I selected Dwarf only because from Core it helps with crafting, may I change it to Giant and still make it help crafting or I need to change it to something strength related?
If not, I'll simply remove it with another Virtue 
Name: Luciu Ragusa of Guernicus
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Size: -1
Personality: Idealistic +3, Temperate +3, Inquisitive +3
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 138 lbs.
Warping: 2 (20)
Soak: +1 (+4 Vim)
MR: 15, Ignem 20, Vim 31
Combat: Ini +1, Attack -, Defense +1, Damage -
| Characteristic | Score |
|---|---|
| Intelligence | +3 |
| Perception | +2 |
| Presence | +1 |
| Communication | +1 |
| Strength | -2 |
| Stamina | +1 |
| Dexterity | -2 |
| Quickness | +1 |
| Virtues | Level | Type | Points | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gift | Free | Hermetic | 0 | |
| Hermetic Magus | Free | Hermetic | 0 | |
| Hermetic Prestige | Minor | Hermetic | 0 | |
| Flawless Magic | Major | Hermetic | 3 | |
| Premonitions | Minor | Supernatural | 1 | |
| Second Sight | Minor | Supernatural | 1 | |
| Skilled Parens | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Puissant Vim | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Affinity with Vim | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Puissant Intellego | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Affinity with Intellego | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | |||
| Flaws | Level | Type | Points | Notes |
| Twilight Prone | Major | Hermetic | 3 | |
| Visions | Minor | Story/Supernatural | 1 | |
| Driven | Major | Personality | 3 | |
| Temperate | Minor | Personality | 1 | |
| Small Frame | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Weird Magic | Minor | Hermetic | 1 | |
| Total | 10 |
| Ability | Specialty | Score | XP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awareness | Alertness | 3 | |
| Charm | Debate | 2 | |
| Concentration | Spell Concentration | 1 | |
| Etiquette | Magi | 1 | |
| Folk Ken | Magi | 2 | |
| Guile | Half-truths | 1 | |
| Intrigue | Gossip | 2 | |
| Leadership | Debate | 2 | |
| Native Language: Sicilian | Siciliano | 5 | |
| Organization Lore: Cult of Mercury | Ceremonies | 1 | |
| Organization Lore: Order of Hermes | Personalities | 2 | |
| Art of Memory | Scenes | 2 | |
| Artes Liberales* | Debate | 2 | |
| Dead Language: Latin | Hermetic | 5 | |
| Philosophiae | |||
| Code of Hermes | Peripheral Codes | 2 |
|Dominion Lore|Saints|1|
|Faerie Lore|Rules|1|
|Finesse|Speed|1|
|Infernal Lore|Curses|1|
|Magic Lore|Magical Traditions|1|
|Magic Theory|Learning Spells|5|
|Parma Magica|Ignem|3|
|Penetration|Intellego|1|
|Premonitions|Supernatural Threats|5|
|Second Sight|Invisible Things|5|
| Art | Score | XP |
|---|---|---|
| Creo | ||
| Intellego | 16+3 | 1 |
| Muto | ||
| Perdo | ||
| Rego | 5 | 3 |
| Animal | ||
| Auram | ||
| Aquam | ||
| Corpus | ||
| Herbam | ||
| Ignem | ||
| Imaginem | ||
| Mentem | ||
| Terram | ||
| Vim | 16+3 | 7 |
| Spell | Casting Total | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Sight of the Molting Magus (HH:TL 72) | 21 | 25 |
| Sight of the Sigil (HH:TL 72) | 40 | 50 |
| Restore the Faded Threads [-5 or more] (HH:TL 74) | 21 | 30 |
| Peering Into the Mortal Mind (ArM 149) | 23 | 30 |
| The Call to Slumber | 7 | 10 |
| Tales of the Ashes (ArM 141) | 21 | 5 |
| Spell Mastery | Score | XP |
|---|---|---|
| Sight of the Molting Magus | 1 | |
| Sight of the Sigil | 1 | |
| Restore the Faded Threads [-5 or more] | 1 | |
| Peering Into the Mortal Mind | 3 | 1 |
| The Call to Slumber | 3 | 1 |
| Tales of the Ashes | 1 |
Background:
Luciu grew up in the sheltered walls of Magvillus, son of a scribe and a cook. He wandered the covenant, and had a strange knack for staying out of trouble, and avoiding hard work; but as he avoided mundane work, he gained skill in wrapping people around his finger. But as he got older, he became less liked, and eventually the change was noticed. After careful examination, his Gift was discovered, along with his useful knacks, that had seen him find out things he wasn't meant to know, and simultaneously avoid getting in trouble for them.
