BIOLOGICAL HEX CODE: #E4C59D MIGHT Prove your strength. Power through obstacles. Example uses: Martial arts, lifting weights, opera singing MIGHT represents your physical strength. It allows you to perform feats of raw power—backhand a maid, silence a crowd or twist a horseshoe with your hands alone. It also enables you to show off that strength without budging a muscle; an invisible force that trembles your opponent in their boots. Investing into it will affect your body, sculpting it towards the peak of human excellence. At high levels, you'll tend to power through obstacles first and ask questions never. At low levels, however, your physique will be as frail as the outfits you wear, bent and broken at the slightest confrontation. FINESSE Dexterity and flexibility. Dance around the competition. Example uses: Dancing, fencing, lockpicking FINESSE is dexterity and agility. It injects a dual concoction of skill and speed into your movements. It enables you to dance up the ballroom floor one day and untangle an impossible knot the next. It optimizes weapon-handling, allowing for more refined sword fighting or marksmanship. It also loves to draw a crowd—because who doesn't want to see their princess dash and leap across the palace gardens? At high levels, you'll be a motor addict, unable to resist showing off your panache—even when it's unwelcome. At low levels, you'll stumble and trip all over the place, perhaps into the guillotine one day. VITALITY Health and energy levels. Don't run out of steam. Example uses: Marathon running, enduring sicknesses, first-aid VITALITY commands your health and energy levels. It enables you to push through the tiresome obstacles of the day before exhaustion rains on your parade. It's also proficient in sniffing out dangers to your body. Want to check if a cake is poisoned? Need to analyse a fresh wound on your servant? VITALITY's got you covered in both. Finally, it grants leeway in terms of self-inflicted inhibitions, allowing you to ingest alcohol, drugs, and even toxins without succumbing to their side-effects. At high levels, you'll live as a walking example of personal fitness, capable of outlasting the competition even as your own allies struggle to keep up. At low levels, you won't cross a single room without falling over. What good is status and power if you're not healthy enough to wield them? BIOCHEMISTRY Chemicals and concoctions. Manipulate the flesh from within. Example uses: Brewing tea, toxicology, pharmaceutics BIOCHEMISTRY supplies knowledge about the mysterious chemicals lurking beneath the human body, then encourages you to twist them to your advantage. It enables you to concoct drugs, ranging from medicines to artificial enzymes and even life-threatening toxins. It also analyzes the effects of chemicals on others—an insightful trait, when so much of society revolves around consumption, cosmetics and a human body's own natural processes. At high levels, BIOCHEMISTRY will drive you to torment and experiment on the flesh, perhaps to the detriment of ethics or your own health. At low levels, you won't discern one strange smell from another. How many royals have died from ingesting something they shouldn't have? EMOTIONAL HEX CODE: #D81D6F WRATH The willingness to hurt. Crush them before they crush you. Example uses: Berating servants, ordering executions, ignoring tears WRATH is the willingness to destroy. It encompasses not just your inner aggression, but also the resolution to finish the job in a decisive blow. It will conceptualize a dozen ways to dominate your victims, then enable you to ignore their pleas of mercy. Indeed, you will inflict not just mortal wounds, but also mental ones, as intimidation shall exude from your psyche like the heat from a blazing inferno. At high levels, your thirst for harm will rampage forth. You will be unsatisfied with asserting yourself above others, instead desiring to crush them underfoot to show who's boss. At low levels, you may find yourself overwhelmed by harsh realities, unable to make the tough decisions when it truly matters. HEART Resonate with people. Empathize with their woes. Example uses: Charity work, funeral rites, comforting family members HEART resonates with the suffering of your fellow man. It enables you to empathize with the depths of their woes, no matter the gender, class status or other surface-level qualities. You'll never be far from offering words of comfort, and even if they put up a brave face, the cracks won't go unnoticed. Even if their suffering is turned upon you, HEART softens the blow. At high levels, you'll sympathize and pity your subjects to the extent of addiction, including a ruinous effect on your physical health. At low levels, you'll be dumbfounded in the face of others' suffering, preventing