Adelbert, a "Magi of Hermes" look at intellego and Astrology

[Psitticine]

@Erik Tyrrell

I'm going to bring up, as an alternative to Deceitful Mist from the Black Gate, Ear of Truth from HoH:TL. It is a target hearing spell that detects lies. Whispers through the black gate makes sounds that all in the area can hear. Does Ear of Truth, an intelego mentem spell work with whispers through the black gate an InCo(Me) spell? Or does it not function with dead minds for some reason?

I'd think it would work fine. Mentem is also for dealing with ghosts, after all, so I don't see any issues with not having the right Form in there. And Hearing should be fine as the Whispers must be something mundane in terms of an auditory transport or Parma would block them and they wouldn't be heard by everybody within range.

@Erik Tyrrell

@The Fixer

Maybe a better solution would be to have the ballista have the spell at Target: touch and a linked CrIm HUD (or CrMe) that would translate the info, but that's mostly the same thing as the solution above.

But then everyone else can see it as well. It might be akin to giving the targets shriek of the impending shafts for free.

When I read that, I pictured it as something more limited in visibility, like an image floating just above the haft of the weapon, right along where you'd line it up with your eye to aim. A CrMe version would be all in your head, so to speak, so no worries about anybody eavesdropping without InMe.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@Psitticine

@Erik Tyrrell

I'm going to bring up, as an alternative to Deceitful Mist from the Black Gate, Ear of Truth from HoH:TL. It is a target hearing spell that detects lies. Whispers through the black gate makes sounds that all in the area can hear. Does Ear of Truth, an intelego mentem spell work with whispers through the black gate an InCo(Me) spell? Or does it not function with dead minds for some reason?

I'd think it would work fine.

I do to.

OK then here is take 3 on the last two seasons of the 0-15 years after apprenticeship period.

One season Learning Ear of Truth from laboratory notes this gives him 8 sets of laboratory notes over the course of 15 years. A bit more than once every two years. All of the spells are ones that his house would want him to know to better accomplish his duties so I'm not feeling too bad about it, even so I think that I am not all that far from the point where I'd start to require some additional justification for the parade of lab texts marching through his hands. (This saves me a season later in his development where I can try and fit the aiming enchantment back in)

One season enchanting the following effect in the crossbow

Steady Hand of the Marksman
ReHe 10 (two uses per day)
R: Pers., D: Conc. (Item maintains), T: Ind.
This effect holds the crossbow steady it prevents shaking and jiggling. This steadiness is very beneficial when targeting things beyond 30 paces from the crossbow giving +2 to attack rolls. However, when targeting moving objects within 15 paces of the crossbow the wielder receives a -1 penalty to attack rolls and when targeting moving objects within 10 paces the shooter receives a -2 penalty to attack rolls because of the additional difficulty of moving the crossbow with sufficient speed to track a moving target while the crossbow is unable to make jerky movements (the story guide should make adjustment sot the range of bonus and penalty for particularly fast creatures). In all cases the crossbow wielder receives one fewer botch die (to a minimum of one for stressful circumstances). Adelbert’s sigil expresses itself in the fact that while this effect is active the crossbow’s decorative eyes move just a bit slower than the weapon itself.
(base 3, +1 concentration, +5 levels item maintains concentration +1 level two uses per day)

Is that balanced for a level 10 effect? (it would be level 15 as a spell). I made the bonuses and penalties a bit smaller than the last version and I pushed the range required to receive a bonus out a bit.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

[size=150]Adelbert at 15 years out of apprenticeship[/size]
Characteristics: Int +2, Per +3, Pre 0, Com 0, Str -2, Sta +1, Dex 0, Qik 0
Size: 0
Age: 45 (36)
Decrepitude: 0
Warping Score: 2(5)
Confidence Score: 1 (3)
Virtues and Flaws: The Gift; Hermetic Magus Affinity Artes Liberales, Affinity Intellego, Affinity Magic Theory Cautious with Artes Liberales, Educated, Hermetic Prestige*, Keen Vision, Planetary Magic, Puissant Intellego, Puissant Magic Theory, Restriction Complete Darkness, Astrological mutable flawed magic resistance (vim and mentem,)Busybody, Cyclic Magic negative (nighttime), Deleterious Circumstances (underground), Fear of Darkness, Incompatible arts (CrIg and ReIg)
[size=85]*Free virtue for House membership.[/size]