With his abilities, his Gift was hard to open, so his parens was a quite senior Guernicus magus, Zuzentasun ex Guernicus; very old, with ethics as tough as granite, who eschewed politics out of principle so had a position unsuited to his years. He was the covenant's priest of Apollo, who led the Cult of Mercury for the House of Guernicus. His education was extraordinary – not only did he teach Luciu his own extraodrinary magical talents, he also ingrained his ethics into the boy's head – an unyielding sense of justice, and desire for truth, more important than any expediency or pragmatic concerns that others might put first. He died before the War started, and Luciu finished his last couple of years of apprenticeship with others, before taking, and passing, his gauntlet exam.
Luciu feels, deep down, that the war was a mistake, one that can be laid at the feet of House Guernicus. He knows for a fact that his parens would have been a vocal opponent, and might have even had the moral authority to stop it. He only broached the subject once, and the reaction was so swift and harsh that he immediately dropped it, managing to play it off as playing devil's advocate, for the sake of education. He hasn't really dropped the subject, but he knows he must be careful, and discreet. He has spent his time since his gauntlet performing his duties to the utmost of his ability, but he has also kept his eyes wide open for evidence pointing to the truth, both of the causes of the war and of the true nature of both Diedne and Tremere. He builds a record now, and he has left for later the decision of how to handle the truth, once he uncovers it.
Post-gauntlet advancement (10 years total – 300 xp – all reflected above):
Charm +10, Etiquette +5, Folk Ken +10, Intrigue +10, Leadership +10, OoH Lore +10, Art of Memory +10, Dead Language: Latin +25, Code of Hermes +10, Dominion Lore +5, Faerie Lore +5, Infernal Lore +5, Magic Lore +5, Parma Magica +25, Penetration +5, Premonitions +60, Second Sight +60, Peering Into the Mortal Mind Mastery +13 (doubled), The Call to Slumber Mastery +13 (doubled), +4 Vim (plus affinity)
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You could change Giant Blood out for Great Int*2 and Puissant Magic Theory as that will be much more useful for crafting items.
I think you have 10xp to spare.
Combining faerie blood (dwarf) and giant blood is a strange coincidence which should be written into the backstory.
The design has some quirks with good RP potential. For instance, Giant Blood does not help you magic at all, but being the dilletant fighter, it adds a lot of flavour. Expensive flavour, but maybe it is worth it.
Your enchantments will soon suffer from low magic theory. The benefit you get from your craft is capped by magic theory, so you really should shift some virtues from craft to magic theory, unless you want to be a dilletant also at enchantment.
@John_Graham_52 's advice is of course sound, but I am not going to encourage removing the flavour of Giant Blood if you want it. 
Brilliant concept.
I don't quite manage to see how the xp add up. For one, you must have spent 91 xp on each major art, which gives 137xp with the affinity, and that leave 1xp to spare which is not recorded. By my counting, you have spent 26xp in masteries, 535 in abilities, 197xp in arts, for a total of 758xp against an allowance of 750xp (45+105+300+300). Are you able to see where we disagree?
I don't object to the Cult of Mercury Lore, and the background with the old parens is fine.
Just note that there is no guarantee that a mystagogue can be found in game ...
you were right about the math, I replaced with corrected numbers. (The blurb about post-gauntlet at the bottom was right, but the numbers in the table were wrong.)
If I count correctly, you have 40xp to spare. I would also recommend to take puissant MT instead of affinity with craft ... you will get more out of your craft that way.
withdrawn.
I may work on a more "normal" redcap.
A redcap is just the plot hook I need 
I count 600 xp spent against an allowance of 590 (300+15*13+45+50). Have you or I miscounted?
@temprobe brought up a question on discord, so I will follow up that there.
