Ice Powers (FiD)

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The power of frozen water, arctic cold, and creatures of cold.

Ice is a special case and a bit hard to classify. Some claim it is a variant of fire, cold where fire is hot. Others claim that it is an aspect of water, or a mix of water and air. Some claim it is an element all to itself. Most ice creatures could not care less and use the powers regardless.

Many powers of this form are limited to ice and snow. This includes frozen water, but also ice and snow created by freezing substances that are liquid or gaseous at normal room temperature. In many cases, the ice created with this form is actually dry ice, which means it melts without leaving any water behind.

Ice attacks with intense cold or with icicles.

Ice elementals are spirits of cold and snow as well as columns of ice. Learning who to summon may require study or be a a score in itself. Ice creatures is anything living in the arctic. Arctic animals are governed by both the Ice and Animal powers.

Ice Power Effects Table

Action	Basic	Advanced	Master	Apex
Dice	—	Minimum 2d	Minimum 4d	Minimum 6d
Stress	Avoid fumble (2+).	Succeed (4+).	Full success (6).	Critical (2 sixes).
Attune	Ice Intuition Detect ice creatures and powers.	Frigid Farewell Dismiss ice creatures and negate Ice powers.	Frigid Follower Summon Ice creatures.	Glacial Gate Create a portal to the plane of Ice.
Command	Icebound Edicts Intimidate with Ice.	Polar Parley Crew can communicate with ice creatures.	Arctic Authority Commands Ice creatures as if you were their superior.	Icy Allegiance Permanently bind ice creatures to service.
Consort	Frosty Fashion Add frost, snow, and ice to clothes and accessories.	Frost Form Assume the form of an Ice creature.	Frost Freeze Frost Form a willing or helpless creature.	Frost Flock Frost Form willing or non-sentient creatures, give them an order.
Finesse	Snow Steed Ride an ice or snow vehicle or Ice creature.	Icy Impact Fine and potent Ice close-range attack.	Frosty Finesse Fine manipulation of ice.	Crystal Cruise Travel fast on ice and snow.
Hunt	Frosty Finder Track an Ice creature or over frozen terrain.	Frostbolt Ice to attack similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.	Snowstorm Chill the environment, turn water into ice and rain into snow.	Avalanche Ice attack similar to a fine and potent grenade.
Prowl	Frostcloak Hide in environments of ice and snow.	Glacier Glide Move freely on and through wintry environments.	Crystal Conduit Bring allies when you use Frostcloak and Glacier Glide.	Glacial Gateway You and allies can teleport from one ice-walled space to another.
Skirmish	Crystal Coat Protection from cold.	Crystal Cleave Skirmish Attack, except the attack is fine and potent.	Crystal Cave Create distractions and obstructions that prevents scale.	Crystal Cyclone Attacking all enemies in the area.
Study	Crystal Cramming Identify powers, objects, and creatures of Ice.	Crystal Comprehension Learn the powers and abilities of something you analyze.	Crystal Chronicle Read the past events of something you analyze.	Icebound Intellect Wide Crystal Comprehension, then limited Crystal Chronicle.
Survey	Glacial Glimpse Sense ice and cold.	Glacier Gaze Choose a bit of ice; perceive as if you were at that spot.	Crystal Clairvoyance Choose a location or creature, gain a sensor at the nearest ice.	Crystal Clarity You perceive from all ice at once over a wide area.
Sway	Glacier Gab Understand Ice creatures and their motivations.	Glacier Gathering Crew can communicate with Ice creatures. Inspire cool and aloofness.	Crystal Charm Post suggestions in the mind of an Ice creature.	Icebound Imprint Permanently change the personality and motivations of an Ice creature.
Tinker	Frosty Finesse Handle icy materials as the appropriate tools and protective devices.	Crystal Crafting Shape icy materials as if they were of clay.	Crystal Conversion Create ice out of nothing. Transform ice into another power's material.	Frosty Factory Mass produce Crystal Crafting or make a large as a vehicle or building.
Wreck	Crystal Crack Wreck like an ice axe. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place.	Crystal Crush Wreck Ice as if it was wood. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat.	Crystal Crumble Crystal Crush, but destroyed targets silently disappear as mist and spray.	Crystal Catastrophe Crystal Crush over a large area. This can freeze a town, canal or lake.

Expanded Ice Powers

Attune

Harness the power of Attune Ice to perceive and manipulate supernatural energies, allowing you to detect and interact with beings and phenomena from other planes of existence.

