Boltar Stormbreath

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A Character Sheet

Background and Story

It was a much voiced opinion around the clan that Yrsa's terrible wind, during her pregnancy, boded for an auspicious birth. Boltar did indeed make his appearance in the depths of Dark Season, on Windsday of Stasis week, which is Extinguish Day, holy to Urox, marking when the Storm Bull defeated Lodril. As an infant, the boy spoke his first words, his first phrases even, in Stormspeech, something that marked him out, for the rest of his childhood, as something special. And there's the rub.

Yrsa, the boy's mother, was a humble stickpicker. Not very bright, pretty as a spring morning and, sad to say, the plaything of an old goat of a godtalker. Had her Boltar not been such a remarkable infant, things might have been different, simpler. The poor boy's adolescence was a nightmare, however, of uncertainty, of dashed expectations, and of little companionship. The year the old godi died, the year of Boltar's coming of age, he made the boy swear himself to Orlanth, promising him that he would act as his sponsor. Boltar, expecting a first act of kindness from the old goat, was crushed to find the old man in a drunken stupor, with only insults for the boy. One of the clan ring stepped in to sponsor Boltar but when, some weeks later, the godi died, Boltar fled from home and was not seen for a good two years.

Come Starbrow's Rebellion, Boltar had fallen in with an Uroxi gang. Thinking he had finally found his home, and hearing talk of war, he undertook the initiation rites. He barely survived and was sick, unable to find peace, for a full season afterwards. Now an initiate, or so he thought, he travelled to battle with his gang, but nothing seemed right. In the berserker charge that led to his gang's decimation, the fury did not descend upon Boltar. He merely stood, and watched the slaughter.

In the confusion after the rebellion's collapse, some base instinct led Boltar home. Yet here, he is even less certain of his future than when he first left.

Character Details

• Name: Boltar Stormbreath
• Cult: Initiate Orlanth, Initiate Urox, Lay Zola Fel
• Race: Human
• Gender: Male
• Rune Associations: Air, Communication and Eternal Battle.
• One year marriage to Inyana

Characteristics

Str: 10, Con: 14, Siz: 17, Int: 16, Pow: 17, Dex: 10:, Cha: 18.

• Hit Points: 16
• Total Fatigue Points: 20
• Total Magic Points: 16 + 20 crystal
• Damage Bonus: +1d4
• Current Fatigue: 0
• Current Magic Points: 17 + (20 + 4) crystals = 41

Skill Groups

• Communication: +9%
  • Bargain (5%):
  • Fast Talk (5%):
  • Orate (5%): 85%
  • Sing (15%):
  • Language [Sartarite] (INTx5%): 91%
  • Language [Trade] (INTx3%): 49%
  • Language [Stormspeech]: 69%
  • Language [Pavic]: 05%

• Manipulation:+4%
  • Conceal (5%):
  • Device (5%):
  • Sleight of Hand (5%):
  • Instrument [xxx] (0%)

• Knowledge: +12%
  • Evaluate (5%):
  • First Aid (10%):
  • Shiphandling (0%): 25%
  • Craft [xxxx] (10%):
  • Lore [xxxx] (5%):
  • Read/Write [xxxx](0%):

• Perception: +7%
  • Listen (25%): 56%
  • Scan (10%): 91%
  • Search (25%): 53%
  • Track (10%): 49%
  • Sense Chaos (0%): 84%

• Agility: -7%
  • Boat (5%): 58%
  • Climb (40%): 70%
  • Dodge (5%):
  • Jump (25%): 45%
  • Ride (5%): 52%
  • Swim (15%): 40%
  • Throw (25%):
  • Hide (10%): 58%
  • Sneak (10%): 61%

• Magic: +5%
  • Ceremony (5%): 89%

Magical Abilities

• Spirit Magic:
  • Bladesharp 5
  • Protection 2
  • Demoralize (2)
  • Disruption (1)
  • Farsee 1 (not in memory)
  • Heal 4
  • Mindspeech 1 (not in memory)
  • Mobility 1
  • Fanaticism (1)

• Divine Magic:
  • Berserker
  • Command Spirit of Law (Waha)
  • Divination
  • Fear
  • Heal Wound I
  • Sanctify
  • Shield II
  • Spirit Block I
  • Warding
  • Worship (ritual)

• Gifts/Geases:

