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Crataegus of Bjornaer
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Characteristics : Int +2, Per +2, Com +3, Pre +3, Sta +0, Str +0, Dex -3, Qik -3
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Heartbeast: Int +2, Per +0, Com +0, Pre +0, Str +8, Sta +5, Dex -3, Qik -5
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Aging points: 1 Qik
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Decrepitude: 0 (1)
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Warping: 3 (37)
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Confidence : 1 (0)
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Personality Traits : Petty -2, Controlling +2, Stubborn +2
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Sigil : Robustness
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Age : 45
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Born : 1161
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Apprenticed : 1170
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Gauntleted : 1185
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Last Updated : Spring 1206
Virtues and Flaws
- Hermetic Magus (0)
- the Gift (0)
- Heartbeast (0)
- Ways of the Forest (+3)
- Diedne Magic (+1)
- Unbound Tongue (+1)
- Puissant Magic Theory (+1)
- Puissant Mentem (+1)
- Affinity with Mentem (+1)
- Careful Sorcerer (+1)
- Nyktophylax (+1)
- Dark Secret (0)
- Necessary Condition [Heartbeast] (-3)
- Crippled (-3)
- Busybody (-1)
- Clumsy (-1)
- Weak Parens (-1)
- Slow Caster (-1)
Mysteries
- The Trial of Self Control: Deleterious Circumstances (Hungry) and Strong Willed
- The Deed of the Woodland Warden: Awakening
Abilities
| Ability | Speciality | Start XP | Game XP | Score | XP | Comment |
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| Magic Theory | Inventing Spells | 50 | 0 | 4+2 | 50 | Puissant |
| Parma Magica | Herbam | 30 | 5 | 3 | 38 | --- |
| Penetration | Vim | 5 | 10 | 2 | 15 | --- |
| Concentration | Trees | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | --- |
| Gothic | Initiations | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | --- |
| House Bjornaer Lore | Initiating Self | 50 | 0 | 4 | 50 | --- |
| House Diedne Lore | Initiating Self | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | --- |
| Heartbeast | Turning into heartbeast | 15 | 0 | 2 | 15 | Oak |
| Nature Lore | Awakening | 15 | 0 | 2 | 15 | of the Forest |
| Artes Liberales | Reading | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | --- |
| Awareness | Alertness | 30 | 0 | 3 | 30 | --- |
| Charm | Pleas | 30 | 0 | 3 | 30 | --- |
| Intrigue | Rumours | 30 | 0 | 3 | 30 | --- |
| Folk Ken | Violence | 30 | 0 | 3 | 30 | --- |
| Guile | Blatant lies | 0 | 50 | 4 | 50 | --- |
| Occitan | Provençal | native | --- | 5 | --- | --- |
| Latin | Hermetic | 50 | 0 | 4 | 50 | --- |
| Hermetic Code | Scrying | 11 | 0 | 1 | 11 | --- |
| Montpellier Lore | Intrigues | 0 | 7 | 1 | 7 | --- |
| Lunar Possession | --- | 0 | 15 | 2 | 15 | Penetration, Fast |
Arts
| Art | Start XP | Game XP | Score | XP | Comment |
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| Creo | 1 | 37 | 8 | 38 | --- |
| Muto | 1 | 15 | 5 | 16 | --- |
| Intellego | 1 | 14 | 5 | 15 | --- |
| Perdo | 1 | 12 | 4 | 13 | --- |
| Rego | 36 | 59 | 13 | 92 | --- |
| Animal | 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aquam | 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Auram | 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Corpus | 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Herbam | 0 | 32 | 7 | 32 | --- |
| Ignem | 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Imaginem | 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mentem | 214 | --- | 20+3 | 214 | Affinity, Puissant |
| Terram | 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vim | 21 | 2 | 6 | 21 | --- |
Casting Totals
In the forest around the covenant: Stamina +5, Aura +2, Ways +3, Voice +1, Gestures +1; Total +12
| --- | Creo | Muto | Intellego | Perdo | Rego |
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| Mentem | 43 | 40 | 40 | 39 | 46 |
| Herbam | 27 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 30 |
| Vim | 26 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 29 |
Lab Totals
In an laboratory at the covenant: Intelligence +2, Magic Theory +6 (Inventing Spells), Aura +5, Ways +3; Total +16
| --- | Creo | Muto | Intellego | Perdo | Rego |
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| Mentem | 47 | 44 | 44 | 43 | 50 |
| Herbam | 31 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 35 |
| Vim | 30 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 34 |
