Shattered Lands

Season 1 tidings

tidings
planning
resolution
resistance
battle
cleanup

Perks 📖 Rules

General

Perk	Tier	Rules
Confident Duelist	Base	When Dueling, ignore your 1st and 5th consequences.
Confident Negotiator	Base	When Negotiating, ignore your 1st and 5th consequences.
Confident Crafter⚠ not automated	Base	When Crafting, ignore your 1st and 5th consequences.
Confident Ritualist	Base	When casting rituals, ignore your 1st and 5th consequences.
Desperate Reaction	Base	Use up to one additional ↩️ each month by spending an action from next month.
Flexible Skills⚠ not automated	Base	Choose two skills; for yourself, treat 2 actions tagged with the latter as the former. Repeatable with an entirely separate pair each time.
Managerial Practices	Base	Refresh an agent (action).
Prepared Reaction	Base	Use up to one additional ↩️ each month by spending a scheme. The scheme does not apply as an asset to the resistance roll.
Personal Touch	Base	Your actions are rank-2 assets for challenges, instead of rank 1.

Municipal

Perk	Tier	Rules
Civil Servants	Base	Refresh a feature of a town you claim (action).
Heavy Construction	Base	Use multiple industries on build actions, but still cannot repeat materials.
Slumlord	Base	When taxing, gain coin equal to population rather than wealth. Adds "Uprising" instead of "Taxed".
Five Year Plan	Base	Taking a town action lets you take the same action in another town with a separate pool; only your Skill replicates between them.
Seeder⚠ not automated	Base	Gain Seed minor ambitions per claimed town; completing one plants a mystic tree (first two free). Seeded towns gain Growing 1 or a terrain mana each season; battles there add "Destroy the Tree".

Magic

Perk	Tier	Rules
Elemental Efficiency	Base	Choose a terrestrial element. Casting a spell of that element gains 1 mana of it. Repeatable with a different element each time.
Elemental Specialization	Base	Choose a terrestrial element. Store 2 extra mana of it, and gain 1 mana of it at the start of each season. Repeatable with a different element each time.
Drain Curios	Base	A magic item can always contribute to a ritual, but loses its magical properties for the rest of the season.
Renowned Ritualist	Base	Excess successes on rituals become Respect or Fear.
Vessel Heart	Base	Mana does not dissipate at end of season. Mana spent on a failed ritual is refunded.
Mystic Reactions	Base	Use up to one additional ↩️ each month by spending an Air mana in addition to any other costs.
Steady Sorcery	Base	Slow spells gain +1 effective rank per unique Slow spell already cast this month. Learn 3 Slow Spells.
Improvised Instants⚠ not automated	Base	When casting Fast spells, pay any 1 mana symbol with 2 mana of another element (element cast is unchanged). Learn 3 Fast Spells.

Military

Perk	Tier	Rules
Forced March	Base	When you muster, you can move armies not in their garrisons.
Capable Generals⚠ not automated	Base	Learn two new once-per-battle commands, more powerful than the base commands.
Quickdraw	Base	Your side always acts first in combat, removing the "Seize the Initiative" Goal. Negated if any enemy also has Quickdraw.

Influence

Perk	Tier	Rules
Mass Channel	Base	When you channel influence, you can remove 2 influence from any number of locations.
Mercurial⚠ not automated	Base	During Tidings, before resetting outpost influence, swap your influence between any two hexes twice.
More Outposts⚠ not automated	Base	Select a wilderness hex where you have ≥3 influence. Create an outpost there.
More Influence	Base	Gain access to an additional influence generation mechanism.
Municipal Mana	Base	When channeling influence in a town, spend 2 influence to generate 2 mana matching either the terrain or the town’s ancestry. (Mutually exclusive with Urban Outposts.)
Urban Outposts	Base	Outposts can be built in towns. Immediately move an outpost into a non-capitol town where you have ≥3 influence. (Mutually exclusive with Municipal Mana.)

