🗡️ Duskwalker Archetype

Hexbound

Many witches go through lengthy rituals to call forth specific spirits through the veil and into our world, but Duskwalkers have no time for such frippery. Their covens focus on speed and versatility, learning to adapt to situations as quickly as possible. Their practice allows them to summon the help of spirits almost instantly, without the use of lengthy and carefully cast spells, but this comes at a cost: a Duskwalker’s abilities depend entirely on whether they are bathed in light or in darkness. When standing in a brightly lit room, they can channel spirits that give them formidable defensive abilities and draw truth from lies and fabrication; when standing in darkness, they can meld with it, becoming one with the shadows as they wait to strike at the perfect time.

This dichotomy inherent in their specific practice of witchcraft defines them. Not only their arcane abilities but their entire beings are influenced by light and dark. As different spirits are called to their aid, by the whims of the light and the dark rather than their own choices, many of them experience subtle changes in their demeanor. Some witches of this practice even report feeling as if their body is occupied by two completely different people, who each take control depending on the light.

Duskwalker witches constantly walk the crepuscular line between darkness and light. Some become defenders, advisors, and seekers of truth, but just as many become infiltrators, spies, and assassins. One must wonder if the choice of where they stand is really theirs to make, or if their agency in this is just a trick of the light.

🗡️ Gadgeteer

Compendium of Craft and Creation

Swinging from a grappling hook before dropping a smoke bomb, rigging a stubborn lock to blow, or rejiggering traps to spring on those that set them, the Gadgeteer lives by fast paced innovation and thinking outside the box on the fly... sometimes literally.
Specializing tools that let themselves get in and out of trouble, they don’t fight fair, relying on things that go "boom", "zap" or "whirr". They live on the edge of their own explosions, though often rewriting the story in later retellings that they doffed their darkened goggles as they walked away slowly, omitting the singed seat of their trousers and yelping.

🗡️ Stormscale

Children of the Dragon

Stormscale are elite warrior rogues that serve blue dragons. They bend lightning by using dragon magic, and use it to relentlessly pursue opponents. Hard to pin down, they are formidable foes who can turn the tide of battle.
Stormscale are famous for being able to fulfill multiple roles. They are feared as assassins who lock down spellcasters, or warriors who dash towards their opponents and take them by surprise. Stormscale are students of blue dragon masters, known as a maekrix, who teaches them a secretive form of magic at their conclaves, also known as a Stormshells. Blue dragons are renowned for not only creating half dragon offspring as loyal soldiers, but more so for treating their offspring with equal affection, both full and half dragons. They are aware of the limitations of their mortal offspring, as only a few can "ascend to dragonhood", and as such train them to fulfill different roles for their masters. Stormscale are usually half blue dragons, but many other races have been known to be "adopted" by blue dragons, after they sensed their distant blue dragon lineage.
Stormscale are taught how to draw raw magic from their blue dragon heritage, granting them supernatural abilities that allow them to dispatch targets with lightning speed.