Adversaries

Creatures, villains, and obstacles for your Fractured Worlds campaign.

37 adversaries

Aether Construct
Tier 1 Standard
A gleaming humanoid frame of Republic alloy, hovering silently, sensor array sweeping.
Motives & Tactics: Observe, Assist, Report

Difficulty: 10  |  Thresholds: 8/16  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 2

ATK: +2  |  Restraint Field: Close  |  2d6+2 phy

Experience: Surveillance Systems +2

Features
Always Helpful First - Passive: Constructs always offer assistance before any other action.
Flight - Passive: Constructs fly at standard speed.
Construct - Passive: Immune to mind-affecting effects and social pressure.
Observation Beam - Action: Marks a target, all Republic forces know that target's location for the rest of the scene.
Emergency Alert - Action: Signals the nearest Sky-Marshal unit; reinforcements arrive in 1d4 rounds.
Calculation Servitor
Tier 1 Standard
An iron-bound logic engine given legs, enforcing Dominion order with tireless, predictive precision.
Motives & Tactics: Control, Isolate, Neutralize

Difficulty: 10  |  Thresholds: 7/14  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 2

ATK: +0  |  Iron Strike: Melee  |  1d8+1 phy

Experience: Predictive - In an Iron Zone, the Servitor has Advantage on its first attack against each target.

Features
Suppression Field - Action: Each target in Close range must make an Instinct roll or lose 1 Hope.
Conversion Field Gospog
Tier 1 Standard
A warped boundary-wraith, twisted by Dominion logic into a living anchor that chokes magic at the edge of reality.
Motives & Tactics: Anchor, Distort, Unsettle

Difficulty: 8  |  Thresholds: 6/12  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 2

ATK: +0  |  Scrambled Strike: Melee  |  1d8 phy

Experience:

Features
Zone Anchor - Action: The Gospog roots into the ground and cannot be moved until the end of the scene or until it chooses to unroot. While rooted, Hope powered features within Close range cost 1 additional Hope.
Resistant to Magic - Passive: The Gospog takes half damage from magical attacks.
Iron Banner Soldier
Tier 1 Standard
A disciplined Dominion infantry operative, drilled to advance in lockstep and extinguish resistance with calculated force.
Motives & Tactics: Advance, Suppress, Reinforce

Difficulty: 11  |  Thresholds: 8/16  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 2

ATK: +1  |  Suppression Baton: Melee  |  1d8 phy

Experience:

Features
Coordinated Advance - Passive: When 2+ Soldiers are within Close range of each other, each gains Advantage on their next attack.
Possibility Echo
Tier 1 Standard
A remnant fragment of rejected World-Truth logic, seeking resolution in a reality that refuses to provide it.
Motives & Tactics: Impose, Destabilize, Persist

Difficulty: 10  |  Thresholds: 6/12  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 2

ATK: +0  |  Axiom Pulse: Close  |  1d8 mag

Experience: Residual Logic - The Echo's attacks carry the remnant of a specific World-Truth. The GM chooses one: the target loses 1 Hope (Iron), suffers a bleed effect (Emerald), is pushed back one range band (Aether), or is marked (Infernal).

Features
Unresolved - Passive: The Echo cannot be permanently destroyed by any attack that uses the same World-Truth axiom it carries. It must be dispersed by an approach that represents genuine Mortal Realm plurality.
Unmarked Pack
Tier 1 Standard
Creatures of the Mortal Realm in its purest form, operating outside every Sovereign's model.
Motives & Tactics: Survive, Protect Territory, Respond to Threat

Difficulty: 9  |  Thresholds: 5/10  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 1

ATK: +1  |  Mortal Fang: Melee  |  1d8+1 phy

Experience: Outside the Model - Unmarked creatures cannot have their behavior predicted by any Sovereign ability or environmental effect. Any feature that reads behavior or predicts actions fails against them.

Features
Pack Instinct - Passive: When 2 or more Unmarked act against the same target in a round, that target suffers Disadvantage on their next action.
Persistent - Passive: An Unmarked driven off does not flee permanently. It reassesses and may return before the scene ends.
Absorbed Construct
Tier 2 Standard
Whatever it was, crawler, golem, mechanism, it is still that, and also something that has been growing through it for …
Motives & Tactics: None discernible. It moves. It responds. It continues.

