Hunter

As a hunter your role is to provide food and materials for the crew, usually in the form of animals parts. Some hunters prefer more complex prey, styling themselves as bounty hunters and roving the waves looking to bring down bounties for payment. Either way, stealthy movement and hidden snares often pay dividends.

Hunts and Honour

Several well-recognised groups in the wildsea base their culture and philosophies around hunting, and almost every settlement has citizens engaged in the practice. There’s an undeniable thrill to the activity, the snapping-shut of a trap or the spray of blood from a piercing arrow, but despite this hunters are typically characterised as reclusive, sombre folk.

It might be that the waves demand a certain level of respect - when you’re in among the branches, in a world designed to aid your quarry and stymie you at every turn you quickly learn your place in the grand scheme of things.

Bounties and Payment

When you’ve got the skills to track down something that doesn’t want to be found, it’s natural that at some point you’ll be asked to track down someone that doesn’t want to be found. Not all hunters are willing to take the moral step required to target members of other bloodlines, partly due to the extra risk involved and partly the lax attitude toward law that pervades across the wider waves.

Questions to Consider

When you incorporate elements of the hunter into your character, consider the following questions…

• What’s the most dangerous creature you’ve brought down without it ever knowing you were there?
• Have you ever had to call off a hunt and, if so, why? Injury, exhaustion, or were you simply outclassed by your prey?
• Have you ever been tempted by bounty hunting, and if so did you ever actively engage in it?

Alternate Presentations

While certain elements of a hunter’s fiction point toward the possibility of bounty hunting, these can be taken to another level by using the post’s long-range weapons and skill at concealment to create an assassin. Alternatively, a more classic rogue-type character could easily fit the hunter’s archetype without too much trouble.