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===Guardians of the Bones===
'''Destiny Cost: 3'''<br>
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'''Concept''': The agents and enforcers of the Astral Directorate, sworn to bring about what Fate demands.
'Recruited' from orphans and child captives, these fearsome warriors have been taught since childhood to submit their will to the dictates of fate.  They are trained in the arcane kung fu of the Purple Star Sages, and feared by all those who run afoul, knowingly or not, of the Astral Directorate's predictions.  The Guardians of the Bones are the stuff of whispers and legends throughout Shen Zhou.<br> 
'''Virtues''': Fatalism, Loyalty (Zhong), Ruthlessness (Hen)<br>
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'''Secrets of Destiny: Guardians of the Bones'''<br>
*'''3+ Status''': You are one of the Guardians of the Bones. You serve the Astral Directorate, and work to ensure that the predictions of the Purple Star Sages come to pass.
**'''0 Treasure''': You may purchase a special weapon with a -2D discount.
**'''0 Bonus''': If you are a member of the Guardians of the Bones, you may purchase the Fatalism loresheet at a -2 discount.
**'''0 Bonus''': You have a free Inspire specialty: Bad Cop, that applies whenever you make use of your position to intimidate possible offenders or common folk.
*'''0/5 Disadvantage''': You have been placed on Probation. You have done something to earn the ire of your superiors; you can be sure they are aware of your every move, and further disappointments may result in more severe sanctions.  Gain one extra Destiny every time your compromised status causes you difficulty.

'''Secrets of Destiny: Guardians of the Bones Kung Fu'''<br>
*'''0 Bonus''': You have a one-time, -2D discount when buying one of the following as a secondary External Style: Bagua Tower, Murderous Shadows, or Ravenous Wings.
*'''0 Bonus''': All Guardians of the Bones are taught the Guidance of the Purple Star internal style; you may learn all techniques in that style, rather than one per level.
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The following techniques are based on the Guidance of the Purple Star; you must know that style in order to learn them.<br>
 
*'''5 Technique''': You learn the ''In the Shadow of the Tower'' technique.
**If you're in the ''Bagua Tower'' stance, and use the ''Heart-Finding Strike'' technique while acting in accord with a Prediction, you inflict a Rippling roll if your strike lands.
**If you're in the ''Bagua Tower'' stance and use the ''Gift of Foresight'' technique while acting in accord with a Prediction, opponents must exceed your initiative by 20 in order to break your waves.

*'''5 Technique''': You learn the ''Murderous Savant'' technique.
**If you're in ''Murderous Shadows'' stance and use ''Picking Among the Strands'', you may choose to keep up to twice the number of your Ranks achieved and reroll the remainder.
**If you're in ''Murderous Shadows'' stance and use ''Future Holds No Secrets'', you Fear no attacks or defenses this round.

*'''5 Technique''': You learn the ''End of Days Dance'' technique. 
**If you are in ''Ravenous Wings'' stance and use ''Falling Star Escape'', the bonus to Footwork increases to +20 if you are acting in accord with a Prediction.
**If you are in ''Ravenous Wings'' stance and use ''Death Comes for All'', your attack ignores armor.

'''The Purple Star Sages'''<br>: The Masters of Bagua Tower are said to be the greatest Scholars in Shen Zhou; their predictions, made with the aid of ''Pan Gu's Bones'', have given
*'''6 Fortune''': Your destiny has become a matter of interest for one or a few of the Purple Star Sages; he or they act as your patron within the Astral Directorate, and will give you a variety of direct and indirect support.
**'''-3''': You patrons are opposed by a rival clique; you will occasionally face bureaucratic red tape, or other such minor obstacles. If you should act in a way that is contrary to the overall interests of the Astral Directorate, however, you risk more serious problems, up to and including hostile Predictions.
**'''0 Bonus''': This interest gives you a wide latitude of action both in the Astral Directorate and across the Imperial Bureaucracy as a whole. You have the equivalent of Status 5 in the Astral Directorate, and Status 3 in the Imperial Bureaucracy as a whole.
**'''3 Fortune''': Once per story, you may petition your patron(s) for a Prediction on some matter. So long as it is limited in scope, and not contrary to the Directorate's interests, you can be confident that it will be granted. This counts as a Major Hyperactivity.
*'''5 Destiny''': In the past generation, the efficacy of the Sages' predictions has faltered -- and the Xin Dynasty, and all of Shen Zhou, has suffered for it.  Your story will involve this ominous turn of events; will you work to arrest the weakening, or speed it along?
'''The Thousand Eye Division'''<br>
There are 64 Purple Star Sages; there are perhaps twice that many Guardians of the Bones; a few hundred minor Scholars, and perhaps a thousand scribes who toil away in Bagua Tower. But the greatest number of the Astral Directorate comes from the so-called Thousand Eyes Division, the vast network of informers, spies and observers that keep the Astral Directorate well-informed about events in Perpetual Peace, Shen Zhou, and even beyond. Reports from all under heaven come into the Astral Directorate every hour of the day, and much of the toil that falls to those scribes comes in sorting, digesting and destroying those reports.
*'''4 Fortune''': Once per chapter, you may declare that you have received sensitive information from the Thousand Eyes on a topic relevant to your current activities; this information is something that is otherwise held secret, and you have a +10 bonus to any related social actions or Discovery attempts related to it. (This is a Laughs At bonus.)
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