Brawler
To deal with the challenges of life in Riesa, most people have developed some skill at fighting. While not common as adventurers, brawlers take these skills to a new level. The brawler focuses on perfecting many styles of unarmed combat. Versatile, agile, and able to adapt to most enemy attacks, a bralwer's body is a powerful weapon. See below for some common racial variants.
Dwarf - Living Avalanche
The Living Avalanche refuses to let anyone stand in her way. The stubbornness of dwarves finds a good fit with the living avalanche's abilities of running straight through any opposition.
Gnome - Mutagenic Mauler
Not content with perfecting her body with natural methods, a mutagenic mauler resorts to alchemy to unlock the primal beast within.
Edari - Snakebite Striker
With her lightning quickness and guile, a snakebite striker keeps her foes' attention focues on her, because any one of her feints might be an actual attack.
Human - WInding Path Renegade
Those who seek the twisted path abandon tradition and follow their own unique routes to self-perfection.
Cavalier
Military orders are virtually unknown in Riesa. Perhaps you are founding a new school of combat, or are seeking to influence the success of those around you.
Inquisitor
While each race has many gods to choose from, few religions have developed such a sphere of influence that they produce inquisitors. Perhaps your deity has called on you for a special purpose.
Investigator
There are many secrets and lost lore in Riesa. Whether on the trail of a fugitive, a long-lost treasure trove, or a criminal mastermind, investigators are motivated by an intense curioisty about the world and use knowledge of it as a weapon. Investigators in general are rare, and those who are not gnomes are rarer still.
Shifter
Whether through training with druidic circles or exposure to strange magical energies. the shifter is a true master of the wild. The shifter can take on the forms of nature and even fuse them together with devastating effect and unbridled savagery.
Variant Shifters
Many shifters discover their ability after exposure to the
Eldritch Storms that sweep across Riesa. The unpredictable nature of these storms causes unpredictable effects, with Elementalist Shifters, Oozemorphs, and Verdant Shifters all making occasional appearances in local lore.
Skald
Skalds are poets, historians, and keepers of lore who not only use their gifts to inspire allies, but are just as likely to be making new stories as telling old ones.
Edari - Court Poet
Many courts are places of artistic refinement, attracting artist who focus on the aesthetic requirements of a particular tradition. These skalds develop exceptional ability at inspiring others and handling large crowds.
Oroc - Hunt Caller
Oroc hunt callers use their songs to draw their allies into the animal world. This talent can cause many to mistake the hunt caller and her allies for lycanthropes or other shapechanging creatures.
Slayer
Skilled at tracking down targets, slayers are consummate hunters, living for the chase and the deadly stroke that brings it to a close. Combining the talents of rangers and rogues, slayers are not unknown in Riesa. Slayers can be found in any region of Riesa, but there are also a few archetypes which are more common to certain races.
Halfling - Woodland Stalker
Woodland snipers are guardians of forest and grove, keeping vigil on their borders and hunting bounties and trespassers from the shelter of sturdy branches.
Oroc - Avalancher
Avalanchers attack from overhead cliffs and mesas like a landslide of arrows and blades.
Elf - Dune Rider
Mounted harriers, saboteurs, and skirmishers, dune riders can disrupt even the most organized opposition.
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