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+---
+title: Action Resolution
+summary: >-
+  Rules for handling actions in Kuruso.
+weight: 1
+---
+
+To decide how a character's action plays out, answer the following questions, discussing as
+necessary.
+
+1. **Intent:** What does the character want?
+1. **Approach:** Hows does their character try to achieve that intent?
+1. Can the approach for the intent succeed? If not, the character fails.
+1. Can it fail? If not, the character succeeds.
+1. Does failure have meaningful consequences? If not, the character succeeds. If so, the character
+   must test.
+
+In short, a character must test if and only if their approach to their intent can succeed and can
+fail with meaningful consequences.
+
+## Tests
+
+When a test is called for, follow this order of operations, stopping when the result is clear:
+
+1. The adjudicator decides which attribute (Iron, Flax, or Bone) is the most relevant to the
+   character's approach.
+1. The adjudicator determines the difficulty tier of the test based on the character's approach and
+   the current context. Most tests are tier 1.
+1. The player states a relevant domain to use for the test, if any.
+1. The player rolls d6:6.
+1. If the roll's rating is 6:6, the result is a botch, the worst possible outcome for the
+   character's intent by their approach.
+1. If the roll's rating is equal to the rating of either the relevant attribute or applicable
+   domain, the result is a triumph, the best possible outcome for the character's intent by their
+   approach.
+1. If the tier of the roll's rating is less than the tier of the difficulty, the result is a
+   failure.
+1. If the roll's rating is under the rating of either the relevant attribute or applicable domain,
+   the result is a success.
+1. If the degree of the roll's rating is less than the tier of the applicable domain, the result is
+   a success.
+1. The result is a failure.
+
+## Contests
+
+Contests are tests with more than one party, like a race, negotiation, or fight. Contests follow the
+same order of operations as normal tests until every side's result is determined. Then, follow this
+order of operations to determine the result of the contest:
+
+1. If only one party succeeded or triumphed, they win the contest.
+1. If more than one party triumphed, the triumphing party with the highest rolled rating wins the
+   contest.
+1. If more than one party succeeded, the succeeding party with the highest rolled rating wins the
+   contest.
+1. If every party failed, the party with the highest rolled rating wins the contest.

content/rules/characters/_index.md

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+---
+title: Characters
+summary: >-
+  Rules for defining characters in Kuruso.
+weight: 3
+platen:
+  menu:
+    collapse_section: true
+---
+
+Blah blah..

content/rules/characters/ambitions.md

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+---
+title: Ambitions
+summary: >-
+  Rules for defining characters in Kuruso.
+weight: 4
+---
+
+Ambitions drive the people of Kuruso to new heights, manifesting in their thoughts, actions, and
+eventually their very being as the world's magic recognizes their efforts.
+
+Ambitions may be long-term, only achievable with seasons or years of dedicated effort, or
+short-term, attainable in the next few hours or days. Fulfilling ambitions changes a person
+figuratively and literally as their tephra responds to their manifested will.
+
+Characters may have up to two active long-term ambitions and one short-term ambition at a time.
+
+## Short-Term Ambitions
+
+Short-term ambitions are always declared during play.
+
+When a character achieves a short term ambition, mark the attribute (iron, flax, or bone) most
+relevant to it with a `+` or erase an `x`. If a character fails in their short-term ambition, mark
+it with an `x` or erase a `+`.
+
+## Long-Term Ambitions
+
+Long-term ambitions drive at what a character wants to become. Unlike short-term ambitions,
+long-term ambitions have a rating and are a relevant domain while pursuing that ambition. As a
+character advances towards their ambition, they may unlock related knacks.
+
+The list of ambitions below is non-exhaustive.
+
+### Become an Ironbinder
+
+Ironbinders are the rare folk in Kuruso who have mastered the use of precious iron to bind eldritch
+entities to their will, turning daemons into servants or destroying them with mere speech. They are
+marked by the rust in their sweat and tears and the iron tokens they wear as talismans, etched with
+the old words.
+
+When you embark on the journey to becoming an ironbinder, gain the Ironbinder domain with a rating
+of 1:1. This domain is relevant for tests to identify, research, interact with, and defeat daemons,
+as well as speaking the Old Tongue.
+
+Whenever you survive physical contact with a daemon, test this domain. If successful, you learn the
+daemon's name. Whether or not you succeed, mark the domain.
+
+When you know the name of six daemons, you gain the Irontongue knack.
+
+When the rating of your Ironbinder domain reaches tier 3, you gain the Rustful Humors knack and are
+eligible to undergo the Iron Trial, where you will be given the name of a daemon to bind as your
+own servant by another Ironbinder. If you succeed, you ascend as a full Ironbinder in your own
+right.
+
+Irontongue
+: The stronger this knack, the stiffer and darker your tongue becomes, hardening in your mouth to
+  living iron, coated in rust from your saliva. Unless polished and cleaned, the difficulty tier
+  for all speech when not exercising this knack is increased by its magnitude.
+
+  Exercise this knack to speak with daemons. Your words transform in your throat to the Old Tongue,
+  granting you power over them. Social tests against daemons can damage their tephra as if attacking
+  them with a weapon.
+
+Rustful Humors
+: The stronger this knack, the more obvious your calling. All of your bodily fluids stain with rust,
+  streaking from your pores and orifices. Your hunger for flesh, especially organs, increases.
+
+  Exercise this knack convert your own blood to tephra at a 2:1 rate, pulling iron and power from
+  your body.
+
+### Become the Idol of a Cult
+
+### Become the Captain of a Gang
+
+### Animate an Ancient Automaton
+
+### Supplicate to an Echo
+
+### Befriend a Servitor
+
+### Master a Dweomer
+
+### Create a Masterwork
+
+### Win the Dawndrake Race
+
+### Kill an Echo Beneath the Watchful Moon

