I like what you did with the formatting of your races- easy to read with the NOTES and IC tags.

Added a bit about clans, including the names of the Twelve Clans, to the Ithai race post.

Under the Word of Sol section the dictae seem to vary in the way they refer to the deity, some being in the first person and others in the third person.

Alchemy
Alchemy is a pseudoscientific magickal art wherein the individual in question through knowledge of the properties of plants and minerals in able to fundamentally alter the arrangements of materials, thereby creating other materials, as well as potions, oils, and infusions of a quasi-magickal nature.

Acids'”Highly corrosive liquids that will break down substances
Poisons'”Toxic compounds that will kill or strike ill a living creature
Elixir of Health'”a potion to heal wounds and cure illnesses
Love Philter'”A potion high in pheromones, promoting love and making the imbiber more attractive to the opposite sex.
Phlogiston'”The essence of combustion, extracted and condensed.  Highly volatile and explosive.
Antiphlogiston'”A term for a substance from which all phlogiston has been removed, rendering it incombustible.  Often applied as a fire-retardant coating to buildings.
Galvanite'”This substance reacts with metals it comes in contact with, hardening them and making them resistant to rust.
Firewhiskey'”A component in this drink heats the blood, warding off cold.  Those who drink it are temporarily immune to the ill effects of exposure to cold.
Massage oils'”often infused with herbal compounds, these lubricants often promote quick healing.
Mana Elixir'”an infusion of caecilium which restores spell/fortune points
Sleeping potion'”a draught that brings on a deep, comatose sleep
Potion of Luck
Flash Bomb'”This incendiary device is thrown on the ground and ignited by impact, releasing a bright flash of light, followed by a cloud of thick smoke.  It is used for distractions and escapes.
Chloroform'”Often used as a weapon, when inhaled, chloroform causes loss of consciousness, and if inhaled consistently for long enough, can cause death.



Knights of the Road
The Knights of the Road are an organization of Highway robbers who have taken to wandering the old roads.  The organization was founded by exiled knights seeking revenge on the kingdom that banished them.  They focused on robbing the wealthy elite of their target of choice.  They would often redistribute the stolen wealth to the impoverished peasantry, making them folk heroes.  Membership grew with time, and over time the founding members were killed, imprisoned, or retired.  Since then, while the organization has flourished as an enterprise, the idealistic core has rotted away.  It is now comprised mostly of thugs and ruffians whose greed propels them to steal from anyone they can, which now means mostly preying on the same peasantry the founders once protected in the glory days of the company.

The Seraphine Harmonium
The Seraphine Harmonium is ostensibly a college of bards in Shardmoore.  Beneath the surface of the Playhouse, however, is a covert group of spies, informants, and plants.  A Plant (better term pending) is someone trained to plant suggestions in the minds of the populace.  They know how to insert subliminal messages into their songs and performances, sometimes through sheer charisma and knowledge of the field, other times through the aid of magick.  Their relationship with the Church of Sôl is strained, to say the least.  They have been known to cooperate from time to time, but they have also been at odds.  The group has come under threat from the Inquisition, but the Harmonium has ways of protecting those under its roof.

The Riftwatchers

The Inquisition

The Knights of the Temple

Academia Oscura

The Darknives

Cognizance

I like it a lot!  Very nice work!

So, I have a specific question for all of you:  Paths, as I am currently working with them, are really just guidelines of what skills and traits a character should take based on what they want to be.  So, are there any character types I am missing, bearing in mind a Renaissance core time period with a mix of some steam thrown in?

I would say that the Astrologist type would fall under Seer.  I may at some point have to include some more specifics to make that clear.  Anything of the "sagely" type could fall under Doctor, if you think of the term as extending beyond medicine.

The Explorer type, however, is something I should look into.