Mare of Mind

What to Watch Out For

Thieves are manipulative, they always have a plan, and it doesn’t always benefit anyone but themselves. The true danger inherent in a Thief is that they will see their allies as just as viable targets in their machinations as their enemies.

Void players tend to distance themselves from the other players, putting up barriers that only one other player, if anyone, is allowed to see through to the void player’s true self.

A Thief of Void is liable to act on their own, driving their sessionmates away with their plans to the point that they may attempt to take on the black king on their own. There is a real danger of a Thief of Void finding themselves believing that there is “nothing” tying them to the other players, so they will not make any moves to aid the others in their time of need.

Benefits

Thieves always have a plan, they also have the startling ability to pull those plans off. Thieves know which pieces to cripple, and gain enormous power from their hoards of stolen aspect.

Void players draw their strength from mystery and the enigmatic. They thrive within the impossible, the nonexistent, those things that have never been done before. Their most common and often useful ability lies in the ability to act without being noticed.

A Thief of Void can reveal those around them, moving about invisibly as they deftly strike from the shadows. They will pick their targets wisely, manipulating the battlefield until there is nothing left.

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What to Watch Out for

Rogues tend to be the ultimate shippers, which can often involve trying to play matchmaker within their group. While not inherently bad, it can easily get out of hand.

Time players often have some obsession with death, and with good reason. Time players often have to juggle all of their doomed timelines, avoiding and dodging death, or weaponizing their own deaths in order to survive until the end of the game. Because if they don’t, there is no one to age the new universe until life can thrive, and there is no one to summon the final frog to breed the universe.

A Rogue of Time can easily become a chaotic element in the group. Their desire to see those in their group spend more quality time together, combined with the ability to make that happen, means that they could inadvertently make their teammates grate on each other; particularly if there is no Blood player around to maintain things.

Benefits

Rouges steal and take their aspect for the benefit of others. It is a very flexible class that can mean almost anything the Rogue themselves decides it means

Time players have a severe amount of raw power. As one of the two aspects needed for a successful session, they have no shortage of use inside the session itself, if nothing else, they facilitate the time shenanigans of Skaia in favor of the players.

A Rogue of Time can spare a few seconds for their team. A few hours, a few days. When time is of the essence, the Rogue of Time steps in, suddenly, the enemies don’t know how things happened so fast, and their allies have enough time to plan their next move.

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What to Watch Out for

Knights tend to struggle with the concept of being a hero. They are also half of the frog breeding team, so their mental state is vital to the health of the future universe.

Rage players can be a bit unstable. When they’re angry, they enter a blind fury that can take aim at friends and foes alike.

A Knight of Rage treads a thin line when they lash out, they could badly hurt their session if they are too impulsive, particularly when helping the space player breed the universe frog. 

Benefits

Knights wield their aspect as a weapon in order to protect those they care about, strong, with strong passion, they are potent fighters that should not be crossed.

Rage players are often very physically strong. They can do massive damage to their enemies and take blows that would cripple other fighters.

A Knight of Rage will decimate the enemy, their great physical strength and toughness will let them stand between those that would hurt their friends and those they care about. Do not underestimate the Knight of Rage, for it will be the last mistake you ever make.

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What to Watch Out For

Knights tend to struggle with the concept of being a hero. They are also half of the frog breeding team, so their mental state is vital to the health of the future universe.

Breath players can be a bit naive. This, combined with their tendency to hide low self esteem behind a cheerful facade (consciously or not) can often lead to being manipulated by their more conniving session mates.

A Knight of Breath may not understand how they are being manipulated, some may call the Knight a hero in order to call them to their side, some may call the Knight a villain to finally break the facade of cheer. Everyone will vie for the player’s attention, so the Knight must be sure to listen to their heart.

Benefits

Knights wield their aspect as a weapon in order to protect those they care about, strong, with strong passion, they are potent fighters that should not be crossed.

Breath is the aspect of freedom, direction and the literal wind. Breath players can be strong leaders, the free spirit or the guide. In essence, Breath is as flexible an aspect as the wind itself.

The wind is a powerful weapon. A Knight of Breath can charge forward as a symbol of freedom for those around them. They can be the hero they think they are incapable of being.

