Veteran's Eye
Veteran's Eye. Veteran's Eye is the mentor's reading of the world, honed over decades of paying attention when paying attention was the only thing between them and the grave. In a single glance — across a battlefield, a banquet hall, a stranger's face — the mentor can name the one detail that will decide everything. The loose strap on the enemy's shield wall. The lord whose cup hand trembles. The traveler whose boots are wrong for the road they claim to have walked. The reading is not magic. It is the slow accumulation of every mistake the mentor has ever made and every friend they have buried because of one. The eye does not show them how to win. It shows them where the loss is hiding, so they can step around it, and bring their people with them.