Tartessos ex Verditius - at gauntlet
Characteristics: Int +3, Per +1, Pre +2, Com +2, Str -2, Sta +2, Dex -2, Qik -2
Size: 0
Age: 21, Height: 5' 9", Weight: 150 lbs, Gender: Male
Decrepitude: 0
Warping Score: 0
Confidence: 1 (3)
Virtues: Affinity for Craft, Puissant Craft, Affinity for Magic Theory, Puissant Magic Theory, Skilled Parens, Inventive Genius, Personal Vis Source (Intellego), Book learner, Verditius Magic, Good Teacher, Cyclic Magic (fall/winter)
Flaws: Driven (avert the fall of the order) (Major), Painful Magic (Major), Humble (Minor), Slow Caster (Minor), Unimaginative Learner (Minor), Visions (Minor)
Reputations: Sculptor 1
Combat:
Dodge: Init: -2, Attack , Defense 0, Damage
Fist: Init: -2, Attack -2, Defense -2, Damage -2
Kick: Init: -3, Attack -2, Defense 3, Damage +1
Knife: Init: -2, Attack -1, Defense -2, Damage 0
Soak: +2
Fatigue levels: OK, 0, 1, 3, 5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: 1 (1 5), 3 (6 10), 5 (11 15), Incapacitated (16 20), Dead (21+)
[table][tr][td]Ability[/td] [td]Score[/td] [td]specialty[/td] [td](xp pending)[/td] [td]Allocated xp[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Living language (Spanish)[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]Writing[/td] td[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Folk Ken[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]Covenfolk[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Charm[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]Clients[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Guile[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]Magi[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Magic Theory[/td] [td]3+2[/td] [td]Items[/td] td[/td] [td]271.5=40.5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Classical Latin[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]Writing[/td] td[/td] [td]50[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Artes Liberale[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]Ritual Magic[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Philosophae[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]Verditius Magic[/td] td[/td] [td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Finesse[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]Craft Magic[/td] td[/td] [td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Parma Magica[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]Terram[/td] td[/td] [td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Order of Hermes Lore[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]Commerce[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]House Verditius Lore[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]Mysteries[/td] td[/td] [td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Etiquette[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]Magi[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Craft: Mason[/td] [td]2+1+2[/td] [td]Verditius Runes[/td] td[/td] [td]181.5=27[/td][/tr][/table]
first 4 skills are from early childhood
Arts:
[table][tr][td]Art[/td] [td]Level[/td] [td](pending xp)[/td] [td]Allocated XP[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Creo[/td] [td]2[/td] td[/td] [td]3[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Intellego[/td] [td]8[/td] td[/td] [td]36[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Muto[/td] [td]8[/td] td[/td] [td]36[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Perdo[/td] [td]0[/td] td[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Rego[/td] [td]6[/td] td[/td] [td]21[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Animal[/td] [td]0[/td] td[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Aquam[/td] [td]0[/td] td[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Aurum[/td] [td]0[/td] td[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Corpus[/td] [td]5[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Herbam[/td] [td]2[/td] td[/td] [td]3[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ignem[/td] [td]0[/td] td[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Imagem[/td] [td]0[/td] td[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Mentem[/td] [td]1[/td] td[/td] [td]1[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Terram[/td] [td]5[/td] td[/td] [td]15[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Vim[/td] [td]4[/td] td[/td][ [td]10[/td]/tr][/table]