Personality Traits: rumor hound +3, protective of other magi +2, protective of his children +2
Reputations: Quaesitor investigator +3
Combat:
Brawl (fist): Init 0, Attack +1, Defense +1, Damage 0
Brawl (bludgeon) : Init 0, Attack +3, Defense +1, Damage +2
Soak: +1
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, –1, –3, –5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Incapacitated (16–20), Dead (21+)
Abilities: Athletics 1 (running), Artes Liberales 5 (Astrology), Awareness 4 (searching), Brawl 1 (dodge), Code of Hermes 1 ((political intrigue), Concentration 3 (spell concentration), Finesse 3(aimed spells), Folk Ken 1 (monks), Intrigue 1(rumor mongering), Italian 5 (Tyrol dialect), Latin 5 (Hermetic use), Magic Theory 7 +2 (3) (enchanting items),Magoi of the Star lore 2 (conducting initiations), Parma Magica 3 (Ignem),Penetration 2 (9) (Mentem), Philosophae 2 (ceremonial magic), Portuguese 3) (grogs), Profession Scribe 1(copying hermetic texts), Stealth 1 (hide),
Arts: Cr 7, In 15 +3 (3), Mu 0, Pe 0, Re 7; An 0, Aq 0, Au 0, Co 4, He 2, Ig 0, Im 4, Me 11, Te 2, Vi 11
Twilight Scars: N/A
Equipment: (2 pawns of intellego vis in the form of small scrolls that contain short written excerpts of Virgil translated into ten or more languages languages.
Encumbrance: 0
Spells Known:
Eyes of the Cat (MuCo 5/+5)
Whispers Through the Black Gate (InCo(Me) 15/+23)
The Inexorable Search (InCo 20/+23)
Engraving the Whole of Experience (InIm 10/+23)
Refresh the Engravings of Imagination (CrMe 20/+19)
Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie (InMe 20/+30)
Posing the Silent Question (InMe 20/+30)
See the Strike (InMe 25/+30)
Thoughts Within Babble (InMe 25/+30)
Ear of Truth (InMe 30/+30)
Peering Into the Mortal Mind (InMe 30/+30)
Sounds of Aggression (InMe 30/+30)
Invisible Sling of Vilano (ReTe 10/+10)
Bitter taste of Betrayal (InVi 15/+33)
Impression of the Faded Sigil (InVi 30/+33)
Sense the lingering magics (InVi 30/+33)
Odor of lingering magic (InVi 30/+33)
Sight of the Active Magics (InVi 40/+33)

Appearance: Adelbert is a thin man of Mediterranean appearance. He frequently dresses in robes emphasizing his position as a Quaesitor.
Sigil: all of Adelbert's spells involve thematic elements of eyes or vision

I didn't list the crossbow because he has given it to his son.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

The next 15 years(16-30) he’ll finish the crossbow early, grab lots of standard intellego spells (esp in intellego imaginem), and, at the end, do a second initiation. This was a relatively easy period to do, he still has lots of common bread and butter spells that he should probably learn for his specialty, he doesn’t yet have the arts for teaching an apprentice, he hasn’t found a familiar yet, he isn’t yet making a talisman, etc.
Here is Adelbert’s experience expenditure; once again I’m just listing them here first. I am not assuming ten years of uninterrupted study followed by five years straight of lab work, it’s just how I’m calculating it.

Artes Liberales to 7 44
Magoi of the Star Lore to 3 15
Parma Magica to 5 45
Organization lore (OOH) 1 5
Faerie Lore 1 5
Infernal lore 1 5
Magic Lore 1 5
Spell Mastery Sight of the Active Magics 1 5
Concentration to 4 20

Intellego to 18 34
Muto to 6 21
Perdo to 6 21
Imaginem to 8 26
Corpus to 8 26
Animal to 5 15
Auram to 3 6
Magic Theory gets 3 more xp 2

300 experience total

[Erik_Tyrrell]

