Analyzing Classpects for Fun and Profit

Witch of Space: one who manipulates and controls space, matter, creativity(, etc), and [manipulates and controls] with/through them.

Knight of Doom: one who protects death, decay, inevitability, rules(, etc), and exploits them to protect themselves and others.

Mage of Light: one who learns and experiences knowledge, fortune, (literal) light(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Heir of Time: one who manipulates progression, rhythm, continuity(, etc), is protected by them, and Becomes them.

Passive vs Active: 1/3

Overlapping Classes: None

Overlapping Aspects: None

Okay, so, first of all: your Cardinal Aspects are covered. First step accomplished! The problem here, though, is that your Space player is a Witch—which means you’re going to have some massive problem in their Aspect that they have to solve or fix in order for the session to be successful. Taking Jade Harley (our canonical example of a Witch of Space) as an example for possible issues, she had to figure out how to make travel between sessions possible. So. Keep that in mind.

Your other issue in regards to your Cardinal Aspects is that your two most powerful players in terms of sheer possible firepower available (barring strifekind and alchemized weapons) are your Space and Time players. That can come around to bite you pretty badly.

Your Knight of Doom also indicates that there’s a toxic lack of Doom in the session. Possibilities can range from the enemies just straight up not dying unless specific conditions are met (which basically means every fight is a gimmicky boss fight), or even that the players can’t achieve godtier because they can’t die. This…can be a problem. 

Your Mage of Light, on the other hand, indicates that there will be some sort of disaster in their Aspect that they have to avert somehow–which could manifest as an inability to communicate with others in the session (a lack of knowledge), miscommunications, some kind of large scale blackout or explosion, or even too much or too little clarity or knowledge leading to something terrible happening. 

One further issue that you’ll need to take into account is that your session is primarily made up of Active classes; as I’ve said before, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but your players will likely tend towards a sort of…’self reliance’ to an extent. More or less, they may be more likely to go and do things on their own rather than work together with the group, and may end up acting very impulsively and/or recklessly in ways that could have been avoided through communication and teamwork. Basically: your Active players may be very…direct and/or solitary in how they solve things. Sometimes a good thing, sometimes a bad thing. Definitely something to keep an eye on.

Overall, your session has a lot of challenges to overcome–your Witch will have to enact a massive change in the Space Aspect in order for the session to succeed, your Mage will have to avert a disaster in the Light Aspect, all while your session suffers from a toxic lack of Doom. Your session also has a lot of Active classes, so you may have to work harder for good teamwork than other sessions, and the vast majority of your “raw” firepower is wrapped up in your Cardinal Aspects. 

Helpfully, though, your Heir of Time means that you’re likely going to have all of the Time you need–if they don’t completely lose themselves in the maze of possibility that is Time itself.

Now for roles! 

In this session, I think your friendleader is a somewhat obvious choice simply in light (heh) of the tasks being leveled at the rest of your team: the Heir of Time. However, should things turn out to where the Heir is incapable of leading, then I can also see your Knight of Doom taking up the role–but, depending on personality, I don’t know if they’ll be able to keep on it as a long term role.

As for frontline fighters versus “support,” your Witch, Knight, and Heir fall into the frontline category with your Mage probably running support, but in all honesty all of your players will probably end up switching between roles depending on the situation.

And now its time for the tips section! Now with 50% more snark.

Your Mage may or may not become a mad scientist. This can be good or bad–on one hand, they can do some truly incredible things and they’re probably on your side. On the other, they’re probably on your side. Maybe.

There may or may not be upwards of ten different versions of each of the players in the session at any given time (not counting dream- and ghost-selves), each from a different place in their own linear timeline. Time travel is the ultimate hax.

Together, your Witch and Heir can probably completely take over the fabric of Time and Space as it exists in your session. 

Please, do not let your Witch of Space follow Jade Harley’s example when prototyping your Sprites. Bad Times and menacing theme music that way lies.

