Antonius Ex Bonisagus

Retired Play by Post Campaigns Ars Magica 5th Edition: Ad Astera per Aspera
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Stats: -1 Str +2 Per (+1 Per due to Magical Blood)

Age: 24 years post-gauntlet instead of 20

Virtues: Book Learner instead of Baccalaureus, Magical Blood( Erebus) instead of Affinity with Magic Theory
Flaws: No change

General: Added 32 seasons of correspondance over 96 seasons (1/3) - (I didn't know at the time you could do that)

Abilities:

Magic Theory 6 instead of 7
Finesse 6 instead of finesse 1
Magical Lore 1 instead of magical lore 0
Ancient Greek 4 instead of Ancient Egyptian 4
Philosophae 2 instead of philosophae 0
Artes Liberales 5 instead of Artes Liberales 4
Arabic 4 instead of Arabic 3
Dominion Lore same level (Saints instead of angels as specialization)

Arts

Creo 15 (120) instead of Creo 0 (0)
Intellego 5 (15) instead of Intellego 2 (3)
Muto same
Perdo 11 (66) instead of Perdo 9 (54)
Rego same level (219 instead of 210)

Aquam 6 (21) instead of Aquam 9 ( 54)
Animal 6 (21) instead of Animal 0 (0)
Auram 5 (19) instead of Auram 9 (48)
Corpus same
Herbam 5(15) instead of Herbam 0 (0)
Ignem 11 (66) instead of Ignem 10 (57)
Imaginem same
Mentem 11 (66) instead of Mentem 10 (57)
Terram 10 (55) instead of Terram 10 (59)
Vim same level (219 instead of 210)

Spells

From apprenticeship:

  • MuVi 25 Wizard's Touch(Vim)
  • MuAn 10 Doublet of Impenetrable Silk
  • ReCo 15 Despair of the Quivering Manacle
  • PeVi 10 Exorcise the Filthy spirit
  • ReCo 5 Curse of the unrully tongue
  • ReCo 25 String of the Unwilling Marionette

= ReCo 25 Swift as the Swallow ( +5 level, duration sun instead of concentration)

New Spells from seasonal advancement:

  • ReIg 30 Ward Against Heat and Flames
  • ReVi 30 Circular Ward Against Dragons
  • ReVi 30 Circular Ward Against Dhampirs
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probably because you can't. they need to be purchased at covenant creation, and we don't have any.

Look, if you are wanting to make these kinds of grand sweeping changes throughout the character, we are pretty much going to have to start over from getting him re-approved at guantlet.

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Concerning the Correspondence, I got the idea from Tartessos character creation thread. As you did not comment on that, I assumed it was ok and it turns out it isn't.

I understand you can be annoyed because I changed the character a lot. However, I was under the impression that in the end it would not matter that much because we could play character from year 0 to year 100 post apprenticeship. If there is something else, please PM me so we can discuss it further.

You can see the stats of the character at gauntlet in the first post in the section apprenticeship.

Childhood: Didnt change
Later life: Didnt change

Post apprenticeship & pre caravan mostly didnt change except for the added correspondence, which will be removed.

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I hadn't commented on it because I hadn't gotten that far, I was still processing the character at gauntlet.
What frustrates me is going back and simply changing something we have already gone through and approved and writing over the original without prior discussion-and then expecting all the changes to be approved at once. If you change something at gauntlet we ar going back to gauntlet to track the changes. If you change something in later years that is not as severe.

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Antoninus Ex Bonisagus - At gauntlet

Characteristics: Int +3, Per +2, Pre +1, Com +1, Str +1, Sta +2, Dex -3, Qik +1
Size: 0
Age: 21 (21), Height: 6' 00", Weight: 186 lbs, Gender: Male
Decrepitude: 0
Warping Score: 0
Confidence: 1 (3)

Virtues: Affinity with Rego, Affinity with Vim, Book Learner, Magical Blood (Lineage of Erebus), Minor Magical Focus (Wards), Puissant Finesse, Puissant Penetration, Puissant Magic Theory, Puissant Rego, Puissant Vim, Personal Vis Source: Rego (Honey from a Bee Nest)

Flaws:Abstinent, Infamous Master(Venatores), Pious, Plagued by Demons, Repellent, Unimaginative Learner

