Table talk (Bibracte)

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First of all, thanks to everyone for their comments on this character concept! I went ahead and created a character thread for Eskil where discussion about her build can continue. A few points I can answer here:

@Jonathan.Link

Just be prepared for your character to be surprised when she attempts to poach Abigail from Korvin. This won't work out to your character's satisfaction.

Fair enough (and thank you for being clear about it). I'm willing to let Eskil fail, all in good fun.

@Jonathan.Link

Korvin may be advanced through 1227, so he has several years of Mons Electi development, development she'll have access to almost right away, so the differences won't be as vast. I'll bring your character in in 1223.

@jebrick

Remember that Korvin has two affinities that boost his Creo and Corpus so it looks like more XPs earned than spent. And the Korvin sheet on OP is up to 1228.1. With your affinity to Corpus you could easily be over 20 by the time you are 55. But your character will have to be a member of Tractatus Digest to move up once you get a skill above 20. Perhaps sponsor some great writing communicators to publish the little know facts about Corpus once a year.

Both good points. I did catch the Affinities, but the 4- or 5-year difference is huge in this context.

@Jonathan.Link

I'm going to ask that you pick something besides Harnessed Magic. It's from Mutantes, and I'm not sure it's appropriate for someone not of House Mercere, I'm going to invite troupe input here, but my inclination is no, so I need a consensus from all the other players to say it's ok.

Also fair enough. (Although in my slight defense, it is in the core rulebook. But back-story-wise, it's an extraneous complication at best.)

@jebrick

I would allow Harnessed as a mastered spell effect but not a virtue for non-Mercere.

@Jonathan.Link

It would appear that there won't be consensus on Harnessed magic as an allowable virtue. If you want to pick up Harnessed mastery, we will probably need to do some sort of story where she convinces a Mercere to teach it to her and there is some agreement that she doesn't share it with anyone else. And of course you do not want to make House Mercere your enemy.

I think I'll also let this idea go. Eskil would have to be taught a Harnessed Magic spell mastery ability separately for each spell, which seems like a huge contortion in her back story. It would have been fun and conceptually apt, but the character can do without it.