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The Lightbearer
Character Playbooks

The Lightbearer

Holy flamebearer wielding Helior's light against darkness.

HP
18
Load
light: ≤3 | normal: 4-6 | heavy: 7-9

Imagine yourself and your kin in a cave lit by a single torch, entranced by shadow puppet stories. Imagine realizing there is a greater truth, and stepping out of the cave into the true Light of day. Would you not bring that Light back into the darkness, to set your people free?

The Lightbearer is Stonetop's holy flamebearer, a devotee of Helior who consecrates ordinary flames into sacred light and channels the Sun God's miracles through learned Invocations. Where The Blessed serves the wider pantheon, the Lightbearer is fire, prophecy, and radiant compassion turned against the creatures of darkness.

Driven by Charity, Hope, Mercy, Praise, or Righteousness.

Invocations

Helior's specific miraculous powers, worked through the Invoke the Sun God move. A Lightbearer starts knowing 2 Invocations and learns 1 more at each even-numbered level. Only one Invocation can be ongoing at a time, its range equal to that of the holy light source; it ends the moment that light is extinguished or the Lightbearer chooses to end it.

Worked through Invoke the Sun God.

Playbook Moves

Starting Moves

Advanced Moves (Levels 2–5)

Advanced Moves (Levels 6–10)

Backgrounds

Auspicious Birth

You were born in Stonetop, your birth marked by the God of Light — during an eclipse, under a bright new star, or bearing a sun-shaped birthmark. You hold a place of honor, though it makes some uneasy.

Itinerant Mystic

They think of you as a self-important kook who comes through now and again, speaking in riddles and playing tricks with the light. There's something holy about you — but you're no priest.

Soul on Fire

You once led a worldly life, full of fear and doubt, base pleasures and petty grudges. Then injury, illness, or profound misery brought you low — and in the dark, Helior's light ignited in your soul.