My companion
Edwin, an autocrat looking for a new employer
Characteristics: Int +1, Per +2, Pre +2, Com +1, Str -1, Sta 0, Dex 0, Qik 0
Size:0
Age: 30
Decrepitude: 0
Confidence Score 1(3)
Virtues and Flaws: Covenfolk(free social status); Arcane Lore, Dowsing, Educated, Magic sensitivity, Social contacts(monks), social contacts (merchants); Close Family Ties, Greedy(major), Obese, Pious(minor)
Personality Traits: Greedy +6, Pious +3, Loyal +2
Reputations: None
Combat: Dodging Init 0, attack n/a, defence 3, damage n/a
Soak: 0
Fatigue levels: OK,-1,-3,-5,Unconscious
Wound penalties: -1 (1-5), -3 (6-10), -5 (11-15), Incapacitated (16-20), dead (21+)
Abilities: English 5 (Mercian accent),
Danish 2 (Danelaw accent)
Area Lore: Mercia 2 (covenant locations)
Area Lore: Northumbria 2 (covenant locations)
Artes Liberales 2 (arithmetic)
Awareness 2 (being cheated)
Bargain 2 (livestock)
Brawl 2 (dodging)
Carouse 2 (good impression),
Charm 2 (townsfolk)
Chirurgy 2 (wound treatment)
Code of Hermes 2 (interfering with mundanes)
Dominion Lore 1 (saints)
Dowsing 2 (vis)
Etiquette 2 (anglo-saxon nobility)
Faerie Lore 2 (forest fae)
Folk Ken 2 (being cheated)
Guile 2 (cheating)
Hunt 2 (tracking)
Infernal Lore 1 (infernalists)
Intrigue 2 (politics)
Latin 4 (writing)
Leadership 2 (covenfolk)
Magic Lore 2 (animals)
Magic sensitivity 2 (regions)
Organisation lore: Church 2 (monasteries)
Organisation Lore: Order of Hermes 2 (covenants)
Profession: Steward 6 (covenant lands)
Ride 1 (speed)
Stealth 2 (hiding)
Equipment: Robes, a quill and ink, seal for a destroyed covenant, coin purse.
Edwin was born to an English family in Mercia and was educated well so he could join the church. A pious boy, he thought of joining a wealthy monastery in order to follow God (and also to fill his belly, as monasteries seemed wealthier than many other places). However, his uncanny way of finding things (dowsing and magic sensitivity) brought him to the attention of a covenant who recruited the young monk and gave him the chance to work for them. He stayed in touch with monks from his training, and learned ideas about land management and estate improvement from them.
The magi taught him a little of the supernatural world (arcane lore) so he could put his talents to best use. Over time, he learned how to trade with people in Northumbria and with the Danes, so he could sell the covenant surplus, and in doing so built up a large network of contacts. He had put into place an ambitious scheme to drain some lands to grow more crops and improve pasture when the war came, and the farmlands that enabled him to eat so well were destroyed along with the covenant.
Now he is wandering the country, discovering that all the covenants he knew of are destroyed. This war has wrecked his livelihood and Danish invaders threaten the mundane people of his land. He is looking for a place to settle, a chance to put his skills into building something again, and a way of putting plenty of food on the table.
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Name: Benedict Ex Mercere
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Size: 0
Personality: Lecherous +6, Trickster +5, Carefree +3
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 188 lbs.
Warping:
Soak: +2
Combat: Ini -2, Attack -, Defense 0, Damage -
Description: A tall, lean man, with close-cropped blond hair and a short beard, and gray eyes
Animal Forms: Bear, Shark, Golden Eagle
Personas:
Eva Laski, a buxom and beautiful redhead, a rich widow, a terrible gossip of easy virtue
Per Adley, a beaten down old beggar, who was once a rich trader but lost everything.