Early Childhood (0-5) 45 xp

Athlethic 1 Running 5
Awareness 1 Alertness 5
Brawl 1 Dodging 5
Folk ken 2 Monks 15
Guile 1 Lying to authority 5
Living Language: Italian 5 Religious Terminology 75
Swimming 1 Long Distances 5
Survival 1 Forest 5

						Total: 	45

Later Life (5-6) 15 xp

Etiquette 1 The Church 5
Intrigue 1 Rumormongering 5
Stealth 1 Hiding 5

						Total:	15

Apprenticeship (6-21) (240 xp)

Artes Liberales 1 Logic 6
Code of Hermes 1 Wizard's marches 5
Concentration 2 spell concentration 15
Latin 4 Hermetic usage 50
Magic Theory 2+2 Rego 19
Order of Hermes Lore 1 Venatores 5
Parma Magica 1 Mentem 5
Penetration 1 Rego 5
Finesse 1 Aiming 5

						Total:	115

Corpus 1 1
Vim 11 44 (66)
Rego 11 44 (66)
Intellego 5 15
Imaginem 3 9
Perdo 2 3
Terram 3 9

						Total: 	125

[table][tr][th]Spell[/th][th]Tech/Form[/th] [th]Spell Information[/th][/tr]

[tr][td]ReMe 5[/td][td]Wizard's Sidestep[/td][td](Base 4, +1 diam, Mom, Ind)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]InCo 15[/td][td]Insight of Asclepius[/td][td](Base 10, +1 Touch, Mom, Ind)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReMe 10[/td][td]Call to Slumber[/td][td](Base 4, +2 Voice, Mom, Ind)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReCo 25[/td][td]String of the Unwilling Marionette[/td][td](Base 2, +2 Voice, Mom, Ind)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReCo 25[/td][td]Swift as the Swallow[/td][td](Base 15, Per, +2 Sun, Ind)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]PeVi 10[/td][td]Demon's Eternal Oblivion[/td][td](Base 10, +2 voice, Mom, ind)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReVi 30[/td][td]Maintaining the Demanding Spell[/td][td](Base 25, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, Ind)[/td][/tr][/table]

InCo 15[tab][/tab]Insight of Asclepius [tab][/tab](Base 10, +1 touch, Mom, ind)
Like reavealed flaws of the mortal flesh, but with more details (disease, wounds, etc.)

ReCo 25[tab][/tab]Swift as the Swallow[tab][/tab](Base 15, Per, +2 Sun, Ind)

This spell permits the caster to fly and hover in space. Flight in a pre-determined direction, or hovering at a pre-decided point. This normal flight permits the

caster to travel about fifteen leagues between the hours of Prime and Terce, or any comparable duration (i.e., about fifteen miles an hour).

(Adapted from a Net Grimoire spell)

Rationale behind the changes at gauntlet:

I was thinking about how I would explain Antonius being able to attend a university during 3 years, due to the effect of the gift and the repellent flaw. While not impossible, it seemed unlikely. I decided to change that virtue to book learner, because then it would make sense for him to study mostly by himself. All in all, the XP total didn't change much in the final characteur (book learner is a bit better in this aspect), but it had a significant impact at gauntlet, since I needed to substract 90 XP, which came mostly from MT as I had it at 7 in the original character at gauntlet. Also, I added a score in corpus so I could learn Swift as the Swallow at a sun duration and was forced to drop the MuVi spell because withouth a high MT, I couldnt learn it at gauntlet.

Affinity with Magic theory was dropped, because I had a lot of puissant and affinity already, and I felt that magical blood would had more flavor to the character.

Edit: Removed student of the infernal and replaced it with puissant finesse with to fit with background

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Edi 2015-03-07: No change in XP, just made the date one year earlier to add one extra year in the caravan.

