An Award is a reward for retiring a character. There are three tiers of Award.

• A Minor award is granted to any player who deletes a character of System Level 15 or higher.
• A Normal award is granted to any player who deletes a character of SL 50 or higher.
• A Major award is granted to any player who deletes a character of SL 100 or higher.

Deletion can either be via the console command (-delete_character), or via permadeath via the few means in the module that bring it about.

Awards may be spent at character creation to add a boon to your character. This may include

• Access to restricted races or subraces, currently:
  • Elfling, requires Normal award
  • Shapechanger, requires Major award
• A reduction in ECL, making XP gains faster and feat purchases cheaper (-1 for Minor award, -2 for Normal, -3 for Major).

In addition, any character who has a reward used on them gains crafting XP faster (10% for Minor award, 25% for Normal, 50% for Major).