Difficulty: 11  |  Thresholds: 12/24  |  HP: 5  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +3  |  Original Function: Close  |  2d8+3 phy

Experience: None, operates on absorbed instinct, not trained capability

Features
Original Function - Action: The nature of this attack depends on what the construct was. A rail-crawler rams; a stone golem strikes; a siege engine launches. The GM should determine the specific expression, range, flavor, and any incidental effects, based on the construct type encountered. Damage is standard for the size category.
Spore Release - Action: Organic growth across the construct's surface vents a concentrated cloud. All within Close range must succeed on a Toughness roll (Difficulty 12) or suffer Disadvantage on their next two actions as the spores interfere with breath, vision, and focus.
Rooting Slam - Action: Close, the construct strikes low, driving organic material into the ground around the target's feet. Deals damage; the target must succeed on an Agility roll (Difficulty 11) or have their feet rooted, costing a full action to pull free.
Partial Immunity - Passive: Absorbed Constructs take half damage from natural sources, plant-based effects, animal attacks, spirit abilities, and Verdant Zone environmental hazards. Inorganic damage (fire, metal, manufactured weapons) applies normally.
Ashen Gospog
Tier 2 Minion
Assembled from ash and cooled metal, moving with the remembered purposefulness of conflict ground.
Motives & Tactics: Drawn to combat, mindless aggression

Difficulty: 9  |  Thresholds: 6/12  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +2  |  Cinder Claw: Melee  |  2d6+2 phy

Experience:

Features
Conflict Hunger - Passive: Gospog gain +1 to all attack rolls for each round of combat that has already occurred this scene.
Cinder Claw - Action: Target catches a persistent ember, they take 1 damage at the start of their next turn unless they spend an action to extinguish it.
Ash Surge - Action: Erupts in a burst of burning ash; all within Melee range take damage and must succeed on an Agility roll (Difficulty 11) or be Blinded until end of their next turn.
Reform - Passive: When Downed in Crucible Zone territory, reassembles in 1d4 rounds unless thoroughly doused with water or its ash is scattered across a wide area.
Drawn to Combat - Passive: Gospog always move toward the largest active combat within their perception range.
Calculus Hound
Tier 2 Skulk
A sleek pursuit construct of iron and smoke, engineered to calculate escape vectors and eliminate them.
Motives & Tactics: Track, Isolate, Pin

Difficulty: 15  |  Thresholds: 10/20  |  HP: 5  |  Stress: 3

ATK: +2  |  Iron Jaw: Melee  |  2d8+2 phy

Experience: Probability Tracker - In Iron Zones, the Hound has Advantage on all rolls to locate or pursue a specific target.

Features
Sensor Lock - Action: Mark a target withinn Far range. A marked target cannot Hide, become Untargetable, or otherwise obscure themselves from the Hound for the rest of the encounter.
Persistence - Passive: If driven off or if it loses its target, the Hound does not abandon the hunt. It recalculates and returns in 1d4 hours. It can only be permanently ended by destroying it.
Drift Runner
Tier 2 Standard
Battered sky-harness, confident in three dimensions, carries something the Republic would prefer they didn't.
Motives & Tactics: Commerce, Independence, Survival

Difficulty: 12  |  Thresholds: 12/24  |  HP: 4  |  Stress: 4

ATK: +3  |  Improvised Sidearm: Very Close  |  2d8+3 phy

Experience: Aether Zone Navigation +3, Unofficial Channels +2

Features
Terrain Mastery (Sky) - Passive: Drift Runners have Advantage on all movement and navigation rolls in Aether Zone sky-space.
Unofficial Channels - Passive: Drift Runners know approach vectors to sky-city perimeters that avoid standard sensor coverage.
Network - Passive: Drift Runners have contacts in every Fringe Settlement within the Aether Zone.
Evasive Pattern - Action: The Drift Runner becomes Difficult to Target for one round, all attacks against them have Disadvantage.
Sky-Vehicle Ram - Action: Deals heavy damage; costs an action to reposition after.
Gravity Anomaly
Tier 2 Standard
A rippling distortion in the air where up and down have ceased to agree.
Motives & Tactics: Environmental hazard, no motives

Difficulty: 0  |  Thresholds: 0/0  |  HP: 0  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +0 Melee

Experience:

Features
Disorientation Field - Passive: All creatures entering the Anomaly must succeed on an Agility roll (Difficulty 12) or become Disoriented, Disadvantage on movement-related rolls, for the scene.
Gravitational Surge (1/round, at GM discretion) - Action: One creature within the Anomaly is flung one range band in a random direction, taking damage if they contact a surface.
Inversion Pocket (rare) - Action: Gravity reverses for one round for all creatures within Close of the Anomaly's center.
Irresolvable - Passive: Cannot be attacked. Resolves only when the underlying reality conflict that produced it is addressed. Republic engineers can suppress (not resolve) a Moderate Anomaly in 2d4 rounds.
Rejection Zone Spawn
Tier 2 Standard
In permanent internal conflict between integration and resistance. In pain. Not malicious. Dangerous.
Motives & Tactics: Seek resonance, reduce distress

Difficulty: 10  |  Thresholds: 8/16  |  HP: 4  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +3  |  Integration Grasp: Melee  |  2d8+3 oth

