Cartography

Tier 0

• True North

  Passive

  First lesson of the trade: the needle does not lie. Free passive every Cartographer begins with.

  0 SP

Tier 1

• Steady Quill

  Passive

  Wax-table on the saddle, ink-pot on a string at the belt. The chart fills itself.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Veteran Surveyor

  Passive

  A thousand leagues mapped. The country's bones have learned to lie still under your hand.

  2/2 SP

• Eyes & Roads

  Passive

  What is surveyed yields a route; what is routed yields fresh ground to survey.

  2 SP

Tier 1

• Terrain Reader

  Passive

  Hill and watercourse and forest-line read like a written language.

  1/1 SP

• Compass-Hand

  Passive

  A truer fix on north, a tighter fix on the chart.

  1 SP

Tier 2

• Wide Eye

  Passive

  Read a horizon's worth of country in one slow turn of the head.

  1/2 SP

• Steady Pen

  Passive

  The line set down today reads as cleanly in twenty years as it does tonight.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Deep Survey

  Passive

  What another mapper would write off as fog, you mark as country.

  1/2 SP

Tier 4

• Master Surveyor

  Passive

  Every neighboring region has been walked at least once on your behalf, in your hand or another's.

  1/2 SP

Tier 5

• True North Vision

  Capstone

  Every dispatched trip pulls a neighbor of the destination out of the fog. The country opens steadily.

  2 SP

Tier 1

• Shortcut Sense

  Passive

  The right line between two ridges is one a shepherd will tell you over a beer, but you saw it first from the chart.

  1/1 SP

• Pace-Counter

  Passive

  A walker's pace, a rider's pace, a sea-leg pace. You know what a trip ought to take, and your line beats it.

  1 SP

Tier 2

• Long Line

  Passive

  Mile-on-mile of road read in a single map-glance. The trip pulls itself shorter.

  1/2 SP

• Crossroad Lore

  Passive

  Each fork in the road learned and noted. Few wrong turns spend you a half-day.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Path Master

  Passive

  Where the country looks impassable, you have ridden it before in the chart in your head.

  1/2 SP

Tier 4

• Route Master

  Passive

  Every line between every pair of regions known to your atlas — and one or two short of any other man's.

  1/2 SP

Tier 5

• Master of the Compass Rose

  Capstone

  The shortest road between any two regions runs across your chart. Trips with you in the party take a hand off the time, every time.

  2 SP

Tier 1

• Bound Atlas

  Passive

  Every map a chapter, every chapter a passage made.

  1/1 SP

• Margin Notes

  Passive

  A scrap of mountain-lore from a goatherd, a trader's tale of a pass at low water — all set down in the margin.

  1 SP

Tier 2

• Detail Work

  Passive

  Sub-locations marked: ruins, shrines, hidden glens. The country measures finer than other men's atlases.

  1/2 SP

• Map-Trader

  Passive

  A chart sells well in a port-town. The Cartographer takes a tithe in coin and goodwill.

  1/1 SP

Tier 3

• Definitive Edition

  Passive

  Every chart in the kingdom checked against yours and your version trusted.

  1/2 SP

Tier 4

• Master Atlas-Maker

  Passive

  Two volumes thick, slip-cased, indexed in vermilion. The standard reference of the realm.

  1/2 SP

Tier 5

• Atlas Maker

  Capstone

  Once per day, completing a trip pulls a sub-location of the destination region into the discovered set — a shrine, a ruin, a hidden glen.

  2 SP