Whenever a Scion fulfills his Nature to the utmost in the face of adversity, danger or difficulty (as determined by the Storyteller and based on the table below), he gains one point of Determination. At any time, he may choose to spend as many points of Determination as he wishes to subtract one die (or two dice, if he is Legend 9 or higher) each from a Virtue roll made to see if he enters Extremity, calling on the strength of his true nature to give him the wherewithal to follow its tenets instead of those of his Virtues. If the Scion collects as many points of Determination as he has dots in his highest Virtue, he exchanges them for a Moment of Truth instead and starts over at zero dots of Determination. A Scion can never have more points of Determination stored than he has dots in his highest Virtue.

When a Scion rolls against a Virtue and enters Virtue Extremity, he may spend a Moment of Truth in order to completely ignore its effects; instead of mindlessly following the drive of his Virtue, the strength of will and dedication he has shown in being true to himself allows him to shrug it off in order to instead behave according to his own motives. Scions may store a number of unspent Moments of Truth up to their dots in their lowest Virtue.

Scions may only spend Determination points and Moments of Truth to manage the effects of normal Virtue rolls and Extremities; they cannot use them to mitigate the effects of knacks or boons that cause Virtue Extremities.

The Healer's job is to tend to the wounds, illnesses and even mental problems that inevitably threaten the lives of Scions on the front lines of the war against the Titans.

The Healer must first and foremost begin with Health and Medicine at five dots, and must as a secondary priority make sure he has at least three dots of Stamina, Intelligence and Wits. While not required, Charisma or Moon may also be very helpful to a Healer as he tries to keep his erstwhile band in one piece. Healers at the Hero level have access to few direct healing powers, so Wits (for stabilization of dying comrades) and Medicine (for all their basic medical needs) are their most important starting skills.

An Intelligentsia character’s job is to learn any and all important information her band might need and to solve the complex and often dangerous puzzles of the divine.

An Intelligentsia character must first and foremost begin with her Intelligence and at least one of Academics, Occult or Politics at five dots and the other two abilities at at least three, and should as a secondary concern make sure she has a few dots in any Sciences she feels may be relevant. While not required, Mystery or Prophecy can also give an Intelligentsia Scion much-needed tools to stay on top of the secrets and movements of the gods and Titans. Players of Intelligentsia often need to invest more time outside of the game, talking to the Storyteller or researching things that their character should know about.

The Leader’s job is to keep the band together, make the tough decisions and be on point for social interactions that come their way.

A Leader must first and foremost begin with either Charisma or Manipulation at five dots, and should as a secondary concern make sure he has at least three dots of Command, Empathy, Politics and Presence. The Leader has fewer mechanical constraints because he has far more in-game responsibilities and problems; he has to be ready to be the main point of contact for most NPCs, to keep disputes and problems within the band solved or at least civil, and to make decisions about the band’s missions and actions when everyone is stumped. This role is the one that most often needs to talk to the Storyteller to plan ahead, or finds that he bears the brunt of any misdeeds or enemies that the band may make along the way.

The Pilot’s job is to get the band where they’re going as quickly and reliably as possible.

A Pilot must first and foremost begin with her Wits and at least one Control at five dots and have access to transportation in some form and be willing and able to share it with her comrades, whether this is a relic vehicle, the money to hire trains and planes, the ability to carjack at a moment’s notice or anything else that ensures that when they need to go, they can. As a secondary concern, she must also have a few dots in any other Controls she feels may be helpful, and must have at least three dots in whatever Art is required to keep her vehicle operational. A Hero-level Pilot is not required to purchase any boons to do well at her job, but she should be aware that at higher Legend levels she will need to begin investing heavily in Artistry or Psychopomp to ensure that she can continue to provide reliable divine transportation.

Scions who are Warriors have a very simple job: they have to be able to go into combat and fight for their bands, consistently doing significant amounts of damage.

A Warrior must first and foremost have a weapon (of any kind, which can include his own body) and begin with the damage Attributes and Abilities for it at five dots. This may range depending on what kind of fighting he plans to do; a brawler would need maximum Strength and Brawl, while a gunslinger would need maximum Perception and Marksmanship. While not required, War is also often helpful to have in a Warrior’s toolbelt. Because there are many, many ways to inflict damage on enemies, a Warrior need not necessarily always keep those particular modes of attack; what’s important is not how he deals damage, but that he is always able to be doing so in some significant way. Starting Hero-level Warriors must focus on their physical ability to harm their foes, but later in the game the Warrior role may also apply to Scions who focus on using Health to smite enemies with disease and injury, using Earth, Fire, Water or Sky to attack with the elements, commanding large numbers of magical troops to fight for them and so on.