content/rules/characters/blood-and-tephra.md

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+---
+title: Blood and Tephra
+summary: >-
+  Rules for defining characters in Kuruso.
+weight: 3
+---
+
+## Blood
+
+In Kuruso, the thickness of someone's blood is as a metaphor for how tough they
+are, or how much danger seems to affect them. People who are thick-blooded stride through dangers
+recklessly, surviving dangers that turn lesser folk into memories. But blood thins fast, even for
+would-be heroes, leading to terrible wounds and death.
+
+A character's blood is calculated as the sum of the tiers for their iron and bone. A week of rest
+thickens the blood by one tier, up to its natural thickness.
+
+## Tephra
+
+In Kuruso, those who are hot with Tephra are intrinsically powerful or adept at magic, manifesting
+as warmth emanating from their flesh. Truly gifted folk make the very air around them shimmer with
+their power. Using their tephra cools them, sometimes to death. When folk run out of tephra, they
+must resort to spending the warmth in their blood instead.
+
+A character's tephra is calculated as the sum of the tiers for their iron and flax. A day of rest
+warms the tephra by one tier, up to its natural temperature.

content/rules/characters/creating/_index.md

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+---
+title: Creating Characters
+summary: >-
+  Rules for creating new characters in Kuruso.
+weight: 1
+platen:
+  menu:
+    collapse_section: true
+---
+
+Blah blah..

content/rules/characters/creating/lifepath.md

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+---
+title: Creating a Character with a Lifepath
+linktitle: By Lifepath
+summary: >-
+  Rules for defining characters through a lifepath in Kuruso.
+weight: 1
+---
+
+Blah blah..

content/rules/characters/creating/step-by-step.md

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+---
+title: Step-by-Step Character Creation
+linktitle: Step-by-Step
+summary: >-
+  Rules for defining characters one step at a time in Kuruso.
+weight: 2
+---
+
+Blah blah..

content/rules/characters/domains/_index.md

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+---
+title: Domains
+summary: >-
+  Rules for creating new characters in Kuruso.
+weight: 5
+platen:
+  menu:
+    collapse_section: true
+---
+
+Blah blah..

