CPA: Talents List

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Talents are discrete permanent features that increase a player character's power.

Two talents are received at character creation.
At any time, a character may purchase a talent by spending 5 saved experience points (XP).
Some talents have restrictions and requirements before they may be acquired.
Some talents may be repeated, while most may be taken once only.

Keep a record of when and how you acquired a certain talent.

Below are the talent categories tables. Click to expand:

Arcane Talents make your character better at using psionics and magic.

Talent Name	Category	Description	Restrictions & Requirements	Maximum Repetitions Allowed
Arcane Initiate	Arcane	Choose one level 2 spell from the spells list. You gain exactly 5 EP and can cast this spell by spending 2 of them, with a +2 roll. If you later learn this as an arcane focus skill, then this talent is refunded.	Requires NO arcane focus skills.	1
Arcane Smite	Arcane	Immediately after you hit with a melee or brawl attack, you can choose to spend 2 energy points. If you do, your hit deals 2d6 additional magic damage of a type you can cast (for example, if you know Pyromancy, it can be fire).	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill and either Melee or Brawl.	1
Cantrips	Arcane	You can roll any of your arcane skills as a social or performance skill when you show small, harmless magical tricks and flourishes, representing your arcane skills, without needing to spend any Energy Points.	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1
Cleric	Arcane	When you are casting a nonviolent spell to buff, help, heal, protect, defend, or safeguard someone, you get +1 to the roll. Additionally, once per scene, as a single action, you may roll your best arcane skill with +1 and shout to castigate enemy fiends or undead. Depending on the roll vs their defense, all of them you can see may take damage, be forced to flee, or explode. This costs no EP.	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1
Elementalist	Arcane	Your Skill levels in pyromancy, cryomancy, electromancy, necromancy, and telepathy now also act as additional damage reduction when you're hit with attacks making use of heat, cold, electricity, toxins, or psychic attacks, respectively. For each instance that you are hit with an element that you are skilled with in this way, you recharge 1 energy point. When you cast a spell of an opposed school to your previous cast, you gain +1 to the roll. (Pyro vs. Cryo, Necro vs. Vivi)	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1
Divided Mind	Arcane	You are now allowed to concentrate on +1 additional spell, simultaneously. If you unintentionally drop concentration, you drop it on all spells. You may take this talent up to twice for a total of 3 simultaneous concentrations.	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1
Sage	Arcane	You gain +1 to all your casting rolls with your sensing spells.	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1
Sorceror	Arcane	Your arcane skill levels now add to your Initiative statistic. +3 health points. Chaotic Casting: You may also choose to use 1d20+skill for your casting instead of the usual 2d8+skill. If you use Chaotic Casting and fail, then the type of failure is always a loss of control.	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1
Warlock	Arcane	You gain +1 to all casting rolls made to harm or destroy a target. You gain +2 to spell damage. Each time you defeat an enemy in combat with a spell, you instantly recharge +1 Energy Point.	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1
Witch	Arcane	You gain +1 to all casting rolls made to summon or bind an arcane minion or servant. You gain +1 to all leadership rolls made to command arcane minions. Your successfully summoned arcane minions of any type do not require your concentration to sustain. You gain +1 to all casting rolls made to create any ongoing negative effect such as arcane fire, poison, walls/cages, curses, paralysis, confusion, shrinkage, etc.	Requires at least one arcane Focus Skill.	1

Combat Talents improve your character's killing abilities.