Equipment:
Knife, Clothes, crafting tools, PVS
Personal Silver: 0
Longevity Potion:
Personal Vis supply: 0 Intellego Vis
Encumbrance: 0 (0)
Spells known (150 lvls)
Forge of Viscid Clay MuTe20, adapted from Rock of Viscid Clay, can affect all Terram including metal/gems
Transformation of Wood Like Clay MuHe(Te) 15 like Rock of Viscid Clay, adapted for Herbam products not sure if requisite is strictly needed, but it can't hurt
Aging the Fine Wine ReAq5 proposed in the initial Players Wanted thread
Piercing the Magical Veil InVi 20
Gather the Essence of the Beast ReVi 15
Touch of Midas CrTe20
Swift as the Swallow ReCo 20 shamelessly bogarted from JeanPatrick
Drawing up the Siege Ladder ReHe 15
Posing the Silent Question InMe 20
Tartessos grew up in Ferol, Leon and was chosen as apprentice to Francisco de Nasi ex Verditius and served in Cuprus, a nearby covenant. Unfortunately the covenant fell upon difficult times near his gauntlet and he was unable to stay. He hired on with the Caravan, then doing studies nearby, and found a community of scholars that valued his with and intellect. He had every intention of moving on to more permanent roots, but as the years passed, always chose to stay. He befriended and bonded as familiar a silver fox named Vulpus, and the two voraciously devoured the incredible library afforded by the caravan while contributing to both the research and service of the caravan. His sybaritic tastes were sometimes at odds with the spartan caravan furnishings, but he used monies created by ritual to purchase those small luxuries deemed most urgent, always adhering to the 2 lbs per year limit (but rarely spending less!). In 1219, with the caravan newly settled into Malta, Tartessos and Vulpus received an urgent summons from the Primus of House Verditius. A customer had placed a large yet urgent order and Tartessos was the closest journeyman Verditius sculptor; his assistance was needed to complete this order. Tartessos had long wished to study the Nuragic sculpture of Sardinia and thus parted with his friends vowing to catch up with the caravan in time. Only time can tell when that will be.
Tartessos seasonal advancement with Caravan, covering 20 years (80 seasons), plus two years at Verdi, total of 88 seasons.
46 seasons studying arts
Creo @Guantlet: 3xp, @Game Start: 93xp
6 seasons at (12+3)= 15 xp per season, 90 total
Intellego @Guantlet: 36xp, @Game Start: 36xp
no seasons
Muto @Guantlet: 36xp, @Game Start: 36xp
no seasons
Perdo @Guantlet: 0xp, @Game Start: 84
4 seasons at (18+3)= 21 xp per season, 84 total
Rego @Guantlet: 21xp, @Game Start: 65
2 seasons at (19+3)= 22 xp per season, 44 total
Animal @Guantlet: 0xp, @Game Start: 80
4 seasons at (17+3)= 20 xp per season, 80 total
Aquam @Guantlet: 0xp, @Game Start: 63
3 seasons at (18+3)= 21 xp per season, 63 total
Auram @Guantlet: 0xp, @Game Start: 57
3 seasons at (16+3)= 19 xp per season, 57 total
Corpus @Guantlet: 15xp, @Game Start: 55
1 season at (20+3)= 23 xp per season, 23 total
1 season at (20+3)= 23 xp, capped at 17 for gain limit. 17 total
Herbam @Guantlet: 3xp, @Game Start: 93xp
6 seasons at (12+3)= 15 xp per season, 90 total
Ignem @Guantlet: 0, @Game Start: 66xp
3 seasons at (19+3)=22 xp per season, 66 total
Imagonem @Guantlet: 0xp, @Game Start: 46xp
2 seasons at (20+3)=23xp per season, 46 total
