Abominable!
Want to make this a joint project? I won't call him my apprentice. I am his Mentor and tutor. You can be co-mentor 
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Not exactly sure what to do with him yet. I need to see what he looks like in stats. But I think between the two of us we can whip the lad into shape and make a magus out of him 
Hi 
here is the full charakter story ....
do you like it ? And are there any hooks 
CU your Jan
Javier Costa Hernandez was born in 1205 as the son of an almohadian warrior and his wife. His parents were caring and lovley.
And he could have lived the wonderful life of a good upgrowing child if there hadn't been the tragedy of the year of 1210.
It was in this year that a rabble of christian daredevils assaulted the village were his family were living.
It was in those hell of war and smoke, that one of the christian raised his sword to attack the five year old child.
Javier was frightend to death and while gazing at the wild christian warrior he could feel his scare quite into his heart.
He shiverd and something unbelivable happend. His fright turned into anger.
He opend his arms and his fury was creeping out of his hands, forming a black shadow which was flooding over the body of the christian attacker.
The poor man was screaming like an animal, blindfolded , trying to cover his eyes and was killed by one of the defenders.
It was that picture of the screaming man blindfolded from himself wich he would never forget.
It was a picture that guided him on his path, of becoming a wise man.
He didn't knew what happend after that terrible moment, when his hate slew the Christian soldier.
Javier was told that he was found unconscious between the burning house of his family.
But his live had changed permanently.
His parents were dead, the christians had fled the battle unable to fight a daemon.
The villagers themself were in panic of the deamon boy. It was to his luck that a stranger showed up.
A wise man, possible one of the lords of cordova.The man who took the daemon boy with him.
Alejandro ex Jerbiton (the wise man) was propably the only person who ever earned the trust of Javier after that incident.
He took Javier into an small mezoarab village and explained him the mysteries about his soul and his destination in live.
Javier was a Magus, also a very young one, but with an extraordinary talent and of extraordanary danger.
He taught him that people were afraid of magic, althought in his part they were not afraid of his magic nature itsself,
but they were affraid of the unknown dangers he wields on them.
He taught him that Magic had to be controlled and that a Magus wields a fairt amount of responsibility about his doings.
Alejandro taught him of the Order of Hermes and the institutions it provides to help the magi to maintain peace between them and the mundanes.
Javier learned that conflict and war were inner instincts of the mankind and as those have to be accepted as realities of live.
But there were many reasons for an attempt to change the world to a better.
It was Alejandro who told him of the importance of acceptance and tolerance, althought he coudn't expect them from the world.
It was Alejandro who told him to change the world, even if that would mean to fight a war in a bad world to create a better.
At least it was Alejandro who told him that he had to learn all those things before he could become a great mage.
The wise man offered him to become his apprentice, and the young boy agreed to him because he had a natural trust in the older man.
It was a long way for the young boy to evolve to a young magus and the first 7 years were spent by teaching him the mysteries of the mundane world.
His master told him about latin, of the courtly arts and mysteries of christian and muslim religion.
After that (at the age of twelve) he joined the Order of Hermes as the apprentice of Alejandro ex Jerbiton, still naming him secretly "The Wise Man".
Having him told everything about the mundane world in his first part of his apprenticeship Alejandro was now beginning to open him for the Arts and teaching him the arts of magic.
They were fighting on many front-lines, most of them at the court of the Almohades throughout the empire.
Others lay at the battlefield of muslim philosphy attacking the Almohade ignorance and supporting the more moderate positions of the Umayyads.
And at least there were some struggels about the integration of muslim wizards into the order of hermes and the end of the feud between the sahir and some parts of House Flambeau.
It was here were they suffered the most. Live had been a continous changing of cities, a series of spying, negoations and intervations, but after entering the discussion about the sahirs live were a nightmare. Although a majority of house Flambeau felt up to end the feud and to tie forces against the Almohads, there were other parties holding powerful opposition.
House Tremere and the Bonisagus ex Trianoma didn't like the vision of a more unified House Flambeau ruling the Iberian Tribunal and diplomatic support from House Jerbiton was not welcome.
Rumors were spreaded, baseless investigations were made and schemes were spun, to discredit Alejandro and his apprentice.
It all ended in a quite bigger conflict, with House Jerbiton and the knights of seneca as backer of a united force of the sahrirs and house flambeau on the one side,
and Patrizo Ragusa ex Flambeau as the leader of the "The Sociates Ad Gladios " backend by followers of House Tremere and House Bonisagus on the other side.
Both sides began a witch-hunt against the leaders of the others and within of seasons many wizard wars waged the tribunal.
