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PETRUS MARGAUNT
THE ARCANIST ASCENDANT
Character Information
- Full Name: Petrus Margaunt
- True Name: ?
- Heritage: Solacian Teled
- Birthdate: January 18th, 215 AC
- Gender: Male
- Occult: Caan Godborn, Dictat-Aligned True Mage
Appearance Information
- Eye Color: Lavender
- Skin Color: Dark
- Hair: Raven Black
- Height: 6'4" / 193cm
- Weight: 230lbs / 100.2kg
- Body Type: Muscular, Mesomorph
- Voice: Elgar'nan - Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Skill Information
- Character Occupation: Mage, Aelrrigan Knight, Cursebreaker, Archivist, Psion
- Hobbies and Talents: Magical Talent, Arcane Technique, Antique Handling, Book Binding, Spell Weaving, Catalyst Forging
- Languages: Altalar (Native, Solacian Dialect), Common, Pig Altalar, Calem, Hellas
Combat Proficiencies and Abilities
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TOTAL POINT INVESTMENT: MAGIC 14TRUE MAGE
ATTACK: MAGIC (+7, 1d17) - DEFENSE: MAGIC (+5, 1d15)
TRUE MAGE PACK: ARCANE TANKSource: Proficiency Point, True Mage
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
TRUE MAGE PACK: ARCANE APOTHEOSISSource: Proficiency Point, True Mage
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE COUNTERSource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE BARRIERSource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE DISTORTIONSource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE WARPSource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE ISOLATESource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE CLEANSESource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE PORTENTSource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
ABILITY PACK: ARCANE REVIVESource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
PASSIVE ABILITY PACK: ARCANE AURASource: Proficiency Point
Category: Arcane Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
PASSIVE ABILITY PACK: SAFEGUARD PACKSource: Proficiency Point
Category: Adapt Point Buy, Magical Variant
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
PASSIVE ABILITY PACK: ARCANE INVOCATION, SCRIPT SCHOOL (I)Source: Proficiency Point, Repeatable (x3)
Category: Invoke Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
PASSIVE ABILITY PACK: ARCANE INVOCATION, VERACITY SCHOOL (II)Source: Proficiency Point, Repeatable
Category: Invoke Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)
PASSIVE ABILITY PACK: ARCANE INVOCATION, OBLITERATION SCHOOL (III)Source: Proficiency Point, Repeatable (x3)
Category: Invoke Point Buy
Relevant Stat: MAGIC (15)Attack Stat: Magic
Defense Stat: Magic
Proficiency Points:
- Intelligence:0
- Adapt Safeguard (Magic)
- Magic: 15
- ARCANE
- ARCANE TANK
- ARCANE APOTHEOSIS
- ARCANE COUNTER
- ARCANE BARRIER
- ARCANE WARP
- ARCANE ISOLATE
- ARCANE CLEANSE
- ARCANE DISTORTION
- ARCANE AURA
- ARCANE PORTENT
- ARCANE REVIVE
- ARCANE TANK
- INVOKE
- ARCANE INVOCATION (3)
- ARCANE
- Intelligence:0
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(Petrus' Custom Kit document is located here. If there is an inconsistency between what is represented here, and on the document, the official staff document takes precedence. I've likely just forgotten to update the passages here, with any tweaking Lore Staff wishes to do with the mechanics of this Custom Kit.)
Prized Roleplay Mechanic: Astral Mind
Petrus's own mind is a capable Astral Plane of its own, like Lathan, but much smaller. Petrus can open a gateway into his own mind, absorbing himself and others he lets pass in, to enter Elevion in his mind (a pseudo Create instance Plot just for Coratosh). In this Astral Plane, Petrus's mind controls all factors of reality and all laws within this world, as the world is in his mind.
Prized Roleplay Mechanic: Erudite Mind
Petrus is Regalia's foremost Magic erudite. While other Mage Characters are not forced to make their Characters less competent on all levels, Mage players should pick some Mage skills in which they are inferior, and learn things from Petrus when interacting. Additionally, Petrus can give permanent or temporary Magical Talent to mundane Characters, or disable this talent of Mages.
