Mark and I have discussed his ties to the Legion via PM, and he’s come up with a solution and storytelling direction that I more or less had in mind all along. I was very careful to make his ties to the Legion tenuous at best. I think this is well in hand, but if you have questions shoot me a PM. Looks like Mark plans to forward it all to you anyway.
If he were five to ten years younger, I’d absolutely agree with you, but at the current date I considered and ultimately rejected Lost Love. Mostly because the flavor text really turned me off. I took Optimistic to represent that he doesn’t live in the past, but looks toward the future. He’s not the sort of person who “gives up easily†even if he did lose the love of his life. It was ten years ago, time passes. He lives in the world and is part of it, but isn’t so wedded to the past that he’s crippled by it.
It’s true that Incomprehensible isn’t the world’s greatest flaw for him now (when first taking V&Fs I didn’t anticipate the direction this character would take), but I probably won’t take Lost Love. He already has a Restriction, which makes me loathe to take another one. I suppose I could change his current restriction to the one you suggest, although I think True Feeling would rarely if ever come into play because my character concept is that he pretty much always has strong emotional ties to people.
Sanguine Humor’s Blessing is very interesting indeed, and I noticed it only after I was a ways through development, or I well might have taken it. At this stage I really don’t want to go back all the way back to the drawing board and juggle my V&Fs any more, although if there were a way to gain it through play that would be interesting to me. Even though Dependent is the Flaw that’s more important to his story, I would probably take the “Attack or Defend†bonuses (given that he has Enemies anyway) since they’re more associated with his style of protection. Can I take it in exchange for "formally" taking Mentor and Enemies as flaws, or did you have something else in mind?
A large castle full of mature Flambeau and other combat magi, protected by one Archmage and regularly visited by others, with a potent Aegis isn’t secure? What am I missing here?
Keeping track of Kesara is a genuine issue, but his Intellego bites the big one right now. He does carry an Arcane Connection to her at all times, but that’s about the size of it. Commissioning a Verditius to make a tracking device is possible, but does this mean I have to go back and muck with his advancement again?
Sorry, meant to change that earlier, as we discussed. I’ll edit it in the character sheets thread.
Thanks for you comments!