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 3 relationship, and the third hook requires a level 4 relationship. A family member can never be the helper.

Due to event targeting, it is possible for a hero to become ineligible for some opportunity quests and therefore unable to resolve the corresponding hook. This ineligibility can be either temporary (e.g., some opportunities require that a hero does not have a lover in the current campaign) or permanent (e.g., Flamesoul heroes can never resolve the Creative hook in any campaign).

List of hooks and associated events

Hook	Event	Blurb	Permanent Resolution Blocks
Brash	Opportunity: The Blinking Game	I don't care how many there are!	None
Brokenheart	Opportunity: Pyrelight	I've lost before and I know I will again.	None
Clown	Opportunity: Serious Trouble	Hold my beer...	None
Creative	Opportunity: A Song for the Someday Gone The Maker	Art is my refuge.	Hero has the Flamesoul theme
Curious	Opportunity: Beneath the Surface Curiouser and Curiouser The Lever	I can't stand not knowing!	None
Darkheart	Opportunity: Dark Curiosity Drums In The Deep Strange Behavior The Eater	Don't ask me about the path I walk.	None
Destiny	Opportunity: The Sickness Thrixl Control What You See	Something important looms in my future.	None
Distant	Opportunity: Longing to Belong Don't Lose Heart	Don't get too attached, you'll only get hurt.	None
Dreamer	Opportunity: The Last Resort The Gone Ox	Don't you just wonder, sometimes?	None
Flirt	Opportunity: Slave for Love The Witchstone	Hello there.	Hero has had a romance with the waterling (needs confirmation)
Gritty	Opportunity: In Softer Light	I do what has to be done. That's all.	None
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?	Hero has the Shadow theme
Integrity	Opportunity: To Humble Ends The Witchstone What If We Were the Bad Guys?	No, actually it's pretty simple.	Hero has any theme that conflicts with Skeletal
Literary	Opportunity: Library of Light	Language is the first magic, our truest weapon, our ultimate legacy.	None
Loyal	Opportunity: Havenbeams The Witchstone	I would stop at nothing to protect a friend.	Hero has had a child
Lucky	Opportunity: Spur of a Moment The Gambler	Everything always turns out fine, doesn't it?	None
Mysterious	Opportunity: From Another Time Drums In The Deep Former Colleagues The Wolf Price	Another time, under another sky, things were different...	None
Nostalgic	Opportunity: For an Old Wish Passing Memory Lane The Witchstone	Do you remember when...?	None
Physical	Opportunity: The Geometry of Magic	The joy of motion, the sensuousness of being alive.	None
Potential	Opportunity: The Unstilled Heart	Maybe today wasn't my day. But there's a coming dawn...	None
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.	None
Shame	Opportunity: A Mending Path Don't Lose Heart Whispered Secrets	I don't talk about it.	None
Slacker	Opportunity: Dodging Destiny	Oh, you know. We've got plenty of time...	None
Thorny	Opportunity: For a Friend Former Colleagues The Sweeping Swallow	Did I ask you? I didn't, did I?	Hero does not have a human left arm
Wanderlust	Opportunity: Needed Elsewhere	The wind is blowing, the road is calling.	None
Weird	Opportunity: The Scattered Self Meat is Meat	Hm?	None
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.	None