This website is so shoddy you can't even put a simple table on it. For some reason they decided not to use the whole width of the page for a text box (why not?) You can't even write a simple table with one line per entry.
Unlike the writers of the rulebooks I wrote the character and Abilities of the Dragon-Blooded along animalistic rather than purely elemental lines. I think the standard personification of the Dragon-Blooded is rather boring so gave them an animal based aspect to add character to them. I would have liked to show the information below in a neat table but because of the way Blog is constructed that wasn't possible (one of many failings of computers.)
Water Aspect
Animal: The Fish
Key words: Movement, Group-Action
Abilities: Sail, Archery, Linguistics, Lore, War
Earth Aspect
Animal: The Crane
Keywords: Majesty, Unity
Abilities: Bureaucracy, Performance, Ride, Craft, Martial Arts
Ice Aspect
Animal: The Crafty Fox
Keywords: Cunning, Resourcefulness
Abilities: Investigation, Occult, Medicine, Survival, Dodge
Fire Aspect
Animal: The Snake
Keywords: Self Reliance, Focus
Abilities: Integrity, Presence, Melee, Awareness, Resistance
Wood Aspect
Animal: The Monkey
Keywords:
Abilities: Socialise, Athletics, Larceny, Thrown, Stealth
No I didn't forget keywords for the Monkey I just haven't come up with them yet. Apologies for not putting the Abilities in convenient alphabetical order but that the order I came up with them in.
As I may have said in an earlier post the essence of the Terrestrials is based on the animals that live in each quadrant of Creation associated with their Element. Their Charms are based on animal traits and each Terrestrial has a totem animal which becomes visible when their anima banner manifests as it does for Lunars, although the Terrestrials obviously can't shapeshift. I also thought the Immaculate Dragons identities should be reviewed. One sign that was seen as a special portent by their followers was that they each had the totem creature traditionally associated with their Aspect. In regard to their animal aspected powers and identities- they are beings of Creation- the Lunars' are aspected towards the Wyld and should have Charms based on that. I look forward to coming up with some.
A note on Craft. I haven't decided how best to categorise Crafts in terms of their Elemental aspects. One idea was to base each Craft on each quadrant of Creation and the activities people would do there. Although there would be some overlap in skills, players would argue that someone skilled in working with wood would be able to make a boat, storytellers may want to give concessions in experience to players who already have similar skills. My interpretation of skills isn't as simple as in the rulebook. Plants are naturally in abundance in the East, it's the feature of the Elemental Pole, as a result using plants in general, making things out of wood and using plants for various purposes such as mixing, drugs, medicines etc would be an aspect of Wood Craft. Using any resource primarily found in one area of Creation would fall under the areas Craft. Using underwater plants, making boats etc would be Water Craft. Making things out of ice or using materials from animals since no others exist in the North would be Ice Craft. In the south the proximity of the Pole of Fire means craftsman are able to flow lava into vast molds and create huge blocks of stone that cannot be made anywhere else in Creation. Dealing with heated matter and controlling the way in which it cools to create usable object is Fire Craft. Cooking and other similar processes might qualify as well but I'm a bit inclined to categorise them as Wood instead.
The relevance all this has for the Dragon Blooded is that Earth Aspected Terrestrials have Craft in general as a Favoured Ability (not sure about Celestial Crafts like Magitech yet.) However each Aspect has the Craft associated with their direction as a Favoured Ability.