Mentem @Guantlet: 1, @Game Start: 66xp
2 seasons at (19+3)=22 xp per season, 44 total
1 season at (19+3)=22 xp per season, capped by gain limit at 16, 16 total
Terram @Guantlet: 15, @Game Start: 78 xp
3 seasons at (18+3)=21 xp per season, 63 total
Vim @Guantlet: 10, @Game Start: 90
5 seasons at (13+3)=16 xp per season, 80 total
Skills: 42 seasons
Magic Theory @Guantlet: 271.5xp=40.5, @Game Start: 246
1 season at (20+3)1.5=34.5xp, 34.5 total (subtotal: 75)
5 seasons at (11+3)1.5=21 xp per season, 105 total (subtotal: 180)
2 Tracti at (11+3)1.5=21 xp per season, 42 total (subtotal: 222)
8 seasons exposure at 21.5=3 xp per season, 24 total (subtotal: 246)
Craft @Guantlet: 181.5=27 xp, @Game Start: 87
1 year at 301.5=40 xp post guantlet study
1 year at 101.5=15 xp post guantlet study (-2 seasons)
Philosophiae @Guantlet: 5xp, @Game Start: 89xp
6 seasons at (11+3)=14 xp per season, 84 total
Finesse @Guantlet: 5xp, @Game start: 90 xp
5 seasons at (14+3)=17 xp per season, 85 total
Parma Magica @Guantlet: 5xp, @Game Start: 7xp
1 season exposure at 2 xp
Teaching @Guantlet: 0xp, @Game Start: 2 xp
1 season exposure at 2 xp
Latin @Guantlet: 50xp, @Game Start: 52 xp
1 season exposure at 2 xp
Living Language (Romany) @Guantlet: 0xp, @Game Start: 32 xp
4 seasons practice at 8 xp per season, 32 total
Exposure seasons (already calculated above)
Find Familiar (Parma)
Bind Familiar (MT)
Bond power (MT)
Bond Power (MT)
Teach Vulpus Artes LIberales (Teaching)
Longevity Ritual (MT)
3 seasons making magic items (MT)
1 season translating lab notes
1 season writing a MT Tractatus
Vulpus Seasons, 62 with caravan, 8 at Sardinia. Vulpus has an academic personality so eschews practical arts in favor of theoretical/academic skills
I do not know how to create an animal or do skills prior to the familiar bond. At this point all skills start at zero. If I get guidance statting him, I see him as Int-3 (due to non magical creature), high com/dex/qui. He is the stereotypical ivory tower academic, as full of himself as he is of knowledge, and willing to share both with anyone that will sit still for a moment to listen. He lives in the moment, having few or no long term goals, but is willing to do much for an hours discussion of Philosophae, or for a tractatus he hasn;t read.
Latin 50xp
50 xp free from familiar bond
Romany 32xp
32 xp free from familiar bond
Magic Theory 221 xp
4 seasons at 20 xp, 75 total due to Gain Limit
10 seasons at 11 xp, 105 total due to gain limit (running total: 180)
2 MT Tracti at 11 xp each, 22 total (running total: 202)
3 seasons exposure at 2 xp each, 6 total (running total: 208) (Helping Tartessos during 3 seasons creating Lesser Enchanted Items)
1 season reading Tartessos authored Tractatus at 13 xp, running total 221
Artes Liberales 142 xp
1 season Taught at 16 xp, 16 total
3 seasons at 20xp each, 60 total (running total: 75, due to gain limit)
4 seasons at at 14 each, 56 total (running total: 131)
1 tractatus at 11, 11 total (running total: 142)
Philosophae 191xp
13 seasons at 14 each. total 180 due to gain limit
1 tractatus at 11 xp, 11 xp total (running total: 191)
Arabaic 84 xp
6 seasons at 14, 84 xp total
Ancient Greek 68xp
4 seasons at 17 xp, 68 xp total
Aramaic 68 xp
4 seasons at 17 xp, 68 xp total
Ancient Egyptian 85 xp
5 seasons at 17 xp, 85 total
Theology 20 xp
2 seasons at 10 xp each, 20 total (from 4/10 purchased summa)
Canon Law 20 xp
2 seasons at 10 xp each, 20 total (from 4/10 purchased summa)
Medicine 20 xp
2 seasons at 10 xp each, 20 total (from 4/10 purchased summa)
Familiar Lab total: must be equal to or greater than Bonding Level
In8 + An 12 + Int 3 + aura3 + Magic Theory 10 + Inventive Genius3 + Cyclic Magic 3 = 42 (only use 40) Uses 8 Intellego vis
Gold Cord: +1, Silver Cord +1, Bronze Cord +3
Familiar Bonding level
Magic Might 0 + 25 + (size-2*5) = 15
Bond Powers:
Speech (ArM5 pg 105)
