Character:Falconer

Falconer

Character in Mage: The Awakening: A Civil War, played by Phantom Stranger.

Profile

• Civilian Name: Daniel Beaumont
• Virtue: Fortitude ('There is always a way forward')
• Vice: Lust ('Life is to be lived')
• Path: Thyrsus
• Legacy: Fathers of the Urban Flock
• Order: Silver Ladder

Attributes

Mental

• Intelligence 2
• Wits 4 (Wandering Eyes)
• Resolve 4 (Headstrong)

Physical

• Strength 2
• Dexterity 2
• Stamina 3

Social

• Presence 3
• Manipulation 2
• Composure 3

Skills:

Mental

• Academics 2
• Investigation 1
• Occult 2
• Politics (Silver Ladder) 2

Physical

• Athletics 3
• Brawl 1
• Drive 3
• Larceny 2
• Stealth (Hunted) 3
• Survival 2

Social

• Animal Ken (Falconry) 2
• Expression 1
• Socialise 1
• Streetwise 1
• Subterfuge 0

Arcana

• Life 3
• Spirit 1
• Space 2
• Mind 2

Merits

Magical

• High Speech (From Ladder)
• Familiar 4 (Moamyn) (Falcon/Spirit of the Hunt)
• Sanctum 2 (Own sanctum)
• Sanctum 2 (toward group)
• Hallow 1 (toward group)
• Mentor 3 (Mythago of the Gainesville Consilium, Thyrsus Guardian and member of the Fathers of the Urban Flock legacy)
• Status (Silver Ladder) 2
• Status (Consilium) 1

Mundane

• Barfly 1
• Direction Sense 1
• Resources 3 (Second son of the Gainesville Beaumonts)

(4 merit points remaining, to be spent on Rotes)

Rotes

• Fleshless Speech (Spirit 1, p. 246)
• Organic Resilience (Life 2, p. 183)
• Remote Viewing (Space 2, p. 235)
• Third Eye (Mind 1, p. 206)
• The Hidden Hunter (Mind 2, Space 2, similar effect to the 'Forever Stranger' rote [p.208] but cast on an animal, Wits + Animal Ken + Mind)

Miscellaneous

• Dedicated Magical Tool: Worn, battered, slightly torn falconer's glove
• Nimbus: A gleaming sunbeam with, in the centre, dark, concealed motion.
• Gnosis: 3
• Wisdom 6
• Willpower 8
• Rolls

Legacy: Fathers of the Urban Flock

Attainment:

Vermin Have Their Uses

Prerequisites: Gnosis 3, Mind 2 (primary), Space 2, Animal Ken 2 The mage can reach out to a city-dwelling animal with whom he has a sympathetic connection, similar to the Mind 2 "Beast Control" spell (p. 207), requiring an Instant Action to do so. The user can also communicate with such animals in their own language of behaviours, growls, grunts, cues and/or markings. A Presence + Animal Ken roll and instant action is required to communicate simple concepts. She can communicate only the kind of information that another animal of that type could convey to one of its fellow species.

King of the Beasts (Optional)

Prerequisites: Gnosis 3, Life 2, Animal Ken 2 Animals naturally know the pecking order of things. You assume mankinds rightful place as King of Beasts, no longer separate and aloof as is most of man. You may add your dots if Life as successes to any Animal Ken roll a number of times per Scene equal to your Gnosis.

Background

Scion of a wealthy line of Southern gentry, Daniel is twenty-four now. He Awoke a little over a year ago on family property some miles outside Gainesville, out riding with his favourite falcon Moamyn (named for the Arabic falconer who wrote the original text that, following translation, set the course for European falconry.) Seeing a likely target, he sent Moamyn up after it, and the chased bird seemed suddenly to pick up speed, leading the falcon into the woods of the property.

Concerned, Daniel rode in after them, realising swiftly that these woods were no longer the land he remembered. Still searching for Moamyn, he eventually found him again at the base of what he would later learn was the Watchtower of the Stone Book.

The remainder of the afternoon is a blur, and for the next few days he passed the whole thing off as an attack of sunstroke. Such denial lasted only as long as it took for Mythago to both find him and confront him with the reality of magic.

Explanations from his new mentor sharpened Daniel's interest in this new world – a world that promised more intrigue and fascination than the slow, almost slothful pace of his family life. He eagerly embraced the notion of the Guardians of the Veil, seeing their structured society as a challenge, as a group of peers for the first time to thrive among, seeing their goal as a logical extension of his upbringing – but now he felt he had the power to put that into practice.

Rapidly fascinated with his mentor's legacy, Daniel saw the Fathers of the Urban Flock as a way to rise in Guardian standing – until his soul began to shift into their path. By this stage he had already worked with Mythago on binding a spirit into Moamyn (as Daniel sees it – in point of fact Mythago was almost entirely responsible for selection and binding both).

Sent initially as an envoy from Gainesville Consilium to the Atlanta Pentacle, Daniel had been in town for less than two days when he found himself attacked by a member of the Cult of the Doomsday Clock, nearly killed before he managed to escape. Daniel views this assault as an affront to the Gainesville Consilium as well as a direct insult, and as a direct consequence volunteered his services to the Atlanta Consilium in their troubles.

That was not at all long ago...

XP

Arcane

• Gained:7
• Spent:3
• Unspent:4

Mundane

• Gained:12
• Spent:12
• Unspent:0