There had been deaths on both sides when Patrizio declared wizard war to Alejandro and at the same time there was a declaration of the "Sociates Ad Gladius" to lay arms down, if Alejandro were able to kill Patritzio in a direct duel. Although no one believed that Alejandro could be the winner in such a duel, it was Alejandro who agreed to the offer hoping to bring peace back to the order. He gave Javier to his old friend Santiago ex Flambeau and take a leave from his friends to prepare an old ritual which he had learned from an old sufi in the city of Cordova.
Nobody knews how he prepared for this ritual but it must have been from divine or even demonic sources.
Anyway Alejandro appeared at the agreed time in a valley near the city of barcelona. He was standing still and looking seemingly happy, waiting for Patrizio to attack.
He doesn't move when Patricio hurled a wave of fire against him, burning him in an fearious attack.
It were his ashes which wave through the air and spread over Patricio who asphyxiated under the remains of his dead opponent.
And here are some statistics .....
Javier Costa Hernandez
Characteristics:
Intelligence +2,
Perception +1 ,
Strength -2,
Stamina +1 ,
Dexterty +0,
Quickness +1,
Presence +1,
Communication +2
Personality Threads: suspicious +3, friendly +3, fanatic +2
Size - Human: 0
Age: 22 ( 10 years of apprenticeship by Alejandro ex Jerbiton)
Virtues: The gift
Apprentice of the Order of Hermes
Educated (House Virtue)
Gentle Gift
Affinity with Imaginem
Affinity with Perdo
Affinity with Intrigue
Quiet Magic (two times)
Subtle Magic
Minor Magical Focus (sight)
Flaws: Enemies
Outsider (He is a Berber)
Deficient Technique (Creo)
Driven (Endow peace to the Order of Hermes )
Abilities:
Arabic(Almohad Empire) 5
Area Lore (Almohad Empire) 3
Artes Liberales (Defeating muslim logic) 3
Awareness (Traps) 2
Charm (Cajole) 1
Code of Hermes (Interfering with mundanes) 1
Etiquette (Almohad Empire) 2
Folk Ken (Lies) 2
Guile (Jusitfy) 2
Intrigue (Defence) 3
Islamic Law 2 (Qiyas)
Islamic Theology 3
Latin (Hermetics)4
Magic Theory (sympatric magic)4
Philosophiae (Defeating muslim logic) 3
Theology 1
Arts: Intellegio 4, Perdo 5, Imaginem 5
Spells:
Disguise the Wizard’s Appearance. (MuIm 3 )
Veil of invisibility (PeIm 20)
Curse of the rotten wood (PeHe 5)
Sight of the true form (InCo 7)
Prying Eyes and Ears (InIm 10)
Trust of childlike faith (PeMe 10)
Aura of ennobled presence (MuIm 10)
Taste Of The Spices And Herbs (MuIm 5)
Image of the Beast (InAn 5)
suggestions allowed
edit: I were editing some stats after reading Realms Of Power: the divine
Your focus seems a little too... Focused to me, allowing only to blind people. May I suggest a focus in Sight instead? This would allow blindness, but also all sort of visual perception enhancing effects.
Could be fun, save for the poor guy, torn between our different styles
What difference? It is a simple process.
See Enemy ---> Kill Enemy
The rest is just fluff 
@sight
changed
@kill on sight
I suppose he has to work on that
No, don't kill on sight!
I can see I will have my hands full.
"See Enemy" means Identify the Threat/Danger/Opposition.
"Kill Enemy" means to Neutralize said Threat/Danger/Opposition.
Which is not to say don't kill on sight. Sometimes that is the best and safest option. Buy you will need to learn to be discerning and introspective.
Remember, "Flambeau" means Torch. A Torch can bring destruction through fire, or knowledge through Light. Flambeau is the House of the Enlightened
yes,oh my mentor 
And sometimes, to be a good flambeau, you need to extinguish the light
After some changings and reading of "Realms Of Power: The Divine" and the iberian sourcebook (Added muslim theology and law / removing Parma Magica because it is the last thing thaught in apprenticeship), here is my full charactersheet.
Can I post it in the charactersheets thread or are there still things to do ?
