You avoid conflict when possible as you hold peaceful outcomes as superior to violent ones. Yet circumstances make some conflicts not only unavoidable but necessary. And when the situation draws you into a fight, you rise to the challenge and do all that you can to bring it to a swift conclusion.
Your methods rely on careful analysis of your opponents. You see where they anticipate your strikes and you learn from them. You learn from your errors and adjust your tactics as a result. Your opponent might be superior to you at the start of combat, but you become its master by the end.
Level 3 Warrior Sage
Attributes Choose two attributes and increase both by 1.
Characteristics Perception +2, Health +4
Intellectual Strike You add half your Intellect modifier (minimum 1) to your Strength and Agility attack rolls.
Teaching Moments When an attack roll you make results in a failure, you gain one insight. You retain the insight until you spend it or until the combat ends. You spend insight to use many warrior sage talents. Insightful Defense Spend insight when a creature attacks you to impose 2 banes on its attack roll. Insightful Strike Spend insight when you make an attack roll to make the roll with 2 boons.
Level 6 Warrior Sage
Characteristics Health +4
Piercing Strike When an attack roll you make results in a success, you can spend insight to apply an additional effect, chosen from the following options: the target takes 1d6 extra damage, falls prone, or becomes impaired for 1 minute.
Opportunity Seized When you make a free attack and you have one or more insights, you make the attack roll with 1 boon for each insight you have and the attack deals 1d6 ext ra damage per two insights you have (minimum 1d6 extra damage).
Level 9 Master Warrior Sage
Characteristics Health +4
Swift Assessment When you take your first turn in combat, you gain a number of insights equal to 1d3 + your Intellect modifier (minimum 1 insight).