Respect

Perk	Tier	Rules
Mercy Campaign⚠ not automated	Base	When an enemy army retreats, surrenders, or is forced to route, gain Respect equal to the number of routed units.
Health Drive	Base	Action: heal the sick in a claimed town with Nature; 2 Respect per success, +1 population if successes exceed population. Once per town per season.
Savior⚠ not automated	Base	Rescuing an agent/army grants Respect equal to their rank (halved if you share blame, doubled if the danger was especially lethal).

Fear

Perk	Tier	Rules
Inquisition	Base	Action: detect and attempt to remove another conspiracy’s influence from a hex; gain Fear per influence removed.
Little Cruelties	Base	Gain 1 Fear at the start of each month.
Blighted Neighborhood	Base	Choose a claimed town: each Cleanup, reduce its population and wealth by 1 and gain 5 Fear.

City — Sovereign

Perk	Tier	Rules
Moderately Skilled	Creation	Start with 5 ranks in other skills (max 2/skill); Law and Industry recommended.
Royal Head	Creation	Describe your capitol’s leader — merits, selection, sacrifices made.
Proficient Heirs	Creation	Describe 3 loyal rank-2 follower agents (mobility 3) representing heirs to the throne.
Isolationist Past	Creation	You do not start with friendly contacts.
Ancestral Defense	Creation	Privately describe an ancient enchantment defending your capitol and how it could be overcome.
Ancestral Tithe	Creation	Choose Special Treatment, Uplift, or Unity tied to a shared ancestry/creed (the variant). Special Treatment is proposed each Tidings; Uplift and Unity stay GM-adjudicated.
Specialized Magic	Creation	Store up to 4 mana of your ancestry’s element (the variant); cast through your Heirs.
Starting Claims	Creation	Capitol pop 7 / wealth 2, Stone Walls, 4 built features (complexity 5-4-3-2); claim two small towns (pop/wealth 2).
Ancient Crafts	Creation	Capitol industries get Specialized free; capitol features grant a rank-1 asset toward building the same elsewhere.
Starting Armies	Creation	Rank-4 size-4 heavy royal guard (Loyal) + rank-2 size-7 medium army.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 2: rank-6 Experience on a non-guard army, 3 rank-2 luxuries, or 6 coin.
Lordly Commandments⚠ not automated	Creation	Take four public actions each month.
Big Family	Base	You can have up to 5 Heirs.
Magical Heirs	Base	Choose an elemental temperament per Heir. Each Tidings, choose 3 Heirs and generate mana matching their temperaments.
Magical Monarch	Base	Store up to two of each element other than your ancestry element (which stays at 4) per season.

City — Celestial

Perk	Tier	Rules
Moderately Skilled	Creation	Start with 5 ranks in other skills (max 2/skill); Sorcery and Industry recommended.
Divine Protection	Creation	Privately describe a grand capability defending your capitol/denizens and how it could be overcome.
Awesome Power	Creation	You are a premium titanic rank-4 6-unit army, Loyal only to yourself; take wounds equal to range from capitol when fighting away from it.
Sorcery	Creation	Start with 2 Fast and 2 Slow Spells.
Excellent Personal Magic	Creation	Store up to three of each mana per season; cast through yourself.
Mystic Tithe	Creation	Each Tidings, gain a mana matching the terrain element of each town you claim.
Starting Claims	Creation	Capitol pop 6 / wealth 2, Stone Walls, 4 built features (complexity 4-3-2-1); claim one small town; start with a rank-2 size-4 medium army (levy, random build).
City on a Hill	Creation	Capitol industries get Extended free; spells cast from capitol have doubled range.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 2: magic item fragments, 2 counts of a rank-3 unique material, or 7 coin.
Divine Requests⚠ not automated	Creation	Take four public actions each month.
Satellite Shrines	Base	See/cast through statues raised in claimed towns (2 immediately, +1/Tidings); an ↩️-able action to remove one.
Magical Protector	Base	Store four of each mana; generate one mana of your element each season. (Mutually exclusive with Divine Protector.)
Divine Protector	Base	Your element is Light or Dark; generate two mana of it each season. (Mutually exclusive with Magical Protector.)

