MTG Salvation

Stats & Descriptions
Name - Golan Trevize
Race - Human
Age - 19
Affiliations - Peacekeepers + Mages
Appearance & Apparel - Golan looks something like this, but he's wearing a T-shirt that says "I survived the Mine" signed by Makeda, the Merc Merchant.
Personality & Background - Golan was raised in Epicrin as the only child of his loving parents, until a few years ago they were killed during the (TBD) war/invasion/conflict. In the chaos that followed, and with no means of supporting himself, Golan turned to petty theft to survive. Chief Enforcer Orin found Golan, fed him, clothed him, and trained him to be a Peacekeeper.

Skills/Weaknesses
Mantle - Your attunement to fire magics passively alters your body, stoking your inner fire and turning you into an embodiment of molten heat. Through concentration you can. if necessary, cause these changes to demanifest temporarily, though doing so drains your focus and ability to use spells.
Lvl 1. Your skin is ruddy and feverish. You quickly burn away poisons and potions.
Lvl 2. Your irises gain a flickering red glow. You are able to shift your perception to see heat.
Lvl 3. Your veins glow orange beneath your skin. Your touch is so hot it is painful for others to touch you.
Lvl 4. Your gaze causes a target to become warm and uncomfortably flush or feverish. This acts as an intimidation effect. This intimidation effect increases with your Mantle level.

Spells
Fire
1. Ignite - Snap your finger to cause a very small intense burst of heat in a spot you are looking at. Can be used to start a small fire if used on highly flammable materials
2. Fireball - Summon into your hand a semi-solid ball of flame that does not burn you and can be thrown. On impact it hits with the consistency of water.
3. Fire-Axe - Summon to your hand a throwing axe of solid flame.(Learned via the Legacy Journal)
3. Smokescreen - Burn a 7' diameter cloud of clinging smoke and choking ash into the air at a location within your sight.
4. Boil - Instantaneously turn up to ten gallons of water into expanding steam.
Not Fire
Lvl 1. Lantern - Create a floating ball of light before yourself or another that moves with the target, glowing with the intensity of a candle. (Learned via the Legacy Journal)
Lvl 3. Splint - Magical force reinforces your limbs, neck, and head, preventing them from moving in ways or suddenly moving at speeds that would be damaging, guarding against limb-breaks, joint dislocations or concussions. Can also be used to help hold already broken or injured body parts in place to allow movement.(Learned via the Legacy Journal)
Unlvl. Revoke - An artless spell taught only to those mages who dedicate themselves to the path of order. Allows the Arbiter to dispel and negate any spell whose level is less than the highest level spell they know. That spell cannot be cast until after your next post. The same spell cannot be revoked twice in one encounter.

Weapons
PyreStar – A Stone Morningstar that can be willed to create a fiery, ghostly copy of its ball 5’ away that mimics the original’s movements. Despite its ghostly appearance the ball hits with the same amount of force as the Morningstar itself.

Non-Weapon Items
A Flask with an inscription on it
Legacy journal - Contains the spells: Fire Axe, Splint, and Lantern
Bloodied Coin - A gold coin stained with the blood of Deathcloak, proof of their role in bringing him down. Grants the wearer a Legend Point. Nontransferable.

Finances - 0 Gold - 2 PK Credit

**Celia's mind drifted in and out of consciousness, and after some time she came back to her senses, her mind alight with potental understanding.**

Divine Understanding - Celia is able to divine the nature and abilities of items by touch as well as gaining an understanding of the nature of their magical crafting. By touching an enchanted item or potion, she will gain permanent understanding of that type of enchanting or basic potioning.
Phoenix Flare - Celia may draw on the essential magics of a magical item she owns, ripping them out the item into her hands, where she is able to reforge them into temporary but far more powerful magical effect or spell based on that item. The item is destroyed, but will be magically recreated at the end of the encounter, powers intact.