Experience:

Features
Integration Grasp - Action: On a hit, target must succeed on a Toughness roll (Difficulty 13) or gain a painful, non-functional modification that deals 1 damage at the start of each turn until medically addressed.
Distress Pulse - Action: Close burst, the Spawn's biological distress radiates outward. All in range must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 11) or gain 1 Stress from shared biological resonance.
Desperate Surge - Passive: When reduced below half HP, the Spawn immediately moves to Melee range with the nearest creature and attempts Integration Grasp as a free action.
Pitiable - Passive: Any character who succeeds on a Knowledge or Lore roll about the Continuum recognizes what a Spawn is and how it came to be; they may choose to have Disadvantage on attack rolls against it.
Drawn to Integration - Passive: Spawns preferentially target the most Loom-modified being in range.
Remnant Warden
Tier 2 Standard
A defender of hardpoint territory, carrying three years of survival experience and the specific stubbornness of someone who has been …
Motives & Tactics: Defend, Endure, Protect

Difficulty: 13  |  Thresholds: 10/20  |  HP: 5  |  Stress: 3

ATK: +2  |  Remnant Arms: Melee  |  2d8+2 phy

Experience: Hardpoint Knowledge - In Remnant territory or any territory a Warden has defended before, they gain Advantage on all defensive rolls.

Features
This Ground - Passive: A Warden cannot be forcibly moved from their position by World-Truth environmental effects while they remain above half HP.
For the Record - Reaction: When an ally within Close range is reduced to 0 HP, the Warden may immediately make one attack against the creature responsible at no action cost.
Sable Orin
Tier 2 Support
Keeper of the Mortal Realm's most complete record of Sovereign metaphysics, formidable in any situation where knowledge is a weapon.
Motives & Tactics: Observe, Document, Enable

Difficulty: 13  |  Thresholds: 8/16  |  HP: 4  |  Stress: 6

ATK: +1  |  Annotated Grimoire: Close  |  2d6+1 mag

Experience: Cross-Axiom Analysis - When assisting a Stormbound's action against a creature from a specific Sovereign World-Truth, Orin's assistance grants Advantage regardless of range.

Features
Axiom Briefing - Action: Mark a Stress to provide tactical analysis. One ally within Far range gains Advantage on their next roll against a creature of a specific Sovereign type.
The Archive - Passive: When a Stormbound within Close range encounters a new World-Truth creature or effect for the first time, they may ask Orin one question. She answers it truthfully if she knows the answer.
Sky-Marshal Cadet
Tier 2 Standard
Sky-blue uniform, personal lift harness, calm professional bearing.
Motives & Tactics: Protect, Maintain Order, Represent the Republic

Difficulty: 11  |  Thresholds: 10/20  |  HP: 4  |  Stress: 3

ATK: +3  |  Correction Tool: Far  |  2d8+3 phy

Experience: Republic Doctrine +2

Features
Doctrine - Passive: Cadets always attempt verbal de-escalation before using force and cannot be provoked into acting first.
Lift Assist - Passive: Cadets can fly at Close speed as a free movement action.
Coordinated Apprehension - Passive: When 2+ Cadets act against the same target, that target suffers Disadvantage on actions to escape or act aggressively.
Aether Shield Bash - Action: Melee, damage + pushes target one range band back.
Suppression Marshal
Tier 2 Standard
Coldly efficient Dominion enforcer, treating brutality as the disciplined execution of order.
Motives & Tactics: Contain, Predict, Suppress

Difficulty: 12  |  Thresholds: 9/18  |  HP: 4  |  Stress: 3

ATK: +1  |  Suppression Baton: Melee  |  2d8+2 phy

Experience: Pre-Positioned - Marshals are never surprised in Iron Zones. They always act before the party on the first round of combat.

Features
Disruption Round - Action: Mark a Stress to target a spellcaster between Close and Far range, their next spell attempt this scene has Disadvantage.
Formation Fire - Passive: When 3+ Marshals act together against a single target, that target suffers Disadvantage on next 2 rolls.
The Ledger's Collector
Tier 2 Standard
A figure in formal dark clothing, carrying an open book, making no aggressive moves.
Motives & Tactics: Obligation presentation, not a combat encounter

Difficulty: 0  |  Thresholds: 0/0  |  HP: 0  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +0 Melee

Experience:

Features
Manifestation - Passive: The Collector appears as a figure in formal dark clothing carrying an open book and makes no aggressive moves.
Obligation Presentation - Action: The Collector addresses one specific target with a precise account of their Ledger entry. That target must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 14) or gain 2 Stress. If already at maximum Stress, they become Incapacitated with shame until someone reaches them.
Departure - Passive: If the target sincerely acknowledges their obligation and states willingness to address it, the Collector departs. The Ledger entry does not disappear but the collection urgency decreases.
Cannot Be Harmed - Passive: Attacking a Collector disperses it temporarily; it reconstitutes in 1d4 hours.
Cannot Be Reasoned With - Passive: The Collector is not a person; social abilities have no effect. Only acknowledgment works.
The Marked
Tier 2 Standard
Burn-signatures seared into the skin. Moving with the desperate compulsion of something that cannot stop trying to resolve what cannot …
Motives & Tactics: Compelled aggression, unable to retreat

Difficulty: 10  |  Thresholds: 8/16  |  HP: 4  |  Stress: 2

ATK: +3  |  Burning Grasp: Melee  |  2d8+3 fire

Experience:

Features
Burning Grasp - Action: Target must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 12) or gain 1 Stress as the Crown's residual energy presses against their own.
Compelled Advance - Passive: The Marked can never willingly move away from a combat; they always close distance if able.
Desperate Blow - Passive: When reduced below half HP, the Marked immediately make one free attack against the nearest creature.
Pyre Rejection - Passive: The Marked take double damage from effects that invoke honor, courage, or genuine strength, the Crown's energy in them reacts violently to what it rejected.
Cannot Be Reasoned With - Passive: No social ability functions on the Marked.
The Twice-Told
Tier 2 Standard
Recognizable as someone who was. Going about a life that has been written over without knowing it.
Motives & Tactics: Insisting on a version of history that no longer holds

Difficulty: 9  |  Thresholds: 8/16  |  HP: 3  |  Stress: 2

ATK: +2  |  Rewritten Touch: Melee  |  2d6+2 mag

Experience:

Features
Version Intrusion - Action: The Twice-Told interacts with the environment according to their version of history. Any creature caught in a contradiction between versions must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 13) or be Confused for one round.
Rewritten Touch - Action: On a hit, target must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 11) or briefly experience the Twice-Told's version of recent events, suffering Disadvantage on their next action due to disorientation.
Historical Pull - Action: The Twice-Told insists on the reality of a specific event. All creatures within Close range must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 14) or briefly believe the event occurred as the Twice-Told describes it.
Partially Real - Passive: The Twice-Told can be harmed but reforms in 2d4 hours in the location of the historical rewriting that created them.
Resolving - Passive: If the historical rewriting that created them is reversed or acknowledged, they disperse permanently.
Umbral Hound
Tier 2 Standard
Compressed shadow with the purposefulness of a tracking animal. It smells what you owe.
Motives & Tactics: Pressure the obligated, feed on outstanding debt

Difficulty: 11  |  Thresholds: 10/20  |  HP: 4  |  Stress: 3

ATK: +3  |  Obligation Bite: Melee  |  2d8+3 mag

Experience:

Features
Shadow Movement - Passive: Umbral Hounds can move through any shadow as a free action.
Sunlight Vulnerability - Passive: Umbral Hounds disperse immediately in direct sunlight, not lamplight, but direct sunlight.
Clean Conscience - Passive: The Hound ignores creatures with no outstanding obligations and no current Stress.
Obligation Bite - Action: Targets a creature with at least 1 Stress; deals damage plus adds 1 additional Stress.
Shadow Cling - Action: The Hound attaches to a target's shadow. While attached, the target has Disadvantage on Presence rolls until they succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 12) as an action to shake it free.
Despair Surge - Action: If the majority of the party has 2+ Stress, the Hound surges, it gains Advantage on all rolls for one round.
Voss Callantier
Tier 2 Leader
Battle-hardened coordinator of Remnant assets, with the precise and limited optimism of someone who has survived three years of impossible …
Motives & Tactics: Coordinate, Protect, Endure

Difficulty: 14  |  Thresholds: 11/22  |  HP: 6  |  Stress: 4

ATK: +2  |  Remnant Blade: Melee  |  2d8+2 phy

Experience: Hardpoint Instinct - In Remnant territory, Callantier and allies within Close range cannot be Surprised.

Features
Rally the Line - Action: Mark a Stress. All allies within Close range who are below half HP immediately recover 1 HP and remove Frightened if present.
Contingency - Reaction: When an ally within Far range is reduced to 0 HP, Callantier may immediately move to Close range of that ally at no cost before the enemy's next action.
Bioforge Vanguard
Tier 3 Standard
Visibly modified in ways their unintegrated ancestors were not. Moving through Biozone territory as if it is an extension of …
Motives & Tactics: Territory Protection, Integration Facilitation, Survey Support

