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The Flambeau is very much a one-trick pony. He can throw fire at opponents extremely effectively. His focused Arts and Magical Focus mean that he has some Penetration even for powerful spells. However, he is much weaker if he tries to do anything else. Wrathful and Enemies can be swapped out for other Flaws with no trouble, to break the stereotype a bit, as can his Greater Immunity. He can take another Minor Flaw, and balancing Minor Virtue.

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Knowledge of one particular region, covenant, or even a village. It includes knowing where things are in the immediate area, local history and legends, and the centers of power in the region. The smaller the region, the more detailed your knowledge.

Specialties: geography, history, legends, politics, personalities. (General)

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The seven artes liberales, or liberal arts, are the basis of medieval higher education. Everyone learns them at the universities before passing on to study other subjects. It would be very rare for a character to have a score in any other Academic Knowledge without a score of at least one in this.

The artes liberales are divided into two groups: the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music). The emphasis at this period is on the Trivium, but both are taught. (Note that Artes Liberales as a whole is one Skill, not seven separate ones.)

Grammar concerns theoretical questions of the structure of languages, rather than the ability to use a specific language (that is covered by Speak skills). The authorities are Priscian and Donatus. Logic is the study of the syllogism, and other forms of reasoning discussed by Aristotle. It is the most important of the arts at this period. Aristotle is the authority, in his logica vetus and logica nova. Rhetoric is the study of the theory of rhetorical forms: knowledge of the sort of tricks that an orator can use, rather than the ability to use them. The authority is Cicero, especially his De Inventione.

Arithmetic is the ability to add and subtract, multiply and divide. The authority is Boethius, De arithmetica. Geometry is concerned with study of plane and solid figures, and the authority is Euclid, in his Elementa. It also deals with the study of light, and Euclid's Optica is the authority here. Astronomy is concerned with predicting the positions of the stars and planets, and the authority is Ptolemy, in the Libri Almagesti. Music is purely theoretical, the study of proportions and musical theory, not the ability to sing or play an instrument. The authority is Boethius, in De Musica.

Artes Liberales also covers the ability to read and write. For every point in the Ability, the character can read and write one writing system, providing that he knows a language which normally uses that system: the Latin alphabet, the Greek alphabet, the Arabic alphabet, and so on.

Specialties: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, Ritual magic, Ceremonial magic. (Academic)

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General physical prowess. It includes moving smoothly, confidently, and with grace. Use of Athletics improves most large-muscle coordination.

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Specialties: acrobatics, contortions, grace, jumping, running. (General)

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Fighting hand-to-hand without weapons, or with the sorts of improvised weapons you just pick up, including knives. Brawl is also the Ability used to dodge attacks if you have no Martial Abilities.

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Specialties: punches, grapples, knives, dodging. (General)

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Noticing things, be they things you are looking for or things that you are not expecting. It is also used to see how alert you are in circumstances that require watchfulness.

Specialties: bodyguarding, keeping watch, alertness, searching. (General)

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Understanding the background, personality, and motives of another person. Often the storyguide secretly rolls a die when this Ability is used. Thus, you do not know if your character guessed correctly, or even botched.

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Specialties: peasants, townsfolk, nobles, clergy, magi, the opposite sex. (General)

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This skill is similar to all other (Language) Abilities, but it is only available to educated characters. It grants the ability to speak a language which is no longer used as a native language in the areas the character has lived in. The most important example is Latin. All educated characters in the West know Latin, since without it you cannot learn any Academic Knowledges. It is also the common language of the Church and Order of Hermes. In other areas of the world, Arabic, Greek and Hebrew fill similar functions, although of these only Hebrew is a dead language.

Specialties: academic usage, Church ceremonies, Hermetic usage. (Academic)

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Fluency in a particular living language. Rather than a die roll modifier, your score in this Knowledge measures your ability to communicate.

Score

Fluency

Description

0

Point and grunt

With one or more experience points, you know “please”, ”thank you”, and a few other words.

1

Basic questions and answers

“Where is the church?,” “Do you sell food?” Constant mistakes, and an atrocious accent. People must speak slowly and often repeat themselves, and you cannot string a conversation together.

