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REMNANTS OF WAR

Remnants of War

is a mini-supplement for

Blades in the Dark

focusing

on the aftermath of the Unity War between the Empire and

Skovlan, and the soldiers who’ve now been forgotten.

THE UNITY WAR

Mobile lightning barriers. Trenches, filled with corpses and

possessor ghosts. Tunnels under the frozen earth of Skovlan.

Endless miles of leviathan-teeth palisades, stockades, and barbed

wire.

During the day, you counted the minutes between the whistles,

hoping they’d never ring again. You’d pray that peace had been

achieved, and that no one else would ever have to go over the top.

During the night, you counted the explosions, the shells that

dropped turning

no man’s land into a muddy waste crowded with

ghosts.

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No matter the time, you’d clutch your spiritbane charms, and sing

songs to the forgotten gods under Skovlan to stay sleeping. The

spirits of your comrades, and your cousins across the field, would

wake up. They were the biggest threat

–

not the bombs, not the

machine guns that never stopped firing, not the sappers. It was no

man’s land… It was the deathlands that followed

you, everywhere

you went.

And then it was over. The war ended. The war to end all wars, or so

you prayed. Or so they preached.

You made it back to Doskvol… And the deathlands came with you.

NEW CREW TYPE: LEGIONNAIRES

The Legionnaires Crew type replaces the Bravos Crew type, if chosen.

In a final effort to end the Unity War, the Immortal Emperor began a

campaign of conscription from the cities of the Empire. Afterwards, an entire

generation of young men and women had been displaced

–

two thirds of them

dead and gone, and the rest returned having left their humor, and in most

cases their sanity, behind. What they saw in the final years of the Unity War

has changed them, and this they’ve brought back to Doskvol.

Soldiers with nowhere to go

Some crews plot and scheme, some crews sneak around, some crews

get entangled with the occult

–

you fight. The rifle and the blade

are all you have left.

When you play Legionnaires, you earn xp when you enact revenge,

you take back something that was owed to you, or you make

someone else suffer for what’s been done.

What happened on the Front? Who do you blame?

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STARTING UPGRADES & CONTACTS

Same as Bravos.

LEGIONNAIRES UPGRADES

Same as Bravos, except replace Ironhook Contacts with:

❖

Unstoppable: Each PC gets an additional severe harm box.

Note that you still

need help

if the first box is filled, but this allows

you to survive a second severe harm being applied to you.

LEGIONNAIRES CLAIMS

Same as Bravos, except replace Bluecoat Confederates, Street

Fence, and Terrorized Citizens with the following respectively:

❖

Legion Depot: You get +1 quality on all weapons and

armor. You get +1d to acquire asset rolls for special military

grade weapons.

There are plenty of left over weapons caches from

the war when the city council thought rebellion could spill over into

Doskvol.

❖

Pensions: During downtime, roll dice equal to your Tier.

You earn coin equal to the highest result, minus your heat.

Whilst they weren’t there for you then, the government can be coerced

into giving you your dues now

–

at least, a bit.

❖

Serviceman’s League:

You get +2 coin in your payoff for

scores that do not involve military or lower-class targets.

Everyone who served with you remembers, and the pockets of the

many are deep when everyone chips in.

LEGIONNAIRES SPECIAL ABILITIES

Same as Bravos, except replace Fiends with:

❖

Siege Ready: When you defend your own holdings

(whether turf, your lair, or your hunting grounds) through

violence, your Tier counts as if it were 1 higher.

You

remember when they came for you in

the trenches. You won’t be

caught like that again.

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NEW ITEMS

Webbing: Specialized military

gear designed to help a soldier

carry everything and anything

they could need. When

webbing is worn, you may

choose to have Heavy Load,

but count as Normal Load.

Webbing is quite rare outside of

military garrisons. [0 Load]

Bayonet: A blade that can be

affixed to the front of a rifle

that counteracts its disabilities at

close range. [1 Load]

Trench Mask: An oiled eel-skin hood with a breathing filter, and

two glass lenses. Allows the wearer to resist harmful vapors and

gases. [1 Load]

Fragmentation Grenade: Two explosive devices, each attached to

a long handle so that they can be thrown. When the end is hit, or it

hits something, the explosive inside releases shrapnel in all

directions which is an effective weapon against groups of people.

Each can only be used once, but grants +2 scale when detonated. [1

Load]

Howler Grenade: Like a fragmentation grenade, but packed

instead with shards of leviathan bone, when these incendiaries

explode they disable electrical devices and spirit wards, as well as

acting like a small spirit well

–

attracting ghosts in the area to the

location of the explosion. Howler Grenades were used to great

effect against entrenched Skovlanders to cause ghostly incursions

behind their lines. [1 Load]

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Faraday Armor: A suit of thickened leathers covered in a

crisscrossing pattern of iron bars that are inscribed with runes.

When ghosts attempt to pass through, attack, or possess someone

wearing Faraday Armor, they are deflected and diverted by the

bars instead. Counts as wearing normal armor except it grants

heavy armor against ghosts. [4 Load]

Machine Gun: A large, machine powered, heavy gun that can fire

up to 100 bullets a minute. These impressive and deadly articles of

war require time to set up, and a team of at least two to use, but

when employed they increase an attackers scale by +3. They are

subject to jamming, and always count as at least risky to use. [3

Load]

Gallowmortar: A Gallowmortar is loaded with special shells that

are built in the same fashion as spirit bottles, and can hold up to

three ghosts each. When they are shot, and explode

–

which is

hauntingly silent

–

they unleash their captive ghosts to wreak havoc

on their victims. The mortar itself requires setting up and a team of

at least two to use it. [3 Load]

NEW FACTION: IMPERIAL MILITARY

THE IMPERIAL MILITARY

Tier VI. Strong Hold.

The armed forces of the Imperium stationed in Doskvol, and their

commanding officers.

Faction Clock: Incite war with Iruvia. [8] Investigate siphoned

provisions and gear. [6]

Turf:

Paragon,

a naval destroyer (HQ), and several other warships

docked around Whitecrown. Garrisons at Gaddoc Rail Station,

and at the Lord Governor’s stronghold.

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