Ice Intuition

Detect Ice creatures and powers.

This is usually done to spot a spirit or a disguised creature. It can also help identify a creature's connection to powers, providing valuable insights into their nature. If you know several different powers, you can scan for all of them at the same time. Limited outcome suffices against a nearby creature you can clearly see. You need greater outcome against against a creature that is hidden or far away (standard outcome) or behind a wall (great outcome). The position usually starts controlled, with the usual consequence that you missed the opportunity and cannot try again until the situation changes.

Frigid Farewell

Dismiss Ice creatures and negate Ice powers.

You can also dispel powers affecting Ice creatures. Dispelling can be used as a defense against others' use of powers, or it can be used to break continuing effects. Dispelling is often used as a setup action to help another character in a situation when the opposition is using powers. This usually improves the position of the supported action and can work in addition to other setup actions. When used directly, the effect is usually limited unless the opponent is relying on powers for their safety. Against an opponent that uses Animal wings to fly or turned into a fish to breathe underwater you have a better base effect. When dramatically appropriate that a power is hard to dispel, often because it is the crux of the situation, this will not negate the power but instead give you a clue to what you need to do to resolve the situation.

Forcing a spirit to materialize is easy, but limited in range; if the creature can get away from you it can de-materialize again, only to materialize again if it gets close enough. Limited effect only works on spirits within reach. Standard effect covers an area based on your tier (p 220). Great effect reaches out to a range covered by tier (p 220).

Dismissing a creature is hard and usually requires great effect. A creature that has been wounded or otherwise weakened only needs standard effect. A creature that wants to be dismissed requires only limited effect.

Frigid Follower

Summon Ice creatures.

Summoned Ice creatures generally come in three types: elementals, spirits, and creatures with powers.

An Ice elemental is a simple creature totally dominated by the Ice power. Most elementals have animal intelligence and often take the shape of animals, though animated chunks of matter and humanoid forms are also common.

Spirits are immaterial and ephemeral, less physically oriented, manifesting their cool and aloof nature. They are more intelligent than elementals and can use sophisticated power effects, often pursuing their own agendas.

Creatures with powers resemble normal creatures, having a biological body and metabolism, but also possessing exceptional abilities related to their power. An ice worm is impossibly large, slips through cracks in glaciers, and steals the warmth of those it constricts.

Not all creatures with powers are summonable or dismissible. Many are native to this world and have no special vulnerability to Attune powers.

Summons are Chohorts: Creatures you summon function as temporary cohorts — either an Expert or a Gang — with added Powers from their Form. An Expert is a skilled individual who can offer advice, Assist, or act independently. A Gang is a group (numbers based on your Tier, p. 221) that primarily provides Scale in combat and labor.

You can always summon a Gang of creatures one Tier below yours. Summoning a specific Gang or Expert requires knowing its unique identity — called a true name in mystical traditions. For a technomancer, this might be a type ID, blueprint, or genetic code. Learning a creature’s true name may require a flashback, or in complex cases, the research downtime activity or a reward from a score.

Summoning a Creature: The summoning itself is quick but dangerous. When you have time and resources, it is wise to use wards and Barriers, but in action this is usually impossible and you must face the risks. Having allies present for safety is advisable. Offering a creature gifts or services appropriate to its nature and power can be a literal Devil’s Bargain — accepting an additional consequence to gain an advantage.

Depending on your degree of outcome, a creature is willing to do different things:

• Limited Outcome allows you to ask questions of an Expert or demand a short period of physical labor from a Gang. They will not fight for you.
• Standard Outcome allows any service appropriate to the creature’s type, having it act in its typical role. Most creatures don’t mind fighting, but may have preferences about how they do it and what they do outside a fight.
• Great Outcome allows service outside the creature’s comfort zone, though not against its nature. Lengthy service — even within its comfort zone — also requires a Great Outcome, such as guarding treasure until it is stolen.

The position usually starts at Risky — the creature is compelled and may resist. Typical consequences, in ascending order of severity:

• General sulkiness
• Half-hearted efforts
• Demanding not to be summoned again
• Breaking things or demanding concessions
• Overly literal interpretations of your commands
• A test attack to assert dominance
• Deliberate sabotage of tasks
• A constant struggle to maintain control

Glacial Gate

Create a portal to the plane of Ice.

The plane of Ice is a snowy, glacial landscape, either eternally dark beneath cold stars or eternally illuminated by a low-hanging sun that gives no warmth.

