Character

Characters are at the heart of The Way of the Earth's stories about tragedy, horror, and the long and difficult path to personal atonement. The player characters in The Way of the Earth begin their resurrected lives as simple and uncertain creatures. They are alive with new found power, but their memories and personalities have still yet to blossom. It is only over time, and in the face of great challenges, that the player characters come to understand themselves, their pasts, and their ultimate goals for the future. Players get to take their characters from nearly blank slates, gasping in awe and fear at the world around them, to fully fleshed out champions of their aihalan, fighting back against the ever-encroaching darkness.

Below are all the relevant pages for how to create, understand, and advance a character in The Way of the Earth.

Attributes

A full description of the nine attributes in The Way of the Earth; what they represent for player characters and in what situations they are best used.

Kinds, Traits, and Professions

A list and full description of The Way of the Earth's traits and twenty classes by kind.

Character Creation

The full, ten step process for creating a player character in The Way of the Earth, along with a full character creation example, and four completed characters.

Character Advancement

The process of how player characters increase in strength and significance over the course of their journey to personal atonement in The Way of the Earth

Gear and Garb

A list of all the martial, social, war, and naval boons, along with charts for what the resource circles can provide to characters who call upon them.

Character Sheet

A PDF copy of The Way of the Earth character sheet.