Strength: Your raw muscle power, ability to hit hard and lift a lot.
Dexterity: Your muscular quickness, your ability to move fast or change position quickly.
Stamina: Your physical endurance, your ability to remain healthy, and take blows as well.

Charisma: Your personality’s forcefulness, either in making people love and fawn for you, or obedient to your will.
Manipulation: Your wordplay, the scalpel to Charisma’s sledgehammer of social force.
Appearance: Comes in two flavours, Positive (your ability to draw others unto you) and Negative (your ability to push others away from you). Choose which you have!

Perception: Your ability to take in information about what’s going on around you.
Intelligence: Your ability to problem solve, and think things through, coming to the best solution given time.
Wits: Your ability to think quickly on your feet, to be unpredictable, and witty and clever.

Academics: Your education, learning of sciences and humanities, and ability to continue learning more and more through research.
Animal Ken: Your ability to handle animals, take care of them, treat their wounds, tame them. and read their actions.
Athletics: Your physical coordination and condition. While Dexterity may make you fast, Athletics makes your quick movements matter, for instance.
Awareness: Your ability to process information that you’ve taken in, to understand what you’re looking at or otherwise sensing.
Brawl: Your hand to hand combat capabilities, from wrestling, to boxing, to other martial arts.
Command: Your leadership skills, both in saying things in a way that gets people to do it, and in organizing them behind the scenes as well.
Empathy: Your skill to read and understand motives and body language, detect lies, and produce some believable ones of your own.
Fortitude: Your trained hardness of your body, tempering the raw force of your stamina so that it doesn’t go to waste.
Integrity: Your faithfulness to your own principles, and how true you can remain to what you believe despite manipulations by word or blade.
Investigation: Your ability to detect or locate a specific thing within an area, a much more pinpoint version of Awareness by this metric.
Larceny: Your deft trickery, but also your ability to detect such unsavoury activities, and understand how they work as well.
Marksmanship: Your skill with using and properly maintaining ranged weapons, from bows and arrows to rifles to heavy bored howitzers.
Medicine: Your first aid skills, ability to make the bleeding stop, to set bones in a scrap, and perform life saving surgery, or understand illness.
Melee: Your combat prowess with close quarter weapons, of all sorts. Your understanding of them and how they work, and more as well.
Occult: Your familiarity with the supernatural, your understanding of how divine powers and Fate all work in concert with one another.
Politics: Your understanding of bureaucracy, working within laws, knowing how a city should flow, and how to diplomatically involve yourself.
Presence: Your ability to draw attention to yourself without making yourself look like an idiot (unless that’s your goal).
Stealth: Your ability to act, or move, or otherwise in a way that doesn’t bring attention to you. Opposite number of presence.
Survival: Your rugged survivability, knowledge of what plants in the wild are safe, what animals are dangerous, and how to make simple tools.
Thrown: Your accuracy and skill with using thrown weapons, such as javallines, stones, grenades, or things like cars if you can pick them up.
Art: Your ability to design and create or perform. Comes with subtype for what you create, such as leatherworking, architecture, or dance.
Control: Your ability to make split second decisions while driving a vehicle or animal. Comes with subtypes for things you know how to drive.

Conviction
Conviction is about standing by your beliefs, no matter how inconvenient or harmful to yourself it would be to do so. When you have conviction, do not make them overly narrow, or have too few of them. They should be broader overarching ideals.
Extremity: Ignore everything that doesn’t spread or fulfill your conviction. Even your own welfare.

Courage
Courage is about taking the dangerous more epic route in life. It’s about never shying from danger and abhoring cowardice. Not always about battle, but always about doing the dangerous course of action.
Extremity: Recklessly increase the level of danger around yourself to yourself. Make as many enemies as you can.

Duty
Duty is about fulfilling responsibilities to the whole of reality. One with duty can’t laze about, disobey orders, or try to pass off their job to someone else.
Extremity: Ignore everything that doesn’t directly and most immediately end with your duty being fulfilled. Immolate yourself in the process if necessary.

Endurance
Endurance is about stoicism; not simply struggling through hardships, but moving through them as if they didn’t matter. It’s about ignoring rest, and pleasures, in favour of work.
Extremity: Choose the most harrowing way to continue working at whatever, and then persist at it to completion or end of the extremity.

Expression
Expression is about creativity and, well, expressing oneself. It’s about creating works of art, speaking one’s mind, even if what’s spoken isn’t something that they’d enjoy or appreciate hearing.
Extremity: Become the center of all attention possible, express yourself as loudly or shockingly as you can. Force others to do the same.

Harmony
Harmony is about maintaining the balance of the manmade and the natural, the divine and the mundane. Pushing you to not involve mortals directly in your issues, and to make sure nothing divine with them. To fight pollution, but to also fight the creeping of nature as well.
Extremity: Fanatically devote self to restoring the balance everywhere in the fastest or most blunt way of doing it. Factory making pollution? Blow it up. Wildlife moving in on an urban sprawl? Hunt them all down.