There are things that are possible to do here that are not allowed in the regular world. Appropriate effects are reduced one step in difficulty, from advanced to basic, master to advanced, and apex to master. This opens the possibility of new super-apex powers that have to be negotiated with the game master. Such effects rarely reach outside the plane of origin, but if they affect creatures there the effect may remain when you return to the mundane world.

This can also be used to contact creatures too powerful to summon. This allows you to ignore tier when creating the gate, but gives you no power over the target. The creature may then use the gate to come to you, call you into its presence, send minions, or communicate with you at a distance.

Command

Command and intimidate creatures based on your power, projecting authority through distance, inevitability, and control. Position and Effect depend on the situation and your relationship with the listeners.

Icebound Edicts

Intimidate with Ice.

You create Ice effects such as a crown of icicles, frost spreading across nearby surfaces, or a sudden, oppressive chill to heighten your authority, gaining leverage similar to that provided by an explicit threat such as displaying a weapon. This can provide the leverage needed to use Command to intimidate without immediate violence.

Ice creatures may recognize you as a figure of authority.

Polar Parley

Communicate with Ice creatures at any range.

You can communicate with Ice creatures over any distance as long as you know the target. You can communicate with the most powerful Ice creature in a vehicle or installation as long as you can see the exterior. Communication is simple, restrained, and direct, as befits the Command Action.

You may project your image reflected in ice or encoded in falling snow to communicate with anyone near the target.

Arctic Authority

Command Ice creatures as if you were their superior.

This allows you to order strangers around and improves Effect, but not Position; targets comply without accepting your authority. This does not remove existing loyalties, which may lead to conflict. Understanding the social order of your targets helps avoid clashes with established hierarchies.

Ice authority is distant and hierarchical rather than inspiring. Asking city guards to ignore their duties requires more Effect than directing them to resolve a situation efficiently and move on.

Icy Allegiance

Permanently bind Ice creatures to service.

This only works if you already hold power over the target. The effect is similar to Arctic Authority, but permanent. Strong emotions may break your control, but otherwise it persists until dispelled.

Consort

Consort powers changes your form and later that of other creatures. These powers might also be used as a set-up action to give a bonus to effect or improved position, make success automatic, or even allow an action that a human could not do.

A common consequences is that you are mistaken for someone, or that your assumed form is somehow a hindrance. You might be obnoxiously attractive, trigger prejudices, or have unexpected handicaps.

Frosty Fashion

Add frost, snow, and ice to clothes and accessories.

You do not physically change yourself, you change your accessorize and outfit. You can conceal your identity and create fabolous outfits. As an advanced ability, you can do this for another.

Frost Form

Assume the form of an Ice creature.

This is a true physical transmutation. You need not assume the form of an existing creature, as long as the gamemaster agrees your new form appropriate for an Ice creature. Frost Form can work as a set-up action for a number of other actions but may penalize other things, as appropriate to your new form. When appropriate, your new form can use Basic and Advanced Ice powers inherently without risking stress.

• Limited Outcome you can transform into yourself like you would have been, had you grown up as the creature whose form you assume. Those familiar with you will recognize you.
• Standard Outcome can make you a generic creature, very hard to recognize as yourself.
• Great Outcome allows you to assume the shape and some of the mannerisms of a specific creature you have studied.

Frost Freeze

Frost Form a willing or helpless creature.

This is Frost Form applied to another creature. The duration depends of the outcome. Limited outcome is very temporary. Standard outcome lasts for the duration of a score. Great outcome lasts a long time and potentially become permanent, depending on the needs of the story. If you also want to make the target unrecognizable, that requires additional outcome, see Frost Form.

This is sometimes used as a kind of poetic justice, transforming the target as a punishment, a curse that is very hard to break.

Frost Flock

Frost Form willing or non-sentient creatures, give them an order.

This is where Consort becomes similar to an Attune Summon power effect. You transform a number of existing creatures and give them a task that they will perform with gusto, turning them into single-minded minions. Targets must be willing, Non-Sentient like animals, or just very minor figures in the plot, many tiers below you.

This creates a gang cohort (p 96) that they can be given bit parts as servants or laborers or fight and chase for you. Such goons are more useful for chasing and cornering targets than in actual combat.

Finesse

Exercise finesse with Ice, manipulating and attacking with precision.

Snow Steed

Ride an Ice or snow vehicle, or an Ice creature.

You can use Finesse with mounts and vehicles you are not familiar with. You can bypass simple locks on vehicles, but not serious security.