Javier Costa Hernandez
Characteristics:
Intelligence +2,
Perception +1 ,
Strength -2,
Stamina +1 ,
Dexterty +0,
Quickness +1,
Presence +1,
Communication +2
Personality Threads: suspicious +3, friendly +3, fanatic +2
Size - Human: 0
Age: 22 ( 10 years of apprenticeship by Alejandro ex Jerbiton)
Virtues:
The gift
Apprentice of the Order of Hermes
Educated (House Virtue)
Gentle Gift
Affinity with Imaginem
Affinity with Perdo
Affinity with Intrigue
Quiet Magic (two times)
Subtle Magic
Minor Magical Focus (sight)
Flaws:
Enemies (Sociates Ad Gladius)
Outsider (He is a Berber)
Deficient Technique (Creo)
Driven (Endow peace to the Order of Hermes )
Abilities:
Arabic(Almohad Empire) 5
Area Lore (Almohad Empire) 3
Artes Liberales (Defeating muslim logic) 3
Awareness (Traps) 2
Charm (Cajole) 1
Code of Hermes (Interfering with mundanes) 1
Etiquette (Almohad Empire) 2
Folk Ken (Lies) 2
Guile (Jusitfy) 2
Intrigue (Defence) 3
Islamic Law 2 (Qiyas)
Islamic Theology (Muslim magics) 3
Latin (Hermetics) 4
Magic Theory (sympatric magic) 4
Philosophiae (Defeating muslim logic) 3
Christian Theology (Pilgrimship) 1
Arts: Intellegio 4, Perdo 5, Imaginem 5
Spells:
Disguise the Wizard’s Appearance. (MuIm 3 )
Veil of invisibility (PeIm 20)
Curse of the rotten wood (PeHe 5)
Sight of the true form (InCo 7)
Prying Eyes and Ears (InIm 10)
Trust of childlike faith (PeMe 10)
Aura of ennobled presence (MuIm 10)
Taste Of The Spices And Herbs (MuIm 5)
Image of the Beast (InAn 5)
Appeareance:
Javiers appeareance depends on the situation and the environment in which someone meets him.
He has a great talent for changing his visual appeareance and is used to disguise his muslim origin.
Meeting him in the muslim city of Cordova will give you the image of a scholar in the early twenties.
You will note him as a serious man wearing a white caftan and a blue turban.
A prominent nose indicating his berberian origin, a short beard wittnessing his young age and his status as a philosophical famulus.
His deep brown eyes watching thoughtfuly, carefully balanceing your thoughts and reasons.
There is always a small smile on his face, althought only few people have seen him laughting.
It is this sign of sympathy glowing in his eyes, creating a peaceful calmness, which makes it comfortable beeing around him.
If you meet him in christian lands he appears like a poor monk wearing a simple cowl.
Althought surrounded by an aura of ease, his face looks like a flandern man with dark blonde hair, a typical european nose and brown eyes.
History:
Javier Costa Hernandez was born in 1205 as the son of an almohadian warrior and his wife. His parents were caring and lovley.
And he could have lived the wonderful life of a good upgrowing child if there hadn't been the tragedy of the year of 1210.
It was in this year that a rabble of christian daredevils assaulted the village were his family were living.
It was in those hell of war and smoke, that one of the christian raised his sword to attack the five year old child.
Javier was frightend to death and while gazing at the wild christian warrior he could feel his scare quite into his heart.
He shiverd and something unbelivable happend. His fright turned into anger.
He opend his arms and his fury was creeping out of his hands, forming a black shadow which was flooding over the body of the christian attacker.
The poor man was screaming like an animal, blindfolded , trying to cover his eyes and was killed by one of the defenders.
It was that picture of the screaming man blindfolded from himself wich he would never forget.
It was a picture that guided him on his path, of becoming a wise man.
He didn't knew what happend after that terrible moment, when his hate slew the Christian soldier.
Javier was told that he was found unconscious between the burning house of his family.
But his live had changed permanently.
His parents were dead, the christians had fled the battle unable to fight a daemon.
The villagers themself were in panic of the deamon boy. It was to his luck that a stranger showed up.
A wise man, possible one of the lords of cordova.The man who took the daemon boy with him.
Alejandro ex Jerbiton (the wise man) was propably the only person who ever earned the trust of Javier after that incident.
He took Javier into an small mezoarab village and explained him the mysteries about his soul and his destination in live.
Javier was a Magus, also a very young one, but with an extraordinary talent and of extraordanary danger.
He taught him that people were afraid of magic, althought in his part they were not afraid of his magic nature itsself,
but they were affraid of the unknown dangers he wields on them.
He taught him that Magic had to be controlled and that a Magus wields a fairt amount of responsibility about his doings.
Alejandro taught him of the Order of Hermes and the institutions it provides to help the magi to maintain peace between them and the mundanes.
Javier learned that conflict and war were inner instincts of the mankind and as those have to be accepted as realities of live.
But there were many reasons for an attempt to change the world to a better.
It was Alejandro who told him of the importance of acceptance and tolerance, althought he coudn't expect them from the world.
It was Alejandro who told him to change the world, even if that would mean to fight a war in a bad world to create a better.
At least it was Alejandro who told him that he had to learn all those things before he could become a great mage.
The wise man offered him to become his apprentice, and the young boy agreed to him because he had a natural trust in the older man.
It was a long way for the young boy to evolve to a young magus and the first 7 years were spent by teaching him the mysteries of the mundane world.