MuAn 20 Requires Lab Total of 40
Lab total: Mu 8 + An 12 + Int 3 + Aura 3 + Magic Theory 10 + Inventive Genius 3 + Cyclic Magic 3 = 42
Hands Like the Master
MuAn 21 Requires Lab Total of 42
Base 5, change paw to opposable thumb (think Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy)
Dur: Concentration (+1 mag), Range: touch (+1 mag), bond maintains concentration (+5 levels), 2 use per day (+1 level)
Vis managememt: 80 seasons@ 1 vis per season (4 per year)
Season 4: Trade 4 In Vis for 4 Cr Vis and cast Touch of Midas (0 left)
Season 20: Use 8 In Vi bonding familiar (8 left)
Season 21: Trade 4 In Vis for 2 Mu vis and imbue L20 bond power (5 vis left)
Season 23: Trade 6 In vis for 3 Mu vis and imbue L21 bond power (1 left)
Season 59: Spend 24 In vis purchasing +17 Longevity Ritual (20 vis left)
Season 70: Spend 30 vis on Items of Quality (1 vis left)
Season 80: End caravan seasonal advancement (11 vis left)
Seasons 81-88: gain 8 PVS, allow verdi to copy Tractatus for 2 vis, make magic items costing 13, sell magic items totaling 6.
8 vim vis used in magic item creation, 14 intellego remaining.
Money Management
Tartessos likes his luxuries a bit more than the average caravan mage, and cast Touch of Midas his first year. Consensus on the forums seems to be that this created about 80 lbs of gold which he can easily divide with Rego magic. He makes his casting tools from this mass, using approximately 1 ounce per tool in the form of jewelry (necklace/rings/earrings, etc) that are easily worn. He currently has 9 of these, using 9 ounces, and has an additional (71) one ounce lumps reserved for future casting tools. This used 5 lbs.
He spends .2 lbs/year on unspecified luxuries to ease the hardships of life on the road. He has gotten used to this level of lifestyle and expects to continue it. He has spent .2*22 = 4.4 lbs on this so far. He scrupulously sticks to the 2 mythic pound equivalent per year to avoid future issues related to created money.
When opportunity arises, he changes additional small amounts of gold for "natural" silver, gold and gems when outside the boundaries of the OOH. By my count he has had the opportunity to do this six times, and would trade an additional 1.2 lbs of gold for 12 mythic pounds in natural coinage (.2 lbs/2 Mythic Pounds per trip outside the border).
Lastly, he has saved his salary of .1 mythic pounds per year for a rainy day fund not allowed to be covered by his gold. Therefore he has an additional 2 lbs of natural coin.
His methods are likely inefficient, requiring services of money changers, assume loss of an additional 4 lbs over time due to this methodology.
See below for mundane book book expenditure of .3 lbs gold/3 Mythic Pounds.
Gold remaining: 65.1 lbs in .2 lb lumps
Casting tool material remaining: 71 one ounce lumps
Natural coin cached: 14 Mythic Pounds in small coin/small gems
Aging Rolls: +21 (+17 Longevity Ritual, +3 Bronze Cord, +1 Spring or Winter covenant living conditions) Method: Excell RNG
35: 2
36: 9
37: 1(3) = 6
38: 1(8) = 16
39: 4
40: 5
41: 2
42: 9
No rolls are over 2 after adjustment, no all result in no age increase (although I got really worried when I rolled the 1, 8)
Whew. Almost there.
After Tartessos left the Caravan, he spent at least two years in Sardinia at Verdi, spending two seasons in service of the House. In addition he will buy average quality mundane books on Civil/Canon Law, Medicine and Theology for Vulpus to read. Assume these are L4/SQ10, costing 1 Mythic Pound each per Covenants, I forget the page number)
During this time he will stay in touch with the caravan via letter (and maybe even an occasional visit). As such he is ready to be introduced at anytime Silveroak deems appropriate. Some of his possessions are cached with the caravan and may, with Silveroaks permission, come into play at a later date.
Edit: 3/13/15 reconstruction finished