I have been thinking that a Minor Mystery should take 1 season with a flaw, or two seasons without a flaw.
Oh, keep in mind that the SG is a Greek 
the closest i come to combat chartacters is 1 brawl. that's just so i don't roll extra botch dice to slap someone.
No Greek woman in all of history has a Brawl score of less than 3. I am serious, they are viscious and beat their husbands!
Hi, all. I'm working on a character. I've been emailing Marko to make sure I'm making someone reasonable. I've been trying to catch up on recent posts, though I'll probably skip things of an historical note so that I can play not knowing better. When I hear about something I'll go read about it. I'll post what I've got soon. I'll write a quick synopsis now. Valentino of Flambeau is a member of the Cult of Mercury and is disciplined in the School of Ramius. Despite his focus on physical combat, he still finds it important as a dutiful Flambeau magus to understand the proper application of fire.
Thanks for the warm welcome, Marko.
Chris
yah i got distracted and drew a scetch of the character instead of doing xp expenditures and math. i should have it up here soon.
Sounds worthwhile. You're a good artist. My New York group could use someone who gets distracted that way. The majority of us were trained in physics or something similarly mathematical.
Chris
I have only one old school gaming buddy who got into sience and physics, and that us somewhat recent. Let us see, in the old days my grouo has often consisted of chefs (me), hippies, Evangelical Pastors (my old bud Cliff), salesmen (Carmello, the original Antonio), hippes, musicians, an EMT, more hippies, and so on & so forth.
Jehan has a guile of 5... wow. How does he feel about acting 
I think I am accurate on my math.
Kallista , Ex Marinita , Songbird of Thebes
Flaws or “The Good Stuffâ€:
Major Story : Dependent ( Daphne age 4)
.........Currently owes a favor for having the Mercerian fertility ritual
.........cast to increase the likelyhood of a gifted child
Major Hermetic : Magic Addiction
Major Hermetic : Study Requirement
Minor Story : True Love (Ardonis age 31)
Note: because of her age and having a child by Ardonis, she no longer has Faerie upbringing and Lecherous. It is important to note that while she has overcome these flaws, they are part of her history and personality. She just doesn't suffer from the Flaws, ie I'll roleplay it.
Virtues
0: The Gift
0: Hermetic Maga
0: Fairy Magic
Major Supernatural: Strong Faerie Blood (Naiad)
........Confers second sight
........Aging -3 and starts at 50
........+2 Com and Pres vs sexually Compatible people (a la Satyr)
........-1 Com and Pres vs Sexually Incompatible people (a la Envied Beauty)
Blue Faerie Eyes: see in low light
Blood is clear like water ... very dangerous
Major Hermetic: Gentle Gift
Minor Supernatural: Enchanting music
Minor General: Puissant (Enchanting Music)
Minor general: Free Expression
Minor general: Venus Blessing
Soak: 1
Initiative : +1 fist or spell
Personality Traits
Compassionate: +2
Ingratiating: +1
Vengeful: +1
Attributes:
Int:1
Per:0
Com: 3
Pres: 2
Dex: 1
Quick: 1
Str: -3
Stam: 1
Childhood 45xp: until age 5
Adolescence 75 xp: until age 10
Apprenticeship 240 xp: until age 25
Post Gauntlet 7 years 240 xp + 2 initiations with no flaws <- does that add up, average 10 a season?
Age 32
Initiations:
Minor mystery: Performance Magic
Minor Folk Mystery: Charm Magic
Abilities:
Athletics: 1 (Grace)
Artes Liberales: 2 (Ceremonial Casting – by invoking mythic figures and stories)
Awareness: 1 (keeping an eye on Daphne)
Brawl: 1 (dodging)
Carouse: 1 (getting others to get drunk)
Charm: 1 (first impressions)
Concentration: 2 (music)
Etiquette: 1 (faeries)
Folk Ken: 2 (reading an audience)
Guile: 2 (feigning emotion)
Intrigue: 1 (gossip)
Leadership: 1(inspiration)
Music: 4(Singing) ; instruments known :singing, pan pipes, Lyre, mandolin?
