character design and development

Anna has a heir! Spending 6 corpus vis for the ritual she ensures he is male, Gifted and has her divine Unaging and Second Sight virtues.

Oh and the birth rolls. Anna's lab has +3 health, and Anna has +5 stamina

First Roll: Stress(5)+8=13, Down to light wound
Second Roll: Stress(9)+8=17 Baby born successfully!

Both Gloriana and Mother Rabbit have the "Ease the Pains of Childbirth" as either a spell or a power, to aid dear Anna. (and Evandrus as well)

Magic cannot ensure the divine, she can give him magical versions of unaging and second sight, or simply pray for the divine to grant him the same.

Oliverius, of course, can't do any damned thing to help childbirth. He stays in his lab, hammering away.

In that case lets go with Male, GIfted, Unaging (Magic), and Good Teacher and pray he's able to see demons.

Aurthor, Ibis, Pazzino and Arduino advanced through all 1128.

For 1129

Andros has no adventures, will be advanced for the year.
Aging roll: _: 1D10 = [4] = 4 + 7 Age - 2 magi Standards- 2 healthy locale - 1 good food -1 good wine-3 familiar bond- 6 LR = - 4 nothing happens

Gloriana has no adventures, will be advanced for the year.
Aging roll: _: 1D10 = [10] = 10 +5 age - 2 Magi standards - 2 Healthy Feature - 1 Good food - 1 Good wine - 2 Bronze cord = -3, no apparent aging.

Danaë amazingly has no adventures, will be advanced for the year. Hmm, she earns vis of account and interest on that, have to calculate, as she would have accumulated a hefty sum. Became aware of this from the discussions on Olliverius's crafting.
Aging roll _: 1D10 = [2] = 2 +5 Age + - 2Magi standards - 2 Healthy feature -1 Good Food - 1 Good wine -1 Magic blood= 0, nothing happens (Unaging)

Lady A will be advanced through Summer, has 1 adventure in the Fall. Done!
Aging roll: _: 1D10 = [7] = 7 + 5 Age - 2 Wealthy- 2 healthy locale - 1 good food -1 good wine - 14 LR- 1 Monstrous Blood = -9 no change
Her husband's aging roll 63: _: 1D10 = [6] = 6 + Age 7 -2 Wealthy - 2 Healthy location - 1 Food - 1 Wine = 7 apparent aging

Sandor has many adventures, bah, will get on that. 18 difficulty for the Learned Magician adventure, ay ay ay. Done with Spring campaign, will advance through Summer. Done!

Sybilla has no adventures, will advance.

For my own plans, I feel I should ask if it's known Anna was using the ritual to ensure certain traits. How well-known around the covenant are the potentials of the magi known? How well-known are the potentials of the fertility magic?

and on a related topic, who will be playing the heir when it comes of age? NPC? QPAC? Someone else?

Well, Evandrus is the authority on this, Gloriana knows a lot, and Anna is now the second leading authority (as she was able to be taught the actual Virtue).
From what we've seen of Evandrus, I am guessing he would speak to Olliverius at length about his research (in fact, until his ears fell off!), hoping for fame and recognition! :slight_smile:
But I'd point you in Quite Possibly a Cat's direction, who controls the noble Evandrus!

Someone else can play the heir if they want, but otherwise I'll take up the role.

Evandrus has been quite open about the potential of fertility magic. Indeed he offered to teach the other magi it.

Anna hasn't mentioned her use of fertility magic in the bedroom to anyone other than her husband. However, its not like she hid her plans that he would be her next apprentice, so a clever individual could have concluded she used magic to ensure the Gift.

Updated the last two years of Oliverius's aging rolls, and fixed a few typos in it. I also moved the aging section to a different page because Oli's page was getting cluttered. There are now two branch-pages underneath Oliverius for ease of navigation: Planning for the future, one of these is going to be the list of magical items he has in his studio for sale/rental/bragging. I'm really looking forwards to filling that out over the next few years.

Arduino, Aurthor, Ibis and Pazzino are updated until 1129.