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What to Watch Out for

Bards are a wildcard, unpredictable by nature in both powers and personality, they are equally likely to help or hinder their session mates. This powerful class can bring about an unlikely victory or the downfall of their entire party single handedly.

A Bard’s first act of destruction is to destroy their aspect within themselves before the session starts.

Heart players are overly aware of their other selves in the session and often see the worst of themselves from an outside perspective because of it.

A Bard of Heart will start the game very muted, they may not even have a separation between them self and their dreamself. Thinly spread, their actions could put the other dreamselves in severe danger.

Benefits

Bards are extremely powerful and sturdy. They are hard to kill and build up their aspect in others in order to bring about their destruction.

Heart players are emotional passionate players. They move forward and are not easily swayed away from their purpose.

A Bard of Heart will be a massively destructive force once they have come into their own. Once they have found their passion, nothing will stop them, not Skaia’s selves shenanigans, nothing.

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What to Watch Out For

Mages are the most likely class to receive some sort of debilitating injury that will result in a permanent handicap.

Time players often have some obsession with death, and with good reason. Time players often have to juggle all of their doomed timelines, avoiding and dodging death, or weaponizing their own deaths in order to survive until the end of the game. Because if they don’t, there is no one to age the new universe until life can thrive, and there is noone to summon the final frog to breed the universe.

A Mage of Time will be under a lot of mental strain watching themselves not only die, but be severely handicapped hundreds of times. Their eventual permanent injury in the alpha timeline may come in the form of a mental break.

Benefits

Mage is a complicated class that more than makes up for anything that might otherwise slow the player down in combat. Not a specialized class, Mages are able to gain knowledge to control their aspect, and protect themselves from the negative effects caused by their aspect.

Time players have a severe amount of raw power. As one of the two aspects needed for a successful session, they have no shortage of use inside the session itself, if nothing else, they facilitate the time shenanigans of Skaia in favor of the players.

A Mage of Time will have an enormous amount of clout, the sheer control and knowledge of their aspect will let the player have their enemies look upon them and despair. Turn back the clock, and change a single moment, see what happens as the pieces fall into the exact right places.

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What to Watch Out For

Knights tend to struggle with the concept of being a hero. They are also half of the frog breeding team, so their mental state is vital to the health of the future universe. 

Life players as a whole, tend to be fearless, bordering on reckless people. Something in them just seems to know they get at least one free pass, and nothing pushes them to think beyond that. 

A Knight of Life has a high risk of throwing themselves between their friends and danger recklessly, leaping into combat, and becoming even more violent to “prove” to themselves, one way another, if they are a hero.

Benefits

Knights wield their aspect as a weapon in order to protect those they care about, strong, with strong passion, they are potent fighters that should not be crossed.

Life players are often healers and resurrecters, having a direct connection to life itself. This is a powerful aspect, that further frustrates the ability to tell if anyone in a session of Sburb is permanently dead or not. 

Protect life, and weaponize life in the protecting of others. When a fully realized Knight of Life is present, they will be the wall between their session mates and death, their connection to life will keep them going long after most would have died.

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What to Watch Out For

Sylphs struggle with acknowledging that they might be wrong, they are generally very intelligent but their plans tend to spin out of control because they don’t ask for feedback or provide clarification.

Mind Players can very easily become obsessed with the dream bubbles and the idea of wanting to connect to themselves from other timelines, feeling that something is “missing” from themselves because they don’t remember the trials they’ve faced outside of the Alpha timeline.

A Sylph of Mind is going to experience frustration whenever a plan falls through, they will more than likely blame the nature of the Alpha Timeline, and fixate on the version of them that succeeded in the plan. It will be difficult for them to reconcile what they did wrong with what they did right in another timeline, particularly when it comes to how much communication there was between themselves and others.

Benefits

Sylphs are primarily healers with a secondary role as teachers. They are a force to be reckoned with so long as they take the time to listen.

Mind players have a strong connection to other timelines, the dream bubbles and “Karma”. They are often very logical players with deep insights into the inner-workings of Sburb.

A Sylph of Mind is going to be a major influence at the beginning of the game, here they will fill the role as teacher so essentially, that, if they play their cards right, they may never have to play the healer, except to help get bodies to quest beds when the time is right .

