Generated recruits

Age

Age trades body for experience. An elderly scientist who turns out to be the one the squad can't do without is a real possibility.

Body

A recruit's attributes are rolled at Prime, then moved by age, profession and trait. Training adds Aim and HP as they rank up. See experience and ranks.

Psychic potential

Every recruit has a potential in each of the four disciplines, on the same ladder as the ranks, Dormant to Zenith. First the recruit's overall Gift is rolled:

Then:

• The primary discipline gets the full Gift. The profession's affinity counts 2 times in that pick.
• A secondary discipline gets the Gift less 1 or 2, with equal odds.
• The rest are Dormant, or Glimmer on a 25% chance if the Gift is 2 or more.

Potential never changes. It is the ceiling on what a crown and training can bring out.

The Awakened

At a Gift of 3 or more there is a 15% chance the primary discipline is already awake. An Awakened exile can use it without a crown, up to Spark. A crown never makes them worse. They are rare, and worth keeping alive.

The dossier

The rest of the sheet is who they are: gender and pronouns, orientation, height, build and looks, pairs of temperament words, a virtue and a vice, a love life, family and debts left behind in the future, the one keepsake they carried through the Rift, their beliefs, and a short generated biography that ties it together. None of it changes a number in play. It is there so that every exile reads as a person, and it feeds the relationships that grow at camp. All recruits are adults.