Intellect
Intellect is about gathering, restoring, preserving, and sharing all knowledge. Lies, book burnings, secrets, and ignorance are all things that one with Intellect cannot abide by.
Extremity: Reveal all secrets, even ones that are best left untold. Make everyone know everything, even if such would cause great trouble or disharmony.

Loyalty
Loyalty is about staying true to your friends and taking their side over everything, even if they are obviously in the wrong. It’s about never abandoning them, or even taking their place or just joining them in their punishments for misdeeds.
Extremity: Become incapable of refusing a favour for a friend, even if such would result in your own death. Do whatever you can to make them safe and happy as soon as possible.

Order
Order is about the truth and justice of law. Not just specific laws, but the very notion of law behind a structured society, even if the laws are unpleasant. Someone with Order will argue that all laws, even those they dislike, are ultimately for the best, and should all be followed, small or large.
Extremity: Fulfill the letter of the law, not the spirit, at all costs, towards all people. Fulfill the dictates of authority in the area, mortal or divine, to the bitter end.

Piety
Piety is about acknowledging that a specific pantheon is above all others, usually your own but not always. If you gain Piety but don’t start with it, the source of your Piety is the recipient of it. It’s about doing all in their name, and all that they ask.
Extremity: Become radically devoted to only the needs of the pantheon. If they did not tell you to help others, then you simply won’t, they are not worthy of your aid. Only your pantheon matters.

Valor
Valor is about leveling the playing field, defending the weak, and making sure to never act in a cruel manner. They cannot refuse a fair fight, nor fight when they have the advantage, nor let an innocent come to harm. This does not only apply to the one with Valor, they will try to force these beliefs on others as well.
Extremity: Overcome by guilt, a truly redeeming act must be done, of great penance. Giving away all that you have to help those that may have been harmed, or by challenging the true wrongdoer, or the strongest among their ranks to single combat… or worse for you, you against all of your foes at once.

Vengeance
Vengeance is about holding grudges and never forgiving nor forgetting. When one wrongs someone with Vengeance, they commit that to memory, and are compelled to act against them, not just to get even, but to do worse to them than they had done to themselves as well.
Extremity: Mindless destruction, dedicated entirely to ruining not just one person, but all of those that have ever harmed you. Give up all that you are to make sure they all suffer horribly, or worse.

I, ________, hereby agree to the following terms and conditions about this roleplay, and understand what certain elements mean.

I agree that my characters may be killed at GM discretion, without my foreknowledge.

I understand that Virtues may cause my character to have to take actions that would be against their or my own interests. I agree that if I cannot spend Willpower, or successfully roll against the Virtue, that I am going to have to deal with it. I agree that I will not try to work around Virtues, or Virtue Extremities if they occur.

I understand that sometimes my characters will interact with NPCs that are on such a greater level than them, that they will be godmodded. I agree that such is understandable, and that I will not throw a bitchfit about it. I understand the corollary that eventually I will be able to do the same to NPCs as well.

I understand that I am not my characters. I understand that the other player’s characters are not those other players. I understand that conflict between characters is good, and does not need to go between players. I agree to let the GM(s) know about player conflict if there is any between myself and another, or between two other players, so it may be sorted out. I agree and understand that if the GM does kill my character, it was probably my own fault and it’s not an attack against me.

I understand that romance is a prevalent aspect of mythology, and is present in a lot of stories in general. I understand that sex is also prevalent in mythology. I understand, that despite modern sensibilities, sexual assault is also common in mythology. I understand that this does not mean that I have to make these defining features of my character(s), and that I should still follow normal guild rules about such topics. I agree to follow the normal guild rules about such topics.

I understand that the Virgin Goddesses are not just there for me to score with. I agree to not make that a defining characteristic of any character in this RP that I make.

I understand that if I make a character that is a huge asshole, they’re going to be treated like an asshole, and probably be killed, by either the other player characters, or by a NPC. I understand and agree that my character(s) should be able to function in society to some degree and won’t have quirks just to be different. I understand that they are already special snowflakes, and I don’t need to make them ‘wild and crazy’ or ‘angsty lone wolf’ to be cool.

I understand that odds are people dying is going to bother my character, or other characters, NPC or otherwise, specially early in the game. I understand that most people are not going to want to hang out with some guy who kills people for fun. I understand that random murder is not socially acceptable, and will make people either fear, hate, or have another response to make them not like me. I agree to not do that.

I understand that the dice are random, and trust the GM(s) to be fair with them. I agree to follow the dictates of the dice.

I agree to not weasel around these agreements with stupid shit.