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Wise Owl
Familiar to Lucas ex Jerbiton
Player:
Magic Might: 27
Characteristics: Int +2, Per +4, Str -7, Sta +1, Prs +1, Com -1, Dex +1, Qik +5
Size: -4
Season: Summer
Confidence: 1 (3)
Basic Qualities: Accomplished Flyer, Ambush Predator, Sharp Ears, Pursuit Predator, Magic Animal (Free), Mute (Free), No Hands (Free)
Virtues: Improved Characteristics (Minor) x2
Flaws: Busybody (Minor), Nocturnal (Minor)
Magical Qualities: Gift of Speech (Minor), Greater Power (Major) x2, Improved Damage (Minor), Improved Powers (Minor), Magical Meditation (Major), Improved Soak (Minor), Lesser Power (Minor) x2, Major Virtue: Ways of the Forest (Major), Minor Virtue: Animal Ken (Minor), Minor Virtue: Clear Thinker (Minor), Minor Virtue: Gift of Tongues (Minor), Minor Virtue: Messenger's Memory (Minor), Minor Virtue: Second Sight (Minor), Minor Virtue: See in Darkness (Minor), Minor Virtue: Unaffected by the Gift (Minor), Personal Power (Minor) x1, Ritual Power (Major) x1
Magical Inferiorities: Magical Friend (Minor), Suspectible to Deprivation (Minor)
Personality Traits: Owl +3*
Reputations: -
Combat
Claws: Init +4, Atk +9, Dfn +14, Dam -2
Soak: +3
Fatigue Levels: +1
Wound Penalties: Light (1), Medium (2), Heavy (3), Incapacitated (4), Dead (5+)
Abilities
| Abilities | Specialty | Score | XP | Pre-Game | Game XP | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Ken | forest animals | 4 | 50 | 50 | -- | 5 from Virtue |
| Area Lore - Comté de Toulouse | woods | 2 | 15 | 15 | -- | -- |
| Athletics | flying | 5 | 75 | 75 | -- | Accomplished Flyer |
| Awareness | food | 5 | 75 | 75 | -- | Bird, +3 hearing |
| Bargain | small talk | 1 | 5 | 5 | -- | -- |
| Brawl | claws | 5 | 75 | 75 | -- | Bird |
| Charm | travelers | 1 | 5 | 5 | -- | -- |
| Concentration | powers | 2 | 15 | 15 | -- | -- |
| Faerie Lore | woods | 2 | 15 | 15 | -- | -- |
| Folk Ken | travelers | 1 | 5 | 5 | -- | -- |
| Hunt | prey | 4 | 50 | 50 | -- | Ambush Predator |
| Magic Lore | beasts | 2 | 15 | 15 | -- | -- |
| Magical Meditation | recovering Might Points | 3 | 30 | 30 | -- | 5 from Virtue |
| Penetration | Mentem | 3 | 30 | 30 | -- | -- |
| Second Sight | illusions | 6 | 105 | 105 | -- | 5 from Virtue |
| Stealth | stalking prey | 4 | 50 | 50 | -- | Ambush Predator |
| Survival | forests | 3 | 30 | 30 | -- | Bird |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Powers
Athene noctua (1 MP), Init Qik-2: R: Per, D: Sun, T: Ind This spell allows the Wise Owl to become a Little Owl. Size is reduced by 2, to -6, with corresponding increase of Quickness by 2, and reduction in Strength by 4. Wise Owl uses this to be less threatening. MuAn 10 (Base 4, +2 Sun): Personal Power (10 levels)
Converse with Plant and Tree (5 MP), Init Qik-10: R: Touch, D: Conc, T: Ind You can speak with a plant for one conversation. The level of conversation depends on the type of plants; longer-lived and more noble plants have more to say. A single question and response takes ten to thirty minutes, with slower-growing plants speaking more slowly. Typically, plants can talk about the soil and about other plants around them, but have limited awareness of more momentary events, such as the passing of animals or people, unless that passing has a direct bearing on the plant (for example, a person cut its trunk). News can spread quickly through a forest when it has to, called from tree to tree on the wind. Bystanders cannot understand your conversation. InHe 25 (Base 15, +1 Touch, +1 Concentration): Lesser Power (25 levels)
Courage of the Owl (5 MP), Init Qik-10: R: Sight, D: Sun, T: Ind Instill a person with indomitable courage, increasing his Brave Personality Trait by +3. This may, but does not always, lead to acts of recklessness. CrMe 25 (Base 4, +3 Sight, +2 Sun): Lesser Power (25 levels)
Grant Clear Thinker (5 MP), Init Qik-10: R: Touch, D: Mom, T: Ind, Ritual Imposes the Clear Thinker Minor Virtue upon a target. The owl can decide to bestow the Virtue permanently or temporarily. If permanent, the power is a ritual-like power and costs points from the creature’s Might score as well as Might pool (see Ritual Power, above). If temporary, the Might points spent on this power are only recovered when its effects are withdrawn. Might Score is recovered at a rate of 1 point per season spent in a magic aura, 2 if that magic aura is in the woods. No Hermetic equivalent: Ritual Power
Immobilize Prey (0 MP), Init Qik-2: R: Eye, D: Conc, T: Ind Any creature that makes eye contact with the Owl is unable to move and may only make small whining or moaning sounds. The target may move only if he successfully makes a Strength roll against an Ease Factor of 9. ReCo(An) 20 (Base 5, +1 Eye, +1 Conc, +1 requisite): Greater Power (20 levels), Improved Powers (-2 MP)
Invisibility of the Standing Owl (0 MP), Init Qik-1: R: Per, D: Sun, T: Ind The owl becomes invisible, but the spell is broken if it moves (aside from breathing and shifting slightly in place). The owl still casts a shadow. PeIm 10 (Base 4, +2 Sun): Personal Power (10 levels, -1 Might cost)
Music of Unwanted Attention (1 MP), Init Qik-3 R: Per, D: Diam, T: Hearing The owl is able to sense anyone who is aware of her for the duration of the power. A person’s attention, regardless how fleeting, is heard as a musical chime, and each individual is represented by a different tone. She doesn’t detect any information about them other than they are aware of her existence. The information gained from this spell is only applicable to those who have an active interest in the caster’s presence. This spell operates by interrogating the common sense (see Art & Academe, page 33) for images of the owl. InMe 30 (Base 10, +1 Diam, +3 Hearing): Greater Power (30 levels), Improved Powers (-2 MP)
Sight of the Transparent Motive (0 MP), Init Qik-1: R: Eye, D: Mom, T: Ind Detects the general motive most powerfully influencing the target at the moment. General motives are such things as fear, anger, and greed, not specific things like the desire to look good before one’s superiors. InMe 10 (Base 5, +1 Eye): Greater Power (10 levels), Improved Powers (-1 MP)
To See as the other birds see (4 MP), Init Qik-4 R: Sight, D: Conc, T: Group The wise owl mostly uses this power on a group of birds to recon the forest, hence the name, however it may be used on any animal group. This power allows the owl to read the thoughts of an animal, and give it directions. The owl may indirectly sense the animals’s location, using the group as a spy. The owl’s perceptions are filtered through the minds of the animals, so they focus on those stimuli that the animal finds most vivid. Dogs find smell vivid, so the owl’s perceptions, when using a dog, will focus on odiferous substances. If reading the mind of a magpie, the owl will find that they fixate on reflective surfaces. In(Re)An 40 (Base 5, +3 Sight, +1 Conc, +2 group, +1 extra effect from requisite): Greater Power (40 levels)
Vis: 6 pawns of Intellego in its wings.