you from understanding them at all. SPLENDOUR Life is a brilliant canvas. Seek out its wonders. Example uses: Partying, planning family dinners, sharing drugs SPLENDOUR is the joy incarnate. It allows you to seek out and immerse yourself in the pleasures of life—a morning sunrise, a magnificent gown or the end of a bottle filled with narcotics—no matter what the cost. It also drives you to enable the happiness of others. Need to buy the perfect gift or plan a dinner for a diplomatic envoy? SPLENDOUR has got it covered. You'll work around the clock to make it happen, all sorts of fun ideas whizzing around in your brain. At high levels, you'll indulge yourself to the point of hedonism, dragging everyone around you into an ecstatic haze. At low levels, however, your senses will be muted and dulled. You'll be a real party-pooper, and no-one likes those. INSTINCT Gut feelings and paranoia. Some things don't make sense, until they do. Example uses: Sensing danger, dodging bullets, creating contingency plans INSTINCT is paranoia and reaction speed. It keeps your senses high-strung, watchful for anything posing as a threat. It also enables you to strike first while others fumble, then grants you the senses to dodge retaliating fire. Some threats are not obvious, or lie undetected thanks to incomplete knowledge. INSTINCT will blare alarms to set you ahead of the curve. At high levels, fear will dominate your mind, forcing you to suspect the most innocent of souls. At low levels, you'll advance with reckless abandon, unaware of the most apparent of traps. They'll decorate your tomb with the mark of the fool. SPITE Persistence in resentment. Struggle to the bitter end. Example uses: Enduring physical torture, mutually assured destruction, motivating yourself SPITE is the will to keep going when there's nothing left. It enables you to ignore common obstacles as you crawl towards your goal—physical wounds, ethical principles, the emotional distress of your fellows. It also demonstrates how to harm or offend others during that pursuit; misery needs company, and nothing is sacred—not even yourself. At high levels, SPITE will grant you the drive to accomplish anything, at the cost of becoming unpleasant and self-destructive; a fiend who only derives pleasure from suffering, mutual or otherwise. At low levels, you will lack the mental resilience needed for your position. A single appeal to emotion will make you give up. PHILOSOPHICAL HEX CODE: #6FFFCF SKULDUGGERY Lie, cheat and deceive. The ends justify the means. Example uses: Telling fibs, cheating at cards, lawyering SKULDUGGERY allows you to subvert the truth. Why adhere to the rules when underhanded methods are faster and easier? Spout falsehoods, exploit loopholes or act the victim—all with a straight face. You'll pass security checks with a smile on your face and a weapon hidden on your person. It also enables you to worm beneath an opponent's skin via insinuation and flattery. Expose enough cracks and they'll finish themselves off on their own. At high levels, lies will spill out of your tongue as easy as you breathe. You may become lost in your own deceit, unable to discern it from reality. At low levels, however, you'll be a prime target for the deceptions of others. A knife will be lodged in your back before you know it. MECHANIZATION Invent first. Ask questions later. Example uses: Vehicle repair, attaching augmentations, inventing new ideas MECHANIZATION is the march of progress taken form. In the current era, it is your understanding of machines, from their blueprints all the way to their internal workings. It lets you reassemble a working motor from spare parts, then sabotage the neighboring vehicle so it breaks after a spin. It also encourages you to innovate on what already exists. Bigger, faster, stronger—that is the way of humanity, even unto their own bodies. At higher levels, you'll prioritize steel and oil over air, distancing yourself from the flesh with each turn of the wrench. At low levels, you'll be swept up as technology advances, stubbornly clinging to the old ways until they crumble into dust. PUPPETCRAFT The art of dolls and marionettes. Pull strings or cut them short. Example uses: Theater productions, doll-making, combat puppetry PUPPETCRAFT is art focused on dolls, puppets, and marionettes. It injects the necessary base skills—sewing, sketching, sculpting and more—into your cognition first, then urges you to combine them into one brilliant artform. Create masterpieces from the finest cloth and porcelain, then pull the strings and make them dance. Concoct powerful theater displays with original choreography and songs. Alternatively, attach weapons to their limbs, thus transforming innocent art pieces into stealth killers. With the mindset of a