| Characteristic | Score |
|---|---|
| Intelligence | +1 |
| Perception | 0 |
| Presence | +3 |
| Communication | 0 |
| Strength | 0 |
| Stamina | +2 |
| Dexterity | 0 |
| Quickness | -2 |
| Virtues | Level | Type | Points | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redcap | Major | Social | 3 | See ArM 48 |
| Well-Traveled | Minor | General | 0 | Free from Redcap - See ArM 50 |
| Shapeshifter | Major | Supernatural | 3 | |
| Persona | Minor | Supernatural | 1 | |
| Gift of Tongues | Minor | Heroic | 1 | |
| Animal Ken | Minor | Supernatural | 1 | |
| Unaging | Minor | Supernatural | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | |||
| Flaws | Level | Type | Points | Notes |
| Ability Block | Minor | General | 1 | No Martial Abilities |
| Legacy | Minor | Heroic | 1 | |
| Lecherous | Major | Personality | 3 | |
| Dependent(s) | Major | Story | 3 | Many kids across Europe (twenty he knows of) whom he keeps loose tabs on for the benefit of the Cult of Heroes and House Mercere |
| Heroic Personality | Minor | Heroic | 1 | |
| Carefree | Minor | Personality | 1 | |
| Total | 10 |
| Ability | Specialty | Score | XP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area Lore: Rome Tribunal | Geography | 1 | |
| Area Lore: Iberian Tribunal | Geography | 1 | |
| Area Lore: Theban Tribunal | Geography | 1 | |
| Area Lore: Rhine Tribunal | Geography | 1 | |
| Area Lore: Provencal Tribunal | Geography | 1 | |
| Area Lore: Normandy Tribunal | Geography | 1 | |
| Area Lore: Alps Tribunal | Geography | 1 | |
| Animal Handling | Horses | 3 | |
| Athletics | Endurance | 3 | |
| Awareness | Alertness | 3 | |
| Bargain | Stolen Goods | 3 | |
| Brawl | Grapples | 2 | |
| Carouse | Games of Chance | 1 | |
| Charm | Women | 3 | |
| Concentration | Reading | 1 | |
| Etiquette | Nobles | 2 | |
| Folk Ken | Nobles | 2 | |
| Guile | Complicated Lies | 3 | |
| Intrigue | Gossip | 3 | |
| Leadership | Intimidation | 1 | |
| Legerdemain | Picking Pockets | 3 | |
| Native Language: East Norse | Danish | 5 | |
| Order of Hermes Lore | Politics | 1 | |
| Profession: Scribe | Hermetic Books | 1 | |
| Ride | Horse | 1 | |
| Stealth | Sneak | 1 | |
| Survival | Mountain | 1 | |
| Swim | Long Distances | 2 | |
| Art of Memory | Written Materials | 2 | |
| Artes Liberales | Astronomy | 1 | |
| Dead Language: Latin | Hermetic Uses | 5 | |
| Code of Hermes | Mundane Relations | 1 | |
| Dominion Lore | Divine Creatures | 1 | |
| Faerie Lore | Faerie Forests | 1 | |
| Infernal Lore | Demons | 1 | |
| Magic Lore | Regiones | 1 | |
| Magic Theory | Writing | 1 | |
| Animal Ken | Birds | 5 | |
| Shapeshifter | Eagle | 3 | |
| Persona | Peasants | 2 |
| Enchanted Items | Level | Base Level | Arts | Range | Duration | Target | Uses/Triggers | Pen | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bag of Skin and Fur | |||||||||
| Secret Cargo | 29 | 5 | MuAn(Co,He) | Touch (+1) | Moon (+3) | Ind | 12/day (+4 L) | n/a | Upon command, the bag transforms to a scar on the body of the commanding person, remaining in both human and animal forms. Any contents made of plant or animal products are shrunk, the bag will not trigger if materials of other Forms are within. Another command transforms it back to a large messenger bag. |
| Tiny Cargo | 27 | 5 | MuAn(He) | Touch (+1) | Sun (+2) | Ind | 2/day (+4 L) | n/a | Any object made of plant or animal products is shrunk to 1/10th of its size while inside the bag. Environmental Trigger +3 L |
Background:
Benedict was raised by a traveling peddler and tinker, traveling through Denmark and the northern reaches of the Holy Roman Empire. He was ignorant of his family, thinking the peddler was his father, but in fact the peddler had bought him from a woman who wanted to be rid of a child born out of wedlock, and the tinker fed the babe on goat's milk, treating him as the son he'd never had. Benedict found that, as he got older, he had strange gifts. He could talk to any living creature. He sometimes dreamed of being animals, or even other people, and occasionally woke up in a body not his own. He gradually learned to control these things, and was a great help to his "father".