Mechanic: Receptive Mind
Petrus is a mind-reader and can see whole thoughts, or memories. Coratosh can establish two types of consent. Mind Leaks are encouraged to (on their own volition) share fragments that Petrus receives involuntarily from being near them. Mind Seen give Coratosh indefinite consent and trust to read their Character's minds, thoughts, and memories, maybe without IC knowledge.
Mechanic: Disdained Mind
Petrus is exceptionally highly attuned to the demeaning or dis daining thoughts of others. If Petrus is the target of a negative thought, emote, or statement made in any language, he is able to read this expression in his own mind, and understand the intent behind it. It is in essence impossible to insult-emote or commit emote thought crimes towards Petrus.
Mechanic: Cosmic Mind
Petrus can attain a higher state of cosmic awareness to perceive events in the world. He cannot target it, he may become aware of random events, or related to ongoing Roleplay or things that Petrus is dealing with. This can also be used during events as Insight (Wiki to be written) in Magical events in an area's past. Outside of events, Coratosh will contact MonMarty/Ōka for input.
Mechanic: Psychokinetic Mind
Petrus has psychic power over energies around him. This specifically allows him to manipulate, or destroy things that are either made of pure Magic or summoned using Magic. Additionally, because he is the oldest Caanborn, he acts like any Caanborn's stern oldest brother, who can dispel or shatter any Magic matter-creation other Caanborn make, no matter their magical strength. -
HERITAGE/AFFINITY MECHANIC: LIGHT MANIPULATORSource: Unionist Godborn (Caan the Magus)
Trappings/Flavor: Extension of natural-born mutations.
You can produce bright lights in your hands, at your fingertips, or in the air that will light up large areas like rooms or large open caverns. This light can be used to make an area that is conventionally dark as night appear bright as day, but does not have any Combat applications, and some Magical forms of darkness overrule Light Manipulation.
HERITAGE MECHANIC: EMOTION SENSESource: Unionist Godborn (Caan the Magus)
Trappings/Flavor: Natural-born Psionics
You can sense the emotional states of others, even when they are trying to hide it with their expression or body language. This will not detail why or how they came to such an emotion, you will just be able to feel it by looking at them. You can also try to telepathically heighten or lessen these emotions, though it is up to the other person whether this succeeds.
HERITAGE/AFFINITY MECHANIC: ARCANE PRODIGY [Gateway]Source: Godborn of Caan
Trappings/Flavor: Increased Capability
You choose one Magic School for free on top of your standard limit, but only receive a single mechanic from it, regardless of your Magic Proficiency investment. However, you can choose which of the Mechanics within the Magic School, that you gain access to.
KNIGHTHOOD MECHANIC: COUNTER WARDSource: Aelrrigan Order, Magelight Chapter
Trappings/Flavor: Psionic imposition
When someone else uses a Mechanic explicitly from the Magic Schools that is targeted at someone else or yourself, you are able to Disrupt this Mechanic and prevent it from working. You can either do this magically, or mundanely with your anti-Magic equipment. This can also prevent a Mage from Magic Overload.
Character Details, Magic Schools
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Petrus was born to a pious Unionist Lanlath woman, following a very chance encounter with Caan, The Magus. Despite feeling no small amount of honor in the child she carried and gave to the world, she quickly realized that a child of Petrus' particular emergent capabilities, even as an aside to his status as a Caanborn, was more than she could handle.
Rather than entrust him to the Aelrrigan Order, she passed Petrus along to an old friend, an ex-Lanlath Sihndar by the name of Sihn-Mas'yas, who lived within Drowda's Zarak Hold as one of its quartermasters and outfitters. Knowing his home to be a disciplined haven for Drowda's mages, he took the child and enrolled him within the Hold's academy, where his prodigy first saw light.
He had always expressed his passion for learning and was a turbulent child. Being young and suffering the thoughts and visions pressed onto him by the unwitting minds of others rendered him angry with the world and shunted him into solitude.
