Traits, perks & knacks

Lowborn

From the Charter's lower class. Few Lowborn mages ever see the Academy: most discovered and learnt their magic on their own. Opens Lowborn choices in events; Charter ports search from heat 2.

Good Table

Eats 1.5 mouths; works 10% faster while provisions are 10+.

Hush-touched

Regenerates mana normally in the Hush; −25% regen elsewhere.

Licensed

Their casting never raises heat.

Scar-sense

Sees enemy spell charge; +10% dodge against spells in their room.

Skyborn

Ignores drafts; +5% evasion at the Helm.

Fire-hardened

Takes 50% fire damage. (Grows on anyone who has put out six fires.)

Bonded

+10% health and work speed while their bond partner lives.

Veteran

+10 max HP; survived a whole act aboard.

Steady Hands

+15% repair speed.

Quickstep

+15% move speed.

Brawler

+20% melee damage.

Eagle Eye

Weapons they man +10% accuracy.

Ship's Cook

In the Galley between passages: the crew eats 1 less every 3 passages.

Lucky

10% chance to shrug off any hit.

Soft Hands

Repairs at half speed.

Silvered

−5 max HP per mark; at 3+ may crash mid-fight. One mark fades every 5 passages without dust.

Dust Hunger

Buys or steals dust at ports.

Channel-scarred

−10% max mana per scar; at 3, can no longer cast.

Grieving

−20% work speed for a few passages.

Deserter

Charter ports may recognize them: +1 heat on arrival.

Warrant

A bounty hunter is looking for them.

Wounded

−20 max HP until healed (3 passages with an Infirmary).

Skysick

−10% work speed on the High route.

Totem: Fox

+10% dodge against spells. Afraid of storms.

Totem: Bear

+30 max HP. Drawn to dust.

Totem: Owl

+1 Lookout radius.

Totem: Hare

+20% move speed. Flees rooms below 25% HP.

Totem: Stag

Bonds form 2x faster; grieves 2x longer.

Totem: Heron

Regenerates mana 25% faster while idle; moves 10% slower.

Hardy

+25% max HP.

Thick-skinned

Takes 10% less damage.

Second Wind

Once a battle, on falling below 25% health: heals 15% of their max HP.

Iron Will

Takes 10% less fire and frost damage. Works at full speed while wounded.

Learn Fire Burst

She learns Fire Burst, the second spell of a fire Striker: a blast that sets the room alight.

Deep Well

+6 max mana.

Practiced Counter

Their counterspells work 75% of the time (50% untrained).

Perfect Counter

Their counterspells always work.

Take Them Alive

With a Prison aboard: +15% to the chance that an enemy who falls within 3 rooms of one of your crew, aboard the same ship, is taken alive, while this crewmate is in the fight.

Spare Parts

Their jobs at a Tinker's Bench cost 10 silver less.

Boarder-bane

Has put down five boarders on our own deck. +20% melee damage (counts as Brawler).

Unsinkable

Was aboard when the Keel failed, and lived. 10% chance to shrug off any hit (counts as Lucky).

Delver

Has been down a delve and come back up. Learns every skill 25% faster.

Barricade

A button in a fight (every 60 s). Bars every doorway of the room they stand in, on either ship, ladders too, for up to 30 s. Your own people pass. An enemy must hack through one doorway: 12 s, and 5 s more for each Melee level of the one who built it. It falls if they leave the room or go down. A gnome crawls past in 5 s.

Breacher

Breaks locked doors and barricades 3x faster. For 5 s after breaking one through, their melee attacks deal +50% damage.

Shield Wall

Active ability (30s cooldown): For 6 s all allies in the room take 50% less melee and close-range spell damage. Press again to drop it.

Pin

Active ability (25s cooldown): Pins 1 enemy in the room for 4s: they cannot move, work or strike. The same enemy cannot be pinned again for 8s. Golems are too heavy to hold.

Wrecker

Breaks an enemy system 75% faster while no defender stands in the room.

Rally

Active ability (40s cooldown): All allies in the room heal 12 HP and deal +20% melee damage for 8s.

First Over

For 8 s after landing on the other ship they take 25% less damage and deal 20% more in melee.

Fall Back

Active ability (once per battle): Aboard the other ship: all allies in the room are pulled back aboard at once on the safety lines, each arriving 10 health down. Needs an attached boarding line, or a Boarding Harpoon room at home.

Cut Loose

Patches the breach that holds an enemy boarding line 2.5 times as fast, so the line is cut sooner.

Line Guard

In their own Boarding Harpoon room, or in the room their line is attached to, they deal 30% more in melee and take 25% less damage.

Quiet Feet

Crosses unseen, and stays unseen for 20s after landing. Enemies cannot target, chase, or attack stealth units. Attacking, breaking a door, or being detected breaks stealth.

Backstab

Their first blow struck while unseen does 3 times the damage.

Watchful

Immediately reveals stealth units in the same room, and in adjacent rooms after 3s.

Iron Grip

Holding the line at the Boarding Harpoon: the breach it is hooked into patches at half speed, so the line holds 2x longer.

“Immune to boarding line knockback”

Sure Hand

Kinetic weapons they man +25% accuracy.

“Never misses”

Three Men's Work

Repair speed ×2.

“Repairs 2x faster”

Cat's Balance

Immune to knockdown and drafts.

“Never falls”

Iron Skin

Takes 30% less melee damage.

“Takes less melee damage”

Long Reach

+10% evasion at the Helm.

“High dodge against attacks”

Stonefist

Melee ×1.5; breaks sealed doors fast.

“Deals heavy melee damage”