2

Basic conversation

You can sustain a short conversation on a common topic. You still make many mistakes, and often fail to catch what others say.

3

Haltingly functional

You can hold a conversation on everyday topics, although it takes time, you make many mistakes, and your accent is still bad.

4

Functional

You can hold a conversation on non-technical topics, and make few mistakes. People do not normally need to repeat themselves. This is the minimum level required to study from a book.

5

Fluent

You still have an accent if this is not your native language, but it is weak. You speak as well as most natives. This is the minimum level required to write a book.

6

Elegant

You choose your words well, and have no accent if this is not your native language.

Two dialects of the same language generally have a –1 penalty. If your character is not specialized in a dialect, you should specify a dialect without specializing in it, and take the penalty when conversing with people who speak a different dialect. If you speak a \"standard\" version of the language, that is a dialect that differs from all other dialects.

When two people speak to each other, the lower Ability score determines how well they communicate. Characters who speak related languages can communicate at a penalty to their scores (assigned by the storyguide) depending on how closely related the two languages are.

Note that Latin and Hebrew are not living languages in most of Mythic Europe. However, characters who live in places where they are (such as some covenants) may learn this Ability without any special Virtues.

Characters with this Ability are illiterate unless they also have a score in Artes Liberales (page 62).

This Ability also covers artistic compositions in the language, and telling existing tales with verve and passion. Knowledge of stories is covered by the appropriate Lore Abilities.

Specialties: poetry, prose, specific dialects, expansive vocabulary, specific technical vocabulary, slang, storytelling. (General)

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Telling convincing lies, as well as feigning emotion, belief, or frame of mind. If you understand the person you are attempting to deceive (roll 9+ on Perception + Folk Ken), you gain a bonus of +1 to your Guile roll. This Ability also covers disguising yourself, and pretending to be something you are not. It is often an opposed roll, against the victim's Perception + Folk Ken or, for disguise, Perception + Awareness.

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Specialties: particular sorts of deception, lying to authority, fast talk, elaborate lies. (General)

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Knowledge of the legends, history, structure, operation, and goals of the specified organization. Organizations can be as large as the Church, or as small as a local craft guild. The smaller the organization, the more detailed your knowledge. Order of Hermes Lore is particularly important to most magi.

Specialties: personalities, history, politics. (General)

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Knowledge of what magic is and how it works, used primarily in the laboratory. Magic Theory deals with the technical details of Hermetic magic; Magic Lore covers knowledge of magical things in general. Anyone can learn Magic Theory, if they have access to a teacher or book (normally represented by a Virtue), but it is little use to those without The Gift.

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Specialties: inventing spells, enchanting items, a single Art. (Arcane)

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Getting your spell through the target's Magic Resistance. See page @@ for detailed Penetration rules.

Specialties: any one Art. (Arcane)

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Finding food, water, shelter, a direct route, and relative safety in the wilderness (a very dangerous place in Mythic Europe). This Ability covers such mundane tasks as building a fire and cooking food without implements.

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Specialties: specific locales. (General)

", "source": "ArM5Def", "page": 0, "defaultChaAb": "per", "speciality": "woods", "xp": 5, "key": "survival", "option": "", "realm": "magic", "indexKey": "survival", "reviewer": "xzotl", "review_status": "reviewed", "optionLinked": false, "accelerated": false }, "_stats": { "compendiumSource": null, "duplicateSource": null, "coreVersion": "13.351", "systemId": "arm5e", "systemVersion": "2.3.2.11", "createdTime": null, "modifiedTime": null, "lastModifiedBy": null, "exportSource": null }, "folder": "adQkl7QaQHRah9iT", "_id": "5jmhlzP3BmmTdFyA", "sort": 200000, "ownership": { "default": 0, "1JBSgWiiwizu7vru": 3, "wUH1ww0o0zQEBtKr": 3 }, "_key": "!actors.items!FNlb5GVkjeGhHHn7.5jmhlzP3BmmTdFyA" }, { "name": "Parma Magica", "type": "ability", "img": "systems/arm5e/assets/icons/abilities/parma.svg", "effects": [], "flags": { "core": {}, "cf": { "id": "temp_7bwhgya3q6x", "path": "Abilities#/CF_SEP/Arcane", "color": "#000000" } }, "system": { "description": "

Protection from magic. This is a special ritual (not a ritual spell) that takes about two minutes to perform. It lets you add 5 times your Parma Magica score to your Magic Resistance until the next sunrise or sunset, whichever comes first. You may suppress your Parma Magica temporarily by concentrating; this is equivalent to sustaining a Concentration duration spell. (See page @@). Parma Magica does not require concentration while it is active.

