Miles Devereaux

You have learned to transform your poise and patience into weapons of their own. As a reaction, you receive a bonus parry with your weapon in addition to any other parries you have in the round.

You've honed your natural sense of hearing beyond its natural limits. When you use this stance, any check you make which relies principally on hearing (listening at a door) has its TN reduced one level of difficulty (a Hard task becomes Tricky), and on a success check, the outcome of the check is improved one tier (Good becomes Exceptional).

You've honed your natural sense of touch beyond its natural limits. When you use this stance, any check you make which relies principally on touch (feeling for a hidden switch) has its TN reduced one level of difficulty (a Hard task becomes Tricky), and on a success check, the outcome of the check is improved one tier (Good becomes Exceptional).

Your extensive knowledge of monstrous bestiaries grants you special insight into their strengths and weaknesses. If you spend a round consulting your texts, you may use this stance to yield a GM advantage that reveals the monster's mechanical weaknesses (such as vulnerability to fire, natural cowardice, poisoned flesh, etc). If such a weakness is a legendarily guarded secret or known to no one, you must study the monster directly to reveal its weaknesses, and the GM may require a relevant check.

Your broad knowledge of ciphers allows you to decrypt encoded texts with unfailing accuracy and celerity. When you use this stance, you are able to decrypt a single encoded text (written or spoken, magical or mundane). It may take time to decrypt the cipher depending on the length of the passage; consult with the GM. This stance does not translate decrypted texts written in languages you do not know.