- What tragic experience awakened your abilities?
- Many would regard your powers as evil. How do you feel about them?
- What do your weapons and fighting style look like?
- Are there many practicing your art, or are you the exception?

## DARKBLADE FREE BENEFITS

- Permanently increase your maximum Hit Points by 5.
- Gain the ability to equip martial melee weapons and martial armor.

## DARKBLADE SKILLS

### AGONY (✦5)

After you deal damage to one or more creatures, if you have a Bond towards at least one of those creatures, you may recover 【SL × 2】 Hit Points and 【SL × 2】 Mind Points.

### DARK BLOOD

As long as you are in Crisis, you have Resistance to dark damage and poison damage.

### HEART OF DARKNESS

Once per scene upon entering Crisis, you may choose a specific creature you can see that you don't have a Bond towards. If you do, create a Bond of hatred towards that creature.

### PAINFUL LESSON (✦3)

After another creature causes you to lose Hit Points (with an attack, a spell or any other method), you may immediately perform the Study action on that creature (see page 74) for free. If you do, gain a bonus equal to 【SL】 to your Check.

Remember, you can study the same aspect of a creature only once.

### SHADOW STRIKE (✦5)

You have learned to channel your vital force into your attacks. You may use an action to perform a Shadow Strike: roll your current Might die and lose an amount of Hit Points equal to 【the number rolled on your Might die】. If this didn't reduce your Hit Points to 0, you may perform a free attack with a weapon you have equipped: if this attack hits one or more targets, it deals extra damage equal to 【SL + the number rolled on your Might die 】. However, all damage dealt by this attack becomes dark and its damage type cannot be changed.