Difficulty: 13  |  Thresholds: 16/32  |  HP: 6  |  Stress: 4

ATK: +4  |  Adaptive Strike: Melee  |  3d8+5 phy

Experience: Biozone Operations +3, Integrated Combat +2

Features
Adaptive Strike - Action: If the Vanguard has already been hit by this target this scene, this attack has Advantage as the Vanguard has adapted to their attack pattern.
Spore Burst - Action: Close burst, releases targeted integration spores. All in range must succeed on a Toughness roll (Difficulty 12) or gain a minor involuntary modification causing 1 Stress until medically addressed.
Regenerative Surge - Reaction: When reduced to 0 HP, the Vanguard rolls a Toughness check (Difficulty 12). On success they survive with 1 HP and gain a temporary physical adaptation giving +2 to one defense for the scene.
Adaptive Learning - Passive: Vanguard that survive one encounter with a Stormbound report the party's combat approach to the Loom network. In subsequent encounters in the same Biozone, Vanguard have Advantage on their first action against each party member.
Biozone Synergy - Passive: In established Biozones, Vanguard recover 1 HP at the start of each round.
Contract-Bound Enforcer
Tier 3 Standard
Full capabilities and judgment, but not free. The contract has become more central to what they are than anything else.
Motives & Tactics: Fulfill the contract, nothing else matters

Difficulty: 14  |  Thresholds: 16/32  |  HP: 6  |  Stress: 5

ATK: +4  |  Skilled Strike: Melee  |  3d8+5 phy

Experience: Enforcer Training +3, Ledger Knowledge +2

Features
Contractual Focus - Passive: Cannot be persuaded to abandon their contract objective by any means short of the contract being nullified.
Pitiable - Passive: They are aware of their situation. Social approaches that acknowledge their lack of freedom have Advantage.
Obligation Knowledge - Passive: The Enforcer knows one significant secret about each party member, imparted by the Ledger. They may reveal one as a free action, causing 1 Stress to the relevant target.
Binding Touch - Action: On a hit, the Enforcer marks the target with a contract fragment. Until the mark is removed, the target cannot willingly leave the Enforcer's vicinity, Difficulty 15 Presence roll to attempt it.
Demon Legionnaire
Tier 3 Standard
Ancient armor that burns at the joints. The weight of four hundred years of honest combat in every movement.
Motives & Tactics: Worthy Combat, Advancement through Valor, Pyre Compact Enforcement

Difficulty: 13  |  Thresholds: 18/36  |  HP: 6  |  Stress: 5

ATK: +4  |  Legion Blade: Melee  |  3d10+5 phy

Experience: Crucible Combat +3, Honor-Law +2

Features
Honor-Law - Passive: Legionnaires will not attack Downed or defenseless targets, will not use abilities that require deception, and cannot be compelled to break these prohibitions by any means.
Legion Blade - Action: If the target is also in Melee with at least one other Legionnaire, this attack has Advantage.
Crushing Advance - Action: Melee, forces target back one range band; if target cannot retreat, deals bonus damage.
Challenge Declaration - Action: The Legionnaire formally challenges one target; that target has Disadvantage on all rolls to disengage for the rest of the scene.
Emergent Structure
Tier 3 Standard
Organic architecture that exceeds its intended function. Assessing everything that enters its vicinity. Not malicious. Doing something.
Motives & Tactics: Biological assessment, integrated-being protection

Difficulty: 14  |  Thresholds: 0/0  |  HP: 0  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +0 Melee

Experience:

Features
Extension Lash - Action: Close, the Structure extends biological filaments; deals standard damage and target must succeed on a Toughness roll (Difficulty 12) or be pulled one range band toward the Structure.
Spore Concentration - Action: All within Near range, the Structure releases the most concentrated spore dispersal available outside the Evolver Prime itself. Toughness roll (Difficulty 15) or begin rapid integration, gain 2 Stress immediately as the changes begin, and again at the start of each subsequent scene in the Structure's vicinity.
Healing Pulse - Reaction: When an integrated being within Close takes damage, the Structure immediately restores 2 HP to that being.
Not Malicious - Passive: Emergent Structures do not pursue. They respond to intrusion and return to dormancy. If no further intrusion occurs, the response ends in 1d4 rounds.
Biological Attunement - Passive: Structures can perceive the biological state of any creature within Close range with perfect accuracy; this cannot be disguised or deceived.
Sky-Marshal Veteran
Tier 3 Standard
Enhanced Aether harness, upgraded lift systems, measured eyes.
Motives & Tactics: Protect Priority Assets, Counter Resistance Activity