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What to Watch Out For

Pages can very easily get into bad relationships, whether it’s because they are seen as universally attractive or because their personality attracted the wrong type of person, a page has to learn that they don’t have to be in a romantic relationship to be happy, and how to say no to the advances of others who often have stronger personalities

Heart players are overly aware of their other selves in the session and often see the worst of themselves from an outside perspective because of it.

Not going to sugar coat it, a Page of Heart is going to have a hard time believing they deserve anything but what they get in a relationship. It’s going to be a hard time for them, but as long as they learn to stop judging themselves so harshly based on their other selves, there is more than hope for them.

Benefits

Page is the class of potential. With that potential they can be the most powerful class. They can do anything within their aspect and more if they work hard to meet their own limits and beyond.

Heart players are emotional passionate players. They move forward and are not easily swayed away from their purpose.

Heart is an excellent aspect for a Page. Once they set aside their self doubt and decide to work towards their potential, they will meet it.

Every other self, can be at this classpect’s beck and call, if only they dare reach for it.

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That’s a very interesting question, and not one that I had considered deeply before now. But it’s right to assume each class has a primary and secondary job, some of which even overlap.

Sylphs, as Stated above, are first healers then teachers, think of them as the person who tells you not to ride your bike off a ramp while patching your arm.

Knights are first protectors, then frog breeder aid.

Bards are first a wildcard, there to make sure nothing the party does is completely predictable, and second they are there to lie dormant before taking one great act of destruction that changes the course the session will ultimately take.

Witches are first manipulators, and second rule breakers. This can be rather grating on other players as a Witch makes and then breaks their own rules.

Maids are first maintainers, then healers. Theoretically, they will keep something related to their aspect growing and nurtured, but if it breaks, they still have the tools to fix it.

Princes are first fighters, then they can destroy the detrimental facets of their aspect within their session. When acting within their second job, very careful judgement is needed.

Heirs are first leaders, and then a sacrifice. Honestly, the secondary role can either come from the failure to lead, or the culmination of their role as leader.

Mages are first information gatherers, then combatants. They weaponize their knowledge, often with great and terrible efficiency.

Pages are a peculiar case, their main job is essentially to find their second job. The final role of the page depends entirely on where exactly their potential lies, whether gathering an army, or destroying it.

Rogues are first supporters, and second socialites, they tend to be the most extroverted or popular member of the group, and so carry some of the burden of keeping the team together. 

Thieves are first, for lack of a better word, thieves, stealing for their own benefit, they are second  manipulators, this often is also for their own benefit, but may be seen by them as for the benefit of all. 

Seers are first strategists, then information gatherers. Seers most often have access to enough knowledge through their own abilities to strategize around and about their aspect, but will fare better when they take the time to learn.

Muses are first inspiration, bringing about the best in others. Their other job is rather weighty, for it is either to raise the Lord class up to the greatest level, or to utterly destroy them.

Lords are meant to rise above their session. This singular class defines the roles of the other classes, for better or worse, the Lord’s role is whatever they wish, though they are not immune to consequences. 

What to Watch Out For

Rogues tend to be the ultimate shippers, which can often involve trying to play matchmaker within their group. While not inherently bad, it can easily get out of hand.

Doom players tend to die, a lot. They die, get injured, half die, and more often than not, lose a significant piece of themselves by the end of the game. This is the aspect of sacrifice and death, and that is nothing to sniff at in a game like Sburb.

A Rogue of Doom is going to have a hard time focusing on what they want to do, their need to make sure those around them are happy, coupled with the Rogue dying, their likelihood of completing their personal quest falls drastically.

Benefits

Rouges steal and take their aspect for the benefit of others.It is a very flexible class that can mean almost anything the Rogue themselves decides it means

Doom players are the most likely to find every single way there is to be revived in the game, all the way or only halfway. These are the most likely players to come back as an undead and even without going GodTier, a doom player is very seldomly gone for good

A Rogue of Doom is going to wind up taking the Doom of others onto themselves, or taking it and then giving it to their enemies. While a dangerous balancing act, the tendency of doom players to come back from death is the greatest help here. They are the lifeblood of any session they join.