First I'll continue with the crossbow enchantments
this is two seasons

Crossbow that does not Break
MuHe(Te) 20
R: Pers., D: Sun, T: Ind
When this effect is in effect the crossbow becomes incredibly strong. able to resist the pressure exerted by the bow after Reluctantly Bending Bow is invoked. the bow is also largely immune to damage from melee weapons, falls, and similar events.
(base 5, +2 Sun, +1 terram requisite)

two seasons for this one as well

Reluctantly Bending Bow
MuTe 20
R: Pers., D: Sun, T: Ind.
Reluctantly Bending Bow is triggered by an environmental trigger taking affect the round after Crossbow that does not Break is invoked. This effect makes the metal of the crossbow much more rigid it is more difficult to pull back (this does not change its susceptibility to Pull with the Strength of Giants) and it shoots bolts with significantly more force. This increases the damage of the crossbow by +5 (to +18) and increases the range by 5 paces (to 35 paces)
(base 5 +2 sun ,+3 level environmental trigger)

One season on this one and one season on the next. I think the weirdness of my previous take on the effect is that the crossbow targets the user who then learns about what the crossbow will do to the arrows with respect to the wind. that is a lot of moving parts for one spell. While I'm still not completely decided that it wasn't OK this doesn't take any longer to enchant and it seems to eliminate the difficulty of one effect taking so many things into account. (and I adjusted the bonuses).

Track the Quarrel
InTe(Au) 18 (6 uses per day)
R: Per, D: Sun, T: Ind. 2 uses per day
When this effect is activated the crossbow computes the trajectory that quarrels shot from it will take. including how winds will alter the flight. When this information is transferred to the crossbow wieldier via Transmission of Marksman's Understanding grants the target a +3 to attack rolls using the crossbow. Furthermore range penalties are reduced to -1 per increment, Gusts of wind that are magically created or controlled in response to an attack from the crossbow can not be accounted for by the effect and cancel the bonus from this effect. While under the effect of Track the Quarrel the crossbow's eyes appear to reflect more clouds and material kicked up a wind than are actually present in reality.
(base 4, +2 Sun, +1 Auram requisite +3 levels six uses per day)

Transmission of Marksman's Understanding
CrMe 17
R: Touch, D: Sun, T Ind 3 uses per day
While this Transmission of Marksman's Understanding is in effect the target sees the trajectory of bolts as calculated by Track the Quarrel as a red line through space with intersections with matter clearly visible.
(base 4, +1 touch, +2 sun, +2 three uses per day)

that's two and a half years on a crossbow that he doesn't personally use. But it will hopefully make his son valuable enough that any of the magi he travels with will care greatly about his protection.

[Xavi]

Nice. I like the crossbow. However, I would also see him having a verditius sell him a hauberk of quality (+7 extra protection) for his son. I would be concerned for my son's health if he was to go around with magicians, so maintaining him healthy would be a priority.

Cheers,
Xavi

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@Xavi

Nice. I like the crossbow. However, I would also see him having a verditius sell him a hauberk of quality (+7 extra protection) for his son. I would be concerned for my son's health if he was to go around with magicians, so maintaining him healthy would be a priority.

Cheers,
Xavi

I can certainly see him doing that as well, but it takes place off stage for the purposes of this discussion. Adelbert has three kids, at least two of which follow their mother and become grogs, so he has lots of expenses to attempt to lesson the danger that his children put themselves in.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Only one new spell for this period, that’s not very magi of Hermes like, sorry.
I don't feel that it makes sense in character to reinvent similar spells. Furthermore, focusing on a technique rather than a magical focus or even a form provides an especially large number of pretty foundational spells that really fit with the theme of what the character would want to do.

Five spells from lab notes at one season each

Sense the Feet that Tread the Earth InTe 30
Summoning the Distant Image InIm25
Discern the Images of Truth and Falsehood InIm35
Eye of the Sage InCo 30
Sight of the Molting Magus InCo 25’

He’ll develop five more without the help of lab notes

Eyes of the Eagle InIm 25 in two seasons (his lab total is 44 he was really close to being able to do it in one season)
Wizard’s Communion MuVi18 2 seasons
Whole from the Part InCo 20 1 season
Open the Tome of the Animal’s Mind InAn 25 2 seasons
and the new spell in one season