Ice vehicles are designed to run on ice and snow, such as snowcats or ice yachts. You can ride beasts even if they are not trained mounts, as long as they are willing and physically able to carry you.

You can also create snowshoes, skis, or skates for yourself and your Crew, facilitating travel in cold environments.

Icy Impact

Fine and Potent Ice close-range attack.

You wield an icicle or shard of Ice like a Fine and Potent fencing weapon. The attack delivers intense cold and piercing force.

Certain targets may be more or less vulnerable to this attack, but this is the exception. Aside from damage type, this only substitutes for equipment; a Fine and Potent Finesse weapon is just as effective.

In combat, activating this power is equivalent to drawing a weapon and does not take additional time.

Skate Skiff

Create a vehicle of Ice.

You create a vehicle of Ice or snow. This is easier when materials are abundant, but it can still be done in warm environments, where the vehicle will gradually melt and lose performance.

The vehicle functions like any other vehicle in the setting and can be varied accordingly. Smaller vehicles are faster and more agile, but all Skate Skiffs excel at travel over ice and snow.

Crystal Cruise

Travel swiftly over ice and snow.

Your Crew, mounts, and vehicles travel roughly twice as fast as normal on ice and snow, faster downhill but at a normal pace uphill. This can apply to vehicles or mounts you bring with you, or ones you create using this power.

You are not hindered by cold weather or winter terrain while doing so.

Hunt

Track, attack, and unleash devastating barrages with the power of Hunt Ice. At short range, this can be dangerous to you and yours.

Frosty Finder

Track an Ice creature or movement over frozen terrain.

You track by reading the past shape of ice and snow. Tracking across fresh snow is trivial without using powers, but wind and new snowfall quickly obscure such traces.

Frosty Finder reveals disturbances preserved within ice itself, allowing you to follow old tracks as long as the area has not completely thawed. You can also detect structures hidden in ice, such as crevasses, ice caves, and objects encased beneath the surface.

Frostbolt

Ice attack similar in effect to a Fine and Potent rifle.

You attack with a Fine and Potent bolt of ice and cold. This serves as a replacement for traditional equipment; a Fine and Potent ranged weapon would be equally effective in combat.

Some targets may be more or less vulnerable to this attack, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

Snowstorm

Chill the environment, turning water into ice and rain into snow.

You create a local cold snap. Temperatures drop, cold winds bite, hoarfrost coats surfaces, rain turns to hail or snow, and standing water freezes.

This is usually used as a Set Up, improving the effectiveness of your other Ice powers. You may also influence behavior — a sudden freeze often drives people indoors or toward fires.

This does not inflict direct damage.

Avalanche

Ice attack similar to a Fine and Potent grenade.

An escalation of Frostbolt. Less precise, this affects all creatures at a location and carries a risk of collateral damage. Targets in trenches, behind walls, or otherwise shielded are not in immediate danger, but tend to keep their heads down, giving your side the initiative.

Prowl

Move with stealth and agility.

Frostcloak

Hide in environments of Ice and snow.

This allows you to hide in impossible places as long as you can camouflage yourself against ice and snow. It otherwise works like any normal attempt to use Prowl to avoid notice.

Only you benefit from this ability; your friends and allies cannot unless you use Crystal Conduit, below.

Glacier Glide

Move freely on and through wintry environments.

You can easily climb and walk on walls of ice, cross thin ice, walk on icicles without breaking them, and move across soft snow without sinking or leaving tracks.

Crystal Conduit

Bring allies when you use Frostcloak and Glacier Glide.

You and your allies can now Prowl in Ice. They still roll their own Prowl Actions.

Glacial Gateway

Teleport between ice-walled spaces.

You and your allies can teleport from one space surrounded by ice or snow to another. An ice cave works as well as any space with ice covering the walls.

This is regional travel — you remain within the same city or region — but it is usually sufficient to escape almost any situation.

You travel to places you are familiar with. Both Effect and Position are worse if you do not know your destination, making this excellent for escapes but risky for intrusion into unfamiliar territory.

Skirmish

Prosper in the chaos of battle.

Crystal Coat

Protection from cold.

You absorb cold, allowing you to ignore most Harm from a dangerously cold environment. You increase the effect of Skirmish rolls for endurance in such environments. Roll Skirmish to resist such Harm. 1-3: No reduction. 4-6: Reduce Harm by 1 level. Critical: Reduce Harm by 2 levels. As a Master power, you can protect an ally for a score; as an Apex Power, you can protect your crew. Allies roll their own Skirmish dice.