Your Mage and Knight may be able to find a way to alchemize a weapon that will raise a zombie and/or ghost army for the user. On the one hand, it’s a very cool weapon; on the other hand, simply being players does not preclude you from zombie apocalypses or angry poltergeists of alternate selves with a grudge.

You all probably either know way too much about what everyone else is doing or absolutely nothing at all.

Your Heir of Time is alternately either the only sane person or that one very mystical and confusing person who rattles on about time travel and paradoxes. The Doctor. Your Heir of Time is alternately either the only sane person or the Doctor.

So as a Knight, your Knight may not have a lot of intrinsic powers with Doom, but weapons…Doom affiliated weapons have possibilities, you get me?

Your Witch may or may not accidentally tear a hole in the fabric of Space occasionally. Try to fix it quickly; those tend to be…invitations for Other Things.

Seer of Breath: one who knows freedom, movement, the wind(, etc) and with/through them.

Maid of Space: one who creates and maintains space, matter, creativity, physics, creation(, etc), and uses them to create and maintain.

Witch of Void: one who manipulates and controls shadows, secrets, the Void(, etc), and [manipulates and controls] with/through them.

Mage of Void: one who learns and experiences shadows, secrets, the Void(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Passive vs Active: 1/3

Overlapping Classes: None

Overlapping Aspects: Void

Okay so, first off: you have your Space player, which is super good! You can breed the Genesis Frog. However, your session lacks a Time player–which means that you’re going to have a few issues with breeding the Frog. Moreover, since your session lacks a Time player, you can’t Scratch the game; if you mess up, you’re stuck.

Moving forward, your Space player is a Maid, which tends to indicate that there’s something toxic of their Aspect that permeates the session that they have to replace; in this case it could be that there’s not enough space in the Medium, there’s something peculiar with the fabric of spacetime in Paradox Space, or even that something’s wrong with the genetic code of the frogs on their Land. 

Your Witch of Void also poses an issue to be addressed–that your session has a problem of the Void aspect looming, and your Witch needs to solve it. In this case, you need to keep the Witch on track, because you also have a Mage of Void–which means there’s a disaster within the Void aspect, and the Mage needs to prevent it. 

Combined with your Maid, it’s entirely possible that these three issues can be expressions of the same thing–i.e., your session has something wrong with the frogs on the Maid’s Land; the problem the Witch needs to solve revolves around appearifying a solution to the frogs/how to win the session; the Mage needs to prevent the disaster that will Doom the session, and possibly clear the way for the Witch to solve their problem.

However, you have a Seer of Breath, who should be instrumental in helping your teammates to work towards their shared goals. More than that, they should be able to help the others work with each other–if they learn to balance their Breath-y need to be free with their obligation to the session.

And that’s the other issue in the session: teamwork. Your session is strongly slanted towards Active classes, which means that, generally, they’re going to go and try to solve issues themselves. Not necessarily by working together. Your Seer is the only Passive class, which places them in the precarious spot of being the person whose powers have the tendency towards working together/through others, but being most definitely a free spirit. 

Ultimately, breeding the Genesis Frog and keeping your team together are going to be your largest issues in the session. Focus on working together, and do your best to keep everyone on track; you don’t really have a great deal of wiggle room for victory if someone does a pirouette off the handle.

And now for roles! Okay, I’m going to be honest with you: leadership is going to be an issue for your session. Half your session is made of Void players–and, let’s face it, Void players can be pretty difficult to find or pay attention to sometimes (especially if they isolate themselves). Your other half is a Seer of Breath who will probably be chafing to some extent at the idea of leadership and a Maid of Space who should probably be focusing on breeding the Frog. As it stands, however, your Seer is probably going to have to take up at least some portion of being friendleader, just because your session needs someone and they’re going to be one of the better options.

As for other roles, your Witch and Maid will probably end up running frontlines/heavy-hitters, with the Maid joining the Mage and Seer on support as necessary.

And now for the tips section! ;3

If your Witch accidentally rips a hole in reality, I’m fairly sure your Maid can fix it, but still. Be careful, please?

