Hook

A powerful marker that changes how the character might interact with events, and also acts as a seed for the character to undergo a specific quest; applied by history and sometimes events. Hooks are fundamentally just aspects with a special naming convention and some extra tooling around them.

Heroes start the game with 3 hooks, which are specific character aspects and often take the form of a personality flaw or quirk.

Opportunity quests

• See also: Opportunity

Each hook can randomly trigger a special opportunity quest for that hero and a required helper. After a hero completes an opportunity quest, the associated hook is resolved and the hero gains a promotion and a bonus to retirement age. The first hook grants +10 retirement age, the second hook +7, and the third hook +5.

You are limited to 1 opportunity quest in chapter 1 and 2 in each other chapter. Each hero can only resolve 1 hook per campaign and can only be the helper once per campaign. A hero's first hook requires at least a level 3 relationship with a prospective helper, the second hook requires at least a level 4 relationship, and the third hook requires a level 5 relationship. A family member can never be the helper.

List of hooks and associated events

Hook	Event	Blurb
Brash	Opportunity: The Blinking Game	I don't care how many there are!
Brokenheart	Opportunity: Pyrelight	I've lost before and I know I will again.
Clown	Opportunity: Serious Trouble	Hold my beer...
Creative	Opportunity: A Song for the Someday Gone The Maker	Art is my refuge.
Curious	Opportunity: Beneath the Surface Curiouser and Curiouser The Lever	I can't stand not knowing!
Darkheart	Opportunity: Dark Curiosity Drums In The Deep Strange Behavior The Eater What If We Were the Bad Guys?	Don't ask me about the path I walk.
Destiny	Opportunity: The Sickness Thrixl Control What You See	Something important looms in my future.
Distant	Opportunity: Longing to Belong Don't Lose Heart	Don't get too attached, you'll only get hurt.
Dreamer	Opportunity: The Last Resort The Gone Ox	Don't you just wonder, sometimes?
Flirt	Opportunity: Slave for Love The Witchstone	Hello there.
Gritty	Opportunity: In Softer Light	I do what has to be done. That's all.
Inhabited	Opportunity: Bidding the Ghost Goodbye Strange Behavior The Inhabitant The Witchstone Whispered Secrets	I'm fine thank you... How are you and your kin?
Integrity	Opportunity: To Humble Ends The Witchstone What If We Were the Bad Guys?	No, actually it's pretty simple.
Literary	Opportunity: Library of Light	Language is the first magic, our truest weapon, our ultimate legacy.
Loyal	Opportunity: Havenbeams The Witchstone	I would stop at nothing to protect a friend.
Lucky	Opportunity: Spur of a Moment The Gambler	Everything always turns out fine, doesn't it?
Mysterious	Opportunity: From Another Time Drums In The Deep Former Colleagues The Wolf Price	Another time, under another sky, things were different...
Nostalgic	Opportunity: For an Old Wish Passing Memory Lane The Witchstone	Do you remember when...?
Physical	Opportunity: The Geometry of Magic	The joy of motion, the sensuousness of being alive.
Potential	Opportunity: The Unstilled Heart	Maybe today wasn't my day. But there's a coming dawn...
Proud	Opportunity: The Prisoner Before the Fall The Witchstone What If We Were the Bad Guys?	I know who I am. I don't need anyone to tell me.
Shame	Opportunity: A Mending Path Don't Lose Heart Whispered Secrets	I don't talk about it.
Slacker	Opportunity: Dodging Destiny	Oh, you know. We've got plenty of time...
Thorny	Opportunity: For a Friend Former Colleagues The Sweeping Swallow	Did I ask you? I didn't, did I?
Wanderlust	Opportunity: Needed Elsewhere	The wind is blowing, the road is calling.
Weird	Opportunity: The Scattered Self Meat is Meat	Hm?
Wildheart	Opportunity: Farm And Forest Answer to Austerity The Gone Ox The Wolf Price Thrixl Control What You See	The treesmell. The odorous stones after rain. I live for those things.