You may also protect one other person for each point in Parma Magica, with their consent. You must touch each person to start the protection, and it lasts as long as at least one character can see the other. The magus may cancel the protection at will, at any distance. While a magus is protecting others, his effective Parma Magica score is reduced by 3 points, both for himself and for the other people he is protecting. If the magus has a Parma Magica score of 3 or lower, his Parma Magica provides each character, including himself, with a Magic Resistance of 0. In the magus's case, this is added to his Form resistance, and a magus protected by another magus's Parma Magica may also add his Form resistance.

Any character protected by a Parma Magica, whether their own or someone else’s, is unaffected by the social penalties of other people’s Gifts. If a protected character is Gifted, their Gift still imposes social penalties on others, unless those others are also protected by a Parma Magica, or are unaffected by The Gift for some other reason.

Parma Magica can only be learned by Gifted characters, although they learn it as a normal Arcane Ability, not a Supernatural Ability. It is only known by Hermetic magi, as the Order enforces the 'Join or Die' choice rigorously on anyone who knows it, as well as declaring a Wizard's March on the magus who taught it. Parma Magica is the last thing an apprentice learns, being taught the final key to the Ability after he swears the Oath.

Specialties: protection from any specific Form. (Arcane)

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Sneaking about without being seen or heard, also hiding in one place. This includes following people without their noticing, which is rolled against the other person's Perception.

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Specialties: hide, sneak, shadowing, urban areas, natural areas. (General)

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You are a member of the Order of Hermes. All magi must take this as their Social Status, and only magi may take it.

 

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The Gift is a special Virtue, because it has no cost. The character suffers all the penalties of The Gift, just as magi do (see page @@), but can be taught Supernatural Abilities without having to take the corresponding Virtues (see page @@ for rules). Most importantly, the character can be taught Hermetic Magic, so all magi must have this Virtue. A character with The Gift, even if he is not a magus, may take Hermetic Virtues and Flaws which relate to intrinsic ability rather than background or training. Characters may take Virtues that grant Supernatural Abilities without taking The Gift, and such characters do not suffer the penalties imposed by The Gift. However, such characters may not learn new Supernatural Abilities in the course of the saga, although they may improve the ones they already have. It is possible for unGifted characters to Initiate new Supernatural Abilities through a Mystery Cult, but even this is harder for them than for the Gifted.

Characters who have The Gift may start play with a single Supernatural Ability, without having to take any other Virtue, but if they wish to learn others they must find opportunities to do so in the course of the saga. They may also take Virtues granting Supernatural Abilities if they wish to have more Abilities at character creation. Note that it is harder for a character with Supernatural Abilities to become a Hermetic magus (see Training Your Apprentice on page @@), so you may not wish to take any such abilities if you plan for the character to become an apprentice. The ability to cast Hermetic magic is the single supernatural ability possessed by Hermetic magi in virtue of The Gift again, they may take more Supernatural Ability Virtues if they wish.

Grogs can never have The Gift, as a character with The Gift is too important to be a grog. As a rule, companions should only have The Gift if they are intended to become magi, or if they are members of one of the other magical traditions described in Ars Magica 5th Edition supplements. Troupes should not allow any other Gifted characters unless they are absolutely sure that they want them.

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Your magic is much more potent in a fairly limited area, such as weather, necromancy, birds, or emotions. This area should be smaller than a single Art, but may be spread over several Arts – necromancy, for example, covers both Corpus and Mentem effects. You cannot be focused on laboratory activities, although a focus does apply to laboratory activities.

 

Sample Major Magical Foci :

This list is merely exemplary. Other foci are possible.

 Animal: Birds, or mammals, or domesticated animals.

 Aquam: Salt water or fresh water.

 Auram: Weather.

 Corpus: Men or women.