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What to Watch Out For

Rage players can be a bit unstable. When they’re angry, they enter a blind fury that can take aim at friends and foes alike.

Rogues tend to be the ultimate shippers, which can often involve trying to play matchmaker within their group. While not inherently bad, it can easily get out of hand.

A Rogue of Rage is likely to feel personally affronted when their matchmaking doesn’t work out. They’re focus on other’s relationships will lead to a great deal of frustration and pain.

Benefits

Rage players are often very physically strong. They can do massive damage to their enemies and take blows that would cripple other fighters.

Rouges steal and take their aspect for the benefit of others.It is a very flexible class that can mean almost anything the Rogue themselves decides it means.

While a Rogue of Rage would be an intimidating fighter, their greatest ability will be in controlling the tone of the battlefield. They will be able to keep their allies calm enough to focus, and angry enough to let adrenaline fuel their blows. Meanwhile, their enemies will either be choking on their own rage, or unable to summon up any passion for their actions.

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What to Watch Out For

Bards are a wildcard, unpredictable by nature in both powers and personality, they are equally likely to help or hinder their session mates. This powerful class can bring about an unlikely victory or the downfall of their entire party single handedly.

A Bard’s first act of destruction is to destroy their aspect within themselves before the session starts.

Hope players struggle to form healthy relationships and often feel like this defines them.

A Bard of Hope will lose faith in whatever drove them forward before the game starts. more often than not, they will try to fill this void with a relationship with one of their session mates. Beware what forms this affection may take however, as the unstable nature of Bards can lead to anyone too close to a Bard of Hope losing faith themselves.

Benefits

Bards are extremely powerful and sturdy. They are hard to kill and build up their aspect in others in order to bring about their destruction.

Hope players have a lot of power, they draw from the hope of their session mates, and the residents of Sburb that hope for a better future. They often also create manifestations of belief.

A Bard of Hope will be devastatingly powerful, as they invite the destruction of their enemies, through the enemies own confidence.

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What to Watch Out For

Sylphs struggle with acknowledging that they might be wrong, they are generally very intelligent but their plans tend to spin out of control because they don’t ask for feedback or provide clarification.

Heart players are overly aware of their other selves in the session and often see the worst of themselves from an outside perspective because of it.

A Sylph of Heart will have to deal with their bad decisions made by every version of them self. Frustrated at the stubborn pride of their own selves that they meet, it would be very easy for them to lose faith in their own ability to make choices, or on the other end of the scale, decide that they are the only self or person in general, who’s opinion can be trusted in a game like Sburb.

Benefits

Sylphs are primarily healers with a secondary role as teachers. They are a force to be reckoned with so long as they take the time to listen.

Heart players are emotional passionate players. They move forward and are not easily swayed away from their purpose. 

A Sylph of Heart will be unstoppable once their mind is set on a course of action. They will have the capacity to be a leader, particularly once they are able to interact with the dream bubbles.

Though, their most powerful abilities will inevitably come when healing a player’s connections with their other selves.

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What To Watch Out For

Mages are the most likely class to receive some sort of debilitating injury that will result in a permanent handicap.

Mind Players can very easily become obsessed with the dream bubbles and the idea of wanting to connect to themselves from other timelines, feeling that something is “missing” from themselves because they don’t remember the trials they’ve faced outside of the Alpha timeline.

A Mage of Mind will likely become obsessed with what they lose, ignoring the growth that can come with it, they will instead learn more about the timelines where the loss did not happen and  fail when they try to pull that timeline into reality. Creating a terrible backlash over the entire game.

Benefits

Mage is a complicated class that more than makes up for anything that might otherwise slow the player down in combat. Not a specialized class, Mages are able to gain knowledge to control their aspect, and protect themselves from the negative effects caused by their aspect.

Mind players have a strong connection to other timelines, the dream bubbles and “Karma”. They are often very logical players with deep insights into the inner-workings of Sburb.

The ability to understand the workings of timelines and manipulate karma are more than anyone could reasonably ask for in a game like Sburb. If you stick through and accept the support of your allies when they pull you away from your obsessions, you will be an extremely powerful player.

