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Book IPlayer's Handbook
The player-facing path through the Tread: its world, Pulse, Depths, seven Lineages, eight Practices, action, Character Discovery, and the economy.
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Table of contents
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Introduction
The Tread
The low world is poisoned. Countries survive on the backs of continent-sized living Wanderers.
Read section →02Chapter I
The Pulse
Every working, rite, airship, and breathable sky depends on one living resonance.
Read section →03Chapter II
The Depths
Old tunnels thread through bone and flesh, and the deeper Pulse refuses to behave.
Read section →04Chapter III
The Seven Lineages
Lineage establishes a body and inherited possibility. It does not determine upbringing or character.
Read section →05Chapter IV
The Practices
Eight disciplines create specific possibilities without dividing the world into eight kinds of people.
Read section →06Chapter V
Competency and Action
Describe the intention and the method. The world resolves only uncertainty that matters.
Read section →07Chapter VI
Character Discovery
You describe a person; the world discovers them with you.
Read section →08Chapter VII
Equipment and the Economy
The Tread runs on bone-iron coin, but a price is a conversation rather than a universal number.
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