Unwavering Sight of Flesh
InCo 20
R: Per., D: Sun, T: Vision
The caster gains a magical perception that allows them to see human skin as truly is. This is magically enhanced sense is, in most cases, indistinguishable from normal vision. However in the case of an invisible person the caster will see a naked hairless human form with empty holes at the location of their eyes and mouth. Muto Imaginem spells that change the location or appearance of a person’s skin can also sometimes create unusual sights that the caster can notice. Being a magical sense spell, this spell will not allow the caster to see targets that are protected by magic resistance that the spell does not penetrate. Adelbert’s spell allows him to intermittently see eyes in the eye sockets of an invisible person (not for more than a third of the time for any eye and only both eyes at once as a matter of chance) as a result of his sigil.
(base 3 +2 Sun, +4 vision)

I put this at base three rather than base 4. For several intellego guidelines (Herbam, Aquam) there is a learn location option that is a lower level than the learn information option. It seemed to me that being able to see a body should be lower level than determining what diseases the body suffers from. This is an arguable point and I’d be willing to consider arguments against it.

That's 13 seasons for the spells and six seasons for the crossbow leaving one for the next initiation.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

The second initiation is the one that I am the least happy with so I’d be happy to alter it (I like it a bit better now that I’ve rewritten it from my draft).

Using the date of his or her gauntlet and the location of their laboratory a starting point the initiate calculates a series of six times and places to go and observe the night sky (calculations ensure that the locations will be no more than 100 miles from their laboratory). These calculations require an Artes Liberales(astronomy)+intelligence total of at least 7 to perform. The initiate must visit these locations and crate a magical record the stars as observed at that point, this recording must be detailed and exact. Adelbert uses his imaginem and mentem spells to accomplish the task, but other initiates have developed spells to record the sky as a painting or as a creo imaginem image. The initiatete must then return to their laboratory and compute how several of the smaller stars that were particularly noticeable at the observation points would have looked at the hour of their birth and how if they were projected to the earth they would have been influenced by the stars and planets at that time. The initiate then takes all of their calculations and transfers 12 pawns of vis into them then burns them slowly symbolically removing the influences of their birth house from their birth and bringing them into their laboratory.

By undergoing this quest the initiate gains the virtue minor magical potency in his or her birth house.

Special place and time +3
Specified quest +3
Sacrifice of wealth +1
First initiation following an ordeal +2
Sympathy bonus +1 (or should it be +2?)
Does getting one's intelligence + astronomy up to 7 count as anything?(sacrifice of time, the most boring quest ever)

I rolled randomly for his birth house I got the house of Genitor. This means a potency with Parents, childhood homes, and seclusion. It isn’t a potency that brings tons of ideas to mind (I came up with a few things using seclusion for the next time period), but very few of the houses are (the one including death and especially the one that includes restriction are exceptions)

[Erik_Tyrrell]

[size=150]Adelbert at 30 years out of apprenticeship[/size]
Characteristics: Int +2, Per +3, Pre 0, Com 0, Str -2, Sta +1, Dex 0, Qik 0
Size: 0
Age: 60 (44)
Decrepitude: 0
Warping Score: 4
Confidence Score: 1 (3)
Virtues and Flaws: The Gift; Hermetic Magus Affinity Artes Liberales, Affinity Intellego, Affinity Magic Theory Cautious with Artes Liberales, Educated, Hermetic Prestige*, Keen Vision, Planetary Magic, Potent Magic minor, astrological house of Genitor, Puissant Intellego, Puissant Magic Theory, Restriction Complete Darkness, Astrological mutable flawed magic resistance (vim and mentem,)Busybody, Cyclic Magic negative (nighttime), Deleterious Circumstances (underground), Fear of Darkness, Incompatible arts (CrIg and ReIg)
[size=85]*Free virtue for House membership.[/size]

