Wound

Wounds are fresh injuries to one of the fourteen separate body locations, commonly received as part of combat. Each wound has a severity level between 1 and 3. Minor wounds (level 1) have minimal effects aside from combat maneuver penalties. More severe wounds will typically bleed and carry substantial mechanical penalties, and may prevent characters from performing certain actions.

The severity of a inflicted wound depends on the critical portion of the combat system, and may be reduced by wearing more protective armor.

Empaths can heal another's character's wounds directly by transferring the wound onto themselves. Otherwise, wounds can be healed by using herbs, which will leave a possibly debilitating scar until subsequently mended with scar-removal herbs.

Wounds

Location	Lvl. 1	Lvl. 2	Lvl. 3
head	minor bruises about the head	minor lacerations about the head and a possible mild concussion	severe head trauma and bleeding from the ears
neck	minor bruises on your neck	moderate bleeding from your neck	snapped bones and serious bleeding from the neck
chest	minor cuts and bruises on your chest	deep lacerations across your chest	deep gashes and serious bleeding from your chest
abdomen	minor cuts and bruises on your abdominal area	deep lacerations across your abdominal area	deep gashes and serious bleeding from your abdominal area
back	minor cuts and bruises on your back	deep lacerations across your back	deep gashes and serious bleeding from your back
right eye	a bruised right eye	a swollen right eye	a blinded right eye
left eye	a bruised left eye	a swollen left eye	a blinded left eye
right leg	some minor cuts and bruises on your right leg	a fractured and bleeding right leg	a completely severed right leg
left leg	some minor cuts and bruises on your left leg	a fractured and bleeding left leg	a completely severed left leg
right arm	some minor cuts and bruises on your right arm	a fractured and bleeding right arm	a completely severed right arm
left arm	some minor cuts and bruises on your left arm	a fractured and bleeding left arm	a completely severed left arm
right hand	some minor cuts and bruises on your right hand	a fractured and bleeding right hand	a completely severed right hand
left hand	some minor cuts and bruises on your left hand	a fractured and bleeding left hand	a completely severed left hand
nervous system	a strange case of muscle twitching	a case of sporadic convulsions	a case of uncontrollable convulsions

Scars

Scars are the remnants of old wounds that have been partially healed through herbs or empathic self-healing. Scars can be healed by using specific scar-removal herbs or empath spells, but if there is both a scar and a fresh wound on the same location then the wound must be healed first. A character who is healed by an empath will not have a scar.

Location	Lvl. 1	Lvl. 2	Lvl. 3
head	a scar across your face	several facial scars	old mutilation wounds about your head
neck	a scar across your neck	some old neck wounds	terrible scars from some serious neck injury
chest	an old battle scar across your chest	several painful-looking scars across your chest	terrible, permanent mutilation of your chest muscles
abdomen	an old battle scar across your abdominal area	several painful-looking scars across your abdominal area	terrible, permanent mutilation of your abdominal muscles
back	an old battle scar across your back	several painful-looking scars across your back	terrible, permanent mutilation of your back muscles
right eye	a black-and-blue right eye	severe bruises and swelling around your right eye	a missing right eye
left eye	a black-and-blue left eye	severe bruises and swelling around your left eye	a missing left eye
right leg	old battle scars on your right leg	a mangled right leg	a missing right leg
left leg	old battle scars on your left leg	a mangled left leg	a missing left leg
right arm	old battle scars on your right arm	a mangled right arm	a missing right arm
left arm	old battle scars on your left arm	a mangled left arm	a missing left arm
right hand	old battle scars on your right hand	a mangled right hand	a missing right hand
left hand	old battle scars on your left hand	a mangled left hand	a missing left hand
nervous system	developed slurred speech	constant muscle spasms	a very difficult time with muscle control

Wound Penalties

Any active wounds will penalize maneuvers and profession services, as will any rank 2 scars.

Rank 2 wounds usually bleed.

Rank 1 scars never have any mechanical penalties. More significant scars have penalties similar to wounds of the same level.

Wounds and scars on specific parts of the body may completely restrict certain activities. In certain cases, having wounds on both sides of the body also restricts activities.

Sigil of Determination allows you to ignore penalties from rank 2 and lower wounds, including combined penalties from multiple wounds. It does not allow you to ignore penalties from rank 3 wounds.

Wound Location	Rank 2	Rank 3	Rank 2 + Rank 1	Rank 2 + Rank 2
head	prevents searching, spellcasting	prevents searching, spellcasting
neck
abdomen
back
nervous system	prevents spellcasting	prevents spellcasting
eye		prevents searching, spellcasting
leg	prevents sneaking	prevents sneaking
arm and/or hand	prevents ranged attacks	prevents spellcasting, ranged attacks	prevents spellcasting, ranged attacks

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