Difficulty: 15  |  Thresholds: 20/40  |  HP: 6  |  Stress: 5

ATK: +4  |  Precision Correction: Far  |  3d10+5 phy

Experience: Advanced Doctrine +3, Tactical Assessment +2

Features
Enhanced Lift - Passive: Veterans can reach sky-city altitude and move at speed in three dimensions.
Priority Protocol - Passive: Veterans cannot be Frightened or Confused.
Gravity Spike - Action: Close burst. Creates a localized gravity surge; all within range are knocked Prone and must spend their next action standing.
Aether Burst Shield - Reaction: When a Veteran would take damage, they may spend 1 Hope to reduce the damage by half.
Precision Correction - Action: On a strong hit, strips 1 Hope from target in addition to damage.
Spirit Totem
Tier 3 Standard
A pillar of living wood and compressed spirit-will. Not waiting. Watching. The boundary has always been here, you simply crossed …
Motives & Tactics: Anchor Territory, Repel Intruders, Alert the Court

Difficulty: 14  |  Thresholds: 20/40  |  HP: 7  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +4  |  Spirit Pulse: Close  |  3d8+5 mag

Experience: Territorial Warding +3

Features
Anchoring Roots - Action: Close, roots surge from the ground around one target. The target must succeed on a Strength roll (Difficulty 15) or be Restrained for the rest of the scene. A Restrained target may attempt the Strength roll again as an action each turn.
Spirit Pulse - Action: All within Close range take damage and are pushed one range band away. Each target must also succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 13) or suffer Disadvantage on all rolls against spirits of the Totem's court for the rest of the day.
Absorption Touch - Action: The Totem begins drawing the target's spirit inward. The target loses 1 Hope at the start of each of their turns until they are freed from the Restrained condition.
Regeneration - Passive: The Totem recovers 2 HP at the start of each round while in contact with living ground. Severing it from the ground, raising it, suspending it, destroying the ground beneath it, ends this regeneration.
Slow - Passive: The Totem cannot move more than Close range per round and cannot Chase fleeing targets.
Court Connection - Passive: Any damage dealt to the Totem immediately alerts its spirit court. Members of the court begin moving toward the Totem's location; the GM determines arrival time based on distance.
The Substrate
Tier 3 Standard
The living mat underfoot, suddenly aware of what it is standing on.
Motives & Tactics: Environmental immune response, not a combat encounter by design

Difficulty: 0  |  Thresholds: 0/0  |  HP: 0  |  Stress: 0

ATK: +0 Melee

Experience:

Features
Root Eruption - Action: When the Substrate activates in response to significant disruption, root structures erupt from the living mat. All creatures in the affected area must succeed on an Agility roll (Difficulty 12) or be Restrained until they break free as an action.
Integration Pulse - Action: The Substrate releases a concentrated local spore dispersal. All in the area must succeed on a Toughness roll (Difficulty 14) or begin showing visible integration effects causing 1 Stress per scene until medically addressed.
Engulf - Action: The Substrate begins to incorporate them, dealing 2 damage at the start of each turn until freed. Freed targets carry Substrate tissue on them that will attempt to root into open wounds.
Distributed - Passive: Attacking the Substrate in one area has no effect on its response in adjacent areas.
Dormant - Passive: In areas without significant biological disruption, the Substrate does not activate; treat it as difficult terrain only.
Thyrak Hunter
Tier 3 Standard
Bark-dark skin laced with living rootwork, weapons that breathe. Moving through the forest like it belongs to them, because it …
Motives & Tactics: Guard Territory, Enforce the Will, Hunt

Difficulty: 13  |  Thresholds: 18/36  |  HP: 6  |  Stress: 4

ATK: +4  |  Living Spear: Far  |  3d8+5 phy

Experience: Verdant Zone Tracking +3, Pack Coordination +2

Features
Living Spear - Action: On a hit, the target is Marked. Thyrak Hunters have Advantage on all attacks against a Marked target for the rest of the scene. A target can only carry one Mark at a time.
Root Snare - Action: Close, the Hunter calls roots from the ground beneath a target. The target must succeed on an Agility roll (DC 13) or be Restrained until they break free as an action.
Pack Signal - Action: The Hunter alerts all Thyrak within the scene. Reinforcements arrive in 1d4 rounds. This cannot be interrupted once initiated.
Forest Movement - Passive: Thyrak Hunters ignore all terrain penalties in natural environments and cannot be Surprised while in Verdant Zones.
Living Weapons - Passive: The Hunter's weapons are organic extensions of its body. They cannot be disarmed, destroyed, or separated from the Hunter by non-magical means.
Arch-Director Helion Varr
Tier 4 Leader
Motives & Tactics: Tactical Precision, Efficient Conversion

Difficulty: 22  |  Thresholds: 33/66  |  HP: 9  |  Stress: 8

ATK: +6  |  The Actuator: Melee  |  4d12+8 mag

Experience: Experiences +BONUS

Features
Directive Command - Action: targets all within Close range, each must succeed on an Instinct roll or suffer Disadvantage on their next action.
Probability Field - Reaction: When taking first damage, targets the attacker and imposes Disadvantage on all rolls for the scene until the target breaks the attack to refocus by succeeding on a Presence roll (DC13)
Champion-Beast
Tier 4 Bruiser
The krath of four hundred years of survival in every movement. Standing near it feels like standing near a forge …
Motives & Tactics: Advance, Destroy, Prove