Personality Traits: rumor hound +2, protective of other magi +2, protective of his children +2, defensive of the code of Hermes +1
Reputations: Quaesitor,investigator +3 (order), Skilled with intellego magic +1 (tribunal)
Combat:
Brawl (fist): Init 0, Attack +1, Defense +1, Damage 0
Brawl (bludgeon) : Init 0, Attack +3, Defense +1, Damage +2
Soak: +1
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, –1, –3, –5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Incapacitated (16–20), Dead (21+)
Abilities: Athletics 1 (running), Artes Liberales 7 (Astronomy), Awareness 4 (searching), Brawl 1 (dodge), Code of Hermes 1 ((political intrigue), Concentration 4 (spell concentration), Faerie Lore 1 (faeries that interact with the order of hermes), Finesse 3(aimed spells), Folk Ken 1 (monks), Infernal Lore 1 (demons that interact with the order of hermes), Intrigue 1(rumor mongering), Italian 5 (Tyrol dialect), Latin 5 (Hermetic use), Magic Lore 1 (regios), Magic Theory 7 +2 (6) (enchanting items),Magoi of the Star lore 3 (conducting initiations), Organization Lore Order of Hermes 1, Parma Magica 5 (Ignem), Penetration 2 (9) (Mentem), Philosophae 2 (ceremonial magic), Portuguese 3) (grogs), Profession Scribe 1(copying hermetic texts), Stealth 1 (hide),
Arts: Cr 7, In 18 +3, Mu 6, Pe 6, Re 7, An 5, Aq 0, Au 3, Co 8, He 2, Ig 0, Im 8, Me 11, Te 2, Vi 11
Twilight Scars: N/A
Equipment: 3 pawns of intellego vis in the form of a mirror that reflects what is likely to happen in 3 seconds rather than what is happening now
Encumbrance: 0
Spells Known:
Open the Tome of the Animal's Mind (InAn 25/+27)
Eyes of the Cat (MuCo 5/+15)
Whispers Through the Black Gate (InCo(Me) 15/+30)
The Inexorable Search (InCo 20/+30)
Unwavering Sight of Flesh (InCo 20/+30)
Whole from the Part (InCo 20/+30)
Sight of the Molting Magus (InCo 25/+30)
Eye of the Sage (InCo 30/+30)
Engraving the Whole of Experience (InIm 10/+30)
Eyes of the Eagle (InIm 25/+30)
Summoning the distant Image (InIm 25/+30)
Discern the Images of Truth and Falsehood (InIm 35/+30)
Refresh the Engravings of Imagination (CrMe 20/+19)
Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie (InMe 20/+33)
Posing the Silent Question (InMe 20/+33)
See the Strike (InMe 25/+33)
Thoughts Within Babble (InMe 25/+33)
Ear of Truth (InMe 30/+33)
Peering Into the Mortal Mind (InMe 30/+33)
Sounds of Aggression (InMe 30/+33)
Sense the Feet that Tread the Earth (InTe 30/+24)
Invisible Sling of Vilano (ReTe 10/+10)
Bitter taste of Betrayal (InVi 15/+33)
Impression of the Faded Sigil (InVi 30/+33)
Sense the Lingering Magics (InVi 30/+33)
Odor of Lingering Magic (InVi 30/+33)
Sight of the Active Magics (InVi 40/+34)(Mastery 1, acute sense)
Wizard's Communion (MuVi 18/+18)

Appearance: Adelbert is a thin man of Mediterranean appearance. He frequently dresses in robes emphasizing his position as a Quaesitor.
Sigil: all of Adelbert's spells involve thematic elements of eyes or vision

[Tugdual]

@Erik Tyrrell

Virtues and Flaws: Hermetic Prestige*
Reputations: Skilled with intellego magic +1 (tribunal)

I just realized that you did not list your level 3 Reputation.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@Tugdual

@Erik Tyrrell

Virtues and Flaws: Hermetic Prestige*
Reputations: Skilled with intellego magic +1 (tribunal)

I just realized that you did not list your level 3 Reputation.

Corrected

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Adelbert has most of his bases covered in regards to being able to investigate hermetic crimes (except for restore the faded threads). He will spend some time getting more acute sense masteries to detect magical alteration of evidence, and he'll get his arts up to the level where he can teach an apprentice. For Adelbert's priorities lab work and such he is going to invent some effects to take advantage of his new spell potency, he is going to bind a familiar, and he is going to undergo another initiation.

