Humans
The gods changed nothing.
Strength10
Dexterity10
Vitality10
Intellect10
Spirit10
Adaptable passive
Learn faster: 5% more experience from every source.
Second Wind active
Once a battle, recover a fifth of your stamina.
Peoples
Twenty-one peoples
Each is strong in one area and weak in another, and each has gifts of its own.
The peoples
Everyone is something.
Your people sets the five attributes you begin with, the gifts that are always with you, and the gifts you can call on in battle. Pick one below to begin as them. If you die and walk the underworld road, you may choose again and keep everything you have earned.
Elves
Long-lived. Longer-remembering.
Strength8
Dexterity12
Vitality8
Intellect12
Spirit11
Keen Sight passive
You see weak points: +4% critical chance.
Moonstep active
Slip the next attack aimed at you.
Half-Elves
A foot in two doors.
Strength10
Dexterity11
Vitality9
Intellect11
Spirit10
Two Doors passive
Welcome in both worlds: +3% physical and magic resistance.
Silver Tongue active
Talk a hunting creature out of a fight, once a day.
Dark Elves
They chose the deep, or it chose them.
Strength8
Dexterity13
Vitality7
Intellect12
Spirit11
Deepsight passive
You see in the dark, and where it hurts: +5% critical chance.
Shadow Veil active
Vanish for two rounds. Nothing can target you.
Dwarves
Built from deep places.
Strength13
Dexterity7
Vitality14
Intellect8
Spirit9
Stoneblood passive
Hard to move, hard to hurt: +6 armor.
Deep Hold active
Plant your feet. Block chance rises by 20 points for a round.
Halflings
Small, quick, and hard to find at supper.
Strength7
Dexterity14
Vitality9
Intellect9
Spirit12
Lucky passive
Fortune finds you: +3% critical chance and +2 speed.
Slip Away active
Your next attempt to flee cannot fail.
Gnomes
Always building something.
Strength7
Dexterity10
Vitality8
Intellect15
Spirit11
Tinker's Eye passive
You understand wards and devices: +5% magic resistance.
Contraption active
Set a device that strikes the first enemy to act.
Orcs
The war is older than their names.
Strength14
Dexterity9
Vitality13
Intellect6
Spirit8
Bloodrage passive
Pain feeds you: +2 weapon damage.
War Cry active
Your allies strike harder for three rounds.
Half-Orcs
Strength with a second opinion.
Strength12
Dexterity10
Vitality11
Intellect8
Spirit9
Hard-won passive
You have taken worse: +3% physical resistance and +3 armor.
Brace active
Halve the next blow you take.
Giants
The ground feels them coming.
Strength16
Dexterity5
Vitality16
Intellect7
Spirit7
Titan's Frame passive
+4 armor and +5 points of block mitigation.
Earthshaker active
Stamp the ground. Enemies near you may lose their next action.
Drakeborn
Scaled, proud, and breathing something.
Strength12
Dexterity8
Vitality12
Intellect9
Spirit11
Scaled Hide passive
Old blood, thick skin: +8 armor.
Ember Breath active
A cone of fire that burns everything in front of you.
Hellmarked
Marked by something below.
Strength10
Dexterity9
Vitality9
Intellect12
Spirit11
Infernal Resolve passive
Fire and fear slide off: +6% magic resistance.
Brand active
Mark an enemy. It takes extra damage from everyone for three rounds.
Mindkin
They think loudly in the dark.
Strength6
Dexterity9
Vitality7
Intellect16
Spirit14
Open Mind passive
Thoughts turn aside spells: +8 magic armor.
Mind Lash active
Strike an enemy with thought alone. Armor does not help it.
Thornfolk
Rooted in old forests.
Strength9
Dexterity8
Vitality14
Intellect8
Spirit12
Barkskin passive
Tough as wood: +4% physical resistance.
Rootbind active
Roots grip an enemy. Its speed is halved for two rounds.
Skyward
Light-boned, feathered at the shoulder.
Strength7
Dexterity14
Vitality7
Intellect10
Spirit12
Light-boned passive
Quick on the wing: +3 speed.
Wingbeat active
Rise out of reach of ground attacks for a round.
Gravewalkers
The dead who did not quite stay.
Strength9
Dexterity8
Vitality12
Intellect9
Spirit13
Death's Door passive
The grave has already had you: immune to poison, +2% physical resistance.
Grave Chill active
Drain an enemy's stamina and take half of it.
Tideborn
The sea let them go, but not far.
Strength9
Dexterity11
Vitality11
Intellect9
Spirit10
Sea-blooded passive
You breathe water and shrug off cold: +3% magic resistance.
Riptide active
Drag an enemy off its footing. It loses its next action if it fails to resist.
Emberkin
Born near a fire that never asked permission.
Strength11
Dexterity9
Vitality9
Intellect12
Spirit10
Forgeheart passive
Fire cannot burn you, and your blows find the soft place: +3% critical chance.
Flare active
A burst of heat. Enemies near you are set burning.
Stonebound
Slow to wake. Slower to break.
Strength13
Dexterity5
Vitality17
Intellect6
Spirit9
Living Stone passive
+10 armor and +3% physical resistance, but -2 speed.
Rooted active
Become immovable for two rounds: you cannot be pushed, stunned or slowed.
Wildkin
The wild did not finish letting go.
Strength11
Dexterity12
Vitality10
Intellect7
Spirit10
Keen Nose passive
You smell fear: +3% critical chance and +1 speed.
Pounce active
Strike first this round, whatever the speed order.
Gloamfolk
Neither day nor night would claim them.
Strength8
Dexterity12
Vitality7
Intellect11
Spirit13
Twilight Grace passive
+2 speed and +4% magic resistance.
Glamour active
Enemies lose track of you: the first attack against you each round misses.