#powerful classpect

Scourge of Faith! Huh. Warped faith is a pretty scary concept. Bend the ideals of your fellows’ faiths to your own ends; you could rule a bloody world.

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

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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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.

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

An Heir of Hope is likely to fall into a manipulative and abusive relationship, desperate for affection, they could easily end up sacrificing their own happiness for someone they think cares about them.

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.

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. 

An Heir of Hope can bond easily with their denizens and carapace, being able ot get them directly involved in the battle for Skaia. Protected always by those beliefs.

Role

A Heir of Hope can lead the charge, a living banner of the hope and power of the people. The selfless heart of adventure and the great hero of the story.

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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

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.

Blood players are also prone to self sacrifice, as well as being pressured to often take little credit for their roles in keeping the peace in their session.

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.

Blood players are excellent at forming healthy relationships, both platonic and romantic. They can rally others together and calm rage players.

An Heir of Blood will actually be very likely to sacrifice themselcves, but only when absolutely needed because they will have and be the support their session mates need.

Role

An Heir of Blood will be the glue that holds the session together. A natural leader, or right hand, they are an asset to any session.

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