Joan Of Ex Miscellanea

Game: Ars Magica - By Hook or By Crook

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Joan was a peasant girl, living on the edge of a small English manor village. Her family was extremely poor and had next to no land; her father was forced to engage in very dangerous poaching to supply them with food.

As she grew, Joan attracted, and grew used to, the dislike and distaste that she seemed to inspire in nearly anyone she met; and, because of this she spent much of her time foraging for plants in the forest near her home.

Her life changed drastically when, one day, she met a leper. To see someone as maligned and outcast as her moved to her to pity, put her hand on him despite his leprosy. To her surprise, he was miraculously cured of his ailment.

Despite how disliked she was, this drew some attention, and, eventually, the maga who would become her parens- Avice ExMiscellanae.

Her apprenticeship was amazing at first, since she was afforded genuine human affection for the first time in many years. She turned her love of plants into an amazing talent; learned some modicum of the healing ways her parens wished her to to take up. Alas, it was short-lived.

Joan continued to run into problems, as her attempts to heal the sick and wounded were faltered by their intense distrust and hatred of her. No one wished to be treated by her unless they were truly desperate.

Eventually, after her gauntlet, Joan left England to escape her own perceived failure; joined a new covenant, in hopes that she could seclude herself into researching new types of plants. She hopes to invent and standardize spells to improve the quality of life of countless people by permitting crops to be grown in excess of their natural seasons.

Of course, as someone who lived for so long with so little, the notion of being incredibly wealthy also appeals to Joan; the knowledge that many a noble would pay handsomely for apples in midwinter is not unknown to her.

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Characteristics:

Int +3, Per +1, Pre -1, Com +1, Str -2, Sta +2, Dex +0, Qik +0

Size: 0

Age: 25

Decrepitude: None

Warping Score: 0 (0)

Confidence Score: 3

Virtues and Flaws:

Hermetic Magus

Affinity with (Herbam)*, Greater Purifying Touch (Leprosy)*, Minor Magical Focus (Fruiting Plants), Cyclic Magic (Summer), Puissant (Creo), Enduring Magic

Avaricious (Minor), Chaotic Magic*,Blatant Gift

Virtues or Flaws marked with * are from Ex Miscellanea

Personality Traits: Avaricious +2, Shy +1, Kind +2

Reputations: None

Combats: Attack +0, Defense +0, Damage: n/a

Soak: +2

Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, –1, –3, –5, Unconscious

Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Incapacitated (16–20)

Abilities:

English 5 (slang), Folk Ken 1 (peasants), Awareness 3 (Alertness), (Home-Town) Lore 1 (legends), Athletics 1 (running), Survival 1 (forests)

Animal Herding 2 (sheep), Concentration 2 (long-term activity), Craft 3 (raising plants)

Artes Liberales 3 (music), Latin 4 (reading), Magic Theory 3 (herbam), Parma Magica 1 (ignem)

Code of Hermes Lore 1 (mundane relations), Magic Lore 1 (creatures), finesse 1 (creo), penetration 2 (herbam), Medicine 2 (Apothecary), Chirurgy 1 (Diagnosis)

Arts:

Creo 5 (15XP), Rego 4 (10xp), Muto 4 (10xp), Perdo 2 (3XP), Herbam 10 (40XP + 20XP), Corpus 3 [6XP], Animal 3 [6XP)

Twilight Scars: None (yet)

Equipment: Wizard clothes

Encumbrance: 0 (0)

Spells Known:

Chirurgeon's Healing Touch (CrCo 20)

Gentle Touch of the Purified Body (CrCo 20)

Physician's Eye (InCo 5)

Trap of Entwining Vines (CrHe 15)

Blessing of the Well-Tended Orchard (CrHe 20)*

Piercing Shaft of Wood (MuHe 10)

Circle of Beast Warding (ReAn 5)

Sigil: Joan's Sigil makes her spells evoke the rich smell of freshly tilled earth, or of leaves in autumn.

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Custom Spells

Blessing of the Well-Tended Orchard

CrHe 25

R: Voice, D: Moon, T: Group

The Maga invokes the protective powers and strength that lies within each of the trees within her voice's reach, up to ten. These trees are protected from disease and illness, but not misfortune, for at least a month. (Base 1, +2 Voice, +3 Moon, +2 Group)