I don't want to kill her off. I want to ship her off. And to exploit the abilities without playing the character would be disingenuine and munchkin of me.
And I am trying to set a good example. There are too many Companions in the game. Everyone should be limited to one companion per magus character. I have Carlos and Johan. I do not need a third.
My hope is that people will follow my example and stop making companions, and perhaps discharge some that we have.
The only reason I ask is that I have come up with 6 years of plans for the library and school involving her abilities I do not want to redo, and to be fair you did play her initially. My understanding though was that Marius and Draganna were exceptions being recruited for the teaching positions they hold.
That is sort of my fault. When I opened the gate for advancement though 1242, I had intended for plan their activities and maybe take a few onths real-time doing it. Most everyone shot the whole load in a week!
But I want you to have your school and you are apparently wiing to copromise about Epona's son, so I will give this to you. I will keep her on for now, and try to find a way to fit her into a story so she is a character and not just a tool. Maybe I can revise her as a Grog, drop Entrancement & Lycanthrope, a few adjustments, and she will still fit your plan and ease my anxiety about too many Companions.
She only works two seasons a year, mind you. She has a personal life and other duties.
Yes, she and Marius work alternating seasons (through the planned time), the students study 3 seasons a year, same as an apprenticeship but with less actual work.
Groovy 8)
winter 1242: the apprentice scribes are nearing the level where they can take on their own apprentices, also freeing up the scribes who are currently training them. This means we could in the next couple of years go from having 6 apprentice scribes to having 18 apprentice scribes if we wished, but if that is the plan we should have our newly minted teacher begin instructing the apprentices to be in Latin, Magic Theory and Artes Liberales.
He can teach a class size of up to 35, so this would also be a good time to teach Latin to some of the covenfolk (or any apprentices- the teacher is unaffected by the gift), since even if we use all 18 slots that will leave 17 more people that can fit in the class. (SQ:16, teaching specialization in Gifted students)
also worth noting that in winter 1242 our dedicated authors will each write a commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum, with qualities of 15,12,12 and 12. These will be copied in the spring.
Faith has recently been brought to my attention, she doesn't fit in the classes, and is not a skilled enough scribe to operate as a professional scribe right out the gate- and she has other skills which she might use despite being described as a scribe on the covenant roster- so what was the plan for her from 1237-1241?
Get her up to speed by 1242, when the audit is being done 
She was written by quite possibly a cat, I didn't know if he had any plans, or in what capacity she had entered the covenant...
she is described as being 14 in 1237, recruits for education would have been around age 6-12, so one year later 7-13, I suppose she could have been integrated into a class at that point if she wasn't busy elsewhere...
I probably had some when I wrote her, but they never went anywhere and I've forgotten them by now.
Is it okay if I take her over then? I'll run her through the school and see where she would wind up...
... which would basically be tested and then trained as a teacher to be sent out... unless the covenant decides to retain 2 teachers or we simply don't put her through the school. If she is going to be a scribe though she needs to know some magic theory, and honestly there is no benefit to having a PC scribe where nobody has any plans to play. Honestly it looks to me like the best use of this character is as a natural philosopher, where she would apprentice to either Rilcheuax (which is getting really outside the covenant) or Marius. This could lead to a regular source of Tinctures of Gold if nothing else...
Ooooh yes.
And other reagents, too. Everything they do is natural, which might come in handy.
Yeah, feel free to grab her. And everyone loves those zany natural philosophers.
I cannot edit faith in the thread since I was not the one to post her originally, I have updated her on the Wiki- she and Marius have made 2 elixers of Gold at the end of 1241, they can work together to make 3 a season, she is 19 now and could rapidly build this into a small industry if we provide her an educated work force (Latin:4, artes Liberales:1 and keep building the medicine skill). Of course this might divert resources from other academic based projects...
What are thee concocction? What do they do? Is this something from HMRE?
Tonic of gold is a medical theriatric which will restore (by standard rules in A&A) a winded character to a non-fatigued state.
What can they do besides tonics?
If they do this, I suppose it's because their living is paid for by the covenant in exchange?
living and lab costs
at this point that is the only medical theriatric that has been developed. They have some philosophical ones that Marius has developed as well- the calorific stone (dropped into up to a bathtub of water will raise it to boiling in seconds), refrigerant salt (freezes water up to 6 paces across and 6 inches thick), and smoke oil (if unsealed transforms into 100 cubic paces of smoke). He has made one sample of each of these which has also been contributed to the covenant resources.
He can do Theriacs and Reagens? Great!
This could be really useful if given to our grogs, should they need to defend against magical attacks. No sight, no strike. And if they can manage to ignite the cloud afterwards...
I also get the feeling that the other two could be used to do a nice trap
I feel like we're sitting on a gold mine, but I don't have much time to think about it 