Here is 10 years worth of xp (formatting got a bit weird when copying from excel)

Magic theory to 8 24
Spell mastery Impression of the Faded Sigil 5
Spell mastery Odor of Lingering Magic 5
Awareness to 5 25
Mystery Cult lore to 4 20
Spell mastery Ear of Truth 15
Penetration to 3 15
Order of Hermes lore to 2
Code of Hermes to 2
Medicine to 2 15
One more xp in Magic theory (earning 2 from affinity) 1

Intellego to 21 40
Mentem to 14 39
Vim to 13 25
Rego to 8 8
Auram to 5 9
ignem to 5 15
Herbam to 5 12
Terram to 4 7

Edit: I changed things to fit in some study of medicine

[Erik_Tyrrell]

This is for the next initiation

Potion of Celestial Reflection
In(Re) Im(Co) 30 charged device
R: Touch, D: Moon, T: Ind.
When this potion is consumed, the drinker’s body develops small pimples that reflect any visible stars in the sky, the planets are reflected as mostly, but not completely, painless boils, and the sun and moon as larger blisters. The imbiber can feel the heavens in his skin, but they have the appearance of suffering from some sort of pox. The caster could use the information on their skin to read the stars.
(base 10 ,+1 touch, +3 moon)

[The_Fixer]

Hum...
If I were you, I'd take a look at the spells to tell astrological time in TMRE, and take something like that, plus a Rego and Corpus requisites.

Isn't there a spell or effect called "track the heavens", or something like that?

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Track the heavens is intellego Vim base 10 rather than intellego imagonem. It would sense the effects of the heavens on magic rather than reflect the images that are visible in the sky. That would be more reliable, in that it would work in cloudy conditions. I was looking at imaginem because the initiation has poor Adelbert spending a month on a mountain top above a great proportion of the clouds. I don't see why having a smarter effect would need to change anything.

@Erik Tyrrell

Potion of Celestial Reflection
In(Re) Vi(Co) 30 charged device
R: Touch, D: Moon, T: Ind.
When this potion is consumed, the drinker’s body develops small pimples that reflect any visible stars in the sky, the planets are reflected as mostly, but not completely, painless boils, and the sun and moon as larger blisters. The imbiber can feel the heavens in his skin, but they have the appearance of suffering from some sort of pox. The caster could use the information on their skin to read the stars.
(base 10 ,+1 touch, +3 moon)

[Tugdual]

I wonder if the pimples et al. are purely cosmetic, like the mist in Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie. That would make the Rego requisite unnecessary.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

The next initiation is the degree of Mars and the virtue of Periapt. (The name of the virtue to create periapts is periapt not periapts).

The initiate spends a season studying medicine and learning of the four humors, specifically in how they relate to hermetic astrology, then they develop a spell or effect that allows them to track the heavens within their body. They must next travel to a particular mountain in the alps and climb to the summit. The initiate must arrive at the rise of the full moon nearest to their birthday and spend one complete cycle of the moon on this summit above most of the clouds observing the heavens and feeling how the heavens change the four humors inside of his or her body. (getting provisions for an entire month up to a mountaintop is often a challenging issue for even magi). The imitate learns instinctively how astrological forces change him or her minute to minute and they comprehend how astrological forces can alter enchantment minute to minute. This instinctive understanding can be coupled with the initiate's knowledge of astrology to make the creation of charged devices incorporating astrology much more efficient.
+4 Spend 1 season being taught medicine by the mystagogue (+1 for initiate's time +3 for mystigogue's time)
+1 spend one or more seasons creating an appropriate spell or effect
+3 special place and special time
+1 second initiation following ordeal
+1 sympathy

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@Tugdual

I wonder if the pimples et al. are purely cosmetic, like the mist in Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie. That would make the Rego requisite unnecessary.

I believe that I agree with this thought. Here's version number three.

Potion of Celestial Reflection
In Vi(Co) 30 charged device
R: Touch, D: Moon, T: Ind.
When this potion is consumed, the drinker’s body develops small pimples that reflect any visible stars in the sky, the planets are reflected as mostly, but not completely, painless boils, and the sun and moon as larger blisters. The imbiber can feel the heavens in his skin, but they have the appearance of suffering from some sort of pox. The caster could use the information on their skin to read the stars.
(base 10 ,+1 touch, +3 moon)

[Tellus]

@Erik Tyrrell

+4 Spend 1 season being taught medicine by the mystagogue (+1 for initiate's time +3 for mystigogue's time)

How does he pay for the mystagogue's time?