The Successor

Kahola is featured as an example for the Successor playbook.

The Successor (傳人) is one of the playbooks for Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, an outline of a character archetype that can be customized in the game. The Successor is one of the ten playbooks featured in the Core Book, and is described as the inheritor of a massively powerful legacy, known all over, with its own dark history. Their balance principles are Tradition vs. Progress.

Description

The Successor comes from a powerful, tarnished lineage. Play the Successor if you want to struggle against your own lineage as it threatens to draw you in.

Prestigious, redemptive, pigeonholed, rebellious. The Successor comes from a powerful family, group, order, or lineage — they are the inheritor of real power, in one way or another, and everyone in the group believes the Successor belongs to it. But the lineage of the Successor is mired in corruption, or tragedy, or dark rumors. It is not an unequivocally noble inheritance; it is characterized by a tradition of destructive or cruel decisions and practices.

• Starting stats: Creativity +1, Focus +1, Harmony -1, Passion 0
• Demeanor options: Perky, Intense, By-the-book, Casual, Arrogant, Oblivious

Principles

The Successor is split between their desire to uphold the greatness of their lineage and their desire to forge their own path is represented in their two principles: Tradition and Progress.

The Successor's principle of Tradition represents their commitment to the lineage, both its heritage and its practices and power. A Successor with a high Tradition cares about their lineage and seeks to uphold it. A high Tradition Successor may not be happy with the darker elements of their lineage, but they are not out-of-hand opposed and disgusted. Instead, they see the value and power of the lineage and the way it has done things and seek to respect and honor their forebears.

The Successor's Progress principle, on the other hand, represents their desire to find new ways, different from the ways of their lineage. They do not have to be outright disrespectful or disdainful of their lineage, but they certainly are not deeply rigid about it or refraining from making changes on the grounds that "this is how it has always been done". A Successor with high Progress very often wants to make amends for the worst excesses of their lineage but might also be looking for other non-traditional changes to their lineage.

The Successor finds a way to combine these two paths in their Moment of Balance. When they use their Moment of Balance, they both appreciate and value their lineage and everything it has given them, while also finding a new and better way to actually apply that power. They innovate while drawing on their lineage's resources to solve an unsolvable problem.

Characteristics

Moment of Balance

You may never escape the legacy of your family, but balance allows you to learn from them without defining yourself in their image. You call upon a resource of your family to innovate a new solution to an intractable problem, never forgetting who you are in the face of incredible danger.

Moves

• Way of the Future
• Black Koala Sheep
• A Life of Regret
• Walk This Way
• Worldly Knowledge

Growth question

Did you learn something meaningful or important about your lineage, its members, or its effects on the world and others?

The Successor's growth question is all about coming to learn more, discover more, and better understand their own lineage. They can grow by learning direct secrets or by learning about the lineage's effects on the world. Because the Successor's lineage should be well-known throughout the scope of your game, it should not be hard to find out something about them nearly anywhere the Successor goes.

Characters

The known Successor playbook characters from Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game are:

• Changunak
• Chihiro
• Dae
• Fu Meili
• Joh
• Kahola
• Quartz
• Yinzin