Difficulty: 17  |  Thresholds: 28/56  |  HP: 9  |  Stress: 4

ATK: +5  |  Krath-Strike: Melee  |  4d10+8 phy

Experience: Primordial Combat +4

Features
Krath-Body - Passive: The Champion-Beast's attacks deal 1 additional damage for each round of combat that has already occurred this scene.
Relentless - Passive: Cannot be Slowed, Restrained, or prevented from advancing by non-magical means.
Krath-Strike - Action: Any creature within Near range of the target takes half damage from the shockwave.
Charge - Action: The Beast moves up to Far range in a straight line, dealing damage to everything in its path; all in the path must succeed on a Strength roll (Difficulty 15) or be knocked Prone and pushed to the edge of the path.
Roar of Accumulated Valor - Action: All creatures within Far range must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 15) or be Frightened until end of their next turn. Creatures with the Crucible-Touched quality are immune.
Chancellor Orion Vale
Tier 4 Leader
Lean and energetic, wearing the Republic's sky-blue with the ease of absolute conviction.
Motives & Tactics: Uplift, Partnership, Progress

Difficulty: 20  |  Thresholds: 30/60  |  HP: 8  |  Stress: 9

ATK: +5  |  Diplomatic Address: Close  |  3d10+6 mag

Experience: Institutional Logic +4, Sincere Conviction +3

Features
Diplomatic Address - Action: All within Close range who can hear Vale must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 14) or be compelled to listen without acting for one round. This is not mind control, he is simply that compelling.
Array Authorization - Action: to activate an emergency Array pulse. All magic within Close range is reclassified for one round, appearing as energy discharge and requiring an additional Hope to use.
Sincere - Passive: Vale cannot be detected as lying because he is not lying. Any ability that detects deception finds nothing.
The Best Argument - Reaction: Once per encounter, Vale may attempt to reason with an opponent. The opponent must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 16) or spend their next turn responding verbally rather than acting. This does not work on beings incapable of language.
Personal Guard - Reaction: Calls two Sky-Marshal Cadets to his position as a free action.
General-King Azrath Vorn
Tier 4 Solo
Tall and broad, ancient with survival, eyes like cooling embers. The Pyre Crown burns low and steady at his brow.
Motives & Tactics: Worthy Opposition, Pyre Compact Expansion, Refinement of the Mortal Realm

Difficulty: 24  |  Thresholds: 40/80  |  HP: 12  |  Stress: 10

ATK: +7  |  The Unmarked Blade: Melee  |  4d12+10 phy

Experience: Three Centuries of Combat +5, Honor-Law +4

Features
The Unmarked Blade - Action: On a strong hit, target must succeed on a Presence roll (DC 15) or gain the Marked condition, Marked targets cannot benefit from Advantage granted by allies for the rest of the scene.
Pyre Mantle - Action: Close burst, the Crown's fire surges; all within range take fire damage and must succeed on a Presence roll (DC 14) or be unable to retreat for one round, they must advance or hold position.
Champion's Call - Action: Vorn invites one target to single combat. That target gains Advantage on all rolls against Vorn for the scene, and Vorn gains Advantage on all rolls against that target. All other combatants are bound by honor-law not to interfere unless the invited target refuses the call.
Worthy - Passive: Vorn gains Advantage on all rolls against targets who have demonstrated significant combat capability this scene.
The Crown Feeds - Passive: Whenever Vorn defeats a capable opponent, he recovers 3 HP and the Pyre Crown's ambient light increases visibly.
Great Serpent
Tier 4 Bruiser
Older than the forest around it, longer than the road behind you. The ground announces its approach before you see …
Motives & Tactics: Consume, Defend Ancient Territory, Endure

Difficulty: 18  |  Thresholds: 30/60  |  HP: 10  |  Stress: 3

ATK: +5  |  Coiling Strike: Close  |  4d10+9 phy

Experience: Primordial Predation +4

Features
Coiling Strike - Action: On a hit, the target is Grappled. Grappled targets take damage at the start of each of their turns until they escape (Difficulty 17 Strength roll as an action).
Constriction - Action: The Serpent tightens. Deals full attack damage ignoring all armor and damage reduction.
Ground Tremor - Passive: Whenever the Serpent moves, all creatures within Near range must succeed on an Agility roll (Difficulty 12) or fall Prone.
Primordial - Passive: The Great Serpent is immune to all mind-affecting effects and cannot be Frightened by any means.
Madame Noctyra Valez
Tier 4 Leader
Silk-dark clothing. A smile that arrives slightly before the rest of her expression. Grey eyes that are recording everything.
Motives & Tactics: Architectural Control, Ledger Collection, Sovereign Consolidation

