World of Asphodel
Fort Valiance's tide-readers are part navigator, part oracle — reading patterns in the water, the stars, and the strange luminescence that sometimes rises from the deep. You apprenticed under one such reader, learning to interpret omens from the sea. The old knowledge you carry is half science, half superstition, and entirely invaluable to anyone who sails these waters.
Skill Proficiencies
Nature, Arcana
Tool Proficiencies
Navigator's tools, Herbalism kit
Languages
Aquan
Read the Tides: Once per day, you can spend 10 minutes studying the water and sky to predict weather conditions for the next 24 hours with reliable accuracy. Sea captains value this skill and will often offer passage or favors in exchange.
I speak of the sea as if it were alive — because I believe it is.
I'm constantly distracted by natural patterns: water, clouds, wind.
Knowledge: The sea holds secrets older than any library.
Balance: The tides take and the tides give. So must we.
My mentor vanished after reading something terrible in the tides. I must find them.
I carry a tide-glass my mentor gave me — it's the only one of its kind.
I put too much faith in omens and not enough in practical planning.
I'm terrified of what the deep water might actually contain.