Creating such a fire at Personnal range should burn you, but you're invulnerable to Fire (have I told you how I hate invulnerabilities? ), so you're safe. You then propel it using Rego.
Unless you want it to do something fancy, it doesn't need to have an unnatural Shape (although, due to the Rego requisite, the end result stays the same).
Note that you can take that route for a lot of spells: Create it at personnal range, and then move it. It usually saves you one magnitude over Voice range and benefits from the focus (at the cost of a requisite), although it ruins your clothes. Creating the fire at Touch range might then be safer.
The only thing that worries me it that your breath is resistable. I usually tend to put defensive powers because of that. For exemple, I'd have thrown out the immunity to fire and taken as a power a Personnal Range Ward against Heat and Flames.
Immunity to fire fits well for a dragon blooded character. I am imagining Danerys Targarryan here (spelling?).
What I would like to see are some Rego req versions of some of Vibria's spells. For example, add one to Blade of Virulent Flame so that the sword doesn't melt. Projecting flame spells using your focus and the like. Or spells that further tap into your inner fire.
but you are a young maga. these things will come in time
The spells I put in for her Fire-casting Focus,for the most part, I did after thinking about the visual effects.
Aura of Fire already had a Rego requisite for the CrIg. But the visual (I guess) could be her blowing upward, as if blowing a wisp of hair out of her face, but her fire-breath courses up, down, and around to become the Aura.
Blade of Virulent Flame: She draws (or holds) her sword and blows on it, breathing flame along the length of the blade.
Palm of Fire: she breathes a puff of fire-air into her hand and holds it out in front of her, palm up.
Pilum of FIre: akin to her own Dragon's Breath, she basically rears back and blows at her target. The Pilum is a jet of flame that separates from her and races to her opponent.
And the sword melts, or under wards so often it warps. Add Rego to protect it
You can spont that spell easilly
What about a Rego spell specifically designed to shape and alter the fire you create from breath?
Lets do something different. Rego projected Touch range with Concentration? Keep the heat on!
Rego projected fire has a slight advantage. Though not an auto-hit, it has a default Area of Effect (the area being projected)
Which would add a Magnitude, if I'm understanding the Requisite rules correctly.
So, say, Base 10 ("Control a fire in a very unnatural fashion"), R: Touch +1, D: Diameter +1, T: Individual, for a Spell Level of 20. Would I have to create a spell for each individual effect, or take a "one size fits all" approach? For some reason, I'm starting to channel The Human Torch here . I'm picturing bands of fire to hold someone immobile, or a signal flare, etc etc.
Which would be the same spell as above? Either Diameter or Concentration (same adder). She would need to make a Concentration roll to either cast the spell or to keep it up as she does her Dragon's Breath, though, right?
Also - she would use Finesse to do something like do a quick Dragon's Breath to light candles and stuff, right? (wtf? I don't have Finesse? That sucks!)
It is a very powerful one too. Not only does it boost your lab and casting totals, this also provides a big boost to Penetration for the class of spells that will likely require it the most (attack spells). It can also be used indirectly to crate light and heat (lighting a torch, creating a bonfire, etc).
And in reference to my own personal favorite player character (Roberto from Mons Electi, formerlly from Novus Mane), this is the one thing Virtue I would add or swap to take hip up over the edge (but that guy is so finely calibrated, the only thing I'd be willing to swap is the house virtue of Puissant Ignem).
And it is actually more versitle. Rather than limited to flames you create & control, it affects all flames you create no matter what you do with them. I do believe it would cover most all of your fire spells to begin with and then some.
One minor question I would need someone else to answer for me. Does it count for flames being created by another? Can she amplify or inhibit another's attempt to create fire?
No. These would be muto Ignem (amplify) or Perdo Ignem (destroy a fire).
Note that there's no way to prevent someone from creating fire. The closest you can do is PeVi, and it inhibits all magic.
BUT I'd say that this might make a good original research project for a fire magus *
I tend to be very much against the creation of new guidelines, in part because it's lazy, in part because I think hermetic magic being incomplete is great. This leaves room for the players or gm to introduce breakthroughs to the game. I once suggested on the boards that the core book could be used to represent hermetic magic in 1220, with the new guidelines released since then being, at least in part (some may have been secret or little known) the result of published original research. Makes for a much more living and dynamic order
So, I underestimated the dragon side of Vibria. I had no idea how...obsessed with stuff she would be. The more we talk, the more obvious the sheer, unadulterated lust for gold, wealth, and material objects is. I know that you get a Personality Trait at +2 with Mythic Blood, but I think her Avaricious should be at least a +3.
Not yet. Wait until she starts collecting treasures. Every time she gains major material wealth, she maybe gains points towards increasing the trait
And of course you have to learn how to hide and safeguard treasure. Spend only a little somethimes, conspicious displays of how powerful your wealth makes you. But make sure that this display somehow results in more wealth For example: Sigmundo is showing off his wealth by offering the covenant help restoring the library and for you to each speand a season in his, but he requires access to your library to do so and is gonna get a copy of everything whether it is of any use to him or not. This will be the third time he has done this in the past few hundred years .
Vibria only has a 6 + Scribe of 7, so she will probably have to do some Copying Quickly, which gives her 21 levels but at a -1 to Quality. Ideally, she would like to copy summae on (in order of preference) Ignem, Magic Theory, and Rego for her season.
She would also like to take her season as soon as possible, and pester Sigmundo (or whoever's there) for information about the dragon side of her family and/or Magic Lore: Dragons in general.
Also, should I wait to do my five-year planner for Vibria until we do the copying (since that could well influence what she does), or go ahead and post it on the planner and make changes later?
(As an aside, I just stumbled across the Andorran Guard page a little while ago...that will also influence Vibria's plans, if it's still there.)
Most of the Andorran Guard was wiped out in the attack. However, those that were named and statted still survive. These few hold the rank of Custos and serve as officers.
As for the copy season, I sorta wanna say plan that out now, but I also don't really lay out a reward until that story is finally closed and done.
For now, simply plot when you plan to take your turn. Carmen shall pick Fall 1223 for example.
I've penciled in Spring of 1230 for Vibria's season of copying at Chez Sigmundo.
Also, I'm (finally) working on Vibria's lab, and I have a quick question. How reasonable would it be for it to have a free Supernatural flaw? (I'm specifically looking at "Afire"). I'm not married to it, but I think it would be cool. So to speak.
Working on my seasonal planner for Vibria. I'm probably going to go for the cycle, just because, even though I know it's gonna get massively revamped before '37 rolls around.
Anyhoo, I just want to be sure I didn't miss something, but there's nothing in the charter mandating covenant service for Masters, right?
I think she would like to do something, I'm leaning toward a vis hunt, but what does anyone have any suggestions?
), so you're safe. You then propel it using Rego.