Talent Name	Category	Description	Restrictions & Requirements
Assassin	Combat	You can attempt to hide in combat as your Bonus Action. If you make any kind of attack from stealth, you attack by rolling 3 dice and keeping the highest 2, in addition to the usual +1. Your successful attacks from stealth gain +2d6 damage.	-
Expert Duelist	Combat	When you are challenging someone to a duel or contest, roll your skill check with a one step larger die size, and you can use a combat skill to make that challenge. Additionally, once per combat round, you can use a reaction to make any one attack, if possible without moving, whenever an enemy misses you in melee range. You don't ever take opportunity attacks.	-
Elite Duelist	Combat	You can now make your counterattack even if you fail to dodge an enemy's close-quarters hit against you. Additionally, you have an increased die size on all counterattack accuracy rolls.	Requires Expert Duelist.
Berserker I	Combat	Your cleave and slash attacks can now hit in a 360 degree arc. Rage: At any time, you can choose to make attack rolls this round by rolling 3 accuracy dice and keeping the highest 2, in exchange for making your defense rolls with 3 dice and keeping the lowest 2 (until the start of your next turn). This is called a 'Rage'. Additionally, at any time, you can roll with one step larger die size to physically intimidate or taunt people.	Requires Melee or Brawl skill.
Berserker II	Combat	+1 additional global DR and +1 additional critical strike chance for close quarters attacks. When you make a critical strike with Brawl or Melee, you may continue making attacks until you miss or cannot reach enemies. Additionally, you gain Whirlwind Attack: You can choose to spend 1 action to enter a rage, and choose a path along the ground that goes by any number of enemies, moving your movement value, and roll Rage attacks with Brawl or Melee to hit all of the enemies you visit in this way, once each. You cannot use other special attacks while doing this.	Requires Berserker I.
Brute I	Combat	All of your Melee and Brawl attacks now deal +1d4 additional damage.	Requires Melee or Brawl skill.
Brute II	Combat	Your additional damage die size increases from +1d4 to +1d8 for all melee and brawl attacks.	Requires Brute I.
Inquisitor	Combat	Enemy spell casts provoke your opportunity attacks, once per round. Roll with +1 advantage die when you attempt to destroy magical constructs, barriers, and illusions using mundane means. If you are affected by a magical condition, you can, at any time, choose to instantly shake off the effect by spending HP equal to the spell's level.	-
Speedy	Miscellaneous	+2 to Movement and +3 to Initiative. You can Move, or Disengage as a bonus action in combat. You may split up your movement in combat between actions.	-	1
Axe Expert	Combat	You now always cleave when melee attacking with an axe, in addition to your special attack.	Requires melee skill.
Axe Elite	Combat	You can throw axes of any size up to 20m using Athletics, Shoot or Melee; and you can make melee or thrown axe accuracy rolls with 2d10 instead of 2d8.	Requires Axe Expert.
Brawl Expert	Combat	Flurry: At any time, you may make an attack with Brawl skill using your Bonus Action. You can throw large enemies such as ogres or security bots, after grappling them.	Requires Brawl skill.
Brawl Elite	Combat	You gain +2 critical strike chance with Brawl You can throw huge-sized enemies after grappling them. Ki Blast: You can spend 4 EP to throw an energy projectile at enemies that deals double damage. When you do, roll your Brawl skill.	Requires Brawl Expert
Bow Expert	Combat	+2 Critical Strike Chance with bows. You now do not need to spend any action to reload a bow (it is now considered to be part of your shoot action).	Requires Shoot skill.
Bow Elite	Combat	+2 Critical Strike Chance with Bows. Your hits with any bow penetrate +1 enemies. Each time you use the aim action with a bow, add +1 advantage die to your shot.	Requires Bow Expert.