MIND MAGICSource: Mageborn Discipline, Mentor Training
Above all other schools of magic, Mind Magic is the strongest tool within Petrus' arsenal. Ever since he was a child, he has shown capabilities of emergent psionicism. The interpretation of thoughts, emotions, and the observation of visions of the past or present are among the few capabilities that make up the quintessence of Petrus' mental magery.
Petrus was raised within Zarak Hold and remained there until the age of thirteen. It hadn't been until his emergent psionic abilities, general overabundance of magical use, and uncanny prodigy soon became more than the highly-regimented institutions of Zarak Hold cared to handle.
Through no small effort, Sihn-Mas'yas landed Petrus into the care of his own mentor, a pre-cataclysm, former archmage by the name of Lanvalen Isendaanë Sulvaal. Lanvalen was the caretaker of an exclusive lyceum which harbored all manner of magic relics, books, and magical material regardless of origin or ethics. It was the thought of Lanvalen that to undo (In terms of Counter Magic), one had to learn to do.
Petrus took well to this quality in pursuit of his mentor's approval, studying theory and processes regarding even the darkest forms of magic to understand what technique makes them tick. This is also what inspired Petrus' obsession with perfect technique- a natural conclusion based on his mentor's eccentricities, as well as the general mindset that came with being a centuries' old magical erudite.
Petrus remained his apprentice the next two decades, well into his thirties.
GRAVITY, COUNTER, & ENCHANT MAGICSource: Mentor Training from the 'Archmage' Lanvalen Isendaanë SulvaalThe final principle school given to Petrus by his mentor, Enchantment is among his most commonly used schools, and the most obvious as being a part of his repertoire, given his propensity for embellishing himself in a grand series of ensorcelled pieces of jewelry, to any number of effects. Similarly, his spellbook has a number of durability enchantments which protect it from the elements.
As a psion, Petrus is given to several forms of kinesis. Levitation has always been within his skillset, and Gravity magic is one of the principle schools of magic fostered by Petrus' second mentor, Lanvalen Isendaanë Sulvaal.
The second principle school taught to Petrus by his master, and by far his favorite. To Petrus, a well-woven spell is a puzzle that, through Counter Magic, he can crack open. His greatest aim as a mage is for his spells to be cast 'technically perfect', in such a way that they are nearly impossible to pry open.
Petrus makes potent use of wards, be it on objects, containers, or himself. He confesses to something called 'Abjurationist's Paranoia', which he details to cause over-worry in a mage, layering spell after spell upon himself for protection. -
Petrus, still a young elf by all accounts, made the conscious choice to slow the pace of his studies and settle down outside of the stolen-away realm, allowed by his mentor on the condition that he remain on as an assistant and report regularly to take care of tasks outside of Lathan. Obliging the request of his mentor, he set out to take his exit through The Gates of Lathan, which took Petrus to lands bordering Etosil, beckoning him to the south.
SCRIPT & VERACITY MAGICSource: Book Training
Supplemental to his studies, Petrus has spent his entire lifetime among the most prestigious scriptoriums, in addition to keeping his own. The utility provided by Script magic prove invaluable to a mage of his persuasions. Combined with his potent Mind Magic, Petrus is well equipped to catalog large amounts of information very quickly. Truths learned from deep research have, in turn, accumulated their own power.
Following his time in Etosil, Petrus became suddenly spurned into an obsession with books of a particular scope. Finding his resources limited, and feeling inspired by personal experiences in the recent years, he joined with the Aelrrigan Order in Girobalda, where he remained a Rank-Knight for the remaining decades, feeling no pressing feeling to pursue an evaluation for promotion. During those years, he was of a single, undistracted mind.
He entered and served the order as a cold intellectual.OBLITERATION MAGICSource: Trial Training
Something spurred Petrus to research methods to avoid the eye of a Demon, and to empower himself through forfeit.
GATEWAY MAGICSource: Book Training
Gates are an invaluable resource to one wishing to deploy numbers, or to move large objects across distances.
Petrus took part sparse visits to Regalia during his early knighthood, as duty dictated, but detested to remain within the city for long, until he arrived in the present day in some final act of acquiesence.