City — Overlord

Perk	Tier	Rules
Highly Skilled	Creation	Start with 7 ranks in other skills (max 2/skill); Law and Industry recommended.
Shrewd Protection	Creation	Privately describe a complex stratagem defending your capitol/denizens and how it could be overcome.
Pitiless Tithe	Creation	Each Tidings, remove 1 Uprising from each claimed town; gain 1 Respect or Fear per removal.
Indentured Mages	Creation	Store up to two of each mana per season via mages garrisoned in each town (mobility 1); casting through them adds Rebellious equal to the spell’s generic cost.
Starting Claims	Creation	Capitol pop 6 / wealth 2, Stone Walls, 4 built features (complexity 4-3-2-1); claim two small towns (pop/wealth 3).
Detailed Inspections	Creation	Capitol industries get Durable free; spells cast from capitol have doubled range.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 3: magic item fragments, rank-3 unique material x2, rank-2 luxury x3, rank-2 schemes x3, or 7 coin.
Starting Armies	Creation	Rank-4 4-unit heavy army + rank-2 8-unit medium army, random ancestries, Mercenary keyword.
Wheels within Wheels⚠ not automated	Creation	Take two public and two private actions each month.
Privateers	Base	Your largest mercenary army does not count toward your support limit.

Conspiracy — Circle

Perk	Tier	Rules
Moderately Skilled	Creation	Start with 5 ranks in other skills (max 2/skill); Nature and Sorcery recommended.
Sorcery	Creation	Start with 2 Fast and 2 Slow Spells.
Arcane Roots	Creation	Describe a magical defense protecting your outposts from removal.
Mystic Membership	Creation	Describe the normative member of your conspiracy (magical beings or minor-magic mortals).
Masters of the Circle	Creation	3 loyal rank-2 follower agents (mobility 1), each tied to an element and generating a mana of it each season.
Reclusive	Creation	You do not start with friendly contacts.
Circle Magic	Creation	Store up to two of each mana per season; cast through any of your three masters.
Wild Influence	Creation	Choose two Influence Generation Mechanisms; start with two wilderness outposts and 1 influence radius-1 around each.
Strange Allies	Creation	Describe 2 rogue armies (rank 2 and rank 3) adjacent to different outposts; free control for one season, negotiable afterward.
Runes	Creation	A circle-only asset spendable once in a ritual/challenge targeting its hex; at most one of your runes per hex. Grants the Hidden Runes catalog action; other powers destroy detected runes for free.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 3: one mana of each terrestrial element, 5 coin, a rank-3 unique resource, rank-3 Runes at your Strange Allies, or rank-3 Runes at your outposts.
Covert Procedures⚠ not automated	Creation	Take four private actions each month.
Immortal Masters⏱ tracked	Advanced	Once per season, a slain master teleports to an outpost instead of dying.
Many Masters	Advanced	You can have up to 4 Masters of the Circle at a time.
Disrupting Runes⚠ not automated	Advanced	In a battle or ↩️, expend a rune of equal or greater rank to counter an opposed power’s spell and all its effects, cast where the rune is. Also counters a spell cast from the rune’s hex, or serves as a critical asset against a resisted ritual there.
Wodewalkers	Advanced	Action: choose an outpost, gain 1 influence there and in contiguous same-type wilderness hexes, up to successes.