Crossbow Expert	Combat	You can fire a crossbow at point-blank range with no disadvantage, and all of your crossbow hits deal +1d4 damage.	Requires Shoot skill.
Crossbow Elite	Combat	+2 critical strike chance with crossbows; you can spend your bonus action to reload a crossbow.	Requires Crossbow Expert.
Dagger Expert	Combat	You get +2 critical strike chance with daggers. No penalty for dual wielding daggers, and you can throw them with Melee skill. If you hit with a melee or thrown dagger attack, then you can spend your bonus action to make another melee or thrown dagger attack.	Requires Melee skill.
Dagger Elite	Combat	You get a further +2 (total +4) critical strike chance with daggers, and with them your critical strike damage is 3x normal damage.	Requires Dagger Expert
Hammer Expert	Combat	When wielding hammers, maces and mauls in combat, you gain the option to make your special attack a Stun attack. This special effect causes the enemy to lose 1 of their next 2 actions in their next turn. It can only be applied once per enemy per round.	Requires Melee skill.
Hammer Elite	Combat	You can now repeatedly stun, and potentially stun-lock, enemies when attacking in melee with hammers, maces, mauls and other blunt melee and thrown weapons such as lead pipes, rebars or wrenches.	Requires Hammer Expert.
Pistol Expert	Combat	You can fire a pistol in melee with no disadvantage. When using pistols, you can aim while moving (aim and move actions are merged for you).	Requires Shoot skill.
Pistol Elite	Combat	You can dual wield pistols with no penalty, you can reload both of them with 1 action, and you can choose to move & aim as 1 action and/or move & fire as 1 action.	Requires Pistol Expert.
Rifle Expert	Combat	While you are crouched or prone with a rifle, you have +1 accuracy. When you aim with a rifle, you get +1 advantage die on your shot. You can make a melee attack with your rifle with no chance of breaking it with base damage of 1d4, using Shoot skill.	Requires Shoot skill.
Rifle Elite	Combat	You have +2 critical strike chance with rifles. You get +1 accuracy on all reaction shots with a rifle. You can use your bonus action to reload your rifle.	Requires Rifle Expert.
Shotgun Expert	Combat	Your shotgun blasts always knockback all enemies hit by 2m.	Requires Shoot skill.
Shotgun Elite	Combat	When using a shotgun, you no longer need to roll to hit; it always hits enemies in the area of effect.	Requires Shotgun Expert.
Spear Expert	Combat	Your critical strike chance with spears is increased by +2. You may throw any spear up to 30m, and you may throw with athletics, shoot or melee skill.	Requires melee skill.
Spear Elite	Combat	Enemies you hit with thrown spears are always pinned to the nearest wall or floor. You gain one special opportunity attack per round, triggered when an enemy attempts to run past the tip of your spear.	Requires Spear Expert.
Sword Expert	Combat	Parry: While wielding a sword, you can roll to defend from enemy melee-range attacks of any weapon using your melee skill if it is higher than your dodge skill. If you parry successfully, then once per round, you can then immediately react to perform a non-direct-damage special attack on the enemy, such as trip, disarm, shove, lacerate, etc, with effect based on the magnitude of your parry roll.	Requires melee skill.
Sword Elite	Combat	Your attacks with swords have +2 critical strike chance. Bladed swords now always cleave enemies, while rapiers always have +1m reach and pierce, and plasma swords may be used to parry and redirect ranged attacks. Your parry reactions can now be used an unlimited number of times per round.	Requires Sword Elite
Heavy Weapons Expert	Combat	This talent covers heavy weapons such as miniguns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, heavy lasers, fusion cannons, etc. You can make a melee attack using an equipped heavy weapon by rolling your shoot skill, for 2d8-based damage, with no risk of breaking the weapon.	Requires Shoot skill.
Heavy Weapons Elite	Combat	The area effects of all your heavy weapons are increased or widened by +3m radius.	Requires Heavy Weapons Expert.

