The Tremere can take three more points of Flaws, and a similar number of Virtues. At the moment, he is a social and political creature, but the score in one of those Abilities could be moved into a Martial Ability to make him more of a fighter. Elemental Magic makes it difficult to move Art scores around. Initially, he was assigned scores of Aq 3, Au 6, Ig 6, and Te 6. Aquam received an additional 33 experience points (from Auram, Ignem and Terram), for a final total of 39 and a score of 8 (3), and each of the other Arts received an additional 25 experience points, for a final total of 46 and a score of 9 (1).
Note: Elemental magic is not fully automated
Enticing, fascinating, and endearing others to you, but only on a personal basis. It can be used to win someone over emotionally, especially members of the opposite sex.
\nSpecialties: courtly love, first impressions, being witty. (General)
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\nSpecialties: Wizards' Marches, apprentices, mundane relations, Tribunal procedures, political intrigue. (Arcane)
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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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Specialties: nobility, court, peasants, faeries, the Church. (General)
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\nSpecialties: grace, precision, any one Form. (Arcane)
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\nSpecialties: particular sorts of deception, lying to authority, fast talk, elaborate lies. (General)
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\nSpecialties: gossip, plotting, rumormongering, alliances. (General)
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\nSpecialties: peasants, townsfolk, nobles, clergy, magi, the opposite sex. (General)
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Specialties: academic usage, Church ceremonies, Hermetic usage. (Academic)
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\nSpecialties: intimidation, in combat, inspiration. (General)
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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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Specialties: personalities, history, politics. (General)
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Specialties: any one Art. (Arcane)
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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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\nSpecialties: inventing spells, enchanting items, a single Art. (Arcane)
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You have been trained in the ability to manipulate raw elemental Forms (Aquam, Auram, Ignem, and Terram), and view them as a connected whole rather than four separate Arts. Whenever you gain experience from a source dedicated to one of these Arts, you gain half the Source Quality (rounded up) in experience points in each of the other three Arts. For example, if you studied Ignem from a book with a Source Quality of 13, you would gain 7 experience points in each of Aquam, Auram, and Terram.
During character creation, assign all your experience points in Arts. Then assign half the experience points assigned to each of the elemental Forms to each of the other elemental Forms. Do not actually add these experience points to the Form in question until you have finished calculating all the bonus experience points. For example, if you assign 10 experience points to each of Aquam, Auram, and Terram, and 21 experience points to Ignem, then you should assign 15 bonus experience points to Ignem (5 from each of Aquam, Auram, and Terram), and 21 bonus experience points to each of Aquam, Auram, and Terram (11 from Ignem, and 5 each from the other two Forms).
In addition, if a spell with one of these Forms as its primary Form has another element as a requisite, you use the primary Form to calculate totals, even if the requisite is lower.
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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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You are very careful with magic, and are less likely to fail spectacularly if you do fail. You roll three fewer botch dice when casting spells (whether ritual, formulaic, or spontaneous), and when working in the laboratory. This Virtue may not reduce the number of botch dice rolled below one. However, its effects are applied before any other effects which reduce botch dice, such as Spell Mastery (see page @@), and they may reduce the number of botch dice to zero.
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Your magic is particularly attuned to some narrow field, such as self-transformation, birds of prey, or healing. In general, the field should be slightly narrower than a single Technique and Form combination, although it may include restricted areas of several such combinations. Healing, for example, is a part of Creo Corpus, Creo Animal, and possibly Creo
Herbam. You cannot be focused on a laboratory activity, such as creating charged items, although a focus does apply to laboratory activities.
Sample Minor Magical Foci
This list is merely exemplary; other foci are possible.
Animal: Birds of prey, canines, mustelidae.
Aquam: Stagnant water, small streams.
Auram: Wind, rain, lightning.
Corpus: Aging, disease.
Herbam: Fruiting, wood.
Imaginem: A particular color or sound.
Mentem: Anger, lust, erasing memories, changing memories.
Terram: Creating metals, destroying stone.
Healing: Applies to people, animals, and plants.
Self-transformation: Applies to both Corpus and Mentem.
When you cast a spell or generate a Lab Total within your focus, add the lowest applicable Art score twice, as for a Major Magical Focus (page @@).
A magus may only have one Magical Focus, whether major or minor, regardless of the source of the focus.
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You have a magical quality that has not yet manifested itself. You probably do not realize you have this capacity; if you are a magus, your master failed to detect it during your apprenticeship. At the storyguide’s discretion, this quality might appear spontaneously or because of some relevant event (like drinking faerie wine). This is not The Gift, and the latent ability is more limited than that.
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Your parens was more powerful, or a better teacher, than is common. You gain an additional 60 experience points and 30 spell levels during apprenticeship. This Virtue has no effect on your study after apprenticeship, but you still have a close relationship with a powerful magus.
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You are especially sensitive to the Dominion and suffer twice the normal penalties (such as spellcasting modifiers and botch dice) to your magic when in a Divine aura.
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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