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Page 64: "Adept characters also add their Circle to their Death Rating."

Does the modified death rating also modify unconscious rating and wound threshold? For example, if death rating is increased by +4 due to 4th circle, do the unconscious rating and wound threshold also increase?

If not, this seems like it would make characters at higher cricles almost impervious to killing blows because the gap between death and unconscious ratings will increase

Ok thank you

This echoes earlier versions of Durability, which had two values (for example, spellcasters were all Durability 4/3). The first would be added to Death Rating, the second Unconsciousness Rating (per Rank). As you got more ranks, the gap between Unconscious and Dead increased, by 1 per rank (except Warrior, who had Durability 9/7).

Since (barring house rules) Durability goes up with Circle, adding the Circle to Death Rating replicates that effect.