Defensive Talents make your character more durable or strong with certain elements and environments.

Talent Name	Category	Description	Restrictions & Requirements
Alert	Defensive	You can never be surprised, even if asleep. +5 to Initiative. Your defense rolls are not penalized by unseen attackers. When there is one or more traps, hidden hazards, or hidden sensors within 100m, you will instinctively know of the general presence of those things (the GM will tell you).	-
Light Armor Expert	Combat	While wearing only light armor, your movement rate is increased by +2 and your critical success chance for Dodge is increased by +2.	-
Light Armor Elite	Combat	While wearing only light armor, you roll all personal Dodge checks with 2d10 instead of the usual 2d8.	Requires Light Armor Expert.
Heavy Armor Expert	Combat	While wearing a suit of heavy personal armor, you get an additional +1 DR. Armor Brace: When you are about to take a single instance of damage, the GM will tell you the amount, and you may instead choose to brace the hit entirely to your currently worn suit of heavy armor, causing it to be destroyed instead of taking damage to yourself.	-
Heavy Armor Elite	Combat	You can use any type of heavy personal armor with no penalty on stealth or spellcasting. Armor Lock: While wearing heavy armor, you can choose to spend 1 action to enter a defensive stance. Until the start of your next turn, you do not roll dodges and will take exactly 2 damage per hit from enemy attack hits. Additional +1 DR (total +2) with heavy armor.	Requires Heavy Armor Expert.
Shield Expert	Combat	+1 DR with Shields. Phalanx: While wielding a shield, you can enter a defensive stance for the round at the cost of 1 action. This gives you +1 to defense rolls until the start of your next turn. Allies who are behind or adjacent to you also gain that benefit.	-
Shield Elite	Combat	While wielding a shield, your critical success chance for Dodge is increased by +2. At any time, you can use your Bonus Action to bash with or throw your shield at an enemy, with a damage die of 1d4. When you do, use your melee skill. Shield Brace: While wielding a shield, if you are about to take damage, you can brace with your shield instead of taking damage, causing the shield to be destroyed.	Requires Shield Expert.
Natural Armor I	Defensive	You gain +2 damage reduction while unarmored. +3 to HP while you are unarmored. Using armor spells or gear cancels these benefits.	-
Natural Armor II	Defensive	You gain an additional +2 (total +4) damage reduction while unarmored. You get a further +3 (total +6) to your HP while unarmored. You can add the lowest of your three Athletics, Brawl and Melee skill values, minimum 0, to your total damage reduction while unarmored. Using armor spells or gear cancels these benefits.	Requires Natural Armor I.
Earth Affinity I	Defensive	Take this talent if you are accustomed to living underground. You gain an additional +1 Natural Damage Reduction in all contexts, representing your rocky toughness. You can gain special information from stones and crystals by carefully inspecting or listening to them; this is called 'Stone Tell' or 'Stonecunning' by some cultures. Sleeping on natural or smoothed natural stone counts as comfortable rest for you, and you heal twice as fast when resting in natural caves. You roll with a larger die size when digging, seeking valuable minerals, navigating in caves or mountains, trying to see in underground darkness, and moving or dodging rocks with mundane or magical means.	-
Earth Affinity II	Defensive	Take this talent if you are some sort of digging creature. You gain a 'sight' called tremorsense that allows you to vaguely 'see' movement within 15m due to vibrations through solid objects. You can dig with your digging claws through soft sand at your normal movement, soil at half movement, and solid rock at 1 meter per minute, leaving a short tunnel behind you. The tunnel may collapse if not supported.	Requires Earth Affinity I and GM permission.
Heat Affinity	Defensive	Roll with a larger die size when resisting heat and fire damage, when estimating the causes, effects and temperatures of extreme heat, and identifying or crafting flammable materials. Sleeping in the heat is considered comfortable for you. Once per scene, you can spend up to 6 seconds (1 turn) in an open flame without taking damage or igniting.	-
Evasion I	Defensive	Roll with a larger die size to dodge area of effect (AOE) attacks, such as rockets, grenades, dragon breath, shotguns, lightning bolts, falling rocks etc. You don't take damage from diving away from area effects, and you cannot take critical hits from enemies while you are conscious and unrestrained.	Requires dodge skill
Evasion II	Defensive	You now take 1/4 of the damage when you successfully dodge an enemy's attack or area effect, instead of the usual half. +2 to your critical success range on dodge.	Requires Evasion I
Robotic Body	Defensive	You have a robotic body. You do not eat, sleep, or breathe, and you can exist in vacuum without issues, but you require 1 charged power cell per day of operation, and damage you take must be repaired with spare parts and crafting skill. You can't be poisoned, but you may rust, corrode or get viruses. Customizations can be crafted on your chassis with the crafting skill and talents. You can speak with other robots in machine code. Water is hazardous to you.	Must have GM permission.
Robotic Armor	Defensive	You take half damage from physical attacks (blades, punches, clubs, bullets) and no poison or psychic damage.	Requires Robotic Body.
Tough I	Defensive	+3 Maximum HP. You gain +1 additional global Damage Reduction, and you make all Resilience rolls with a larger die size. Once per day, when a hit would drop you to 0 hp, you can choose to have your hp floored at 1 instead.	-
Tough II	Defensive	You recharge your "tough" ability above when you roll doubles on any successful skill roll. Additionally, you cannot be instantly killed by heavy weapons or massive force; in those cases, you go to dying status instead.	Requires Tough I.
Water Affinity I	Defensive	You swim at your full movement value. You can hold your breath for at least 5 minutes. While resting near a large body of liquid, you recover and heal twice as fast from resting. You can roll to attack and dodge underwater normally (does not affect gun functionality). You roll with a larger die size to resist harmful cold and water effects. You take no damage or illness from liquid pressure up to 75m depth.	-
Water Affinity II	Defensive	Take this talent if you are an amphibious species of some sort. You can hold your breath for up to 4 hours, swim twice as fast as you run, and sustain no damage or illness from liquid pressure up to 200m depth. You have an innate echolocation organ that allows you to perceive via soundwaves while underwater.	Requires GM permission and Water Affinity I.
Wind Affinity I	Defensive	You are unusually lightweight, and don't trigger traps and hazards that would collapse or be tripped by others. When you fall, you can roll athletics, dodge, or resilience with a larger die size to control the fall and land safely. You can gain special information by listening to or smelling the wind. When resisting dangers related to air, gases or electricity, roll three defense dice and keep the highest two.	-
Wind Affinity II	Defensive	Take this talent if you are a winged species of some sort. You have wings and may now glide or flutter at-will to break your falls, and may also roll athletics to fly up and in other directions. Flying requires your concentration. You always need at least a 4m cube of space for flight, smaller spaces cannot be flown in. If you take hits while airborne, you must succeed on a Meditation roll or fall, taking another hit from gravity when you hit the ground. You cannot fly while wearing or carrying anything heavy.	Requires GM permission and Wind Affinity I.