Your Seer may occasionally have homicidal urges due to frustration. This is perfectly normal, I assure you.

…Hey wait, where did your Witch and Mage go? Spooky vanishing children.

Your Maid may end up bringing in a great many frogs to the session–look, here’s a frog, there’s a frog…they’re everywhere!

Maniacal laughter is generally a bad sign–especially from your Witch or Mage.

Just so you know, resizing and carrying along cat-sized horrorterrors is not a good idea for anyone’s sanity–take it from a fellow Witch of Void with experience.

Hope this helps!

Knight of Space: one who protects space, matter, creativity(, etc), and exploits such to protect themselves and others.

Rogue of Life: one who takes/steals growth, wealth, food(, etc), to benefit others.

Mage of Time: one who learns and experiences progression, rhythm, continuity(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Mage of Blood: one who learns and experiences bonds, blood, relationships, family(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Passive vs Active: 1/3

Overlapping Classes: Mage

Overlapping Aspects: None

So, first off: you have your Time and Space players! That’s the first step checked off. However, your Space player is a Knight, which will give you issues because a Knight signifies a toxic lack of their Aspect in their session. So you’ll be lacking Space–which could just be the Lands being really cramped together, a lack of creativity…or it could be a difficulty in breeding the Genesis Frog, in which case, you’re going to need Shenanigans.

Second, your Time player is a Mage. Which isn’t bad, but it does mean that your Time player is probably going to have to spam the time travel/localized time manipulation, because they have to not only experience as much of their Aspect as they can to be able to avert their Aspect-related-disaster, but they have to assist the Knight of Space in breeding the Genesis Frog.

Third, your Blood player is also a Mage, which poses the issue to face of having two Aspect-related-disasters to face down. More than that, the disasters are in Blood (the Aspect relating to relationships and bonds) and in Time (which is continuity, progression, etc)…which will whammy you if you don’t keep on top of it.

Also, your Rogue of Life is extremely useful! They can help with breeding the Genesis Frog, and help keep their teammates alive, but the problem is going to be that when you have a Rogue, it means that their Aspect isn’t spread out–it’s concentrated in areas, to the detriment of others. Which means that for a while (until the Rogue gets a better handle on their powers), the players are never rarely going to have the food/wealth/change/rebellion/life they need when they need it.

And finally, your team is strongly Active–which means that your session will probably have issues with actually acting as a team (that is, talking with teammates before charging in, recklessness, not trying to handle everything themselves), pacing themselves, and with taking a moment to pull back and rest/talk/think. It’s not an absolute, but you should keep an eye on it.

Now, lets talk roles. Of everyone, the Mage of Blood is likely to be the most ‘savvy’ at leading/getting everyone to work together, which is what a friendleader is supposed to do. However, since the Mage of Blood is going to be fairly busy, they’ll probably share it somehow with the Rogue of Life (who is, of course, also fairly busy). Honestly, with these two friendleading, you should have a fairly strong leadership. 

For this session, there’s not really going to be a real division of roles in terms of combat except for the Rogue–as the Life player, they’ll be the “cleric” of the team, but their power is so offensive as well that they’ll likely switch between that and combat. Your Mages will probably work with sabotaging and trapping the enemy, allowing the Rogue and Knight to decimate the enemy forces.

And now for the snarky tips section! Now with 100% more snark. ;3

Your Rogue can bring people back to life. What kind of life is up to them…watch for the zombie armies.

There are going to be so many Time shenanigans thanks to your Mage of Time, you won’t even believe it. Stop messing with the fabric of spacetime to satisfy your curiosity!

Your Knight of Space…may eventually acquire a weapon that allows them to make something bigger or smaller. This may or may not be a mistake. 

The Mage of Blood is the best social manipulator of the session. It is them.

The Power of Friendship!! It is Real in your session!!! No, seriously. Don’t you see what your Mage of Blood can do?

Okay but your Rogue of Life is seriously scary. They can kill enemies to heal you.

The Land of Isles and Wind

The Land of Storms and Butterflies

The Land of Zones and Gales

Naturally, of course, you can mix and match nouns to get a name you like, but those are just off the top of my head. 