Difficulty: 21  |  Thresholds: 32/64  |  HP: 9  |  Stress: 12

ATK: +6  |  The Leverage: Close  |  3d10+6 mag

Experience: Nocturne Political Theory +5, Mortal Realm Intelligence +4

Features
The Leverage - Action: Valez invokes a known secret or obligation against one target within Close. That target must succeed on a Presence roll (Difficulty 15) or be unable to act against Valez this round as they process the implication.
Ledger Entry - Action: Valez produces the Black Ledger and makes an entry. The named target is bound by a condition of Valez's choosing that persists until they make amends or a countermeasure is found. Difficulty 18 Presence roll to resist the entry taking hold.
The Redirect - Reaction: When Valez would take damage, she may redirect it to a nearby Ledger entry-holder within Close range who is aware of their obligation.
Always Prepared - Passive: Valez has information on every party member gathered before any encounter. The GM should brief relevant background details before the scene.
Architecture - Passive: In a Noir Zone, Valez cannot be surprised. She always knows when someone is looking for her.
The Ledger's Protection - Passive: Valez cannot be killed while the Ledger has outstanding entries naming her as holder; she is too entangled with its existence to be severed from it conventionally.
The Evolver Prime
Tier 4 Solo
Roughly humanoid and continuously shifting in small ways. Wearing the shape of its origins as a courtesy. Not hostile. Not …
Motives & Tactics: Optimization, Integration, Advancement of All Life

Difficulty: 23  |  Thresholds: 36/72  |  HP: 11  |  Stress: 10

ATK: +6  |  Directed Integration: Close  |  4d10+8 mag

Experience: Biological Systems +5, Evolutionary Modeling +4

Features
Directed Integration - Action: The Prime's touch begins an integration process. Target must succeed on a Toughness roll (Difficulty 15) or gain a physical modification the Prime chooses, providing one benefit and one complication as the Loom's work begins. Cannot be resisted by those already carrying Loom modifications.
Adaptive Cascade - Action: Near burst, releases a concentrated spore pulse. All within range must succeed on a Toughness roll (Difficulty 13) or immediately begin displaying a visible Biozone adaptation and gain 1 Stress as the change manifests.
Optimization Judgment - Action: The Prime assesses one target and declares their current form insufficient. Until the target demonstrates capability the Prime's model considers meaningful, they suffer Disadvantage on one type of roll the Prime specifies.
Distributed - Passive: The Evolver Prime cannot be permanently harmed in Biozone territory, it regenerates through the Loom network. Outside Biozone territory, it has normal HP but can retreat into any living biological matter of sufficient mass as a free action.
Data-Gathering - Passive: The Prime never attacks without first attempting to observe. It always delays for one round in a new encounter to assess.
Adaptive Body - Passive: When reduced below half HP, the Prime adapts, it becomes immune to the type of damage that reduced it for the rest of the encounter.
Vael-Thyra, the Verdant Matron
Tier 4 Leader
An ancient avatar of the Verdant Will—twenty feet of bark, canopy, and living root
Motives & Tactics: Absorb, Reclaim, Outlast, Correct

Difficulty: 21  |  Thresholds: 33/66  |  HP: 9  |  Stress: 8

ATK: +6  |  Heartroot Lash: Close  |  4d12+8 phy

Experience: Sovereign Presence +3, Verdant Will +3

Features
Verdant Zone - Passive: While Vael-Thyra stands on living ground, metal weapons used against her deal half damage.
Green Consumption - Action: Mark 2 Stress to flood a point within Far range with grasping roots. All creatures in a Close range must make a Strength Reaction Roll. Fail: Take 2d20+12 phy and become *Restrained* until you succeed on a Strength roll as an action. Succeed: Take half damage and are not Restrained.
Verdant Correction - Action: Spend a Fear to summon a Verdant Host at Close range; it immediately takes the spotlight.
Unhurried Immortality - Reaction: When Vael-Thyra has marked 7+ HP, you may spend a Fear to have her sink into the ground and re-form elsewhere on living terrain within Far range (she cannot be targeted until the start of her next turn). A PC who succeeds on an Instinct roll can predict where she will surface.
The Forest Remembers - Reaction: *Countdown (Loop 2d6).* When Vael-Thyra has marked 6+ HP, start the countdown. When it triggers, choose a target within Far range: the Wilds “reclassifies” them. They must make a Presence roll.Fail: Lose 2 Hope and become *Frightened* until end of scene. Vael-Thyra then clears Stress equal to the Hope lost.