Expertise Talents make your character superior with certain skills.

Talent Name	Category	Description	Restrictions & Requirements	Maximum Repetitions Allowed
New Focus	Expertise	Gain a new Focus Skill. This talent costs 20 XP instead of the usual 5. If you do not already posess the skill, then it is gained at level 1, otherwise its level remains the same. Note that gaining a first arcane focus skill requires use of the 'arcane training' spell.	Requires 20 xp.	1
Alchemist	Expertise	You no longer need a laboratory to use your Science skill to craft drugs, potions, batteries, medical kits and bombs. You always have spare needles and flasks available. Roll with a larger die size to find key ingredients for scientific brewing. At science skill 3/TN14, you can attempt to craft invisibility potions and teleportation bombs. You can craft drugs and bombs with up to 2 different simultaneous effects at your skill level.	-	1
Authority I	Expertise	Using your leadership skill checks, you may gain up to 2 sophont npc minions. They must be simple-minded unimportant people. They will follow and help you because of belief in your cause. They have 1 hp, will flee away from combat and will die instantly at 0 hp.	Does not work on animals.	1
Authority II	Expertise	Your minion limit increases to 3. The limitations are the same, however, they will fight for your cause in combat. They can be commanded with your bonus action. They have no more than 10 hp/+1 dodge and will die instantly at 0 hp.	Requires Authority I.	1
Commander I	Expertise	If you have Leadership skill, then instead of the usual 1-minute speech, you can now inspire party members with just your bonus action, giving all allies a +1 bonus on a specific task. Additionally, when you roll doubles on any lead check, everyone you are inspiring gains +1 health point, over maximum if possible. +1 extra inspiration per day.	-	1
Commander II	Expertise	You can use one of your inspirations to shout a warning as a reaction to give one ally either advantage on a roll to defend, or an additional reaction attack, or some similar sudden reaction. You can also re-order the party's action order at the start of a combat as long as you can communicate with them. Your inspiring heal effect on doubles increases to +2. +1 extra inspiration per day.	Requires Commander I.	1
Crafty	Expertise	With Crafting, you can now add up to 2 custom modifications to each tool, vehicle, weapon, or equipment piece. They all must be distinct. Custom modifications means, something beyond the chassis or blueprint of the item itself. For example, adding weapons to a utility mech would be a modification since it wasn't designed for fighting, while adding a mining drill to a military mech would be a modification since it wasn't designed for mining, but switching out a mining drill for a loading fork is not a modification since the chassis was designed to support both.	-	1
Demolitions Expert	Expertise	When you are using, hiding, crafting, transporting, or modifying grenades, explosives, or bombs of all sorts, you roll with 3 dice and keep the highest 2. You can throw a grenade, throw or set a bomb or set a trap as a bonus action in combat.	-	1
Eloquence	Expertise	Once per scene, when you make a social check that involves speaking, you can add your Linguistics skill to the roll. In battle, you can use your bonus action with any speaking skill to make a similar check, called 'Repartee', representing eloquent insults. If it meets the enemy's defense value, then you cause them 1d12 psychic damage as well as distraction, though this cannot bring them below 1 hp. When an ally succeeds at a task, you can choose to praise them eloquently, which gives them +1 to an upcoming roll of their choice (maximum of two instances in effect at a time).	-	1
Hacker	Expertise	You no longer need to spend time to understand a foreign computer language, you can work with them all equally. When you roll doubles on any computers check, you can choose to either Learn something important about another terminal on this network or Learn a certain login code or instantly and fully recharge one battery that you have.	Requires Computers skill.
Expert Healer	Expertise	Your first aid healing amount increases by +1d4. You can administer drug-hypos & potions as a bonus action in combat, to yourself or others. The time it takes you to stabilize a dying person is reduced by half.	Requires Medicine skill.
Hunter	Expertise	You gain +1 accuracy for all ranged weapon shots that you make as reactions. Survivalist: Once per day, you can add +2 to one check of one of the following skills: Plants, Animals, Navigation, Crafting, Investigation, Stealth Hunter's Sense: Additionally, at any time, you will receive a "tingly feeling" when you or the party is being waylaid, ambushed, hunted, watched, or stalked nonconsensually, with a dim awareness of what is hunting you, no roll required (you can ask the GM for this information at any time).	-
Deep Thoughts	Expertise	Gain +3 maximum energy points.	Requires Meditation Skill.	1
Sharp Eye	Expertise	When investigating a scene, you can ask one specific question, and the GM must tell you any information in the scene that could even slightly help answer your question. When examining an item, you can always get a specific clue about the last person to touch or use this item. When you meet a new person, you can always find one clue about the last place they have been by looking at them.	-
Sneaker	Expertise	Using Stealth, you can now attempt to hide only with minor cover such as tall grass, mist or shadows. When you are talking to someone, you can make 1 risk-free pickpocketing attempt using Stealth as part of the conversation. Additionally, when you are using full cover to simply hide and observe, you will automatically succeed on any stealth check and do not roll.	-