Now, since your quest typically ends up hinging on the name of the Land (that is, the two nouns are typically involved in the problem that you have to solve, so your quest changes depending on your Land), I’ll just go ahead and do a quick thought-abstract on a possible quest for each Land I named.

The Land of Isles and Wind (LOIAW) 

For this one, I would expect the problem to revolve around the Winds in some way–taking into account the quest of the canonical Heir of Breath (which revolved around unblocking pipes to allow airflow and banishing the fog to free the fireflies), perhaps the Winds have been trapped by the Denizen, and the ecosystem of the Isles has each been effected to different extremes? In this case, I imagine perhaps something where the lack of the winds to allow for the movement of weather systems has forced a rather…game-like situation where each Isle is subjected to extreme weather from each end of the spectrum. That is, one Isle is in a drought, another from floods due to never ending rain…even some struggling from famine or overpopulation due to the messed up ecosystems affecting the migration patterns of the fauna/Consorts? In this scenario, I’d expect one of each of the major Winds trapped by the Denizen to be “hidden” on each of the Isles, and the way to the Denizen to open when you free all of the Winds, in a sort of Legend of Zelda way.

The Land of Storms and Butterflies (LOSAB)

In this Land, I think the issue would be the Storms rather than the Butterflies. Given, the name is an oblique reference to Chaos Theory, but I think the issue would probably be something to do with the Storms effecting the ecosystem of the Land to the point that the Butterflies are trapped somewhere and unable to move–or even, that the Butterflies are trapped and that’s what’s causing the Storms to ravage the Land. Similarly to the previous Land, the Quest would revolve around freeing something trapped to restore balance to the Land, probably through figuring out how to harness and control the Storms and/or free the Butterflies before facing the Denizen.

The Land of Zones and Gales (LOZAG)

There might be a theme coming through as I work through these, but I think the problem here would be the Gales, not the Zones. In this case though, where the Zones are referring to different ecologies and environments, I think the problem would be something messing with how the weather works and how the Gales blow–that is, something altering the planet-wide ecosystem that throws off the Zones themselves. In this case, it wouldn’t be “freeing and defeating” so much as “identifying the problem and restoring,” through harnessing the Gales and redirecting them. I think in this one, a lot of the focus would be more on observing the natural environment of the Land and investigating through the Consorts to get a handle on what’s going wrong.

That’s all I’ve got really, off the top of my head. That being said, you’re of course welcome to mix-and-match words and parts of the quest until you get something you feel fits; these are all just me rattling off a possibility that I think fits the Land.

I hope this helps!

Sylph of Heart: one who heals self, identity, (general) emotions(, etc), and allows the creation of such.

Maid of Void: one who creates and maintains shadows, obscurity, secrets(, etc),  and uses them to create and maintain.

Seer of Time: one who knows progression, rhythm, continuity(, etc), and with/through them.

Mage of Mind: one who learns and experiences logic, thoughts, justice(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Rogue of Space: one who takes/steals space, matter, creativity(, etc), from others and events to benefit others.

Witch of Breath: one who controls and manipulates freedom, movement, the wind(, etc), and [controls and manipulates] with/through them.

Page of Blood: one who inspires bonds, blood, relationships, family(, etc) in others, makes themselves of them, and exploits them to benefit others.

Heir of Life: one who manipulates growth, wealth, food(, etc), is protected by them, and Becomes them.

Thief of Rage: one who takes/steals determination, passion, anger(, etc), from others and events for their own benefit.

Active vs Passive: 4/5

Overlapping Classes: None

Overlapping Aspects: None

So, first off, you have your cardinals! That is, your Time and Space players. First step is done. Main issue I can see with them right now is that they’re both passive players, and Seers of Time don’t really…do the Timey thing the same way other Time players do. I.e., no time travelling/time loops. They’d probably be one of the best at seeing timelines, however, so that’s a bonus. But, your Space player is also passive, and a Rogue. It’s not…bad, per se, but it definitely leaves you with a lack of direct firepower. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it can leave you with some issues you may not be able to address easily.