Crystal Cleave

Skirmish attack that is Fine and Potent.

You make a melee attack using ice and intense cold. Skirmish Ice leans more into freezing and fatigue than other Ice attacks, though you can still strike with piercing icicles.

Aside from damage type, this substitutes for equipment; Fine and Potent weapons are just as effective. Some targets may be more or less vulnerable to cold, but this is the exception.

Crystal Cave

Create distractions and obstructions that negate Scale.

You rapidly raise walls, spires, and formations of ice, breaking up enemy formations. This negates the advantage of numbers, allowing you to engage a Cohort Gang without suffering Scale penalties.

Crystal Cyclone

Ice attacks all enemies in the area.

You unleash a violent surge of ice and cold across the skirmish. This negates the advantage of numbers and allows you to affect multiple opponents at once, inflicting normal Skirmish Harm against a Cohort Gang.

Study

Study and analyze objects and creatures of Ice to gain insight and knowledge.

The Outcome required depends on range:

• Limited Outcome for touch.
• Standard Outcome for line of sight.
• Great Outcome to reach a target you know of or have some connection to, but which is out of line of sight.

Position depends on the situation. When safely in your base, the Position is usually Controlled. In the middle of a fight or while pinned down, the Position is Desperate. Sometimes what you are studying is dangerous in itself, worsening Position. Consequences may grant knowledge that is incomplete, distorted, or missing crucial context.

Crystal Cramming

Identify powers, objects, and creatures of Ice.

You learn the name and very basic information in narrative terms, but not detailed abilities or rules.

Crystal Comprehension

Learn the powers and abilities of a subject.

You uncover any powers or special abilities the target possesses, including concrete rules and mechanical effects.

Crystal Chronicle

Read the past events of something you analyze.

You perceive significant moments from the object’s history, including previous owners, how it has been moved, and scenes of importance. The power focuses on events most relevant to your current inquiry.

Icebound Intellect

Wide Crystal Comprehension, then limited Crystal Chronicle.

You gain a broad understanding of cold-, ice-, and snow-related activity across the visible area, identifying locations of interest such as trails, frozen lakes, or disturbed ice. You may then apply Crystal Chronicle to learn the history of up to three such locations.

Survey

Perceive and locate things related to Ice.

The Outcome required depends on the target’s concealment:

• Limited Outcome finds targets hiding behind cover or in distant places you can barely see.
• Standard Outcome can perceive behind walls and into hard cover.
• Great Outcome can reach far-away places or locations you had no prior awareness of.

Glacial Glimpse

Sense Ice and cold.

This is a basic spotting ability, selectively sensing phenomena related to Ice.

Glacier Gaze

Perceive from a chosen piece of Ice or snow.

You move your senses to a patch of ice or snow and perceive the surroundings from that location as long as you maintain concentration. Your awareness of your own location becomes faint and unfocused while doing so.

Crystal Clairvoyance

Gain a viewpoint at the nearest Ice to a target.

You choose a creature or location, and your perception is routed to the most useful vantage point provided by nearby ice or snow. This typically places your senses close enough to observe the target directly.

The power fails if no suitable ice or snow is available.

Crystal Clarity

Perceive from all Ice at once over a wide area.

You use Glacier Gaze from every significant icy surface in a broad area simultaneously. Your perception expands impossibly, forming a comprehensive mental image of the scene and revealing numerous details at once.

Hiding is difficult unless targets actively conceal themselves from ice and snow.

Sway

Communicate, mesmerize, and manipulate Ice creatures. Position and Effect are determined normally, depending on the situation and your relationship with the listeners.

Limited Outcome works if it follows the target’s existing impulses, overcoming only fragile self-restraint.

Standard Outcome can convince a target with no particular stake in the matter.

Great Outcome can convince a reluctant target, but not a passionate one.

Glacier Gab

Understand Ice creatures and their motivations.

You can gauge the mood and motivations of Ice creatures and understand what they are saying, though this does not allow them to understand you. You can also sense when any kind of creature is emotionally cool, aloof, or withdrawn.

Glacier Gathering

Allow your Crew to communicate with Ice creatures. Inspire cool detachment.

You and your Crew can use the Sway Action against Ice creatures with full Effect, overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers. You are persuading, not asserting authority.

You can also inspire any creature to become more cool or aloof.

Crystal Charm

Plant suggestions in the mind of an Ice creature.