When he was 9 years old, his "father" died in his sleep. He tried to carry on, but the first time he encountered adults, they beat him, and stole everything he had. He was barely able to escape with his life, and he ran into the wilderness. For the next couple of years, he lived literally as an animal, wandering the forests in the form of a bear, and it was there he was found by Pascal, a Redcap with the gift of divination who used it to trace bloodlines for his house. He convinced the boy to come with him, and Benedict found out that his real father was a redcap named Marco, and he was of a special bloodline. When Pascal learned of his gifts, he suspected that the boy also had hero blood, descended from some archetypal trickster, perhaps even Loki himself.
Benedict resumed his traveling lifestyle, this time as an apprentice Redcap, and had an enjoyable time, seeing new things and meeting new people, as he travelled over the whole of Europe. As he got older, he developed habits that he himself finds strange – occasionally doing or saying things that he didn't intend to, which often results in complicating social situations that are already fraught. He also developed a powerful libido, pursuing dalliances with magae and others all across Mythic Europe. He watches his children, as does the House, but he stays clear of any responsibilities, which is easy with the children he shares with magae, less so otherwise. He found the gift distasteful at first, but he got more used to it, and since he was never looking for emotional connections, that also made things easier.
The Mercere were quite happy to have one of the bloodline be so active in procreation, and while Benedict formed little emotional attachment to his flings or their offspring, he does keep a flawless mental record of his exploits (his memory palace would make most scholars blush), and House Mercere has a record of the additions he has made to the bloodline.
I count 695xp including 75xp native language and 15xp in the free score of 1 in supernatural abilities, for a net of 610xp allocated.
The allowance should be 45+13*15+300+50=590. Which one of us has miscounted?
I am not sure 10 years post gauntlet applies to companions. I suppose that his how you got more than 50 levels of devices. What does the troupe think? Personally, I find it unRAW, but probably not a noticeable power boost.
EDIT (again)
Tiny cargo seems off. An effect which can be ended, as when an item is removed from the bag, has to be Conc/Maintain Conc. Effects can otherwise not be ended at will. Since you will presumably have many items in the bag, two uses at Ind target will not do.
Now, I am not sure how to design this properly by RAW. We may need two triggers, both the environmental sun renewal and the putting in/taking out trigger. I am happy to allow that even if RAW does not, but I think, as a minimum, that you have to add two magnitudes for room/group target. Happy to take troupe input on this though.
And also, you should add magnitudes for requisites.
I don't have the book in front if me, but one of the perks of redcap is having a budget in magical items that builds up through time, something like 2 levels per year to be spent after gauntlet iirc, and there's a virtue to increase that.
If you want me to make him younger, that's fine, I don't mind. I thought you said something about companions being 30-something, I was going off of that rather than counting from gauntlet. But I can't find the quote on discord anyway, so maybe I was wrong.
there is 45 for early childhood, 50 for well-traveled, 300 for apprenticeship (11-25), and then years 6-10 and 26-34 are 14*15 = for a total 605, which is the count I have. Here is my spreadsheet (but the attributes and virtues are not correct, I just used it for the ability math).
Regarding the items; my intent is to replicate The Convenient Warehouse on MoH 69. The effect is targeting a little Room (the inside of the bag) and anything placed within shrinks, or taken out un-shrinks. It has form reqs but they won't add magnitudes because they're not adding additional effects.
I'd like to make the second effect work, but the first effect is the more important one.
I don't have a problem with the age, but it seems you have written 33 years of age, but counted XP for 34 years of age. The last 5xp of discrepancy was my fault. That explains it all. if he is 34, just fix the typo.
I don't think I said anything about companion age, but the redcap is a special case, both because of the magical aid they get. No other companions get the same kind of net benefit from age. I misremembered the wording though. It does actually say 50 levels just after gauntlet. I won't quibble if the troupe doesn't.
Re requisites, they arguably add effects by widening the range of forms that can be transformed, but maybe I exaggerate.
I'll take the item effects into discord. We get more input there.
