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The Xin Dynasty

The Imperial Family

• Xin Shiliu Huangdi
• Wei Chu'hua, Empress Dowager and former Regent
• Li Xiaohui, First Imperial Consort

The Imperial Bureaucracy

The Four Chambers

• The Winter Chamber
• The Spring Chamber
• The Summer Chamber
• The Autumn Chamber

The Astral Directorate

• Bagua Tower
• The Codex Sidereal
• The Thousand Eyes Division

The City of Perpetual Peace

Outside the Walls

• Imperial Park
• Dowager's Palace
• Uyghurtown
• Five Copper Road

Life in Perpetual Peace

• The City of a Million Souls
• The Merchant's City
• The City of Perpetual Delight
• The City of Endless Festivals

The Warrior's Life

Destiny Cost: 2 (This Loresheet is free for Warriors)
You may choose one of the following options, or work with your Sage to design a new one; additional options may be purchased for 2 Destiny each.

• Tournament Celebrity: No entertainment in Perpetual Peace is more popular than the Martial Tournaments, and the fighters who make regular appearances quickly become famous across the city as either heroes or heels. You've put your time in at the Tournaments, and have reaped the rewards -- and paid the costs.
  • 0 Bonus You may choose a Perform Specialty: Playing to the Crowd or Tactics Specialty: One-on-One for free.
  • 0 Bonus When fighting a single opponent in front of a crowd, you never Fear your opponent's kung fu.
  • 0/5 Disadvantage You're not just known among fighting afficiandos, you're a Tournament Superstar. You can't go out in public without being accosted, and your comings and goings are public knowledge. Gain 1 extra Destiny when your celebrity impedes your life in a significant way.
• Sword for Hire
• Ward Guardian
• Teahouse Tough

The Doctor's Life

Destiny Cost: 2 (This Loresheet is free for Doctors)
You may choose one of the following options, or work with your Sage to design a new one; additional options may be purchased for 2 Destiny each.

• Doctor without Borders
• Concierge Medicine
• Backroom Surgeon
• The Cutting Edge of Medicine

The Courtier's Life

Destiny Cost: 2 (This Loresheet is free for Courtiers)
You may choose one of the following options, or work with your Sage to design a new one; additional options may be purchased for 2 Destiny each.

• Master Sophist
• Salon Regular
• Partisan Hack
• Tribune of the People

The Scholar's Life

Destiny Cost: 2 (This Loresheet is free for Scholars)
You may choose one of the following options, or work with your Sage to design a new one; additional options may be purchased for 2 Destiny each.

• Black Market Fortunes: Sometimes people need predictions made, and they don't necessarily want word getting back to Bagua Tower about the subject matter. That's where you come in. Maybe you do a legitimate business as a front, or your 'back room' work is even just for special customers only, but you're on the wrong side of the Sidereal Codex regardless.
  • 0 Bonus: Once per chapter, you can declare that an NPC has made use of your services, and this either gives you leverage over that NPC, or otherwise makes him or her inclined to help you out. The Wulin Sage has final say over such a declaration in cases where it would be especially unlikely.
  • 0 Bonus: You have a Politics Specialty: Criminal Underworld or Confidence Specialty: Resist Interrogation for free.
  • 0/5 Disadvantage: You're Marked by the Guardians. While you haven't violated the Codex seriously enough to put you in mortal jeopardy, your infractions have come to the attention of Bagua Tower, and you could be hauled in at any time. Gain 1 extra Destiny when this sticky situation gets you into trouble.
• Licensed Diviner
• Street Seer
• Scholar to the Stars

The Priest's Life

Destiny Cost: 2 (This Loresheet is free for Priests)
You may choose one of the following options, or work with your Sage to design a new one; additional options may be purchased for 2 Destiny each.

• Shepherd of a Flock
• Cult Leader
• Prophet in the Desert
• Local Shaman

Four Gates Valley

• The Four Gates
• Little Orphan Mountain
  • Celestial Path Abbey
• The Barrow Fields
  • The Legend of Qin Shi Huangdi's Necropolis
• Dayu's Works
• The Grand Canal and the Mud Lake
  • House of Penitence
• The Wei River
  • River Pirates
• The Earth Spine Mountains
  • Great Prosperity Mountain
  • Seventh Hell Prison

Foreign Lands

• Tsubo Empire
• The Garden Cities
• The Northern Tujue Confederacy
• Persia, Sogdiana, Bactria
• Bharata

Philosophy in the Age of the Xin

Fatalism

(Destiny Cost: 3)

In a society where divination is as important to all elements of life -- matters of state, business, family, honor -- as it is in Xin-era Shen Zhou, a system of belief such as Fatalism was perhaps bound (fated?) to come into being.

• Secrets of Destiny: Legalism
  • 5 Fortune: Your rigorous commitment to the philosophical and practical demands of Fatalism has made you a favored interlocutor of one of the greatest Scholars in Shen Zhou -- one of the 64 Purple Star Sages. You are regularly invited to the uppermost chambers of Bagua Tower to meet with your conversation partner.
  • 3 Secret: If you already know the Ultimate Prediction Technique, you only need to exceed the difficulty by 5 in order to create a Major Condition instead of rolling a critical success.
  • 4 Secret: You have sublimated your own desires so thoroughly to the implacable demands of destiny that there is no longer a difference between those desires and your understanding of the demands of destiny. Called the One With Fate Technique, it merges your Benevolence and Individualism Virtues into a single Fatalism Virtue, summing the two values into a single Virtue score. If this should take the merged score over 5, the excess Destiny is refunded as appropriate Entanglements as chosen by the Sage. You gain Deeds in the Fatalism Virtue when you put aside your own motivations -- be they selfish or compassionate -- to act in accord with the predictions, divinations, and the whims of fate more generally.