Corvus the Messenger Raven
Magic Might: 35 (Animal)
Characteristics: Int +1, Per +3 (+6 eyesight), Pre -1, Com +2, Str -8, Sta 0, Dex +3, Qik +5
Size: â4
Season: Spring
Confidence Score: 1 (3)
Animal Qualities: Accomplished Flyer, Crafty, Keen Eyesight, Mimicry, Vocal
Reputations: Can predict the future 4 (scholars)
Virtues and Flaws: Magical Animal, Second Sight, Visions
Magic Qualities and Inferiorities: Improved Attack â Claws x3, Improved Damage â Claws x3, Improved Defense â Claw, Improved Soak x3, Minor Virtue â Famous, Minor Virtue - Improved Characteristic, Minor Virtue â Intuition, Minor Virtue â Social Contacts (Scholars), Minor Virtue â Student of Faerie, Minor Virtue â Well-Traveled, Minor Virtue â Unaffected by the Gift, Minor Virtue â Premonitions, Greater Power, Lesser Power x5, Personal Power, Vis Mastery (1 Mentem vis per year from feather), Improved Abilities x2, Major Virtue â Composer of Power
Personality Traits: Raven* +3, Inquisitive +3
Combat:
Claws: Initiative +4, Attack +13, Defense +13, Damage +3
Soak: +6
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, â1, â3, â5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties : â1 (1), â3 (2), â5 (3), Incapacitated (4), Dead (5+)
Abilities: Area Lore â Greece 3 (geography), Athletics 5 (flying), Awareness 4 (food), Bargain 1 (knowledge), Brawl 2 (dodging), Faerie Lore 3 +2, Folk Ken 3 (magi), Guile 2 (elaborate lies), Hunt 2 (small prey), Premonitions 4 (murder), Romaic Greek 3 (poetry), Music 3 (song), Second Sight 5 (ghosts), Survival 3 (Lakes), Teaching 2 (Second Sight)
Powers:
The Crowâs Song
2 Points, Init +1, Corpus
R: Voice, D: Special, T: Ind
The character sings this song at a target individual, and the next time the target sleeps an Aging Roll is made for him, adding 5 to the roll â even if he is too young to make Aging Rolls normally. This power must penetrate the targetâs Magic Resistance to be effective.
PeCo 40 (Base 15, +2 Voice, +3 Special Duration): Greater Power (40 levels, â2 cost)
Bird of ill omen
3 points, Init +1, Mentem
R: Eye, D: Sun T: Ind
This power, similar to Panic of the Trembling Heart ( ArM5 , page 148) is often used to make people afraid of the raven.
(CrMe 15: Base 4, +1 Eye, +2 Sun): Lesser Power (15 levels, +2 Init)
Pluck the eyes from the dead
1 points, Init -1, Mentem
R: Touch, D: Diam T: Ind
By eating the eyeballs of a body, the raven gains knowledge of what the corpse saw in the last 2 minutes of its life.
(InCo(Me) 15 Base 5, +1 Touch, +1 Diam): Lesser Power (15 levels, -2 cost)
Words of the Unbroken Silence
0 points, Init +2, Mentem
ArM5, p. 148: Lesser Power (10 levels, -2 cost, +1 Init)
Posing the Silent Question
1 points, Init -1, Mentem
ArM5, p.149: Lesser Power (15 levels, -2 cost)
Reach for the Eyes
5 points, Init -5, Corpus
Blinds the target with claws and beak. This heals as a Heavy Wound.
PeCo 25, Base 20, +1 touch: Lesser power
Ghostly Form
0 points, constant, Mentem
R: Per, D: Sun, T: Ind
The character can interact with ghostly beings as if he were also ghostly.
ReMe(Co) 15 (base 3, +2 Sun, +1 constant, +1 requisite): Personal Power (15 levels, â2 Might cost)
Natural Weapons: The Ravenâs claws are Init â1, Atk +2, Dfn +3, Dam +2.
Vis: 7 Animal vis in the Ravenâs wing feathers
Background:
In Greek mythology, there is a tale of Apollo who fell in love with Coronis, a Thessalian princess of unsurpassed beauty. He commanded his divine messenger, the white raven, to guard Coronis. Though Coronis was pregnant with Apolloâs child, she strangely did not care for her divine lover, but gave in to the advances of a mere mortal, Prince Ischys. She did not consider Apollo, The God of Truth, could never be deceived.
When the raven brought news to Apollo of his loverâs infidelity, he became enraged that his faithful messenger had not pecked out the eyes of the prince. Apollo flung a curse so furious, the ravenâs pure white feathers were scorched black. Apollo killed Ischys and sent his sister, Artemis, to slay Coronis with her deadly arrows (other accounts indicate Apollo killed Coronis himself).
In spite of his ruthlessness, Apollo felt a pang of grief as he watched Coronis be placed on the pyre and the flames roar up. At the last moment, he removed his son from the womb. Apollo gave his newborn son, Asclepius, to the wise centaur, Chiron, who taught him the art of healing herbs. Thereafter, Apollo became associated with healing through his son, Asclepius, the god of medicine and healing.
Coronis was set among the stars as Corvus, the crow (korĂŽnĂȘ in Greek). How and whether this particular raven of virtue is related to either coronis or Appollo's divine messenger that was scorched until he turned black is a matter of speculation among the greek scholars he has had contact with.