Post-Apprenticeship & Pre-Caravan (21-30)

Year 1 (1195)

Vim 14 30 (45) 111

Year 2 (1196)

Vim 17 30 (45) 156

Year 3 (1197)

Vim 19 30 (45) 201

Year 4 (1198)

Rego 14 30 (45) 111

Year 5 (1199)

Rego 17 30 (45) 156

Year 6 (1200)

Rego 19 30 (45) 201

Year 7 (1201)

Parma Magica 3 25 30
Vim 11 2 (3) 204
Rego 11 2 (3) 204
Philosophae (Ritual Magic) 0 1 1

Year 8 (1202)

Demon's Eternal Oblivion 3 30 30
-Penetration
-Multiple casting
-Apotropaic Mastery

Year 9 (1203)

-Infernal Lore (Demons) 2 15 15
[strike]-Divine Lore (Saints) 2 15 15[/strike]
-Divine Lore (Saints) 1 5 5
-Magic Theory 2 10 29

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Post-Apprenticeship & In Caravan (30-45)
[b]Year 10 (1204)
-Perdo 6 18+3 21 Pe:L12/Q18
-Perdo 8 18+3 42 Pe:L12/Q18
-Perdo 10 18+3 63 Pe:L12/Q18
-Animal 5 17+3 An:L13/Q17

[/b]

Year 11 (1205)

[strike]-Magic Theory 3 25+3 47
-Magic Theory 5 25+3 75[/strike]
-Magic Theory 4 20+3 52 Magic Theory: L5/Q20
-Magic Theory 5 20+3 75 Magic Theory: L5/Q20
-Magic Theory 5 11+3 89 Magic Theory: L8/Q11
-Magic Theory 5 11+3 103 Magic Theory: L8/Q11

Year 12 (1206)

Spring: [3 int, 3 aura, 8 magic theory, 22 rego, 22 vim, +22 focus = 80]

ReVi 35 Circular Ward Against Demons (Base 35, +1 Touch, Circle, +2 Ring )
Infernal Creatures

Exposure: Rego 19 2 (3) 207

Summer: [3 int, 3 aura, 8 magic theory, 22 rego, 22 vim, +22 focus, +7 similar spell = 87]

ReVi 35 Circular Ward Against Dragons (Base 35, +1 Touch, Circle, +2 Ring )
Magical Creatures

Exposure: Rego 20 2 (3) 210

Fall: [3 int, 3 aura, 8 magic theory, 23 rego, 22 vim, +22 focus, +7 similar spell = 88]

ReVi 35 Circular Ward Against Dhampirs (Base 35, +1 Touch, Circle, +2 Ring )
Faeries

Exposure: Magic Theory 6 2 105

Winter: [3 int, 3 aura, 8 magic theory, 5 intellego, 22 vim = 41]

InVi 20 Staring Into the Abyss (Base 3, Per, +1 Conc, +4 Vision)
Exposure: Vim 19 2 (3) 207

Year 13 (1207)

Spring: [3 int, 3 aura, 8 magic theory, 5 intellego, 22 vim, 4 similar spell bonus = 45]

InVi 20 Piercing the Faerie Veil (Base 3, Per, +1 Conc, +4 Vision)

Exposure: Vim 19 2 (3) 210

Summer: [3 int, 3 aura, 5 magic theory, 5 intellego, 22 vim, 4 similar spell bonus = 45]

Glimpsing past the Shroud of Magic (Base 3, Per, +1 Conc, +4 Vision)

Exposure: Magic Theory 6 2 107

Fall: [3 int, 3 aura, 9 magic theory, 23 rego, 23 vim = 61]

ReVi 30 Aegis of the Hearth (Base 30, +1 Touch, +1 Year, +4 Bound, Ritual)

Exposure: Magic Theory 6 2 109

Winter: [3 int, 3 aura, 9 magic theory, 23 rego, 23 vim = 61]

ReVi 30 Opening the Intangible Tunnel (Base 30, +4 Arc, +1 Conc, Ind)

Exposure: Magic Theory 6 2 111

Year 14 (1208)

-Corpus 6 23+3 28 Co:L7/Q:23
-Corpus 9 20+3 51 Co: L10/Q20
-Magic Theory 6 11+3 125 Magic Theory: L8/Q11
-Magic Theory 6 11+3 139 Magic Theory: L8/Q11

Year 15 (1209)

-Ignem 6 19+3 22 Ig:L11/Q19
-Ignem 8 19+3 44 Ig:L11/Q19
-Ignem 11 19+3 66 Ig:L11/Q19

Winter:[3 int, 3 aura, 9 magic theory, 23 rego, 11 ignem +11 focus = 60]

ReIg 30 Ward Against Heat and Flames (Base 4, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +3 for up to +20 soak)