 Herbam: Trees or food plants.

 Imaginem: Visual images, auditory images, tactile images, or taste and smell together.

 Mentem: Emotions or memories.

 Terram: Metals or stone.

 Necromancy: Corpus and Mentem as applied to the bodies and spirits of dead people.

 Damage: Any Art, as long as the effect does damage directly, either by inflicting a wound or doing a certain amount of damage which can be soaked.

 Disguise: Changing the appearance of something, by any means.

 When you cast a spell or generate a Lab Total within your focus, add the lowest applicable Art score twice. If a spell has requisites, the lowest applicable score may be one of the requisites, rather than one of the primary Arts. Thus, if a magus with a focus on birds was casting a spell to turn a bird into pure flame, MuAn (Ig), with Muto 14, An 18, and Ig 10, his final total would be 34 + other modifiers: 14 from Muto, and 20 from adding Ignem twice. If he was casting a spell to turn a bird into another sort of bird, MuAn with no requisites, his total would be 46 + other modifiers, 18 from Animal and 28 from adding Muto twice.

 A character can have only one Magical Focus, either major or minor, regardless of the source of the focus.

 

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Your Advancement Totals for one Hermetic Art are increased by one half, rounded up. At character creation, any experience points you put into that Art are also increased by one half (rounded up), and you may exceed the normal recommended limits. You may take this Virtue twice, for two different Arts.

 

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Your Advancement Totals for one Hermetic Art are increased by one half, rounded up. At character creation, any experience points you put into that Art are also increased by one half (rounded up), and you may exceed the normal recommended limits. You may take this Virtue twice, for two different Arts.

 

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You may boost your Formulaic or Ritual spell casting totals by expending additional Fatigue levels. Each Fatigue level gives you an additional bonus of +5 on the roll, which can yield very impressive Penetration totals. You may burn more Fatigue levels than you possess. If you do, you must Soak damage, without the help of armor. The Damage total is 5 for every additional Fatigue level spent, plus a stress die. Thus, if you spend three additional levels, you must Soak a damage of 15 + stress die, with your Soak (no armor) + stress die. Fatigue levels spent in this way are spent regardless of the success or failure of the casting roll, and any wounds taken are similarly taken even if you fail to cast the spell. You can kill yourself doing this. The total number of Fatigue levels to be used must be committed before the casting roll is made.

 

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You are completely immune to one hazard which is both common and potentially deadly. For example, you might be immune to fire or to iron (and only iron) weapons. You may not take immunity to aging — see the Unaging Minor Virtue (page @@) instead. This immunity applies to mundane and magical versions of the thing. If you are immune to fire, you are also immune to magically created fire.

One important possibility is immunity to deprivation, which means that you suffer no loss of Fatigue or wounds from going without air, food or drink. However, you cannot regain long-term Fatigue without rest and sustenance, and if you are injured deprivation could cause your wounds to worsen.

You may take this Virtue more than once, with a different immunity each time.

 

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You are prone to anger over the smallest issues, and your rage when you are thwarted in something major is terrible to behold.

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You add 3 to the value of one Art whenever you use it. This means all totals in which the score of the Art is part of the total. It does not apply when learning, teaching, or writing about the Art. You may take this Virtue twice, for two different Arts. If a spell has requisites, include the bonus from Puissant Art with that Art when calculating which Art is higher. If the Puissant Art is higher, the bonus does not apply to the requisite.

 

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In order for your magic to work, you must perform a specific action while casting any spell. This should be something simple, such as singing or spinning around three times. If you cannot perform the action, you cannot cast spells at all.

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Someone is causing trouble for you, such as a local baron or bishop, a band of outlaws, or a really nasty innkeeper. The enemy must be powerful enough to endanger you — this is best agreed on with the storyguide and the rest of the troupe.

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A robe made from a durable yet soft fabric. It feels comfortable against the skin, providing warmth without being too heavy.

Hood: A large hood that can easily cover the head, adding to the mystique of the wearer. When not in use, it drapes elegantly over the back.

Sleeves: The sleeves are wide and billowing, perfect for wide gestures and spellcasting.

Fastening: The robe is secured with a simple belt or sash, usually made from the same material.

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