This is an enhanced Sway attempt that allows you to implant suggestions which trigger under conditions you set. The influence remains subtle until activated, and the target does not remember being swayed.

Icebound Imprint

Permanently change the personality and motivations of an Ice creature.

This change is permanent and blatant, reshaping the target’s priorities and loyalties at a deep level. The target remembers their past, but considers it unimportant compared to their new motivations.

There are limits to this power, especially for creatures bound to greater forces — you cannot make a Fire creature love the sea or an angel perform deeds of darkness. Exceptional creatures or circumstances may break this change.

Tinker

Manipulate, shape, and create objects imbued with your power to suit your needs.

Ice works frozen water and gases (including dry ice), can coat objects in ice to protect or reduce friction, and can chill other materials.

• Limited Outcome solves an immediate problem, then ends. Any effect achieved will last, such as a repair made with temporary tools.
• Standard Outcome construction, repair, or item lasts for the duration of a score.
• Great Outcome is semi-permanent. This does not make permanent kit, but it can make permanent effects to the setting, such as repairing a large construction like a bridge or wall.
• Something larger than a human, very complex, or of higher Quality Level than your Tier or Lifestyle increases the needed Outcome.

Position depends on the tranquility of your workspace and if you are working on something dangerous in itself.

For long-term projects, Tinker powers can substitute for missing tools, but that is all they do until you can Fabricate.

Frosty Finesse

Handle icy materials as appropriate tools and protective equipment.

This ability substitutes for tools and protective gear typical of a small workshop. You can also freeze small quantities of water into ice.

Crystal Crafting

Shape icy materials as if they were clay.

You surpass normal crafting limits by shaping snow, ice, and raw cold and forcing them to retain form. This can substitute for lab equipment such as pipes or containers and facilitates the construction of traps or devices without extensive tools.

Such constructions are always temporary.

You can also shape portions of large icy masses, such as carving tunnels through glaciers or ice walls.

Crystal Conversion

Create Ice from nothing. Transform Ice into another Form’s material.

You do not need tools to create complex Fine and Potent Ice items.

You can create Ice from nothing, as with Crystal Crafting, but without requiring raw materials.

If you know additional Forms, you can transform Ice into material associated with those Forms. This allows intricate transformations — for example, a metal sword can be transmuted into pure cold and still function as a sword, or a wooden door can briefly become icy mist to allow passage before returning to normal.

Frosty Factory

Scale Crystal Crafting to mass production or large construction.

You can mass-produce objects or create large structures, such as vehicles or buildings, that would normally require a workforce and facilities.

In Long-Term Projects involving construction or crafting, Frosty Factory produces many dozens of items with the same effort as one item, at the usual Stress cost.

Wreck

Destroy, dismantle, and obliterate objects made of materials related to Ice.

When destroying Ice, you may choose whether it shatters into icy rubble or melts. Water ice melts into liquid water, while dry ice sublimates into cold vapor. You do not control the resulting substance or its form.

The Outcome required depends on the size and structural strength of your target. A Standard Outcome is sufficient to create a car-sized hole in a brick or mortar wall. Construction significantly weaker than this only demands a Limited Outcome. A smaller hole still requires the same Outcome. Something larger or stronger requires a Great Outcome.

Position depends on the situation. A quiet workspace is usually Controlled. The general hustle of adventure is typically Risky. Direct attacks, massive crowds, or dangerous construction are often Desperate.

Crystal Crack

Wreck like an ice axe. Noisy, leaving twisted remains.

As crude as it sounds. You smash and shatter Ice and Ice-related materials, striking with the force of a heavy sledgehammer in combat. This leaves broken, frozen remnants in place.

As usual, Wreck may be at an advantage or disadvantage in combat compared to Hunt, Finesse, or Skirmish, depending on the situation.

Crystal Crush

Wreck Ice as if it were wood. Works as a Fine and Potent sledgehammer in combat.

You bypass the structural strength of icy materials, breaking even the strongest ice as if it were mere timber. You can also use this to smash other objects or wield it directly as a Fine and Potent sledgehammer.

Crystal Crumble

Crystal Crush, but destroyed targets silently disperse as mist and frozen spray.

The key difference is subtlety. What you wreck vanishes into cold vapor and glittering ice dust, leaving little trace. This is ideal for removing evidence, as long as that evidence is made of or strongly associated with Ice.

Crystal Catastrophe

Crystal Crush over a vast area.

This scales destruction outward dramatically, allowing you to freeze or shatter entire structures or environments, such as a town, canal, or lake.