creative, the sky is the limit—including the thought processes of such. At high levels, you'll become a real maestra of the craft, capable of creating a one-person show from scratch. You'll be tempted to voice your criticisms towards other artisans, whether they study the same craft or not. At low levels, you'll prick yourself on a needle and give up, leaving precious materials to waste. SOCIETAL HEX CODE: #A47ED4 GRACE Poise and elegance. A true lord never reveals their innermost thoughts. Example uses: Deflecting insults, maintaining composure, hiding intentions GRACE urges you to put up an elegant front. It enables you to keep your composure in front of a crowd, to not fall prey to cheap flattery, nor be pressured by vulgar insults. You'll keep your head up and eyes forward, your true thoughts tucked safe behind a facade as solid as steel. It also influences your movements; no respecting lord is allowed to wave goodbye like a plebeian, for example. At high levels, you'll be so sophisticated, so poised, that you'll barely show any real emotions, even as they struggle to break out from beneath the facade. At low levels, a single stray barb will cause you to stamp your feet and scream, to the sheer embarrassment of your associates and family. ETIQUETTE Be a proper noble. Do what society expects of you. Example uses: Table manners, understanding fashion trends, ostracizing fellow lords ETIQUETTE demands you adhere to the rules of society. It urges you to act like a proper noble—mannerisms, dress code and all. It also enables you to navigate the hidden battlefields of high-society, where words decide fates and extravagant fans hide intentions to kill. You'll be able to pick up subtle cues from your fellow lords and ladies, perhaps dodging deadly confrontations, or forming life-saving connections. At high levels, you'll be a true stickler to societal rules, one whose whims are dictated by the chains of others. At low levels, however, you'll leave terrible first impressions in your wake. Those who cannot conform are thrown to the wayside. No respecting lady will ever invite you to their parties, unless it's to mock you. APPRAISAL Determine monetary value. Count down to the last coin. Example uses: Calculating budgets, predicting markets, detecting financial fraud APPRAISAL seeks monetary gain. It lets you determine how much an object is worth—base price, future depreciation, market trends and more. It injects the power of finances and economics into your cognition, enabling you to count with numerical precision and generate legitimate interest towards financial records. This extends to human resources too, as no empire is built upon the back of worthless hires. At high levels, you'll pinch those pennies and count the digits so tight, any minor discrepancy will infuriate you. Your subjects will cower in fear at the mere mention of your audits. At low levels, you'll be naïve to the financial intricacies of your position, thus becoming susceptible to frauds and theft. CHARM Attract and captivate your peers. Manipulate their attention. Example uses: Acting cute, crying crocodile tears, gaslighting CHARM tries to captivate your peers right off the bat. It is the ace card of manipulators and diplomats; if the opposition is swayed to favor you, even unwillingly, then the battle is already half-won. It enables you to speak the correct words, make the right smiles, even if the recipient disgusts you to the core. You can also turn it into a weapon, stringing someone along with sheer charisma until they're a pawn beneath your thumb. At high levels, you'll live as the center of attention, fawned over left and right. But that type of success breeds jealous and hatred, including the fatal kind. At low levels, you'll exude a presence as off-putting as a dead fish. You'll have a hard time getting anyone to listen to you. SOLIDARITY Rally your comrades. Stand together as one. Example uses: Rallying troops, team-building exercises, synchronicity SOLIDARITY enables you to understand behavioral and psychological processes involved in unity and teamwork. Slot neatly into an existing team, exploit weaknesses in an enemy one, or build your own. Then resolve conflicts and build rapport between the members with the right speeches or initiatives. It's also said a good team synchronizes as one; you may find yourself inferring things about your fellows, such as how much they trust you or what they're doing, even when you're not around… At high levels, SOLIDARITY will solidify your bonds with your comrades so tightly, you'll be obliged to prioritize their life over yours. You'll also be persuaded to join them when going alone may prove more fruitful. At low levels, you'll be unable to rally anyone by your side; very little is accomplished alone, after all.