His master told him about latin, of the courtly arts and mysteries of christian and muslim religion.
After that (at the age of twelve) he joined the Order of Hermes as the apprentice of Alejandro ex Jerbiton, still naming him secretly "The Wise Man".
Having him told everything about the mundane world in his first part of his apprenticeship Alejandro was now beginning to open him for the Arts and teaching him the arts of magic.
They were fighting on many front-lines, most of them at the court of the Almohades throughout the empire.
Others lay at the battlefield of muslim philosphy attacking the Almohade ignorance and supporting the more moderate positions of the Umayyads.
And at least there were some struggels about the integration of muslim wizards into the order of hermes and the end of the feud between the sahir and some parts of House Flambeau.
It was here were they suffered the most. Live had been a continous changing of cities, a series of spying, negoations and intervations, but after entering the discussion about the sahirs live were a nightmare. Although a majority of house Flambeau felt up to end the feud and to tie forces against the Almohads, there were other parties holding powerful opposition.
House Tremere and the Bonisagus ex Trianoma didn't like the vision of a more unified House Flambeau ruling the Iberian Tribunal and diplomatic support from House Jerbiton was not welcome.
Rumors were spreaded, baseless investigations were made and schemes were spun, to discredit Alejandro and his apprentice.
It all ended in a quite bigger conflict, with House Jerbiton and the knights of seneca as backer of a united force of the sahrirs and house flambeau on the one side,
and Patrizo Ragusa ex Flambeau as the leader of the "The Sociates Ad Gladios " backend by followers of House Tremere and House Bonisagus on the other side.
Both sides began a witch-hunt against the leaders of the others and within of seasons many wizard wars waged the tribunal.
There had been deaths on both sides when Patrizio declared wizard war to Alejandro and at the same time there was a declaration of the "Sociates Ad Gladius" to lay arms down, if Alejandro were able to kill Patritzio in a direct duel. Although no one believed that Alejandro could be the winner in such a duel, it was Alejandro who agreed to the offer hoping to bring peace back to the order. He gave Javier to his old friend Santiago ex Flambeau and take a leave from his friends to prepare an old ritual which he had learned from an old sufi in the city of Cordova.
Nobody knews how he prepared for this ritual but it must have been from divine or even demonic sources.
Anyway Alejandro appeared at the agreed time in a valley near the city of barcelona. He was standing still and looking seemingly happy, waiting for Patrizio to attack.
He doesn't move when Patricio hurled a wave of fire against him, burning him in an fearious attack.
It were his ashes which wave through the air and spread over Patricio who asphyxiated under the remains of his dead opponent.
Hey all,
Been working out a character concept and so far have come up with these basic ideas....
Young Jerbition magi, specialising in Mentem magic. From the Rome Tribunal (not Literatus tho), go into a lot of trouble in Venice, as the wife of the Doge took a shine to him - and well, a jealous doge was going to expel all magi from Venice if the young man wasn't dealt with....so he was kicked out of the entire tribunal....
Is that problematic enough for being at the covenant? He has the Envied Beauty Flaw, plus Venus's Blessings and Gentle Gift vritues to play on the charming angle?
Any thoughts?
Kal
Should work for me but remember, Novus Mane is a forgotten dump so make up a reason to why he would flee there.
Ok, a little more work on the character today (had burn out on the weekend from 12 hours of gaming.... 
)
Alessio ex Jerbition, formerly of Rellantai in the Rome Tribunal.
Having Envied Beauty, Lecherous (minor), Venus' Blessing and Chaotic Magic, he got into a lot of trouble while staying in his covenants townhouse in Venice, which he did often. Eventually, he seduced the Doge's wife and daughter (with a little help from some mentem magic) - however, the spell went a little wrong and they both became infatuated with him for an entire month. The Doge was furious and at the end of the month, so were the wife and the daughter. Narrowly avoiding being caught and most likely hung, he fled back to his covenant. However, with the entire Venice nobility up in arms against him, Quaesitor's arrested him and charged him with 'Interefering with Mundanes'. The session was held in Venice to hopefully appease the Doge. Alessio was heavily fine in silver and vis (which his former covenant had to unhappyily pay) and he was exiled from the Tribunal. With such a reputation following him, he has found it impossible to gain acceptence into a another covenant...so far...
Is that ok for a brief back story (I can fill it out later, but I'm off to work in 10 minutes)?
Kal
Yes, that would be a reason to settle at Novus Mane. Where better to hide than at a forgotten dump? Keep the text coming.
Whatever happened to Aramies?
ignore....
I'm not sure but I'm going to start have something begin eating any magi that does not move in a month. 
No it was directed a player that made a character that had a connection to Marko's character. Posted the character in the forums then disappeared.
yeah, You're all good Kal. I think your character is interesting