Role

A Mage of Mind is a coordinator. Keeping balance in their session as they manage those doomed timelines required to make the alpha timeline succeed.

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A Sylph of Time will be able to heal the damage done by the Mage, their knowledge will also buffer each other as they move together to create an alpha timeline worth living in.

Other Thoughts

Skaia doesn’t assign a Classpect because that is what fits who you already are the best. Claspects and quests are meant to take who a person is, and help them grow. Not everyone can fully realize themselves through their classpect, in fact, some will find their growth in actively defying the tropes of their classpect. Some will even actively hate what their classpect means for them. In the end, it is up to you, the player what you will do with your place in the game.

What to Watch out For

Witches tend to be very excitable and don’t handle the emotions of others well. They can be seen as a bit unstable, or insensitive by their session mates, which makes it difficult for them to implement plans.

 Doom players tend to die, a lot. They die, get injured, half die, and more often than not, lose a significant piece of themselves by the end of the game. This is the aspect of sacrifice and death, and that is nothing to sniff at in a game like Sburb.

A Witch of Doom is going to have difficulty looking ahead and they will wind up tripping and falling a lot because of it. A Witch of Doom may lose their confidence in themselves, and half their lives before they really grasp the scope of their powers.

Benefits

Witches are incredibly powerful, breaking the rules of their aspect and manipulating it to their own purposes.

Doom players are the most likely to find every single way there is to be revived in the game, all the way or only halfway. These are the most likely players to come back as an undead and even without going GodTier, a doom player is very seldomly gone for good.

A Witch of Doom is deadly in all the right ways. They manipulate death and sacrifice to their own advantage. They will be able to absolutely tear apart their enemies, and with a little knowledge, reach into the doomed timelines.

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Heir of Life

What to Watch Out For

Heirs do not get to choose their starting strife specibi, whether being tricked into prototyping the wrong thing, or simply being unable to maintain the specibi they desire.

Heirs are also very prone to self sacrifice, almost to the point of rendering GodTier immortality moot.

Life players as a whole, tend to be fearless, bordering on reckless people. Something in them just seems to know they get at least one free pass, and nothing pushes them to think beyond that.

An Heir of Life, is going to die. They are going to die at least once, maybe twice in a session. Reckless self sacrifice will do that. By the same token, they will be relentless when it comes to protecting their friends and allies.

Benefits

Heirs are protected by their aspect and often are nearly guaranteed to survive a valid session whether or not their own combat abilities warrant it, with a few exceptions. They also are able to use their abilities more instinctively than other classes.

Life players are often healers and resurrecters, having a direct connection to life itself. This is a powerful aspect, that further frustrates the ability to tell if anyone in a session of Sburb is permanently dead or not.

An Heir of Life will likely have something close to GodTier immortality upon entering the session. Not only will they be able to revive at least once, they will have a heavy constitution and not much short of decapitation will kill them.

Role

Say hello to the session’s tank. A passionate survivor who will always be in the line of fire if it means protecting their friends.

Rogue of Breath

What to Watch Out For

Rogues tend to be the ultimate shippers, which can often involve trying to play matchmaker within their group. While not inherently bad, it can easily get out of hand.

Breath players can be a bit naive. This, combined with their tendency to hide low self esteem behind a cheerful facade (consciously or not) can  often lead to being manipulated by their more conniving session mates.

A Rogue of Breath will likely be very popular with their session mates and will be able to form fleeting bonds as the team flirt. Unfortunately, they will have difficulty listening to the praise of others sincerely, and unlikely to form any deep relationships.

Benefits

Rouges steal and take their aspect for the benefit of others.It is a very flexible class that can mean almost anything the Rogue themselves decides it means.

Breath is the aspect of freedom, direction and the literal wind. Breath players can be strong leaders, the free spirit or the guide. In essence, Breath is as flexible an aspect as the wind itself.

A Rogue of Breath will thrive when helping the white court and the residents of their land. They will be able to steal freedom from their friend’s enemies and, in some cases, be able to steal the breath from their enemies and give it to their allies.

Role

The exact role of this classpect is more up to the individual than any other classpect. I feel most would lean towards the role of a charismatic hero that brings allies with a charming smile and some clever words. Stealing those that would be their enemies into the side of good.

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