Codex·Chapter X

Keywords

Every ability is written with a shared vocabulary. Learn these words once and you can read any role in any set. In-game, keywords are highlighted with their own icon and colour.

Direct Elimination - Instant

Attack

Eliminate a player from the game.

Unstoppable Attack

Eliminate a player. Cannot be stopped by protection.

Execute

Eliminate a player during the day.

Remove

Take a player out of the game. On Death abilities don’t trigger and their role isn’t revealed. Cannot be protected against or manipulated.

Perish

Be eliminated from the game.

Delayed Elimination - Over Time

Bleed

It is announced that a player is bleeding; they are eliminated during the following night.

Hemorrhage

It is announced that a player is bleeding; they are eliminated during the following night. Cannot be stopped by protection.

Poison

The player learns they are poisoned; they are eliminated during the following night.

Ignite

It is announced that a player is ignited; they are incinerated during the following night.

Incinerate

Eliminate a player, denying their role reveal and any On Death abilities.

Protection - Keeping players alive

Protect

Block all attacks on a player during the night.

Permanent Defence

If you are fated to die during the night, you protect yourself.

Divine Protection

Block a single fatal attack or execution, during the day or night.

Heal

Reduce the effect of one elimination ability during the night. Removes bleeding, poison and ignite first; otherwise reduces an attack to a bleed.

Frail

Protections on you have no effect tonight.

Information - Learning things

Learn

Secretly obtain information during the night.

Dark Aura

A sinister presence that investigators can detect.

Active

A player who used an active ability during the night.

Targets

The players someone used their active abilities on during the night.

Capability

What a player can do, taking all their abilities into account.

Class

A role’s job for its faction.

Role

A player’s current role.

Faction

The team a player is part of.

Neighbours

The closest living player on each of your sides.

Ability Manipulation - Messing with Abilities

Miss

Abilities used on a player have no effect.

Untargetable

All targets on a player during the night miss.

Redirect

Move targets on one player to another player.

Enhance

Make a player’s abilities unstoppable and guaranteed tonight.

Hex

Information learned by a hexed player is incorrect.

Share

Copy targets on one player onto another player as well.

Guarantee

Prevent any manipulation from affecting an ability or target.

Role Manipulation - Messing with roles and factions

Convert

Change a player’s faction.

Transform

Change a player’s role to another role.

Assume

Change your role to another player’s role.

General Manipulation - Miscellaneous

Reveal

Publicly reveal information.

Share Fate

Perish if the player you share fate with dies.

Meet

Secretly meet with a player during the night.

Exposed

You are instantly executed if you receive at least one vote during the Execution vote.

Appear

Make an aspect of a player appear as something else.