Exposure: Magic Theory 7 1 140
Rego 20 1 (1.5) 211.5

Year 16 (1210)

-Finesse 2 14+3 22 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Aquam 6 18+3 21 Aq:L12/Q18
-Auram 5 16+3 19 Au:L14/Q16

-Mentem 6 19+3 22 Me:L11/Q:19

Year 17 (1211)

-Mentem 8 19+3 44 Me:L11/Q:19
-Mentem 1 1 19+3 66 Me:L11/Q:19
-Imaginem 7 20+3 32 Ig:L11/Q19
-Imaginem 1 0 20+3 55 Ig:L11/Q19

Year 18(1212)

-Longivity Ritual(Tomas Ex Bonisagus)
Exposure: Corpus 9 2 53

-Longivity Ritual(Antonius Ex Bonisagus)
Exposure: Corpus 9 2 55

-Creo 5 12+3 15 Cr: L18/Q12
-Creo 7 12+3 30 Cr: L18/Q12

Year 19 (1213)
[strike]-Terram 7 20+3 32 Te: L7/Q23
-Terram 10 20+3 55[/strike]
-Terram 7 23+3 28 Te: L7/Q23
-Terram 9 18+3 49 Te: QL12/Q18
-Philosophae 2 11+3 15 Philosophae: L8/Q11
-Artes Liberales 3 20+3 29 Artes Liberales:L5/Q20

Year 20(1214)

-Artes Liberales 4 20+3 52 Artes Liberales:L5/Q20
-Artes Liberales 5 20+3 75 Artes Liberales:L5/Q20
-Aramaic 2 17+3 20 Dead language (Aramaic):L6/Q17
-Aramaic 2 17+3 40 Dead language (Aramaic):L6/Q17

Year 21 (1215)
-Aramaic 2 17+3 60 Dead language (Aramaic):L6/Q17
[strike]-Finesse 2 14+3 32 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 3 14+3 49 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 4 14+3 66 Finesse:L7/Q14[/strike]
-Finesse 2 14+3 39 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 3 14+3 56 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 4 14+3 73 Finesse:L7/Q14

Year 22 (1216)

[strike]-Finesse 4 14+3 83 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 5 14+3 100 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 6 14+3 117 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 6 14+3 134 Finesse:L7/Q14[/strike]

-Finesse 4 14+3 90 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 5 14+3 107Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 6 14+3 124 Finesse:L7/Q14
-Finesse 6 14+3 141 Finesse:L7/Q14

Year 23 (1217)

-Ancient Greek 2 17+3 20 Dead Language (Ancient Greek):L6/Q1
-Ancient Greek 2 17+3 40 Dead Language (Ancient Greek):L6/Q1
-Ancient Greek 2 17+3 60 Dead Language (Ancient Greek):L6/Q1
-Arabic 4 14+3 17 Arabic: L7/Q14

Year 24 (1218)

-Arabic 1 14+3 34 Arabic: L7/Q14
-Arabic 2 14+3 51 Arabic: L7/Q14

-Finding familiar

[strike]Adventure: Finesse 7 6 140[/strike]
Exposure: [strike]Perdo 10 1 64[/strike]
Penetration 1 1 6
Animal 6 1 21

-Binding Familiar

Lab total: 62 (3+3+23+23+10)
Cords: +2 Gold, +2 Silver, +3 Bronze

Exposure: Rego 20 1 (1.5) 213
Expossure: Magic Theory 7 1 141

Year 25 (1219)

-Penetration 2 20+3 29 Penetration:L5/Q20
-Penetration 4 20+3 52 Penetration:L5/Q20
-Penetration 5 20+3 75 Penetration:L5/Q20

-Winter
Herbam 5 15 15 ( He:L18/Q:12)
[strike][3 int, 0 aura, 10 magic theory, 23 rego, 10 terram = 60]

ReCo20 Touch of the Midwife (Base 15, +1 Touch, Mom, Ind)

This spell performs a caesarian delivery, hopefully saving both mother and the child, but causing a medium wound to the mother if the spell successful.

