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Guiscard

Guiscard Guiscards are a closed and exclusive guild of conmen and magic-users with branches in various Occasian countries, whose intent is primarily to recover artifacts, relics, and fragments of lost wisdom to enhance their power and knowledge, while also making the college, and individual members within it, more powerful. After their apprenticeship, guiscards (named after the northern term for “magician” or “shrewd”) leave their school and travel around the Kingdom, alone or in bands, f
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Benandante

Benandante Long before saints, supersticians, and miraculists began to roam the Kingdom’s countryside, people were protected from hags, devils, monsters, and phantasms by the benandante, who still fulfill this role, despite the considerable competition. These good forest sorcerers straddle the boundary between the spiritual, human, and wild realms. Benandante (Good Walkers) often adore the Ternal Father, but along with this figure of the Creed they usually worship old pagan gods now in de
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Languages

Languages Your knaves’ race, class, and background will determine the languages they speak. Here are the main languages used in the Kingdom, in order of importance: Vernacular. Despite the numerous regional dialects, jargons, and local variants, the Kingdom’s inhabitants all speak and understand Vernacular, the common language in use from the Crown Mountains to the Charybdean Sea. Most people can also read and write, at least well enough to sign documents, read plates, signs, and bountie
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Gallant Knight

Gallant Knight These aristocrats, courtiers, and knights are devoted not to a cause or to an abstract ideal, but rather to Courtly Love, and in particular, to the affection of a specific Lady or Sire, who have made them their "servants". It is almost always a real social contract and a court custom, in which the Knight and Paramour tell each other secrets, provide advice, converse, and keep company with one another. Still, there are cases in which Gallant Knights have accomplished great deeds
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Knight-Errant

Knight-Errant Beggars and paupers in dire straits are not the only people you meet in the streets of the Kingdom and in the Bounty Brotherhood. There are Knaves of noble descent, offspring of fallen families and cadet sons launching into adventures, with their high ideals, weapons and banners of their lineage in plain sight, and their rump on an old jade. Generally more cultivated than most of the populace, and armed with robust ambitions and moral principles, these rambling knights ar
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Shoddy

Shoddy In Brancalonia, everyday objects come at the normal cost, as per common price lists. However, Knaves are generally short of money, and “poor equipment” is all they can afford. Shoddy items and services are badly crafted and offered by crooks and scoundrels. They have an unreliable appearance, uninviting taste, or ambiguous smell, and they always look ready to fall apart on first use. Indeed, poor equipment costs way less than standard-quality gear (a tenth of the price). Objec
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Knave's Rest

Knave's Rest The Knaves of the Kingdom regard resting in a different way than adventurers do elsewhere. Short Rest A short rest is a period of time of at least 8 hours, 6 of which must be spent asleep. The remaining hours can be spent doing light activities, nothing more strenuous than reading, writing, talking, binding wounds, eating, or standing watch. If this period is interrupted by strenuous activity for more than an hour, such as walking, fighting, or casting spells, the knaves ga
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Guappo

Guappo In the variegated and multiform underworld of the Kingdom, the guappo represents the flamboyant, boastful, and pompous rascal, often even charismatic and good-hearted. In common people's eyes, the guappo is more like a street musician, an entertainer, a ladies' man, or a "wrongs' rectifier" than a street Knave. Guappi are skilled in knife duels and enemies of the bullies, the guards, and the most overbearing criminals. In daily life, they serve as popular singers, storytellers, and a
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Harlequin

Harlequin They say that the first “harlequin” was a certain Alichino (“bentwings”), a malebranche escaped from Inferno and rumored to have started roaming the Kingdom with a company of street actors, bringing villages an unprecedented type of performance with colorful costumes, gibes, take-downs, pranks, and pirouettes. His showy attire and dark, mask-like face paved the way for all future Harlequins, the costumed characters of the Comedy of Art, performers of canovaccio shows on stage and
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Matador

Matador Matadors are expert hunters. They capture beasts and monstrosities from the depths of the wilds, take them to cities, and sell them for combat, or to circuses, or as disturbing defenders for fortresses. They are also masters at fighting such monsters in arenas, well knowing how to hit, hurt, and infuriate their prey in a spectacular manner. In addition, matadors are skilled at training these creatures, and are gifted circus hucksters and entertainers, even during the cruelest arena
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Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher In the largest and most convoluted cities of the Kingdom, the Rat Catcher profession is fairly widespread: in addition to what such a name suggests, this typical urban hunter deals with all sorts of pests, parasites, sewers and catacombs' beasts, carrion, and animated objects that don't want to stay where they belong, and even fairies and specters. The city, its dungeons, its cellars, its canals, its sewers, its catacombs, and its towers are the favorite hunting ground of t
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Brigand

Brigand In a world of constant warfare and rivalry among the upper crust, petty noblemen, knights, and hungry peasants, the brigand is often seen as the people’s true champion against debt collectors, excisemen, burgomasters, and finaglers. While brigands are undeniably bandits, robbers, and street thugs in their own right, these rascals are frequently much better for commoners than “their lordships”, who traditionally live off their backs like parasites. Throughout the Kingdom there m
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Gadgeteer

Gadgeteer The Kingdom is not just a land of scoundrels, condottieri, friars, and noblemen: the cities and main academies are not short on artists, inventors, jewelers, watchmakers, and architects capable of creating the highest and most fascinating works of genius. In particular, those who specialize in precision watchmaking, in the creation of devices and ramshackle objects, and the invention of gadgets and mechanisms of all kinds are called Gadgeteers. Just as architects and scholars
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Svanzic Guard