The Piumato Luna is a Penne, an ancient style of sword designed for the archaic atarin fighting art translated roughly as Bladed Calligraphy. The penne is designed not simply for swordplay, but rather to carve literal runes of power known as Glifo into the air to supplement other attacks. Or so the stories say. Regarded as an artistic display at best and a complete waste of time at worst, any mention of practical in-the-field use for Bladed Calligraphy is treated with minimal respect. For now.
Lvl 1. All swordsmen paint in blood. Bladed Calligraphy paints with a swordsman's soul. To most warriors it's a rightfully laughable concept. But for whatever reason, where other practitioners have failed Ren has succeeded. Ren may use the two following Glifo, which may be carved as a part of an otherwise normal attack unless otherwise stated:
- Spada: A small glifo intended to be carved at the end of a strike, the Spada Glifo flares in a flash of damaging power before fading away. This can be used to further enhance attacks or add chipping damage to blocked strikes.
- Scudo: A wide, arching glifo that is designed to double back on itself and takes up much of the space before the artist, the Scudo Glifo lightly weakens incoming attacks and can deflect light missiles.
Lvl 2. Even forgetting the thus far unfounded claims of Bladed Calligraphy's preternatural qualities, the single greatest factor given for the style's ineffectiveness is its devilish complexity. The style requires constant, seemingly unnecessary blade patterning and positioning of such intricacy that it is difficult to handle even without having other weapons swung into your face. While all of this is certainly true, in Ren's experience it has only made her that much better of a fighter. She is a master of battlefield multitasking, able to keep her mind effortlessly focused on several things at once. In addition, her Reaction Time is significantly increased.
Lvl 3. The difference between the hand of an amateur and that of a master is practice, and to master Bladed Calligraphy one must practice hard indeed. Ren's extensive practice has paid off, enhancing the effects of her Spada and Scudo Glifo as well as adding an entirely new functionality to the Spada Glifo.
- Spada: The power of this glifo is enhanced, causing any strike using Spada to chip with the force of a strong punch. In addition, the Spada Glifo may be caused to linger in mid air, leaving a pulsing hazard of damage wherever it is carved.
- Scudo: The power of this glifo is enhanced, lowering all attacks aimed at Ren while she is carving Scudo by one strength level.
Lvl 4. Drawn by rumors of the archaic art of Bladed Calligraphy being used effectively in the field, Ren has drawn the attention of a noted master of martial pursuits. This warrior may wish to study from Ren, question her veracity or even challenge her to show the true depths of her style.
Lvl 5. The ancient text from which Bladed Calligraphy is derived makes note of a potent technique known as "Dipping the Quill", a concept mentioned several times as being central to the style but never truly outlined. Through a rather messy period of trial and error, however, Ren is beginning to get the idea of it. Ren may literally coat the Piumato in a inorganic liquid, from water to potions to garrish whiskey, granting her glifo additional effects and sometimes altering them altogether.
Lvl 6. Drawn by rumors of the archaic art of Bladed Calligraphy being used effectively in the field, Ren has drawn the attention of a renown master of martial pursuits. This warrior may wish to study from Ren, question her veracity or even challenge her to show the true depths of her style.
Lvl 7. A master's hand is a practiced one, but the hand of a true Artist is an inspired one. As a result of Ren's insightful and delving study of Bladed Calligraphy she has sparked stunning insights into this once-archaic art, enhancing the effects of her Spada and Scudo Glifo as well as adding an entirely new functionality to the Scudo Glifo.
- Spada: The power of this glifo is further enhanced, increasing the power of all strikes utilizing Spada by two strength levels.
- Scudo: The power of this glifo is further enhanced, deflecting all magical projectiles aimed at Ren while she is carving Scudo. In addition, she may totally commit herself to carving the Scudo Glifo, filling the mystical marking with any magic that has been placed upon her. Instead of attacking, Ren may use the Scudo Glifo to project the effects of any single positive magical effect she is under to all allies within twenty feet of her or project the effects of any single harmful magical effect to all enemies within ten feet of her.
Lvl 8. Drawn by rumors of the archaic art of Bladed Calligraphy being used effectively in the field, Ren has drawn the attention of a near-legendary master of martial pursuits. This warrior may wish to study from Ren, question her veracity or even challenge her to show the true depths of her style.
Lvl 9. In a flash of insight, Ren comes to understand the true secret of Dipping the Quill: it refers not to the power held within the penne, but the power held within another draw out by the penne. Now a master of this fabled technique, Ren may draw new and fascinating power from her enemies by literally dipping the Piumato Luna into their bodies. The penne pulls new insights and strength from these unusual wells, willing or otherwise, granting her the knowledge and skill necessary to carve three new glifo based on the chosen well. Three sets of glifo may be kept at a time, and only one set may be kept active at a time. Glifo dipped from a particular powerful well may fill more than one slot.
Lvl 10. The Piumato Luna has by now left an indelible portrait of bloodshed and soul across the canvas that is Bakara, one that cannot be ignored any longer. A Grand Summit is called by the weaponsmasters of Ataria and beyond so that Ren may finally show the true boundaries of Bladed Calligraphy to a still-skeptical world. The cream of the martial world will be in attendance, and while this will be a gathering of excellence unlike any seen in many years, it will also be a bubbling cauldron of dangers. Reputations are on the line. Reputations held by the deadliest warriors to have walked Bakara in recent memory.

