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Below, for those who may be curious to the specific description of each skill is a brief coverage of its overview. Also, listed below are the perks that one gets from attaining certain ranks of the listed skill. These perks are not minor and add a great deal o...

Some attacks, spells, and skills may affect dangerous status changes.  The base physical status effects are as follows: Deafened The target may not make Observation checks using hearing and receives - 1 delay from the next turn. Blinded Target may not us...

Lycanthropy Type: Virus Duration: Lifetime Once contracted, the infected will progress through four stages if they do not satisfy the requirements of the disease.  Every time the target misses a meal, keep a tally. When that tally reaches the number listed ...

The first of these game philosophies, is that Nyra is built to be quite brutal in its nature. When the health calculations of player characters are considered in relation to even the damage of a weapon like a short sword, it can be seen that a fluke high-damag...

Before time came to be and all things lay in oblivion, formless and without distinction, all was one and the Knowing Nothing reigned supreme, content in equilibrium. Order, paramount, was default and no new thoughts could emerge. For thoughts to emerge, they m...

THE is nothing and no thing.  He is a withered tree in a flourishing grove, whose branches are overflowing with luscious fruit and thick green leaves.  His leaves never die, yet are all the time dead.  In a throne of white obsidian he sits, exists. What does ...

The gods of Nyra, although worshipped, are nothing to be admired to any neutral observer. Each God, a manifestation of some phase of physical matter, exists as per the presence of that phase. Where their form of matter or the philosophy associated with it, are...

Magic in Nyra can be understood as almost a scientific phenomena. Although it is true that it defies the physics of our world, it should be understood as a consistent and coherent system. Each being that is able to cast magic in the world of Nyra, is able to d...

In Nyra, every being has a soul. This is not to say that every soul is created equal. Indeed, the more intimately connected to the stream of magic that any being is, the more powerful their soul. But every being has an Eye of Arkhan, whether it is attuned or n...

But if there is a soul, what is death? And what happens after one dies? The answer is quite grisly for most. The gods and the lower daemons, all lie in wait for the death of conscious beings, to consume their souls and thus expand their own power. The more sou...

Between the different magical phases, the worldviews of their adherents can change drastically. Influenced both by the constraints and nature of each phase and their own personal experiences, mages tend to be quite ideological. They are involved in an elaborat...

Ygthakians Demonym: Noxai Holy text: The Chao Those who profess Ygthak are those who agree with THE’s philosophy of chaos; which is to say, the precept that chaos is unpredictability. In order to free themselves from predictability, the followers of THE liv...

Orderism Demonym: Orderist Holy text: The Book of Alignment The Orderists are a worldwide policing force. Their religious philosophy is the dogmatic belief that order must be held paramount to all other things. In many ways this puts the Orderists at odds w...

Ruckism Demonym: Ruckite Holy text: Chants of the Burnt Remains Ruck the Burned has come to incinerate the previous ways of life. Whereas before The Massacre the Famulus were slaves, they are now slave masters to a world that is physically lesser than them....

Oriaca Demonym: Orionists Holy text: The Uru Oriaca is a religion which believes that acquisition of knowledge is the highest good and that destruction of knowledge is the gravest sin. This principle, although worrying at first, is actually joined together ...

Custonidus Demonym: Custodians Holy text: Dagathonus The Custodians are a variation of Druidism which arose in the cities, first with the Ponderans, then organically in many other species. This religion venerates the natural world as the highest good, even ...

Onwei Demonym: Onwa Holy text: Convergence of Vulin The worshippers of Onwei believe that there is extraordinary power in the blood. This life-bearing liquid fuels living bodies and, in their belief, is the medium in which the soul is stored. For this reaso...

Solism Demonym: Solist Holy text: The Uru Solism is a religion which centers itself upon the path to achieving daemonhood. It is the oldest religion of Nyra, having been discovered through a true divine revelation in ancient Ponderan society, wherein the Ur...

Step 0. Background As you proceed through character creation, you should be asking yourself questions about the backstory of the character you are creating. It may help to ask yourself some broad questions about where your character came from and what the...

Life of Warfare +1 to Sequence at character creation, not to exceed the maximum. Combat Reflexes -1 from all rolls while in combat. Power Strike  The warrior may specify that they wish to add delay to any given melee strike. For every delay that they ad...