Conspiracy — Cult

Perk	Tier	Rules
Highly Skilled	Creation	Start with 7 ranks in skills (max 2/skill); Sorcery and Charisma recommended.
Blessed Redoubts	Creation	Describe a divine defense (your patron’s first boon) protecting your outposts from removal.
Vast Patron	Creation	Describe your patron; leadership can communicate at slow-spell speed.
Devoted Membership	Creation	Describe the normative cult member — what they know and don’t about the patron.
Cult Magic	Creation	Store up to two of each mana per season; cast through lower cultists in hexes with ≥2 influence.
Moderate Influence	Creation	Choose two Influence Generation Mechanisms; start with two outposts and 1 influence radius-1 around each.
Patron’s Fingers	Creation	Design a repeatable rank-2 template army: Deathless (fee 1, undead/constructs, torpor not death), Fantastic (fee 2, no equipment/class, +2 armor, premium keyword), or Boonbearer (fee 3, devoted membership, premium keyword).
Starting Armies	Creation	6-unit Patron’s Finger army in one outpost + 6-unit rank-1 "Cultist irregulars" in the other.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 2: 1 Favor, 2 counts of a rank-3 unique material, or 7 coin.
Covert Procedures⚠ not automated	Creation	Take four private actions each month.
Secret Shrines⚠ not automated	Creation	Placing hidden shrines to your patron is a stealthy action ambition.
Flexible Summoning⚠ not automated	Advanced	Redesign a Patron’s Finger army on creation (keeping its Deathless/Fantastic/Boonbearer type); ignore the 2nd consequence when producing them.
Risen Ranks	Advanced	After winning a battle where mortals were slain, create a new Patron’s Finger army sized to excess successes (max = units slain) in that hex.
Gate Guardians⚠ not automated	Advanced	↩️ when an enemy musters onto an outpost hex: raise a free, battle-only Patron’s Finger army to defend it.
Protector Race⚠ not automated	Advanced	Towns of other ancestries produce double support limit; armies of other ancestries cost double support per unit.

Conspiracy — Cause

Perk	Tier	Rules
Broadly Skilled	Creation	Start with 1 rank in 5 skills and 2 ranks in another.
Hydra’s Hearts	Creation	Describe your cause’s hope: when an outpost is removed, found another ≥6 hexes away (or delay as a difficulty-0 action later).
Statement of Purpose	Creation	What brings this cause together, and what keeps it bound rather than fracturing?
Convicted Membership	Creation	Describe the core demographic this cause attracts.
Greater Influence	Creation	Choose two Influence Generation Mechanisms; start with three wilderness outposts and 1 influence radius-2 around each.
Novice Mages	Creation	Store up to one of each mana per season; cast through your outposts.
Veteran Rebels	Creation	Rank-3 8-unit army (any ancestry, controlled build) in an outpost, gains Stealthy.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 2: magic item fragments (own design), 2 counts of a rank-2 luxury, or 3 coin.
Torches and Pitchforks⚠ not automated	Creation	Take two private and two public actions each month.
Righteous Magic	Base	Store up to two mana of each element per season; cast from hexes with ≥2 influence.
Molotovs	Base	Saboteurs attacks may inflict Burn damage, at +1 difficulty.

Champion — Wizard

Perk	Tier	Rules
Highly Skilled	Creation	Start with 7 ranks in skills (max 2/skill); Delve and Sorcery recommended.
Sorcery	Creation	Start with 2 Fast and 2 Slow Spells.
Arcane Defense	Creation	Privately describe a magical defense on your person and how it could be overcome.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 2: fragments of two magic items (own design), 2 counts of a rank-3 unique material, or 7 coin.
Shaded Fire⚠ not automated	Creation	Take five private actions each month. Your final action goes last.
Multifocused	Creation	Have two minor ambitions at a time (still start with just one).
Excellent Personal Magic	Creation	Store up to three of each mana per season; cast through your person.
Dealer of Wisdom	Creation	Each Tidings, gain 2 Insights.
Strange Allies	Creation	Describe 2 rogue armies (rank 2 and rank 3) on opposite sides of the map; free control for one season, negotiable afterward. Your support limit is 0.
Far Traveler	Creation	Personal mobility 6.
Perfected Spell	Advanced	Perfect a spell: first cast each month costs 2 less, second costs 1 less. Upgrade perfects two more spells.
Channeled Shield	Advanced	Generate AFEW mana at any time, but doing so breaks your Arcane Defense for the season.
Master of Artifice	Advanced	Personally wield two more magic items.
Dreamwalk⚠ not automated	Advanced	Meditate into the dreams of a creature you’ve met or connected to magically, aware of your body’s surroundings meanwhile.
Elemental Flexibility⚠ not automated	Advanced	Substitute up to one required mana in a spell for mana of another type.

