Character:MageOx
Contents
Profile[edit]
- Fallen Name: Zheng Xinyao
- Age: 27
- Virtue: Charity
- Vice: Wrath
- Path: Thyrsus
- Order: Mysterium
Attributes[edit]
Mental[edit]
- Intelligence: 2
- Wits: 2
- Resolve: 3
Social[edit]
- Presence: 3
- Manipulation: 1
- Composure: 3
Physical[edit]
- Strength: 2
- Dexterity: 3
- Stamina: 3
Skills[edit]
Social[edit]
- Empathy 2
- Persuasion 2
Mental[edit]
- Investigation 1 (rote specialty)
- Medicine 2
- Occult 4 (local mythology) (rote specialty)
Physical[edit]
- Athletics 3 (throwing weapons)
- Brawl 4 (kung fu)
- Survival 2 (rote speciality)
- Stealth 2
Merits[edit]
- Ally: Gang 1
- Familiar ("Titus", a raven death-spirit) 4
- Fighting style: Evasive Striking (kung fu) 4
- Fighting Finesse: Unarmed 2
- Graduate of the Asclepian Academy 3
- Hallow (personal) 1
- High Speech
- Predator's Innocence 3
Familiar[edit]
Str/Dex/Sta 2/4/2
Int/Wit/Res 1/4/2
Pre/Man/Com 1/3/2
Power/Finesse/Resistance 2/3/3
Brawl 3, Stealth 4, Survival 2
Expression 2, Intimidation 4
Investigation 3
Willpower 4
Essence 10
Initiative 7
Defence 4
Speed 16 (flight only; species factor 10)
Size 2
Health 4
Influence knowledge
Numina Innocuous, Destroy the Threads
Ban ?
Arcana[edit]
- Life 3
- Spirit 2
- Death 1
Legacy[edit]
Soul Shepherd
Oblations[edit]
First Attunement[edit]
- Attune Prerequisites:
- How the character gained it
- Description of the Attunement
Rotes[edit]
- Aspiring to the Pinnacle (Res+Athletics+Life): +1/success to a Physical stat, capped by Life dots
- Fall of Night (Wits+Occult+Death): intensify existing shadows
- Clamour of the Departed (Wits+Occult+Death): see, hear, speak with ghosts
- Reaper's Scent (Int+Medicine+Death): detect the cause of a death
Background[edit]
The mild-mannered man commonly called 'Ox' (阿牛) even by his Sleeper acquaintances runs a traditional Chinese medicine clinic out of a gently-decaying Chinese clan association. In his youth, he proved capable in school, but being too soft-hearted he soon started doing favours for the wrong people, and quickly became involved in one of Singapore's youth gangs, descended from the great Triads that once ran the small island-city before the coming of the British. The ritual-rich atmosphere of the gang triggered something in the young man, and he began to see scenes of the spiritual overlaid with those of the real. His senior officers wore the visages of fearsome war-deities, and his foes assumed the semblance of uncouth demons. His ability to see to the truth of things put him in great danger: he immediately identified a spy for a rival gang by the painted visage he mistook for the man's face. In order to silence him, the spy drew him aside. What was in reality a water-tower in a remote location Ox saw as a tree, dead but magnificent, punching through the sky. At its summit, the traitor turned on Ox and stabbed him.
To little effect. When the knife was withdrawn from the flesh of Ox's stomach, the flesh torn in its wake sealed as if no wound had ever been. Ox weathered a rain of knife-blows with a benevolent smile, glassy-eyed, as his body shed injuries like raindrops. And then he reached out and casually crushed his assailant's trachea.
Spying a sole sprig pushing its way through the cracked floor of the water-tank, Ox filled his hands with his victim's blood and watered the shoot with it. It grew within the space of heartbeats, and when it flowered it revealed to him the truth of his own nature and the world around him, confirming what he's always known: that reality is an illusion, a manifestation of Mara, that can only be surpassed through great sacrifice and great heroism.
Quitting the gang with the blessing of his superiors, he took up the study of Chinese medicine. He still treats members of his former gang for free, and invokes the blessings of the gods on their activities. He also witnesses the oaths given by new members, and ensures that they will never betray their blood brothers.
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Dedicated Magical Tool: an antique Chinese copper coin, worn on a thong around his neck; a sheaf of written paper charms
- Nimbus: Prayer-strips inked with mantras flutter from his wrists and shoulders; ghostly chanting fills the air
- Gnosis: 2
- Wisdom: 7
- Willpower: 6
- Defence: 2 (max 5 when buffed)
- Armour: 3 (Life)
- Health: 8
- Initiative: 5 (max 8 when buffed)
- Speed: 10 (max 13 when buffed)
Combat Manoeuvres[edit]
- Focused Attack: -1 penalties to hit specific targets; -1 armour penalties to strike opponent
- Duck and Weave: use higher of Dexterity or Wits to calculate Defence
- Fighting Finesse: uses Dexterity instead of Strength for unarmed attacks
Spells Maintained[edit]
bold face indicates spells cast on self, affecting Spell Tolerance (3); max spells active (5)
- Mage Armour (Life edition)
- Body Mastery (3 successes; +3 sux to resistance, heals bashing/lethal/agg in 5m/16h/2d)
- Mage Sight
- Honing the Form (in combat)
- Transform Self (in combat)
- Sense Life (in combat)
- Coaxing the Spirit (in combat)
Items carried[edit]
- throwing knives (3, +1L, injection venom Toxicity 6 (poison arrow frog venom)
- leather gloves (+1B, sometimes enchanted with Coaxing the Spirit)
- light hoodie
- first aid kit (+1, needles/thread/gauze/disinfectant)
XP[edit]
Arcane[edit]
- Gained: 3
- Spent: 0
Mundane[edit]
- Gained: 8
- Spent: 6 - Predator's Innocence Merit