Svanzic Guard The monks who roam the Kingdom are not just punch-happy friars who wander the dusty country roads, hermits expert in mystical wrestling who sat alone for years to meditate on pillars and columns, or abbots who give the commandments of the "Slap One Another" in the coolness of their monasteries. In fact, there are noble and sought-after monastic traditions, exclusive and secret, which represent, if you will, "the aristocracy" of the Brawly Orders of the Creed. The most famous o
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Friar

Friar Numerous amongst the population, friars and nuns represent another aspect of the Creed’s presence in the daily life of the Kingdom. In particular, among the Kingdom’s many monastic rules – which include the limping, beggar, mendicant, itinerant, praying, preaching, minorite and minorbrained, hermit, barefoot, and chained orders – friars most often encountered in bands and engaged in legal-ish jobs are those of the Brawly Orders. Many of these ascetics are simple brothers and sist
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Bravo

Bravo Bravos are fighters specialized in city life and in operating among commoners, criminals, and guards of all kinds, rather than in the wilderness, on the battlefields, or in dungeons filled with monsters.  A bravo is a fighter who has specialized in the protection of a big fish, in intimidation methods, and in the surveillance of places and people: in short, the perfect hitter, gorilla, and henchman on some rich patron's payroll. Hired swords, bodyguards, hitmen on the edge of the law,
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Swordfighter

Swordfighter The Thousand Years’ War is so deeply rooted in the peoples of the Kingdom that it is now considered the only possible way of life. The war’s facts, conduct, mercenary companies, lootings, and the aggravation caused by military sieges and campaigns, are all regulated down to the smallest detail. In this constant-conflict scenario, soldiers, warriors, squires, condottieri, infantrymen, crossbowmen, stormtroopers, sappers, knights, archers, army engineers, runners, scouts, and spi
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Pagan

Pagan While in other realms “barbarians” are invaders, foreigners, and marauders from beyond the borders who speak incomprehensible languages, pagans who live within the borders of the Kingdom have been here for centuries, sometimes since before the cities that surround them were even founded, and speak perfect Vernacular, though with distinctly recognizable accents. Like their fellows from Overmountain, the Kingdom’s pagans have chosen Rage (or, as they call it, “Violence”) as a way o
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Mountaineer

Mountaineer Far from cities, ports, and countryside, up the mountains among the mouflons, hircocervi, and ibex, isolated even from the Pagan Plain's barbarians and the woods, the mountaineers roam: extraordinary guides, explorers, and smugglers, agile as wild goats and silent as wolves, with their faithful flask always at their side. In wartime, squads of these rocks-peaks-and-precipices savvy individuals are hired as scouts, spies, dispatch riders, patrolmen, lookouts, and saboteurs, while
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Nonexistent

Nonexistent The outward appearance of nonexistents is mostly that of empty clothes, armor, or cloaks, wandering alone as knights, paladins, thieves, sorcerers, and so on. To avoid upsetting the populace, they are careful to cover themselves up so that the void under their capes or mantels is concealed. They manage to speak normally by using ventriloquism of some sort, walk and move like ordinary people, and perceive the surrounding world through senses similar to human ones. When their garment
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Malebranche

Malebranche Malebranche are literally devils. Former subjects of Lucifuge, they proclaimed the Great Refusal and left Inferno to walk out in the open under the sun and stars again. With the end of their infernal service, they lost many of their previous supernatural powers and most of their inhuman traits, becoming almost-ordinary humans, barely marked by minor beast-like peculiarities and instincts. Even their memories from before they left the underworld and their knowledge of an eternity of
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Pantegan

Pantegan Pantegans, aka “murine people”, are small rat-men of magical or paradoxical origin. They have thick hair on various parts of their bodies, prominent ears and teeth, sharp faces, very thin hands, long, tapering feet, and a characteristic hairless tail. Little is known about the pantegans’ origins, but scholars interested in the matter (mainly members of this same population) recall that a kingdom of mice appears in very remote chronicles of the Archaic Age. Those stories also mention t
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Wolfcat

Wolfcat Probably spawned by Extravaganza, these beings have been roaming the Kingdom since the early centuries of the Thousand Years’ War, as there seem to be no records of their presence earlier, in Empire days. While some believe they came from Frangia or Altomagna, scholars from those lands claim the contrary, so the mystery remains unsolved. The size of catpards and linxes, wolfcats are felines that have adopted human-like posture, language, and skills, and are also similar in their c
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Marionette

Marionette In bygone times, marionettes were extraordinarily rare, but in recent centuries their presence has become increasingly common in the Kingdom’s cities, theaters, and companies, along with that of marottes and other artifact creatures made of triflewood, aka “turquoise wood”. Once grown exclusively in the most remote recesses of the town of Cuccaigne and impossible to find, this material is now being cultivated in various places around the Kingdom – with the turquoises’ authorization
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Sylvan

Sylvan Last specimens of a race of hominids with traits more feral and rustic than those of the common human, sylvans have always lived alongside humans when the latter left the mountains and forests to found cities. Compared to common humans, sylvans have much thicker body hair in specific places: on the men’s chest and back, on women’s groin, and on the arms and legs of both; their head is often covered in a thick mane of hair. Their body is more agile and muscular, their features fierc
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