Philosophiae: 2 (Ceremonial casting- by using astronomy to find auspicious days)
Survival: 1 (forests)
Finesse: 2 (Imaginem)
Magic lore: 1 (creatures)
Magic Theory: 4 (magic items)
Faerie Magic: 3(charms)
Faerie Lore: 3 (types of faeries)
Parma Magica : 2 (corpus)
Second Sight: 3 (faeries)
Code of Hermes: 1 (apprentices)
Enchanting Music: 4; with Puissant: (6) (sorrow)
Penetration: 1 (Rego)
House Marinita Lore: 1 (Modifying initiation script)
Profession Scribe: 1 (copying)
Teaching : 1 (?)
Languages
Greek: 5 (extensive vocabulary)
Latin: 4 (hermetic vernacular)
Spanish : 2 (Castilian)
Wizard's Sigil:
Warm moisture, mist or dew.
Arts:
Creo: 5 ... Rego: 5 ... Muto: 5 ... Perdo: 2 ... Intellego: 5
Animal: 2 ... Aquam: 5 ... Aurum: 2 ... Corpus: 3... Imaginem: 7
Ignem: 3 ... Herbam: 2 ... Mentum: 5 ... Terrem: 2 ... Vim: 5
Spells
15 Wizard's Communion
Rego Vim (+11)
*10 Resound the Nature of Vis
As Sense the Nature of Vis except Voice range.
Intellego Vim (+11)
10 Aura of Ennobled Presence
Muto Imaginem (+13)
*15 Walk the Road Not Taken
As prying eyes: range Road
Intellego Imaginem (+13)
*15 Notes of the Delightful Sound
Target increased to Structure to accommodate the size of an amphitheater
Muto Imaginem(+13)
20 Phantasmal Fire
Creo Imaginem, Ignem req
(+9)
15 Disguise of the Transformed Image
Muto Imaginem (+13)
5 Spasms of the Uncontrolled Hand
Rego Corpus (+9)
5 Curse of the unruly Tongue
Rego Corpus (+9)
10 Words of the Unbroken Silence
Creo Mentem (+11)
10 Phantasm of the Talking Head
Creo Imaginem (+13)
*modified spells
Equipment:
donkey
wagon
1 chest of props and costumes. Goat leggins and horns for a Satyr play, a tin crown, tin faerie wand etc. Vis in some non discript rocks at the bottom of the chest.
1 chest of Kallista's, Daphne's, and Ardonis cloths, silks for formal wear and important shows. Daily clothes not so luxurious. All classic greek style for Kallista, modern Byzantium style for Ardonis.
1 chest various personal effects, writing utensils, one or two academic books, Ardonis's composition journal.
1 Lyre, 1 Mandolin, 1 drum
5 +2! Puissant Guile.
I tried to set her up with a job that combined his acting talent and combat skill. He was not happy 
There is a huge different in an occassional help in production to being an assassin and spy.
Your average brave warrior could be forgive for slamming a sword through your gut for trying to hire them for being an assassin.
Kallista on the other hand asking her to help out in an entertainment briefly, might consider doing it. It is amusement and whimsey. (that and she is so charming. Moses isn't that charming and totally lacking in tact and diplomacy)
Joshua used assasins and spies in his conquest of Jericho. Rememer Rahab the harlot? And Deborah & Barrak made extensive use of spies and assasins in their campaign against the Cannanites. Spies and assasins are not cowardly or evil by any means. It is situational 
My current sketch is a giant blooded shapeshifter ex misc, and I'm not sure I want to advance him too much from gauntlet, say 5 years at most.
Am I looking to be dead in a couple of seasons and should likely advance a few years more or..?
Young is okay. Ex-Misc, eh? You are not a Diedne are ya? 