Name: Ruedi
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Size: 0
Personality: Leader +2, Optimistic +2, Protective +3
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 168 lbs.
Soak: +1 (+4 with armor)
Combat:
Club: Ini +2, Attack +7, Defense +5, Damage +5
Composite Bow: Ini -1, Attack +13, Defense +8, Damage +9
| Characteristic | Score |
|---|---|
| Intelligence | +1 |
| Perception | +2 |
| Presence | -1 |
| Communication | -1 |
| Strength | +2 |
| Stamina | +1 |
| Dexterity | +2 |
| Quickness | +1 |
| Virtues | Level | Type | Points | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master of Animal Creatures | Minor | Supernatural | 1 | |
| Voice of the Forest | Minor | Supernatural | 1 | |
| Master of Kennels | Minor | Social Status | 1 | |
| Puissant Bows | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Puissant Animal Handling | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Affinity with Animal Handling | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Improved Characteristics | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Alluring to Mundane Animals | Minor | General | 1 | +3 to Communication and Presence |
| Pack Leader | Minor | General | 1 | +3 to Social Interactions when you take the lead |
| warrior | Minor | General | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | |||
| Flaws | Level | Type | Points | Notes |
| Obsessed (Betual) | Minor | Personality | 1 | |
| Optimistic | Major | Personality | 3 | |
| Enemies | Major | Story | 3 | Ernest II of Swabia |
| Lycanthrope | Major | Supernatural | 3 | wolf |
| Total | 10 |
| Ability | Specialty | Score | XP |
|---|---|---|---|
| High German | Swiss | 5 | 0 (Native language) |
| Area Lore: Alps | Legends | 3 | 30 |
| Animal Handling | Wolves | 5+2 | 50 |
| Athletics | Running | 3 | 30 |
| Awareness | Bodyguarding | 3 | 30 |
| Bargain | Trained Animals | 3 | 30 |
| Brawl | Fist | 2 | 15 |
| Etiquette | Nobility | 3 | 30 |
| Folk Ken | Nobility | 2 | 15 |
| Hunt | Tracking | 3 | 30 |
| Leadership | Training | 2 | 15 |
| Profession: Feuterer | Breeding wolves | 3 | 30 |
| Stealth | Natural Areas | 3 | 30 |
| Survival | Forests | 3 | 30 |
| Bows | Composite Bow | 4+2 | 50 |
| Single Weapon | Club | 2 | 15 |
| Magic Lore | Creatures | 3 | 30 |
| Latin | Church Ceremonies | 3 | 30 |
Background:
Ruedi was born a servant in the Raetian court, where his natural aptitude with animals, both tame, and wild, was noted at an early age, and he was sent to the Master of Kennels to be taught. He rose to prominence when the duke was out hunting, and a pack of wolves started chasing his horse, and young Redi managed to turn them back with what seemed like barked commands. The Duke made it a point to have him track down, and tame mundane wolves, and on one occasion, a magical wolf.
He would have lived a great life, but on one excursion to the alps valleys, tracking down what was supposed to be a magical wolf, he found out it was a werewolf, and a single bite from it has turned him into one as well. From that point on, he made it his goal to be in the wilderness when the full moon arose.
It was one such trip that changed his life even further. He was telling the duke he was going on a hunting trip to track a massive black wolf, when he was actually going to follow rumors of mages, whom he hoped would be able to cure him of this curse, when he chanced upon the most beautiful woman in the wild. His dreams since then have been haunted by her beauty, and he made it his mission to try and spend as much time with her as was possible, despite not knowing whether she felt the same or not.
And when she told him she was going to England, he decided to accompany her, lest she suffer some misfortune, and to be close to her. Needless to say, the duke was furious when he heard about it, but Ruedi was well on his way by then.
@Red-Shadow-Claws
I count 490xp spent out of an allowance of 440 (= 45+23*15+50).
Furthermore, I cannot see how you justify taking magic lore.
And you seem to have a virtue point to spare as well.
It probably has something to do with Master of Animal Creatures. Page ref?
Forgot the Warrior Virtue.
Magic Lore comes from Master of (Form) Animal
It’s in Grogs p75 and RoP:M p46.
I didn't go over your companion, but Legacy is listed as a Story flaw in HoH:TL