Hello everyone. I’m going to try and make a 30-day November post for a new magus advancement. I have fun doing these sorts of things, and I’ve had positive responses from people. The post I’m creating is whimsically called Saxous the Unlikely.
I’ll be advancing him in 7-year increments, for Tribunal meetings. with notes, spells, and related things every day between the bigger posts. I’ll welcome any comments or criticisms, though would prefer if they’re posted here to keep the primary thread a bit more clean.
Is it the regular Faerie Blood ?
You could make a case for Strong Faerie Blood, with his intense exposure, and it will justify him having dark/night vision. Emphasizing his heritage as creature from the dark.
@rgd20 Good question, they are not yet. It’s on my ‘to do’ notes, but it was midnight when i posted.
@Ezechiel3571 You very easily could! That is not the direction I’m going for this character, but it is a very reasonable one. I definitely create too many Strong Faerie Blood characters.
Next time Saxous research a ReAn spells, he might want to squeeze a ward against mundane beast (ReAn 5, Touch, Sun, Ind) since pack magical animal - like wolves - will have mundane beasts with them. And Saxous is not powerful enough - yet - to tackle a pack of mundane wolf on his own.
He could spontaneously cast such a spell, but 1) he will have to fatigue himself just before a fight, 2) casting spontaneous spell in faerie aura is always a gamble.
Honestly, random online French name list.
Also, since he was mostly raised by goblins, they’re terrible at human names. This is a totally reasonable argument, and not me being lazy.
I admit I did not plan for pack hunting, instead single large creatures. I should definitely plan that when I have a few extra research points lying around.
I don’t know, he was from the village of Roches (probably so named because it had big cliffs or something). Pierre des Roches doesn’t shock me, it sounds funny, and in fact might have helped cement his name.
Given the new concentration focused spell AND that Saxous gets +1 to concentration while in pain, is it tactically sensible for him to bite his tongue or scratch his arm right before a fight?
While you could certainly make that argument, the intent of the specialization is to offset any penalties he might acquire. Honestly? If my players tried that on me I might allow it once for the cleverness of it.
My next thought for Saxous was ‘Okay! time to make a cool talisman!'‘, but then I realized I wanted him to create a sword talisman, which requires 15 pawns of vis, and… well… Maybe he’ll need a lot more time to build up his Magical Theory to 8. His Talisman will be after his fourth tribunal probably.
I am not sure I understand the reasoning behind the Sun duration to your wounding spell ? By default, unless the beast has some magical fast regenerative power, the wound won’t close by itself, at least not immediately, it is still a medium wound. Enough for Saxous to gather some blood.
He could use the extra magnitudes for +20 penetration, making it a real threat even for mighty beast.
Or if you want to split the magnitudes: Heavy wound and +10 penetration. A Heavy wound is definitely harder to heal within a few hours, so superior to a Sun duration wound.
I missed yesterday, but I’m ahead of schedule with what I’ve made. I still want to try to get as close to ‘one creation a day’ instead of ‘one post a day and 30 posts in 30 days’.
Today we have by FAR the least interesting tribunal for those following Saxous’s path. He spent three damned years learning Magic Theory from tractati and a Merinita Archmagus.