Spells Invented
- Lord of Itself: Lord of the Trees (ArM, p.139), but Personal and Diameter - ReHe 15
- Minute of Reckoning: (HP, p.80), allows spells up to 15-th level - ReVi 15
- Unraveling the Fabric of Vim: (ArM, p.161), allows spells up to 15+stress-th level - PeVi 5
- Lunar Connection: Master's Message (HP, p.80), allows spells up to 20-th level - ReVi 15
- Borrow the Eyes of Another: Borrow the Eyes of Another (A&A, p.33), but Touch and Sun - InMe 20
- Borrow the Ears of Another: Borrow the Eyes of Another (A&A, p.33), but Touch and Sun, and targeting hearing - InMe 20
- Wider Pathway: as Minute of Reckoning (HP, p.80), but Touch and allows spells up to 30-th level - ReVi 15
- Wide Causeway: Minute of Reckoning, but Touch and allows spells up to 45-th level - ReVi 30
- Lunar Possession: Enslave the Mortal Mind (ArM, p.152), but Touch and Moon - ReMe 45; Mastery 1 : Penetration
- Handshake of Bonding: as Minute of Reckoning (HP, p.80), but Touch and Group and allows spells up to 15-th level - ReVi 10
- Lunar Sustenance: as Maintaining the Demanding Spell (ArM, p.162), but Moon - ReVi 25
- Room of Napping: as "Call to Slumber", but Touch, Room, Sun, which means that no one in the room can wake up while the spell is in effect - ReMe 25
Spells That Are Cast Easily
- Chamber of Connections: as Minute of Reckoning (HP, p.80), but Touch and Room and allows spells up to 15-th level - ReVi 10
- Cursory Understanding: Thoughts Within Babble (ArM, p.149), but Touch, Individual, Concentration so that it allows Crataegus to understand what target of the spell is hearing - InMe 15
- Borrow the Sense of Another: Borrow the Eyes of Another (A&A, p.33), but Touch and Concentration; and for the desired sense - InMe 15
Items of Note
- Ring of Elderly Demise: ReVi B5 "Control a target’s mental state", Touch +1, Room +2, Diameter +1; is a simple band of metal, worn as a ring; command word is "Payback", uttered by the wearer; Every person in the room is put to sleep for a Diameter and cannot be woken up during this time; 34 points of Lab Total were dedicated towards Penetration; Effect level: 20, Penetration 68.
Heartbeast
- Oak: Int +2, Per -2, Com -3, Pre -3, Str +8, Sta +5, Dex -1, Qik -5
- Size +5
- Qualities: Tireless, Hardy
- Branch Attack: Init +5, Attack +5, Defense +1, Damage +10
- Soak +15
- Wound Penalties: –1 (1–10), –3 (11–20), –5 (21–30), Incapacitated (31-40), Dead (41+)
- Fatigue Penalties: Winded, Winded, Winded, Weary, Weary, Tired, Dazed
- Abilities: Brawl 3 (branch), Survival 5 (forest)
- Branch Weapon: Init +10, Atk +4, Dfn +2, Dam +2
Background
Being born Gifted is not much than a curse if you parents hate your guts for no fault of yours whatsoever. At the paltry age of six, he lied, legs broken, in a ditch, struggling for breath as rainwater rose quickly, threatening to drown. Woman came, words fell from her lips, engulfing him and lifting him up.
Whether she was genuinely a nice person or a greedy one, maga of House Jerbiton saved a boy, determined his Gift and sold him to Lacerta Bjornaer of Cantus Arborum. There, he was given some time to study Latin and Artes Liberales before his Arts were Opened. He, however, didn't seem to understand any magics of the Order - even simplest cantations didn't work when he tried them. His Heartbeast was obsure enough too, so that Lacerta had to search far and wide for House wisdom to bring it forth. Only after it was uncovered and awakened to be an Oak, his magic powers were able to flourish.
Still, he only had ten years to study and still his limitations were there. Between all of that and need to balance ancient secrets and House loyalty, Lacerta mostly used her time to indoctrinate him into secrecy and silence - so Crataegus' self-esteem and magical prowess both plummeted as his Gauntlet drove near. Only having a precious few spells to his name, he was desperate to prove himself and so pursued dedication to his Clan doggedly, doing everything he could to serve his House.
Which, for him, meant spying on mundane militant and religious leaders passing through the Tribunal so as to timely notice their - willful or unwitting - advances on sacred places. At first, he was merely riding eyes and ears of lowly servants so as to discover mundane ways. He was able to learn some about their plans, but it rarely was much. Then, he grew brazen enough to take over the mind of one servant to eavesdrop intensely. It bore fruit, but maintaining another life undisturbed was bothersome for such a small gain. So, he took over a courtier in Montpellier and maneuvered him high enough to hear more. Such was his duty to his Clan and House.