Miscellaneous Talents give you benefits that are not directly related to combat, magic or skills.

Talent Name	Category	Description	Restrictions & Requirements	Maximum Repetitions Allowed
Aura of Emotion	Miscellaneous	At all times, people who are within 5 meters of you have their current emotions amplified. The standard effect is a moderate but noticeable increase in extremity. You attempt to try increase or reduce the effect, but must describe how. Other Player characters may choose whether or not to be affected by it.	Requires GM agreement on the theme.	1
True Grit	Miscellaneous	When you attempt difficult, dirty, unpleasant manual labor, you always have +1 to the skill check.	-	1
Heroic Destiny	Miscellaneous	When you take this talent, declare your character's conceptual theme and theme song. When a challenging scene involving that theme occurs, you can activate this talent. Your character must speak to that theme, and then, for this scene only, is unable to fail and may apply 1 free critical success to any of their rolls. Note they can still die. You can play the theme song during that time. Other characters cannot activate this talent while you have it active. You then must choose to either refund the talent for another, or keep it and discharge it for 1 in-game week until recharged.	Requires GM agreement on the theme.	1
Collector	Miscellaneous	You never find less than 1 useful item when you search for items in a given scene.	-	1
Companion I	Miscellaneous	You immediately acquire a sophont npc companion of some sort. If taken after character creation, there must be in-game context for it. They are willing to die for you. They have their own skills, 2 in one skill and 1 in two skills. They can be commanded as a free action, but only by you. Command of them may be delegated, but they will not blindly follow others as they do you. They are controlled by the GM but will do whatever you want, even if hurts them permanently. Note that this talent is not the only way to gain such a companion. If they die, this talent is refunded.	GM has companion's details and controls them according to your orders.	1
Companion II	Miscellaneous	The companion gains 2 talents. If they die, this talent is refunded.	Requires companion 1. Companions cannot take the companion or authority talent.	1
Fat Cat	Miscellaneous	When you are interacting socially with wealthy people, bluffing about your own wealth, recalling details about the rich and famous or working with extravagantly expensive luxuries, roll an extra die on your check and keep the highest 2.	-	1
Prophet	Miscellaneous	Each time you sleep or nap, you can choose to receive a mysterious vision, message, or warning related to your mission. The GM will deliver it. This requires no roll, resource cost, or arcane ability. If you like, you may combine this with prayers or ceremonies focusing on specific topics or spiritual entities.	-	1
Quick Sleeper	Miscellaneous	You require only 3 hours of sleep per day. Your health regeneration works differently from others; if you sleep 3 hours, you regenerate an amount of health equal to 1 + Resilience; if you sleep 9 hours, you regenerate 3x that, although that is the maximum you can regenerate per day. Your rate of healing exhaustion is the same as others.	-	1
Fearless	Miscellaneous	Any time you heedlessly charge in to a dangerous situation, you get +1 to your next roll.	-	1
Spirit Guide	Miscellaneous	A mysterious spiritual entity becomes your guide and protector. No one else can perceive this being or its words except you, but you can always talk to it and it will always give you good advice. While theoretically powerful, it chooses not to tell you everything, wanting you to be challenged, but also wanting you to grow and succeed. You can ask for it to perform a miracle, but if it agrees, it will disappear for a long time, perhaps forever. If it does, then this talent is refunded and you cannot choose it again.	-	1
Lucky	Miscellaneous	Once per scene, after you make your roll for a skill check, you can choose to reroll 1 of the dice.	-	1
Well-Studied	Miscellaneous	Gain an additional +5 extra experience points.	-	Unlimited