The Strife of the Drowning Tide

Waves beat tirelessly on the shore, grinding mountains to silt and swal- Techniques of the Drowning Tide
lowing nations whole. The Strife of the Drowning Tide mimics that Water Red and White Your wounds attack your foes
all-consuming ruin, flowing in and crushing the multitudes that would
dare oppose its adepts. While less efficient against a single potent foe, Undertow Hand Crush Mobs with your blows
the Strife has ways of swiftly washing away packs of lesser enemies. The Tide Comes In Charge through barriers
Stone Cast on the Strand Hurl a foe back with a blow
The Lesser Strife
The Tide Goes Out Leap back from attack flurries
The sea-priests of the Kasirutan isles are known to practice this lesser
Strife, and through them more than one pirate or merchant's guards- The Mountains Wash Away Crush and drown nearby foes
man has learned something of its secrets. This Strife allows any armor and any two-handed melee weapon.
Initiate: The initiate can breathe underwater and gains a 1d4 Fray die.
Disciple: The disciple’s unarmed attacks are treated as weapons that
do 1d8 damage. As an action, they can move their full movement Water Red and White Constant
rate through the most tightly-packed crowd of foes without drawing The adept can breathe water, see clearly underwater in the absence of
melee attacks. light, and ignores the cold and pressure of the depths. When bloodied,
Master: Commit Effort for the scene. The master whirls through the their wounds lash out with stinging tendrils of gore. Each time they
space around them, inflicting one action’s worth of melee attacks are hit and lose hit points, they can apply their Fray die to the attacker.
on all chosen targets within thirty feet of their position. They must
end their action at the location they began.
Undertow Hand Constant

Salt Lady Lastri The adept’s unarmed attack is treated as a magical weapon that does
1d10 damage. Against Mobs, this damage is rolled straight if the
AC: 3, naturally Move: 30’ run or swim Godbound delays their attack until after the Mob’s action.
Hit Dice: 30 Save: 5+
Attack: +12 x 2 Damage: 1d10+2 blow straight The Tide Comes In Action
Morale 10 Effort: 8 The adept can move their full movement rate in a straight line. They
People of the eastern isles say that Lastri's father was a sea-god with have an invincible defense against harm during this movement and
teeth of coral and skin of white salt. His daughter was born with can charge through a line of foes or any non-magical barrier or wall
pearl-white eyes and a terrifying relentlessness, a determination that less than two feet thick without slowing.
drove her to the captaincy of her own ship before she was eighteen. In
the ten years since, her name has become a byword for bloodstained
Stone Cast on the Strand Instant
plundering and the reaping of fat merchantmen. Even other Kasirutan
ships are fair game to the Salt Lady when her ship is on the prowl. On a successful hit, the adept may halve the damage inflicted, rounded
Between her natural gifts and unnatural potencies, mastery of the up, and hurl the target straight back up to thirty feet. No extra damage
True Strife of the Drowning Tide came instinctively to Lastri. Wheth- is done by the throw even if the target is stopped by a barrier, but they
er by her bloodline or by rumored bargains with powers of the deep must spend their movement action rising next turn. Worthy foes may
waves, she has gained arts akin to the Words of Sea and Endurance, make a Hardiness save to resist the throw.
and is always first over the rail when boarding her prey. She can
Commit Effort for the day to automatically save as a Godbound can,
The Tide Goes Out Instant
and she acts twice a round in combat.
Lastri terrifies her crew almost as much as she does her prey. As is Commit Effort for the scene. On a hit, the adept may choose to be
the Kasirutan custom, she'll sail only with a crew of other women, thrown back thirty feet, landing on their feet. If the assailant is a
one she keeps in line with brutal punishments and iron-fisted disci- creature with multiple attacks and meant to launch several at the
pline. Her hellions have burnt villages and raided towns all along the adept, the remainder are wasted. If the adept is pinned against a wall
Nezdohvan and Raktine coasts, ranging as far north as the Dry Ports or other obstruction, they cannot benefit from this technique.
of the Oasis States and around the Thousand Gods to chew at Dulim-
bai's belly. She's taught her veteran crew the secrets of the lesser Strife
The Mountains Wash Away Action
of the Drowning Tide, and they rejoice in the opportunity to use it.
Lastri's great ambition is to be named Pirate Queen, but her history Commit Effort for the scene. All desired targets within fifty feet are
of casual fratricide toward other Kasirutan ships has left the islands' innundated with salt water and blood, quenching flames, smashing
datus and great captains bitterly resentful toward her. While she's light construction, and inflicting 1d10 damage per two levels or hit
idly entertained thoughts of mass murder to bring them around, she dice of the adept, rounded up, up to a 10d10 maximum. If used more
thinks that some legendary raid on a great city might be more effective. than once per scene, the adept takes half the damage inflicted with
To do that, of course, she needs allies and funds for a fleet, and she is no possible mitigation of it. The drowning fluids vanish after they
quite ready to aid those who can get these things for her. do their damage.

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