IBIS
Ibis expends 10 Confidence points to gain a Transformational study source from Vis consumption: -10 Confidence Points -> 10 vis used: Aura 6 + _: 1D10 = [5] = 5 = 11xp

ARDUINO
Regarding the training season under Alexander, I considered valid the Apt student virtue of Arduino and omitted the puissant virtue of the teacher, for a final SQ of: Alexander's Blacksmith 9 +3 + Apt Student 5 = 17. Is it correct?

Huh, Evandrus is a little behind on his sheet updates!

Alright, Evandrus spammed researching a spell for original research.
First Extraordinary results roll Stress(7)+3=Discovery! Woot!
Next season he will attempt to stabilize the discovery. Extraordinary results (stabilization) stress(8)+3=11 Modified Effect = Discovery Stabilized! Woot!
Warping = 8-simple die(7)= 1 One warping! Heck Yeah! Evandrus already has the spell, but this means he has breakthrough points.

Hmm... my advancement sheet has him trying original research again on this spell, let's make it a version one size step up. Is that okay?

Extraordinary Results= Stress(1), explody! :open_mouth: Stress(1), Really?
Third Stress(2)=8+2 Risk (Evandrus chooses to only use +2 of the risk)
Stabilize Stress(3)+2=5 Side Effect = Stabilized!
Evandrus rolls for warping Reduction 9-Simple 4=5, This knocks him to seven warping BTW

Evandrus doesn't try to resist twilight. He's worried about making it worse
Roll to comprehend Twilight
Stress(2)+Int(3)+ vs Stress(8)+7=5vs15. Evandrus fails to comprehend Twilight.
Extra Warping Simple Die(2)
Evandrus makes two breakthroughs then spends a year in twilight. And gains seven total warping from it.

I also did five years of aging for Evandrus. He got hit with explosions twice, but luckily it still wasn't enough. Crazy times! Anyway Evandrus will be back in 1131! How will twilight have changed him? Will he be even more of a jerk?

This is actually far graver than it appears, as Evandrus is the only one currently capable of casting the Aegis, the other Magi have no idea how long this takes (indeed that it happened, who is going to walk into another magus's sanctum to find out?). Maybe Clawball informs somebody?

Gloriana is willing to completely rewrite her 1130 seasons to try to cover for Evandrus. She has 13 Re, 6 Vim, 5 Sta, 9 Al/Philosophae, 0 Penetration. She could increase her Vim to 12 (3 seasons), invent the spell from a Lab Text at level 25 (1 season), and cast it with 3 Vim pawns/1 botch dice at ReVi 25 + 5 Sta + 6 Aura + 9 Al/Philosophae + 3 Confidence + Roll, hopefully 25+ Penetration. 28 Penetration with a 5 on the roll.

Andros is looking for his apprentice in 1130, he could only dedicate 2 seasons to the effort, and he has Weak Magic, a terrible flaw. Casting total for level 25 would probably be ReVi 40 + 5 Sta + 6 Aura + 1 AL/P +3 Confidence + roll, +4 Penetration, likely to get a Penetration just under 20 with a roll of 5. 5 Pawns/2 Botch dice.

leo, Aurthor looks better, ReVi 34 + 3 Sta + 6 Aura + 5 AL/Phi + 3 Confidence + roll, +1 Penetration, 5 pawns/ 2 Botch dice, around 32 Penetration with a roll of 5. And he would only have to dedicate 1 season to learn the spell.

Suggestions?

Oliverius is not a particularly adept at Vim, running a ReVi of 19... er... Probably not worth doing the rest of my math on that. Oliverius supports whatever ensures we have an Aegis.

I always assumed that Familiars went into Twilight with their magi, otherwise you'd have a bunch of familiars to magi in Eternal Twilight, just sort of wandering around forever.

But Evandrus needs to eat, drink, remove waste products etc. Someone should realize he's poofed in a few days. So either Clawball informs people or a servant notices Evandrus has stopped eating.

Hmm, always assumed Magi in Twilight were sort of in stasis, yes, "If the maga’s body remains in the real world while she is in Twilight, it is completely immune to magic, mundane damage, aging,and hunger", so no poop or need to eat/drink.

Yup. So when Evandrus is in Twilight someone will notice he's not eating food and not making waste.

I agree, Aurthor seems the best replacement. I'll rework his plans for 1130 including a season to learn the 5th magnitude version of the Aeigis ritual in our library.