Ranulf from MoH now 150 years post apprentice!!!!

[Erik_Tyrrell]

That's four years since he finished his study break and eleven years past the Ranulf +60 version in Magi of Hermes.
Next he spends three more years in study for 90 xp.

muto to level 12 to 13 for 13 xp

corpus from level 5 to 13 for 76

leaving 1 xp for magic lore to get it to 0(1) because he should really know something about magic lore by this point of his life.

Inspired by his familiar and the prospect of finally obtaining a practical manner of travel by use of ignem Ranulf spends two seasons inventing Assuming the Fiery Mantle

Assuming the Fiery Mantle
MuCo(Ig) Level 35
R: Personal, D: Diam, T: Ind
The caster (and his possessions if he uses casting requisites) is transmuted into a human shaped mass of fire. The caster is hot enough to do +10 damage to any being that touches him. While this effect is active the caster may neither speak nor manipulate objects that were not transformed with him. While in this form he is typically not damaged when hit with objects unless the object is somewhat larger than he is. He can take damage from an amount of water of greater than his size (typically +5 or +10 damage). See page 139 of Realms of Power magic for further details.
Ranulf created this spell so he could use Flames that Leap Leagues upon himself and travel by creating a chain of fires that are arcane connections to one another. He has also noted that assuming the fiery mantle provides him absolute safety from the effects of self immolation at the cost of removing his ability to speak.
(Base 30, +1 Diameter)

Ranulf then gets down to the business of dealing with opponents who have a soak to high for his wizard's boosted pillum of fire.
he spends one season inventing the following spell

Skin of Wax
MuCo Level 10
R: Voice, D: Diam, T: Ind (+1 size )
The target of this spell becomes very flammable. For the duration of Skin of Wax any soak totals the target generate against damage from heat receive a -10 modifier. Furthermore a creature that is damaged by heat while under the effects of this spell will be set aflame and take +5 damage every round, ignoring armor until they are extinguished or the spell expires. This spell can affect targets of up to size +4
(Base 2, +2 voice +1 Diameter, +1 size adjustment)

Ranulf now needs a way to get Skin of Wax on his targets without spending a round of combat casting it.

Crossbow with an Incantation Trigger
ReVi Gen
Range: personal, Duration: Sun, Target: Individual
Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger stores another spell or spells in the caster's body until that spell is triggered or until the next sunrise or sunset. The stored spell is triggered when conditions specified at the time of casting Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger come to pass. These conditions must include the casting of yet one more spell. When the triggering spell is cast all of the spells stored in the Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger are cast at the target of the triggering spell (if the stored spells do not have sufficient range or if the target of the triggering spell is an inappropriate target for the stored spells, the stored spells are cast with no effect).
Only one Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger can be placed or the caster. Any number of spells can be stored within the Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger providing that their total level does not exceed the level of the Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger + 15. If someone tries to dispel the Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger but fails the stored spell is cast upon them. At the end of the Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger's duration the stored spells are dispelled. The Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger is also dispelled when it releases its spells.
Ranulf typically uses Crossbow with the Incantation Trigger to store a copy of skin of wax that was cast in a beneficial aura and set it to cast on the same target as his next Pillum of Fire. (He would love to learn ceremonial casting specialization for Skin of Wax from a cult of Mercury colleague within his house but he isn't yet sufficiently well informed to know of this technique)
(Base general +2 sun)

This is more or less a duration sun target personal version of watching ward (p.162). I had debated having the unused stored spells discharge on the caster at the end of the duration, but seeing as that would be sunrise/sunset when the caster has no parma I decided that it was too big a drawback. I probably made the spell more restrictive than it had to be in regards to the conditions for releasing the stored spells but I'm fond of the restrictive conditions. It's twinky enough as it is-there's no need to add more minmaxing at the cost of coolness. I could have gone the route of watching ward with the triggering conditions completely but then I had a difficult time justifying the stored spell hitting the correct target.

Upon reflection the above spell is certainly not going to release its payload prior he target getting hit with the PoF's, but Ranulf only needs the spell at level 3 (technically he needs it at level -5, but I'll ignore the weirdness regarding low magnitudes and guidelines that reference levels rather than magnitudes) he can cast that as a non-fatiguing spont. In fact he can cast the next as a non fatiguing spont as well.

Diurnal Watching Ward
ReVi Gen
Range: Touch, Duration: Sun, Target: Individual

This spell functions as watching ward (p 162) with the exceptions that it can hold a spell equal to the level of the watching ward +10, it is not a ritual spell, and he watching ward is dispelled sunrise and sunset. Ranulf employs this spell to store a well cast Skin of Wax with Artisano or on a tiny wand that Artisano can hold. He then sets the triggering action to be a specific set of words and gestures that Artisano can perform that specify the target of the spell. Artisano is quite quick (finesse 7 quickness 5) and it isn't unlikely that he could get his spell cast before Ranulf in any given combat.
(Base general, +1 touch, +2 sun)

That's 14 years and three seasons, leaving me one more season. During this one season Ranulf would like to learn:

• Wizard's Endurance (ignem) (as Wizard's reach or Wizards expansion but affecting duration),
• Unraveling the fabric of ignem,
• Flames of Stone as a spell, (he can only cast it three times per day from his talisman, I see that as a serious inconvenience for him),
• A version of Flames that leap leagues at range Arcane connection,
• Wizard's communion
• Veil of invisibility, and
• a target individual version of wind of mundane silence.

Sadly for Ranulf he can't do all of those things in a season .

He's going to choose flames of stone and he'd probably pick up most of the rest of that list in the next year and a half or so if you'd want to think about Ranulf +77 instead of Ranulf+75. Looking long term he'll want to get a high level version of Diurnal Watching Ward, a version of transformation of flame that can handle animal products and critters, and perhaps a version of skin of wax for animal. If he can get four more points in his intellego Ignem lab total he could learn vision of heat's light from lab notes which would be very helpful for him. He also hopes to be able to purchase a device to cast eyes of the eagle so as to mitigate his poor vision.

Flames of Stone
MuIg(Te) 30
R: Voice, D: Conc, T: Ind (+1 size)
This spell changes the flames of the target fire to be as hard and stable as stone. The flames still have no weight and the target fire still produces both heat and smoke. Ranulf often uses this Effect in combination with the topiary of flames Effect to create temporary structures. The target fire can be no larger than a small house or large hut (ten times the size of a standard ignem individual).
(Effect: Base 10 +2 voice, +1 concentration, +1 size)