One of the magi, Marcellus Glacius of Flambeau (played by Xavi on occasion), he is playing a giant-themed character as well. Travened to Scotland and studied the lore of the Grugachan. Maybe you have similar interests?
Yeah but Moses at Andorra is no Kettle belly Baldwin or Joshua.
good point
Can items of quality be enchanted? They're non-magical. If so, does the one pawn used to bring out their abilities fill up one of the possible pawns for invested effects? (I would suggest so.)
Chris
Here is Valentino of Flambeau (Cult of Mercury, School of Ramius) at the end of his apprenticeship. If everything looks good, I'll proceed from here.
Characteristics: Int +3, Per +1, Str 0, Sta +1, Pre +1, Com 0, Dex -1, Qui -1
Size: 0
Age: 29
Decrepitude: 0 (0)
Warping Score: 0 (0)
Confidence Score: 1 (3)
Virtues and Flaws: Affinity w/ Creo, Affinity w/ Magic Theory, Affinity w/ Parma Magica, Book Learner, Chaotic Magic, Covenant Upbringing, The Gift, Hermetic Magus, Imbued with the Spirit of Corpus, Independent Study, Mercurian Magic, Optimistic (major), Pagan, Puissant Parma Magica, Warrior
Personality Traits: Brave +2, Loyal +2, Upbeat +3
Reputations:
Combat:
Soak: 1 + Form bonuses + Armor
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, -1, -3, -5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: -1 (1-5), -3 (6-10), -5 (11-15), Incapacitated (16-20), Dead (21+)
Abilities:
Animal Handling (Horses) 1 (5)
Area Lore: Kingdom of the Franks (Provence) 1 (5)
Artes Liberales (Ceremonial Magic) (alphabets: Latin) 1 (5)
Athletics (Running) 1 (5)
Awareness (Alertness) 2 (15)
Bows 2 (15)
Brawl (Dodging) 2 (15)
Carouse 1 (5)
Concentration (Spell Concentration) 2
Dominion Lore 1 (5)
Faerie Lore 1 (5)
Finesse 1 (5)
Folk Ken 1 (5)
Infernal Lore 1 (5)
Intrigue (Hermetic Politics) 1 (5)
Leadership Grogs 2 (15)
Living Language: Castillian 1 (5)
Living Language: Langue d’Oc (Provençal dialect) 5 (native)
Living Language: Latin (Hermetic Usage) 4 (50)
Magic Lore 1 (5)
Magic Theory (Enchanting Items) 5 (50x1.5=75)
Organization Lore: Order of Hermes (House Flambeau) 1 (5)
Parma Magica (Ignem) 1 (5x1.5=7.5)
Philosophiae (Ceremonial Magic) 1 (5)
Profession: Soldier 2 (15)
Ride 2 (15)
Single Weapon (Shield and Weapon) 4 (65)
Stealth (Battlefield) 1 (5)
Survival 1 (5)
Swim 1 (5)
Arts:
Creo 10 (37x1.5=55.5)
Intellego 0 (0)
Muto 1 (1)
Perdo 2 (3)
Rego 2 (3)
Animal 0 (0)
Aquam 0 (0)
Auram 0 (0)
Corpus 8 (42)
Herbam 0 (0)
Ignem 1 (1)
Imaginem 0 (0)
Mentem 3 (7)
Terram 2 (3)
Vim 2 (3)
Wizard’s Sigil: Paleness
Certamen School: Hoplomachus
Twilight Scars: None
Spells:
The Chirurgeon’s Healing Touch [CrCo20 ritual]
Restoration of the Defiled Body [CrCo25 ritual]
The Severed Limb Made Whole [CrCo25 ritual]
Wizard’s Sidestep [ReIm10]
The Unseen Porter [ReTe10]
Lancea Magica [PeVi15]
Wind of Mundane Silence [PeVi15]
lol
For your appreciation (and amusement).
I'll be posting background soon, assuming the concept is approved.