Tengu (Action)

Alternate Names: Crows, Tengu, Bird-Folk

Attributes and Schticks

Body: 5-10
Mind: 5-10
Reflexes: 5-10
Move: 6

Crow

Trigger Action

When another creature tries to affect you with a stunt that requires a roll against one of your skills (other than Dodge), and their roll fails, you can make a Browbeat or Demoralize stunt against them.

Evil Eye

Trigger Action

When you see another creature within Mind meters succeed on an action, you can spend a Fortune point to force them to reroll. This is a Stymied roll.

Pounce

Basic Action

Make a great leap of up to your Move in meters with an optional Normal Melee Attack at the end. This is in addition to the normal movement for a Basic Action, but you cannot move after the leap.

Description

Tengu are birdlike humanoids of great pride.

Appearance

Bird-like humanoids, tengu have long beaks or noses (reports vary) and clawlike legs. Their arms are humanoid but might be feathered. Their profuse hair is black in youth but grows white early in life, they often have full beards and long hair.

Role

Tengu are brave and stoic, but not hard workers. They can give their all in pursuit of their own goals, but are not good at serving a routine or waiting on others. Tengu in the wild live as recluses, philosopher-warriors each in their own mountainous domain. Assimilated tengu often live in squalor in the cities, mixing with unsavory elements. A few urban tengu manage to stay reclusive mystics, others become gang bosses, enforcers, or assassins, but many exist in the gutter as sanitation workers, urban foragers, and day laborers.