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.