shade kindlier.

• L6 The Wager's Friend — You know the riddle-canon and the etiquette of every wager in the March: you may always PROPOSE the contest of wits instead of the contest of arms, and creatures of the old customs must at least listen.
• L10 Read the Table — Bluff, tell and hidden intent open to you like cards face-up: advantage to see through a lie in any game, wager or bargain — and rune-doors that answer riddles answer YOU a hint kindlier.

Unlock gift (L6): Carved Riddle-Ring — A puzzle-ring of hedge-oak, worn smooth by thinking thumbs; once per session, advantage on a riddle, wager or lore check. (+30 gold)

Scriptorium Scribe

A traveling scholar with a folding desk and an appetite for old scripts — the one who copies the fading page tonight, because no one else will pass this way in time.

• L6 The Fair Copy — Your transcriptions are archive-grade: a chart you copy keeps its secrets (moon-writing included), and the Chartwright pays copyist rates for your surveys — the company's miles become money in your hand.
• L10 The Closed Stacks — Scriveholm's locked shelves open to your seal: once per session, name a text the archives COULD hold — the GM tells you honestly whether it exists, and where.

Unlock gift (L6): Traveling Writing-Desk — A scholar's lap-desk of Scriveholm make; once per long rest, advantage on an old_tongues or lore check. (+35 gold)

Counsel of Kings

A quiet voice behind the high seats who reads courts the way wardens read weather — and sees the lie at a table where everyone else sees an honored guest.

• L6 Standing at Court — Halls that weigh name and letters seat you: you may request audience at any court of the free peoples, and your letters of passage carry a counselor's weight.
• L10 The Untangled Word — You hear the shape of a poisoned counsel: advantage to detect advice that serves a hidden master — and when you expose it before the court, the whisperer's work loses a segment publicly.

Unlock gift (L6): Sealless Signet — A signet bearing no house — the mark of counsel owing none; once per session, advantage to EXPOSE A FALSEHOOD (and it wipes a whisperer-clock segment when it lands — GM). (+40 gold)

Hearth-Song

A singer of the near kind — the song that steadies a shaking room, mends the evening after a hard day, and sends Hope around the fire like bread.

• L6 The Kindled Camp — Your evening music is a hearth without walls: the camp rests one step better, and a companion who took the Grief today feels it loosen a little.
• L10 Song of Mending — Sung over the Healer's work, your music steadies the hand and the patient: treatment checks near your song roll at advantage, and Hope returns a step easier under your roof of sound.

Unlock gift (L6): The Small Harp — Lap-harp of seasoned cherry; once per long rest, the evening's music makes camp rest as if sheltered (rest quality up one step — GM). (+35 gold)

March-Song

A road-piper whose tunes carry a company one more hill — feet keeping time forget they are tired, and fear finds no room in a line that is singing.

• L6 Keep the Step — The company marches to your time: on a forced march ("one more hill") your song pays part of the price — one companion of your choice takes no Weariness from it.
• L10 Voice Against the Wail — You may answer an anti-song in the field: your Duel of Songs shields every ally who can hear you — while you hold the melody, the wail's dread cannot take root.

Unlock gift (L6): The Road-Pipe — A whistle-pipe cut for marching time; once per long rest, the company shrugs one fear or Weariness effect on the march. (+30 gold)

Camp-Forge

A smith who carries the forge to the work — a field anvil off the pony’s back, a night’s repairs by ember-light, and gear that holds because someone mended it with love.

• L6 The Tinker's Round — Every village needs you the day you arrive: pots mended, blades set, harness stitched — you can earn honest pennies anywhere with a hearth, and the gossip comes free with the work.
• L10 Make Do and Mend — At your fire, broken is a temporary condition: once per long rest you restore a ruined piece of kit to serviceable — and gear you maintain simply does not fail at the bad moment.

Unlock gift (L6): Field Anvil — A back-broken little anvil every tinker curses and none abandons; once per long rest, advantage on a craft check at the fire. (+35 gold)

The Great Making

An apprentice to the old high craft — named works undertaken under a master’s eye, and a reader of makers’ runes from whom no made thing can hide whose hand it truly was.

• L6 The True Anvil — The holds recognize your punch-mark: you may work a true anvil wherever the Hold-Kin keep one, and formulary recipes open to you one rank early.
• L10 Apprentice to the Great Making — You may undertake NAMED works (craft_magic: silver + days + a component) under a master's eye — and you can READ a maker's runes: the provenance of any made thing, including the unmasking of a gift that was never a gift.

Unlock gift (L6): Master's Hammer — A smith's hammer bearing an Emberhand punch-mark; a tool, a weapon, and a promise — once per short rest, reroll one damage die. (+45 gold)

Herb-Lore of the Green Roads

A healer of the hedgerow school — the right leaf known at a glance, a fever ended for a handful of pennies, and a green satchel worth more than a sword on the tenth day out.

• L6 The Green Roads — You gather as you walk: on any leg through living country you restock one spent Salve for free — the road itself is your pharmacy, and you know which hedgerow hides what.
• L10 Field Physic — Your poultices work at marching pace: stabilizing or treating a companion no longer slows the company, and a patient in your care shakes an affliction one day sooner.

Unlock gift (L6): Green Satchel — A gathered-and-dried pharmacopeia on a strap; once per long rest, advantage on an herbcraft check. (+30 gold)

House Chirurgeon

A healer of the trained house — needle, gut and steady hands that pull the badly hurt back from the edge, and the standing to order a lord to lie still.

• L6 The Steady Hand — Grave wounds are your trade: your treatment of the Cold Wound, Frost-rot and the deep hurts counts as a haven's care for one step of healing — the House taught you what the road cannot.
• L10 Against the Grave — Death negotiates with you: once per long rest, turn a companion's failed death-state into stabilized — a scar remains (the road writes), but the story goes on.

Unlock gift (L6): The Rolled Kit — Needles, gut, clamps and a steady-handed reputation; once per long rest, advantage on a check to treat a grave wound or affliction. (+40 gold)