Attributes boil down to your raw capabilities, or how you perform when unable to rely on acquired skills. From your physical state to your creativity, from the sharpness of your senses to your willpower, from your memorizing skills to your ironclad immune system.
Attributes are expressed as ranks going from 1 to 6. At character creation, all your attributes start rankless. Your chosen kin and path both increase specific attributes by 1 rank. Then, choose three attributes from a path-specific list, and increase them by another rank. Finally, spread four more increases anywhere you want. You can start the game with a single attribute at rank 3.
Strength
Toughness
Represents the extent to which you can perform physical activities and endure adverse effects. It is to grit your teeth through pain, fatigue, illness and cold. it is Toughness informs the growth of your Stamina pool,
Agility
Agility represents your physical nimbleness, reflexes, and overall ability to move with coordination and complexity. It is to dodge attacks and walk on a rope, to move silently and perform complex acrobatics or martial techniques. Agility influences your Dodge score.
Dexterity
Dexterity represents you capacity to deftly sense and manipulate your body and the physical world through your hands. It is to craft equipent and dismantle traps, to lockpick and sleight of hand, to accurately use a sling or trace words of magic.
Perception
Represents your ability to perceive the world through your senses and instinct.
6 - Sense independence: You can shut off or focus on any number of senses at the time. You can make Detection rolls normally in situations where others would have disadvantage. You succeed automatically against illusions that tamper with a single sense.
Intelligence
Represents your capacity for understanding the world through thought and experience, and to retain it as knowledge. It is to deduce solutions to logical problems and train your brain to retain countless facts.
Heart
Represents your willpower, faith and ability to resist the Fog’s influence, that of some spells, as well as to endure and keep functioning under pain and distress, and against your instincts for self-preservation.
Presence
Presence represents you ability to command attention, influence others, convey emotions effectively, and navigate social dynamics with finesse. Characters with high Presence can more easily sway opinions and command with authority or magnetism.