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• Class is your base social/societal rank, e.g., “Academic” or “Courtier”
  • Each Class has 8 Careers associated with it
  • Each Career has 4 Career Levels associated with it
  • Each Career Level has approx 6-8 skills and 1-3 attributes, and 2-4 talents associated with it
    • You can spend XP on Skills/Characteristics associated with your current or previous Levels of your current Career track
    • You can spend XP on Talents associated with your current Career Level only
    • You can no longer spend XP on Skills/Characteristics associated with a Career when you move out of said Career
    • Species Skills/Characteristics/Talents can only be purchased at chargen (unless the book says otherwise)

Page 41 and 47-49 have Advancement rules

To Level-Up within a career, you must:

• Purchase at least one Talent from your current career level
• Check your current career level in the table below. To move up, you must have this many advances in:
  • All Characteristics available to your current career level (p48) (note: that's 4 Characteristics for a level 2 career)
  • 8 of your career's available Skills up to the current career level (p48) (note: these can be Skills made available from a lower career level)

• Enter a New Career: 100 XP
  • This can only be done after you've paid the cost to leave your current career or career level
• Leave a Complete Career (level): 100 XP
  • This is done when all advance requirements are reached for any career level and you are ready to level other skills/characteristics/talents
  • You may go up or down in the career, e.g., if you are at level 2, you can go back down to level 1 or up to level 3 as long as the requirements are met
  • Must have at least 1 point in 1 Talent in the current tier
• Leave an Incomplete Career (Level): 200 XP
  • This is done before reaching the next Level of a Career
  • You do this to start another Career track (e.g., Apothecary → Priest)
  • This is done when you want to level other skills/charas/talents but don't care about going to a higher level in a career path
• Purchase Career Characteristic advances (varies, see table)
  • Purchase characteristic advances associated with your current Career's current Level or lower
• Purchase Career Skills (varies, see table)
  • Purchase Skill advances associated with your current career, from your current career level or lower
• Purchase Career Talents (varies, see table) pg 132
  • Each rank costs: (100 XP * new rating) in the Talent
  • You may only purchase Talents up to the limit as specified in the talent description
  • You may only purchase Talents associated with your CURRENT Career Level
• Changing Career Level: 100 XP
  • You can move up or down in Career Levels as long as you meet the requirements
  • Requirements: Have purchased the required number of advances for associated characteristics/skills for the current (or former) Career Level
  • At least 1 point must be purchased in one Talent associated with current Career Level
  • Consult table for required advances per Level