Hit Points and Armour

Location Name	Armour types	A.P.	H.P.	Enc.	Melee	Missile
Head	Ringmail hood + leather	7	5	1.6	19-20	20
Left Arm	Ringmail sleeve + soft leather	7	4	1.6	16-18	18-19
Right Arm	Ringmail sleeve + soft leather	7	4	1.6	13-15	16-17
Chest	Ringmail Byrnie +soft leather	7	6	3.2	12	11-15
Abdomen	Ringmail skirt+Leather skirt	7	5	1.6	09-11	07-10
Left Leg	Ringmail+leather	7	5	3.2	05-08	04-06
Right Leg	Ringmail+leather	7	5	3.2	01-04	01-03

• Total Hit Points: 14 HP
• Total Armor ENC: 16
• 1 AP Skin

Weapons and Shields

• Attack Bonus: +3%
• Parry Bonus: -7%
• Strik Rank: Siz 1 + Dex 3 = 4

Weapon/Shield Name	Damage	S.R.	A.P.	Attack %	Parry %	Range	Enc.
Great Axe (2H)	2d6+2+1d4	6	10	112%	100%	-	2
Short Sword (1H)	1d6+1+1d4	6	10	77%	27%	-	1
Javelin	1d8+1d2	3/9	8	80%	-	20/50	2x1.5=3
Sling	1d8	3	xx	39%	xx	100/100	20x0.1=2
Grapple	xx	xx	xx	35%	xx	xx	xx

• Total Weapon ENC: 8

Equipment

• Weapons:
  • Great axe, short sword, 3 javelins, sling and stones.
  • 4 javelins, not carried

• Magic
  • Magic Crystal: 3 POW power enhancing stone. This one must be attuned. (Lose 1 point of permanent POW.) Then it allows you to double the power of variable spells up to the POW of the stone. It works for everything except Healing spells. You can only ever attune 1 powered crystal.
• Magic Crystal #1: 20 MP storage device.

• Armour:

• Other:
  • Backpack (20 ENC) 2.0 + 4.5 = 6.5 (drop for combat)
    • Lightweight blanket 1.0
    • Straw Paliasse 1.0
    • Waterskin, 4.0 litre 4.5
    • Fishing Net, Small 0.5
    • 4 torches 2.0
    • 2 wax candles (1 hr) 0.2
    • Soap, plain 0.1
    • Crowbar 2.0
    • Rope, 10m 2.0
    • Wooden mallet 1.0
    • Cold chisel 1.0
    • Mutton 0.5
    • Dates 0.5
    • 1L worth of food

• Valuables:
  • 7L
  • 3000L from sea adventure -600L to cults = 2400L-415L training -300L wedding -100L sending for mother Yrsa = 2000-415 = 1585L

Notes

Improvement plans

• Protection 5
• Enchant matrix to free up some of my memory - find out how it works.
• Repair matrix
• Sword parry!
• Back-up axe?
• Spell matrix enchantment? (Spirit magic)
• Iron axe - ha ha ha.
• Divine magic - Get next, something from: Command Sylph (1), Mindlink (1), Shield III
• Increase Str? or Con?

I was looking at my spells and I realize that it would be good to have some of my spells as matrices. I looked at the rules and while I didn't understand them well, it seems I could get the Spell Matrix Enchantment spell. I would need an inscription skill of 30% too. This would effectively allow me to create matrices of some of my spells in exchange for POW - so it would only really make sense if and when I become a priest I reckon. It then becomes a choice between expending POW to gain divine magic [I]versus [/I] doing so to free up some room for (spirit magic) spells. Depending on how POW gain goes, I can see where it might be valid; I could even pass round some matrices like Disrupt to free others' Int's up.

Just thinking about this really. I think it would be very good to have Protection 5 (=8 when boosted) but with Bladesharp 5, Heal 4 and Fanaticism as essentials, it leaves me only one point left for Disrupt.

Divine Magic notes

Storm Bull Cult Spells: Berserker (2), Command Sylph (1), Face Chaos, Impede Chaos, Shield (1)

Common Divine Magic (available to Storm Bull): Dismiss Magic (1), Divination (1), Excommunication (ritual), Extension (1), Find Enemy (1), Find (substance) (1), Heal Wound (1), Mindlink(1), Sanctify (1), Soul Sight (1), Spirit Block (1), Warding (1), Worship (ritual), Armoring Enchantment (ritual), Binding Enchantment (ritual), Strengthening Enchantment (ritual), Spell Matrix Enchantment (ritual), Magic Point Matrix Enchantment (ritual)

Associated Cults: Cure Chaos Wound (Chalana Arroy), Understand Beast Speech (Eiritha), Earthpower (Ernalda), Increase Wind (Orlanth), Cloud Call (Valind) (1), Command Spirit of Law (Waha), Fear (Zorak Zoran)

• Command Spirit of Law is a spirit that attacts Chaos creatures in spirit combat. If it wins, they die.
• Valind isn't available here.
• Cure Chaos Woundis not that great: you stack it with a regular (spirit magic) heal and it provides all the MP for the spell.