Plothooks
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Caanborn
Petrus is immediately identifiable as a child of Caan, as a result of his eye-covering, and lucent purple arms. Other Caanborn may seek kinship in him, and those curious may feel free to pester him with questions regarding his Godborn status.
Additionally, due to having the blood of Caan, Petrus is able to see through an arcane, lidar-like vision. Like other Caanborn, he is able to see through magic itself. Whether to divulge part of a character's aesthetic to him via a 'signature', apprise Petrus of the state of their own magic, or to identify their possession of an artifact to Petrus. The brightness of these signatures is relative to the 'power' of a mage. At a player's convenience, they may make curses or other self-cast spells known to Petrus, even if they are ICly unaware of them.
Petrus is Caan's eldest child.
Elven Prodigy
Unlike other Caanborn, Petrus leans deeply into an Elven heritage. At first glance, he is obviously of fully-Nelfin blood. Maquixtl genes, adopted from his birth father are at the forefront. However, in terms of his demeanor, his Lathan upbringing shines through.
Faithful Arcanist
Magic is the greatest focus and passion of Petrus' life, with all of his years of study, expertise, and resources poured into the practice. As a result, he's become sympathetic with the notion that magic is the best gift and tool one could have, and that a life spent in ignorance or hatred of it is a life hardly lived. He is an Aldurist, even if he doesn't show many overt religious tendencies.
He has syncretized Estelley, to include the patrons Aseia and Melca into his faith. -
The Many Duties of a Knight
Petrus is a Knight-Sergeant of the Aelrrigan Order. With it, comes a host of responsibility and reason for any one character to approach him with matters regarding magic, artifacts, or the Aelrrigan Order itself. While his demeanor is dry and somewhat cold, he seems welcoming of any inquiries to the order, through himself. He seems to enjoy duty, through and through.
Hechiceros Temperance
As a member of the Hechiceros Chapter, Petrus has devoted himself to the study of good and well-mannered arcane fundamentals. Additionally, he is versed in a technique taught among the Chapter which allows him to prevent another mage from Limit-Breaking. Those who have a fear of themselves or another reaching such a point may find Petrus helpful. -
Disciplined Instruction
Petrus is a mage who has devoted his arcane study to generalist magic and all-around technique. As such, he is well equipped to teach a novice mage of any spark and Discipline the fundamentals of casting, and proper technique as it regards to somatism, internalization, verbalization, or Sigil/Rune-Crafting. The lattermost holds some specialty to him, as Petrus considers Rune and Sigil Magic, especially as they relate to wards and abjurations, his second natural discipline of magic.
(Refer to 'Erudite Mind' in the Custom Kit section for more information/Assurances that Petrus is able to perform this feat.)
Spellbreaker
Being as studied as he is, Petrus is also rather expert when it comes to undoing the spells of others-- Having freely and perhaps, distastefully, studied darker varieties of magic for the purpose of knowing how their spells are formed, and thusly undone. This knowledge, guided by a strict know-how of technique makes Petrus a rather proficient cursebreaker and exorcist. [14 Magic]
Arcane Quartermaster
Petrus is a proficient bookbinder, as well as an enchanter. He is able to make focuses for a mage, in most conceivable forms, as well as create objects with aesthetic enchantments. [Magical Wardrobe Pack]
Emergent Psionicism
Players may establish two types of consent with me in regards to Petrus.
Mind Leak: At your will, whenever you'd like, you may share with Petrus a fragment of your character's psyche; A thought, or a particularly powerful memory. This is especially useful in cases where players would like to avoid 'Skeleton in the Closet' roleplay, and share with another character a secret their character holds that they can't necessarily justify outwardly telling someone. Mind leaks are involuntary, on Petrus's part, as his psionic mind will passively read the thoughts and experiences of those less disciplined in keeping their minds contained.
Mind Seen: This is a permanent method of consent which allows Petrus to invade the mind of another player character to read emotions, thoughts, search for and view specific memories. This can be done without the recipient character's IC knowledge.
Those interested in interacting with Petrus on this psychic level are encouraged to approach me (Coratosh) and let me know.
(Refer to 'Receptive Mind' in the Custom Kit section for more information/Assurances that Petrus is able to perform this feat.)
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