The Shepherd
Redeemer / Medic
"I've seen what waits on the other side of death. My job is to keep people on this side."
- Type
- Mundane
- Prime
- SAVVY / ECHO
- Starting Erosion
- 0
You tend to the wounded, the sick, and the dying. You might be a frontier doctor, a Redeemer priest, or simply someone who learned that healing is the most valuable skill in a world that bleeds.
Starting Choices
- Prime Attribute: Choose +1 SAVVY or +1 ECHO.
- Skill Allocation: Distribute 6 Skill Points among Career Skills (maximum starting Rank 2).
- Secondary Gear: Choose Coach Gun (WR 4, Tempo 4, Scatter) or Scripture Book (+1 Roll Bonus to Persuasion with the faithful). Both are listed in starting_gear for reference; you take only one.
- Starting Talents: Choose one Shepherd Talent from the Calling-specific list above, plus one general Mundane Talent (Combat or Non-Combat list — player’s choice).
Starting Loadout
Career Skills
Starting Gear
Starting Talents
Choose One
Pick one of the following at character creation. See Starting Choices above for the full rule.
Field Surgeon
- Cost
- 1 Mettle
- Tempo
- —
"You've operated in conditions that would make a city doctor faint."
Battlefield Triage
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- T0
"You know who can be saved and who can't."
Sermon of Steel
- Cost
- 1 Mettle
- Tempo
- 6 (or 1 minute out of combat)
"Your words carry the weight of conviction."
Mercy's Edge
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"You know exactly how to hurt — and how not to."
Triage Protocol
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"Three wounded. One kit. You know who gets it."
Poison Doctor
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"You've catalogued every venom the Frontier can spit at you."
Wound Reader
- Cost
- 1 Mettle
- Tempo
- 10 minutes or 1 minute
"The scars tell the story. You speak their language."
Plague Ward
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- 1 hour (Ritual)
"Sickness stops at your threshold."
The Vigil
- Cost
- 1 Mettle
- Tempo
- T5
"You sit with the dying. You hold their hand through the dark."
Confessor
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- 1 hour
"They tell you things they'd never say to anyone else. And you carry it."
Sanctified Ground
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- Ritual (10 minutes)
"Where you pray, the darkness hesitates."
Last Rites
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- 5 minutes per corpse
"You send them off properly. The ones you don't send off don't stay down."
Drive Examples
- The first life I saved. The first one I couldn't.
- Sister Annette's hands on mine when she taught me to suture.
- The cold weight of the Redeemer pin against my breastbone.