Champion — Dragon

Perk	Tier	Rules
Raider	Creation	Start with 2 ranks in Warfare.
Moderately Skilled	Creation	Start with 5 ranks in other skills, max 2 per skill.
Awesome Power	Creation	You are a premium titanic rank-4 4-unit army with a terrestrial element, Loyal only to yourself.
Dread Growth	Creation	Each Tidings, gain 1 unit (2 if below your prior maximum), tracking the max reached.
Startling Immunity	Creation	Describe a magical defense on your person; while it holds, being slain in battle instead retreats you (nearly full wounds) to a GM-chosen hex.
Unsubtle Acts⚠ not automated	Creation	Take four public actions each month.
Personal Magic	Creation	Store up to two of each mana per season; cast through your person.
Knowledge Gobbler	Advanced	Winning a battle where an enemy cast a spell teaches it to you, granting an Insight-gaining action against a claimed town’s population.
Ironskin⚠ not automated	Advanced	Mortally wounded units in your personal army still count for combat checks. (Mutually exclusive with Ironmind.)
Warbacked	Advanced	Carry another willing army with you as their garrison; +5 support limit.
Monstrous⚠ not automated	Advanced	Gain a premium army keyword.
Subtle Titan	Advanced	Your army gains Stealthy and half your monthly actions become private. Upgrade: Strengthened 2 instead, all actions private.
Magical Beast	Advanced	Store three of each mana; generate one mana of your element each season. (Mutually exclusive with Divine Beast.)
Divine Beast	Advanced	Your element is Light or Dark; generate two mana of it each season. (Mutually exclusive with Magical Beast.)

Champion — Paragon

Perk	Tier	Rules
Moderately Skilled	Creation	Start with 5 ranks in other skills (max 2/skill); Delve and Warfare recommended.
Protective Blessing	Creation	Privately describe a magical defense on your person and how it could be overcome.
Mentorship	Creation	One elderly rank-2 Rooted agent (mobility 0) who helped shape your moral footing.
Holy Magic	Creation	Store up to two mana of each element per season, cast through your person; choose Meditate or Preach.
Wandering Warrior	Creation	Choose 1: Fight Like 10 Men, Battlefield Sabotage, or Reinvigorating Speech.
Starting Resources	Creation	Choose 2: magic item fragments (own design), 2 counts of a rank-2 luxury, or 3 coin.
Mobile garrison	Creation	Become the garrison point for armies you Lead; support limit 5; 4 actions/month (public while leading, private otherwise).
Far Traveler	Creation	Personal mobility 5.
Crusader	Advanced	+5 support limit and an action to gain control of an army you battled alongside last month (opposable). Upgrade: +2 on that roll and no march penalty from a second led army.
Borrowed Magic	Advanced	Store one more mana of each element; cast through any army you lead at −1 effective rank.
Greater Holy Magic	Advanced	Store one more mana of each element; use either Holy Magic action.
Distant Loyalties⚠ not automated	Advanced	Claims remain when you leave a town; claim up to two towns at a time.
Warmaster	Advanced	Choose another Wandering Warrior option; +5 support limit.
Assured Trainer	Advanced	Training an army is assured on Warfare; +5 support limit.