Ethos

Ethos represents your character’s way of approaching potentially stressful or high-stakes situations. It expresses your character’s conscious or unconscious beliefs about how it is best to accomplish a goal and reflects a portion of their personality.

There are five Ethos choices common to life on Anasta. Choose two of these five to represent your character’s dominant ways of approaching situations. This helps to shape their personality as well as gives them a mechanic (Motto) that works both for and against them at certain times.

As an extension of their personality, Ethos also colors how a character’s Psionic Ability manifests . At Rank 3, every Ability will be associated with one of the character’s Ethos. For Abilities whose Gateway is an item or bonded companion, this creates a stronger bond that has the character of that Ethos. Mechanically, Ability Ethos makes it more difficult for those with another Ethos to make a found item/companion a new Ability through Growth. It takes more time and/or effort to shift the psionic signature of the item/companion to one’s own.

Cunning

Use wit and wiles to overcome or undermine.

Discipline

Summon focus and willpower to achieve an outcome.

Flair

Attract attention to fascinate the world around you.

Luck

Trust in or submit to the unseen order of the world to move you.

Valor

Call upon courage and emotional reserves to accomplish a goal.