Caravan Protection

Tier 0

• Stout Heart

  Passive

  First ride out with a wagon-train and you take its measure. Free passive every Escort begins with.

  0 SP

Tier 1

• Steady March

  Passive

  Same pace dawn till dusk. Every member keeps step.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Captain's Eye

  Passive

  Any train of three or more answers your hand-signs. Speed, safety, and discipline run as one.

  2/2 SP

• Bulwark Outriders

  Passive

  The forward riders see the ambush; the rear-guard breaks it. Cross-path discipline.

  2 SP

Tier 1

• Pathfinder

  Passive

  A scout's eye for the next bend, a captain's hand on the column behind.

  1/1 SP

• Outrider's Pace

  Passive

  Smaller parties keep an outrider's pace; larger ones march in formation.

  1 SP

Tier 2

• Trail-Sense

  Passive

  Read sign on the road as easily as a Hunter reads it in the wild.

  1/2 SP

• Forward Watch

  Passive

  Two riders ahead, two behind. The column never marches blind.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Convoy-Master

  Passive

  Every rider on the column knows the captain's signal-whistle by the third week. The train moves as one.

  1/2 SP

Tier 4

• Trail-Captain

  Passive

  Run a column you have run a hundred times before. Every meadow, every ford, every bandit's favorite hollow.

  1/2 SP

Tier 5

• Untouchable Convoy

  Capstone

  A column under your captaincy passes through bandit country and bandits forget there was ever a column.

  2 SP

Tier 1

• Shield Wall

  Passive

  The first arrow finds a shield. The second finds a shield. The third turns and runs.

  1/1 SP

• Steady Nerve

  Passive

  When the bandits whoop, the column does not run.

  1 SP

Tier 2

• Iron Ward

  Passive

  Plate, kite-shield, the captain's grim eye. Bandits seek a softer column elsewhere.

  1/2 SP

• Stand Fast

  Passive

  An old veteran's drilled command. The column halts as one, faces out, and the danger passes.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Convoy Wall

  Passive

  Wagon, shield, mount, rider. A column of yours under arrow-fire is a column unbroken.

  1/2 SP

Tier 4

• Master of the Standing Ward

  Passive

  Every ambush you have ridden through has one less bandit on its rolls.

  1/2 SP

Tier 5

• Untouched Cargo

  Capstone

  Once per day, a bandit ambush against your column is deflected outright — the column rides through, the cargo arrives whole.

  2 SP

Tier 1

• Train Discipline

  Passive

  Wagons spaced by length, mounts paced by hand-sign. The column eats less road than it carries.

  1/1 SP

• Quartermaster's Eye

  Passive

  Tally kept tight as a captain's purse. Cargo loss to spoilage and theft halves.

  1 SP

Tier 2

• Long Column

  Passive

  Every wagon under your hand carries an extra hundredweight without slowing.

  1/2 SP

• Tally Master

  Passive

  Cargo arrives in the count it left, plus a tithe in goodwill from grateful merchants.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Master of Trains

  Passive

  Run a column with you and the merchants seek you out at the next caravanserai.

  1/2 SP

Tier 4

• Caravanserai Captain

  Passive

  Every road-stop along the great circuit knows your name and a bed is held without asking.

  1/2 SP

Tier 5

• Captain of the Caravan

  Capstone

  Your name is known the length of the caravan road. Trader-NPCs who pass through your country pay a richer toll.

  2 SP