Exposure: Corpus 9 2 57[/strike]

Vis Expenditure:

Year 10: -X Item of Quality (Metal Reinforced Leather Armor (Partial), +9 to Soak)
Year 15: -36 Rego Longevity Ritual, 22 Magnitudes, Tomas Ex Bonisagus provides 7 pawns of Creo Vis)
Year 23: -16 Binding Familiar

Remaining Vis: 40 - X Rego

[table][tr][td]InVi 20[/td][td]Staring Into the Abyss[/td][td](Base 3, Per, +1 Conc, +4 Vision)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]InVi 20[/td][td]Piercing the Faerie Veil[/td][td](Base 3, Per, +1 Conc, +4 Vision)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]InVi 20[/td][td]Glimpsing past the Shroud of Magic[/td][td](Base 3, Per, +1 Conc, +4 Vision)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReIg 30[/td][td]Ward Against Heat and Flames[/td][td](Base 4, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, Ind, +3 for up to +20 soak)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReVi 30[/td][td]Circular Ward Against Demons[/td][td](Base 35, +1 Touch, Circle, +2 Ring )[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReVi 30[/td][td]Circular Ward Against Dragons[/td][td](Base 35, +1 Touch, Circle, +2 Ring )[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ReVi 30[/td][td]Circular Ward Against Dhampirs[/td][td](Base 35, +1 Touch, Circle, +2 Ring )[/td][/tr]
[strike][tr][td]ReCo 20[/td][td]Touch of the Midwife[/td][td](Base 15, +1 touch, mom, Ind)[/td][/tr][/strike][/table]

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It is true I did not maintain an adequate level of communication with you during character creation. I also assumed thing, while I should have checked with you before, and I apologize for that.

While we are at it, is there an aspect of the character that you would like to be modified?

Finally, for the last part of the background, his parens was convicted of the hermetic crime of endangering the order by his actions against demons (maybe the charge were brought by infernalists acting as agents of demons, maybe by concerned magi, maybe by both) and was shortly after Wizard's marched and died. I will try to write it sometimes this week,

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long story short, after his parens was marched, he was warned to not pursue in this path, and Antonius joined the caravan to sort of evade quaesitor attention. He was hired to provided magical protection for the caravan against the threat that could be present at the various sites it visited. Lately, as the talk of founding of an hospital, as well as because of the influence of Tomas, he is slowly starting to develop an interest in chirurgy.

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At gauntlet you have both imagonem and Terram at 3 with 9 points- it only requires 6 points to have a score of 3- is this intentional over-investment or a miscalculation?

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I think it is an over inverstment so I get a round number in the end.

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In the caravan years, I notice you put down reading the magic theory book for 25+3, but the book is quality 20, not 25...
... or perhaps not- could you please explain the sources of your advancement instead of just posting numbers?

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You are right, the quality of the book is 20, I somehow got confused and was think it was 25. An easy way to fix this is is to put divine lore a 1 in year 9, and add 10 MT in year 9 as well. The sources are books from the caravan, unless it is exposure (i added a note saying it was exposure XP i think when that was the case ) or adventure (in the case of the finding the familiar advanture). I put 6 as a source quality, but it can be lowar than that.

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i made a mistake with terram as well. I added the source to every season.

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I'm also finding a mistake with Rego, you have

which I show as bringing you to a total of 138(207) rather than bringing you up to 210. in spring of year 11

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Yes the total in spring of year 11 is indeed 207. I mistakenly wrote 20, but if you look in the lab total a the start of spring, rego is actually 19+3 = 22 there. I will fix it to its true value. In summer, the 3 exposure point bring it to 210.

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There are some further miscalculations- you raised finess by 3x17=51 but actually raised it 61 points on your table (or started from 15 when you had 5, I'm not certain which), your corpus started at 1, not 2...
also adventures such as finding a familiar do not grant 6 xp- treat them as exposure experience - adventure experience is for adventures actually played, not simply in the background.

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ok ill look into it

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So i added 1 year, because i noticed i forgot to add perdo. I noticed 3 season were missing from year 16, so i added one for finesse, one for aquam, and one for auram. In the extra year, i added 3 seasons of perdo and one of animal. With that, I am only missing herbam and muto I think and then i would be ready to open the arts of an apprentice.

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i took the same aging rolls, and removed the one for before 35 because the overtime season wasnt required anymore. I gives me 3 apparent age increase +1 decrepitude point in stamina. Longevity ritual was performed at 38