content/rules/characters/domains/relationships.md

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+---
+title: Relationships
+summary: >-
+  Defining formal relationships enforced socially and by the world itself in Kuruso.
+weight: 3
+---
+
+Everyone in Kuruso is tied to other people and factions by the threads of their relationships.
+Formal relationships go further, conferring advantages and disadvantages, recognized by both the
+parties and the very magic of the city.
+
+Relationships are special domains rated by tier and degree. A relationship takes one of several forms:
+
+- Alliances are formal relationships between two people or factions promising to aid and defend
+  each other.
+- Guardianships are are formal relationships between two people, one promising to take care the other.
+- Nemeses are formal relationships between two people or factions promising to hinder and thwart
+  each other.
+- Memberships are formal relationships between a person and a faction, the person promising to
+  serve the faction and observe its tenets, the faction to provide services and support to the
+  member.
+
+All formal relationships confer advantages and disadvantages. They can also be directly invested in.
+
+## Alliances
+
+Advantages
+: Test to compel an ally to loan an appropriate item, service, or finances, to assist in a plot, to
+  vouch for you, or to provide information or employment.
+
+  You only need to use this mechanism if the ally would otherwise be disinclined to help you. If you
+  are successful, they render aid without complaint. If you fail, mark the relationship with an `x`
+  or erase a `+`.
+
+Disadvantages
+: Allies can compel you in the same way you can compell them. Further, nemeses of your ally treat
+  you as a nemesis.
+
+Investing
+: Invest in your alliance by giving gifts of wealth or service. When you do so, mark the
+  relationship with a `+` or erase an `x`.
+
+Formalizing
+: Formalize an alliance by spilling each other's blood into a ritual bowl and igniting it with both
+  parties tephra, burning as many points as the initial tier of the alliance's rating.
+
+Breaking
+: Unilaterally break an alliance by formally resigning and giving gifts worth six times as much as
+  the tier of the relationship. Mutually break an alliance by sundering the ritual bowl together,
+  burning tephra equal to the tier of the relationship.
+
+## Guardianships
+
+Advantages
+: Count your relationship as a relevant domain for any test when fulfilling your duty as a guardian.
+  You may test to draw tephra from your ward, pulling up to the degree of a successful test from
+  their own body. If you fail, you still draw the tephra but mark the relationship with an `x` or
+  erase a `+`.
+
+  If you are the ward, you may compel your guardian to protect or provide for you. You only need to
+  use this mechanism if your guardian would otherwise be disinclined to help you. If you are
+  successful, they render aid without complaint. If you fail, mark the relationship with an `x` or
+  erase a `+`.
+
+Disadvantages
+: The guardian is responsible for the ward's wellbeing. They must provide the basics for the ward's
+  existence, including food, shelter, and employment. If they fail in these duties, their tephra is
+  reduced by one per day until they make amends. If their tephra is reduced to 0, their blood burns
+  away instead. Further, wards may be targeted by nemeses since the relationship is public record.
+
+Investing
+: Guardians may invest in their relationship by giving gifts of wealth to their ward. Wards may
+  invest by rendering services to their guardian. When you do so, mark the relationship with a `+`
+  or erase an `x`.
+
+Formalizing
+: Formalize a guardianship by providing all of the material needs for the ward for a month in
+  advance and swearing an oath on your own blood and tephra to provide for them, burning one point
+  of each. You must have at least three public witnesses and record the relationship by signing each
+  other's flesh.
+
+Breaking
+: Break a guardianship by denouncing the other before three witnesses and burning tephra equal to
+  the tier of your relationship. If the witnesses judge that the reason is invalid, the loss of
+  tephra is permanent.
+
+## Nemeses
+
+Advantages
+: Count your relationship as a relevant domain for any test when thwarting your nemesis. You may use
+  your nemesis relationship in place of an alliance to compel your enemies of your nemesis to aid
+  you against them.
+
+Disadvantages
+: Nemeses may compel your enemies to join with them and are particularly effective at thwarting you.
+  You are obligated to oppose your nemesis. When you consciously choose not to do so, mark the
+  relationship with an `x` or erase a `+`.
+
+Investing
+: Invest in your nemesis by giving gifts and services to their enemies, publicizing their failures
+  and flaws, or thwarting their plans. When you do so, mark the relationship with a `+` or erase an
+  `x`.
+
+Formalizing
+: Formalize your status as nemeses by mutually and ritually denouncing each other in public. To
+  denounce your enemy, carve their name into a lead bullet with your fingernails, wet the bullet
+  with your blood, and throw it into the Well of Feuds.
+
+  If the denouncement isn't mutual, you gain the benefits of nemesis but only for six days, after
+  which the relationship is sundered if you don't burn tephra equal to the tier of the relationship
+  at every moonfall.
+
+Breaking
+: Break your relationship as nemeses by publicly reconciling and retreiving the bullet you cast from
+  well.
+
+## Memberships
+
+Advantages
+: Gain access to all factional facilities and services up to the tier of your relationship.
+  Membership is a prerequisite to supplication.
+
+  You may test to compel the faction to provide you with information, supplies, or employment.
+
+  You only need to use this mechanism if the faction would otherwise be disinclined to help you. If
+  you are successful, they render aid without complaint. If you fail, mark the relationship with an
+  `x` or erase a `+`.
+
+Disadvantages
+: You must perform any favors the faction asks of you. If you refuse, mark the relationship with an
+  `x` or erase a `+`.
+
+  Further, the faction's enemies treat you as an enemy.
+
+Investing
+: Invest in your faction by giving gifts of wealth or service. When you do so, mark the relationship
+  with a `+` or erase an `x`.
+
+Breaking
+: Break your relationship by relinquishing all rights and obligations to the faction. If this is
+  unilateral, it may be permanent, shutting the member off from the faction for all time.