Next major issues to look out for: your Mage, Witch, and Thief. 

Your Mage is a Mage of Mind, which means that there will be some kind of large disaster/problem within the Mind aspect that they need to work to avert–which means that their attention will need to be on that, not necessarily working to help the team personally. 

Second, your Witch of Breath means that there will be some massive problem within Breath that will require them to step up and create a change within Breath to solve it. Paired with the Mage of Mind, this means you’ll probably have an issue with logic/justice/thought and an issue freedom/movement/etc, which will probably build off each other. Basically? You’re going to have some big problems with being trapped and not thinking clearly.

Third, pair that with your Thief of Rage. Thieves (as I’ve said many, many times) aren’t bad people. It’s just that their initial reaction to their powers is overreaction, so they’ll likely end up hoarding Rage within the session until they learn to even out a little. Combined with the problems mentioned above…it’s probable that you’ll have issues maintaining the determination and passion to solve the problems and/or free yourselves.

Past that, you have an Heir of Life, which means the session will probably have some issues regarding change (i.e., it’s there, but needs the Heir’s help in some way). However, the Heir can heal and bring people back to life! Which is very good, because you’re probably going to need that.

In addition, your Page and Sylph will help with keeping your players tied together and emotionally healthy, which will help mitigate some of the issues. However, be careful with the Page that they don’t add to the issue regarding freedom–it’d be all to easy if they don’t work to strengthen their grasp on their powers.

Finally, your Maid will likely end up having to control the flow of information to aid in solving the issues. This is good, because bad news at the worst time can be a critical turning point for the worst–and vice versa with good news at the best time. 

Basically, your players need to learn to cooperate and rely on each other quickly, and not lose their determination to win (or get overconfident) in the face of obstacles. Your session’s also a little passive, which may add to your issues regarding freedom/movement, so keep a careful eye on that.

Now, for roles. For friendleader, I could definitely see either your Page or Heir stepping up. Your Page because they’d ‘inspire bonds’ and probably feel a sense of responsibility for the other players (to some extent, as we’ve been shown that our two confirmed canon Blood players have also). Your Heir, however, for the sense that change and growth will tend to center around them to some extent, which can naturally pull others in around them. Your Thief might end up taking the role at some point (or at least try for it), in which case it depends on how they’ve developed. Thieves (especially early in their development) can tend towards being reckless, selfish, and cocky, which would be intensified in a Thief of Rage–so be careful.

Past that, your ‘frontline’ roles will most likely end up being your Witch, Rogue, Maid, and Thief, Heir, and alternately the Page; the Rogue, Maid, and Thief will likely end up playing sabotage as well, while the Heir and Page will end up probably running occasional sneak attacks.

Your support players, on the other hand, would probably be your Seer, Mage, and Sylph, with the aid of your Rogue, Maid, Thief, Heir and Page. Your Seer would be strategy and tactics alongside the Mage, with the Sylph playing a more ‘classic’ support role as the emotional meddler of the session. Your Mage would probably also end up aiding in sabotage as well.

So, now it’s time for the tips section.

Don’t let your Seer try and guide the Page–it’ll stunt the Page. Seriously.

Your Maid and Mage are a match made in heaven–or hell. Information control? This is the dream team.

Your Sylph and Page probably either love each other or hate each other. Get them to work together!

Your Sylph is often the only sane person. They’re tired. Let them rest before they break someone.

Your Witch and Thief are your enemies’s worst nightmare. Bad news? They either hate each other or love each other. A thin line, that is. Do I spy spades or hearts? who knows, not me…

Your Space, Void, and Rage players should be careful not to accidentally tear the fabric of reality. They may have a harder time doing so, but it’s certainly possible. Fix it quickly!

Your Seer and Witch will probably clash pretty badly. You…may want to get an auspistice, there.

Your Heir and Rogue are the masters of making things appear and disappear. It’s magic, honestly.