Q: How much does a (ritual) spell cost? I couldn't find the text on that. A: As battle magic (see p136-)

Cult advancement notes

Q: In RQ, how does that Urox overlap into shamanism (Storm Bull) work in Prax? I understood it in HW/HQ but my guess is that it kinda means little in RQ as shamans already have a role in what would be divine cults in HQ. A: Good question that I don't have an immediate answer for. You worship Storm Bull as a god and treat him that way, but get access to associated spirits (summoning) through that. A shaman might see him as a massive spirit of some sort and could worship him and gain a point or two of his specialized divine magic (Berserk most readily, Impede Chaos next). From a modern perspective, you see the same entity through different lenses and thus are able to extract different things from it due to your own personal preconceptions of how he works. From a Gloranthan POV, it might be not be too different, given nobody is going to deny that a shaman, rune lord, or priest actually gained displayable power from the encounter. Anyone else?

A Storm Khan (Rune Lord/Priest) must have:

• Worship (and want Divination and Sanctify YES)
• 90% attack in a weapon YES
• 90% in 4 other skills, from:
  • weapon parry (house rule) YES 1
  • ceremony (house rule) - 91% YES 2
  • scan 91% YES 3
  • second attack - javelin 80% / short sword 77% 4
  • sense chaos 84% 4
  • search 53+7=60%
  • track 49%
  • shield parry - NO
  • ride NO

• Heal 4 YES
• A total of 10 points of divine magic. YES

Excommunication will become necessary if you end up an actual staff priest somewhere. There get easier to pick up as you get automatic POW increases for leading worship at that point.

Training notes

Did I give you training rules before? I know I mentioned that I just have you pay X amount to train so many hours. Then you get a normal skill check (not automatic). It works nicely and is far less fiddly than the official RQ3 rules.

Let's just say that one training session costs 10 L for skills 0-25%, 20 L for skills 25-50%, 40 L for skills 51-75%. Most skills can't be trained above 75%, but use base skill to determine this (and Lore etc are exceptions).

You can train 1 skill while carrying a full-time job per week. You can train 3 skills if you aren't working. Alternatively, you can replace on of those skills with stat training. After a season if training you get a single check for that stat.

Most likely, you'll need multiple sessions to get an actual increase, so plan accordingly.

Attributes: spend a season training and attribute (replaces 1 skill slot) and you can an attribute increase roll: just like a POW gain roll.

Training: 10 L for skills 0-25%, 20 L for skills 25-50%, 40 L for skills 51-75%

XP Checks: if d100 > current skill*, add 1d4+1. You always have your INT chance of succeeding.

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Training after adventure at sea

• wk 1 - recovering Divine magic
  • 8 points to recover, 1 day + successful ceremony (87) each
  • rolls 41 48 86 13 97 =4

• wk 2 - more of the same
  • rolls 27 86 61 94 23 =4

• wk 3-6 Magic
  • Learn Worship (1), Warding (1), Berserker (2) = 4d & 80L
  • Heal 3 + Heal 4 = 35L (115)

• wk 7 (3 skills) - 60L (175)
  • Javelin 66+3
  • roll 94 (+1d4+1 = 3+1) Javelin 70+3
  • roll 30
  • roll 86 (+1d4+1 = 2+1) = Javelin 73+3

• wk 8 (3 skills) - 60 L (235)
  • Short sword 63+3%
  • roll 80 (+1d4+1 = 3+1) = S sword 67+3
  • roll 96 (+1d4+1 = 1+1) = Short sword 69+3
  • roll 73 (+1d4+1 = 3+1) = Short sword 73+3

• wk 9 (3 skills) = 60L (295)
  • Short sword 73+3
  • roll 46
  • roll 99 (+1d4+1=4+1) = S sword 77+3
  • Scan = 75%
  • 38

• wk 10 (3 skills) = 60L (355)
  • Scan = 75+mods
  • roll 85 (+1d4+1=3+1) = Scan 79+mods
  • Sense chaos = 69+7
  • roll 97 (+1d4+1=3+1) = Sense chaos 73+7
  • roll 71

• wk 11 (3 skills) = 60L (415)
  • roll 88 (1d4+1=3+1) = Sense chaos 77+7
  • Search 51+7
  • roll 29
  • roll 67 (1d4+1)=1+1 = 53+7