7.2 - Flaw Catalog
A Flaw matters only when it creates a real decision, cost, exposure, or relationship problem. It never removes player agency or forces harmful behavior without the player's agreement. The older term complication remains a compatibility synonym.
| Flaw | Story pressure |
|---|---|
| Visible Tell | You have a difficult-to-conceal habit, mark, aura, or physical response when you lie or feel threatened. |
| Old Obligation | A family, institution, oath, creditor, or community can reasonably call on you for difficult service. |
| Environmental Unease | Choose open sky, deep water, enclosed spaces, heights, crowds, or magical darkness. Exposure can cause hesitation, withdrawal, or a risky coping behavior. |
| Ritual Dependence | A daily personal ritual is important to your equilibrium. Missing it makes you irritable, distracted, or visibly unsettled until you can perform it. |
| Marked by Power | A supernatural sign becomes visible when you use ancestry magic, making secrecy or mistaken identity harder. |
| Inherited Rivalry | A faction, family, creature type, or institution associates your lineage with an old conflict. |
| Fragile Reputation | Your community expects a standard you cannot always meet; public failure has consequences for trust and status. |
| Hoarding Instinct | Choose knowledge, favors, food, trophies, coin, tools, or stories. Giving up a meaningful example is emotionally difficult. |
| Restless Curiosity | Forbidden, sealed, or unexplained things tempt you to investigate even when caution would be wiser. |
| Protective Reflex | You struggle to ignore a vulnerable person in immediate danger, even when intervention complicates the plan. |
| Prideful Challenge | You find it difficult to leave a direct public challenge unanswered without explaining why. |
| Supernatural Appetite | A harmless but unusual substance, sensation, or environment periodically draws you and can expose your nature. |
| Unwelcome Dreams | Prophetic, ancestral, or traumatic dreams sometimes reveal fears, fragments, or misleading symbols. |
| Outsider's Blind Spot | Choose one Heritage other than your own. You frequently misread one category of its etiquette until corrected. |
| Body at Odds | A mixed or transformed body requires unusual clothing, medicine, food, or accommodations that are not always available. |
| Name-Bound | A true name, inherited title, or oath-name carries emotional or supernatural importance and can be used to pressure you. |
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