For himself, Crataegus felt satisfied with growing apart from the covenant and sitting in the woods alone. When he needed a laboratory, he returned to Cantus Arborum, but, for the most part, forest was his home. In long conversations with trees he found wisdom unrivalled and beasts gave him a perspective that was fleeting even by human standards.
His ambition now is to grow further from the covenant, branch wider amongst mundanes, perfect Parma and, in preparation of the taking of the famed Oath, attune a Talisman of a living Hawthorn that would be of great use to making wards and becoming a fortified powerhouse for the storms ahead.
Advancement log
Childhood:
- Provencal 75
- Folk Ken 15
- Charm 15
- Awareness 15
Later Life:
- Folk Ken 15
- Charm 15
- Awareness 15
- Intrigue 15
Apprenticeship:
- Latin 50
- Magic Theory 50
- House Bjornaer Lore 5
- House Diedne Lore 5
- Artes Liberales 5
- Parma Magica 5
- Rego 15
- Mentem 44*1.5
- Vim 1
Magushood:
- 1186: Rego 15, Intrigue 15
- 1187: House Bjornaer Lore 25, Rego 5
- 1188: Mentem 15*1.5, Heartbeast 10, Rego 5
- 1189: House Bjornaer Lore 20, Mentem 10*1.5
- 1190: The Trial of Self Control, Vim 20
- 1191: Learning Nature Lore, Mentem 5*1.5, Nature Lore 5, Parma Magica 10
- 1193: Learning Nature Lore, Mentem 5*1.5, Nature Lore 10, Penetration 5
- 1193: Mentem 30*1.5
- 1194: Creo 1, Muto 1, Intellego 1, Perdo 1, Rego 1, Mentem 25*1.5
- 1195: Inventing Wide Causeway (30)
- 1196: Inventing Lunar Possession (30)
- 1197: Inventing Lunar Possession (15), Parma Magica 15, Aging points in Qik 1
- 1198: The Deed of the Woodland Warden, Sourcing Longevity Ritual of 50, Inventing Handshake of Bonding in one season
- 1199: Inventing Lunar Sustenance (25), Concentration 5
- 1200: Adventure (1 Creo, 2 Intellego, 3 Guile), Reading "The Source of Life" (13 Creo), Reading "The Power of Knowledge" (12 Intellego), Reading "Alfredo le Vert's journey" (15 Muto)
- 1201: Reading "Magic Combat Techniqus" (12 Perdo), Reading "Collection of decisions of the great tribunal of 982" (11 Hermetic Code), Learning more about Montpellier (7 Montpellier Lore), Reading "Imperium" (15 Rego)
- 1202: Reading "Mercurian Magic" (11 Rego), Reading "Imperium" (15 Rego), Inventing "Room of Napping", Creating Charged item "Ring of Elderly Demise" Lab totals: "Room of Napping": Rego 11, Mentem 23, Intelligence +2, Magic Theory (Inventing Spells) +7, Aura +5, Ways +3; Total +50 "Ring of Elderly Demise": Rego 11, Mentem 23, Intelligence +2, Magic Theory +6, Aura +5, Ways +3, Similar Spell (Room of Napping) +5; Total +54
- 1203: Reading "Imperium" (15 Rego), Helping Bartomeus (5 Parma, 2 Guile), Establishing a proper Puppet in Bordeaux (5 Lunar Possession)
- 1204: Reading "Black Heart of the Silver Tree" (not really); Teaching Magic Theory to another scribe (2 Guile); Remy carefully copies 11/18 "Black Heart of the Silver Tree", Reading "Alfredo le vert's journey" (not really); Enchant "Hourglass of Maturity" w/ experiment (2 He); Remy carefully copies 17/17 "Alfredo le vert's journey", Reading "Alfredo le vert's journey" (not really); Enchant "Hourglass of Maturity" w/ experiment (2 He); Remy carefully copies 17/17 "Alfredo le vert's journey", Reading "Black Heart of the Silver Tree " (not really); Enchant "Hourglass of Maturity" w/ experiment (2 He); Remy carefully copies 18/18 "Black Heart of the Silver Tree "
- 1205: Reading "The Source of life" (13 Cr), Reading "Black heart of the silver tree" (14 He), Reading "The Source of life" (13 Cr), Reading "Black heart of the silver tree" (14 He)
- 1206: Exploring the old tomb (Lunar Possesion 5, Parma Magica 3), Being taught Guile (Guile 12), Being taught Guile (Guile 12), Being taught Guile (Guile 12)
- 1207: Being taught Guile (Guile 12), Attending the Tribunal and moving to Ireland (Lunar Possession 5, Penetration 10)