Quests

The game is built around quests, which have sponsors. Sponsors go to the Gladiators Guild to get a Quest gem created, which a Gladiator can then pick up, and slot into their preferred jewelry. This gem serves as a contract for the quest and allows the Sponsor to observe their gladiator. Watch parties often form for large quests, and some Sponsors create quests purely for the show in order to get viewers. Most sponsors will be sovereigns, but sometimes a guild, a group of workers, or other individuals will sponsor a quest.

There are also illicit quests, which do not go through the guild. The gems are made through other means, and can contain unknown and unstable magic. These quests are generally more dangerous, they are taken by the desperate, stupid, and those addicted to danger. Sometimes the pay for an illicit quest is incredibly high, however most of the time the people taking on these quests are coerced into doing them through blackmail and debts.

Sponsors also often provide the Supplies you will have on your Quest. Sometimes they will give you specific items, other times you will receive a certain amount of dice to assign as you wish, or it can be a mix of the two.

Sponsors

Every quest has a sponsor, usually a rich person with a royal title, or a local community. with each quest, your sponsor will also supply you equipment. Rewards for quests can be increasing your connection to your sponsor and upgrades to your signature equipment. Higher connection also means better quests, unlocking better equipment and allies.

You can have as many sponsors as you have quests. There is a limit on sponsor connection. For royal connections, they will drop to tier 1 if any other sponsor is raised above tier 1. For community sponsors, they will drop to tier 1 if a royal sponsor is raised above tier 1.

Quests will often have optional objectives with extra rewards. These objectives are often there to increase viewership of your quest via crystal gaze.

Each Sponsor will offer unique rewards for each connection tier. Royal Sponsors tend to give material rewards, better weapons and armor, more equipment, and reluctant allies

Royal sponsors will only offer equipment and allies for quests by that sponsor. Royal sponsors are more likely to offer competitive quests, where only the gladiator that returns with the desired item will be rewarded. Royal Sponors offer riches and fame.

Community sponsors tend to offer lower rewards, but with the advantage that investing in one community doesn’t take away from another, so you can more easily get the specific advantages that you need. Community connections can also offer equipment and allies on quests from other communities, or your personal quest.

Sometimes when a problem arises in an area, multiple quests will be offered to deal with it in different ways. A community quest might have you relocate a magical creature disrupting an area, where a royal sponsor would have you kill it.

Royal Sponsor Table

Roll on the table below to create a Royal sponsor

D8	Title	Name	Industry	Demeanor
1	Prince	Threetail	Shipping	Boisterous
2	Duchess	Summerbrooke	Mining	Tempermental
3	Czar	Vissac	Manufacturing	Chaotic
4	Emperor	Tanyth	Agriculture	Professional
5	Queen	Galan	Fashion	Condescending
6	Earl	Seji	Medicine	Pompous
7	Viscount	Bones	Weapons	Gloomy
8	Lady	Calyne	Magic	Callous

Community Sponsor Representative

Roll on the table below to create a representative of a community sponsor

D8	Name	Job	Community	Demeanor
1	Amit	Storyteller	Plateau Village	Charming
2	Ees	Witch	Mountain Nomads	Optimistic
3	Jaeleth	Huntress	Fishing Town	Cynical
4	Grim	Farmer	City Neighborhood	Impatient
5	Mailir	Fisherman	Traveling Merchants	Honest
6	Kelde	Baker	Forest Settlement	Surly
7	Guinemere	Smith	Oasis Dwelling	Empathetic
8	Xeloe	Scholar	University Researchers	Resentful

Personal Quest

Every Gladiator has a goal, a reason that they started fighting. This is their personal quest. While persuing your personal quest, you no longer have a Repuation, instead the die is replaced with Motivation. Your Motivation is the equivalent of a sponsor tier, but instead represents how close you are to accomplishing your goals. Your Motivation level can never be higher than the highest sponsor level. Royal sponsors will generally not grant you resources to persue your personal quest unless you do them a favor first. Once your personal quest is complete, this ends your characters story as a Gladiator. When this happens, they retire as a gladiator and can become something else, such as a community organizer, a small business owner, a student, a farmer, or an actress. This character is no longer playable, but can remain in the story as an NPC, and may even be the subject or sponsor of a quest.