Spun Starlight
The scarf grants Kiku incredible grace and speed, highly boosting her speed and reaction time. In addition, as she moves through the air the scarf can leave behind a fading trail of inky black and silvered light that somehow catches the air itself, granting Kiku the ability to glide through the air.

At The Run's End
A deceptively complex piece that interweaves ten distinct voices, some heroic and proud while others are villainous and twisting. These themes blend together in a turbulent manner, voices dropping out and surging back in in a maelstrom of music until at last the villainous leitmotifs have dropped out completely, leaving only the triumphant refrain of the Heroes' Theme. Grants Kiku and up to four other allies a regenerative shield for five posts, its strength boosted by the current level of danger they are facing. Once per encounter.

Stats & Descriptions
Name - Artemis Quinn
Race - Human
Age - 26
Affiliations - Oathbreaker
Appearance & Apparel - A tall and lean man, around six feet. His hair is dark brown and lank, ear length, brushed to one side. His face is lean, with a thin sharp nose, large brown eyes, dimpled chin and large, full-lipped mouth. Face is marked by a shadow of a thin mustache. He typically wears a pale blue-gray shirt, dark brown plants and a tan leather vest, once fine but obviously having seen better days. Has a silver pendant necklace and bracelet. His black belt bares a steel owl belt buckle.
Personality & Background - Quinn was born the bastard child of an Elexian Councilman and one of his maids, who was quickly fired, discredited and blacklisted as a golddigging liar. He and his mother grew up in poverty, doing whatever they could to get by. At a very young age Quinn, who knew better than most the devastating power of lies and the impotence of the law, became a Witness. He supported his mother until she passed away, and then moved into the Church, eventually becoming the cleric's top Witness. It was there that he met Lumarin and his sister Kaltara. Before long Quinn and Kaltara, an Invoker, were married and had a daughter, Sara. They moved out into the city and were very happy.

But then came the day that Quinn was assigned to lead the team of Witnesses to gather some information on the seemingly law abiding magnate Torbal Lee. When they managed to get their hands on evidence of Lee's real business, slave trading, they just barely managed to escape with it. They were forced to go into hiding before they could pass it on the evidence, Lees men having flooded the streets. When they were finally able to emerge from hiding, they discovered Lee had taken several of his teams family members hostage and when the church had responded things had gotten bloody. Kaltara and Sara had been slain by a gang of Nadrask mercenaries.

Quinn was destroyed. At a church meeting to mourn the losses, Quinn broke the silence and lashed out at Soltara. "Are you satisfied? Was my family's life worth it?" When the guildleader answered the only way he could from upon the white throne, with a truthful "Yes". Quinn quit the Clerics upon the spot, cursing out Soltara and the entire guild. He stuck around Elexia just long enough to see Ephlak'Gul, the man who had apparently led the attack on his family, executed, and headed to Epicrin, where he joined the mages in honor of his late wife. These days he uses his thieving skills for his own good, with no real concern for truth, and spends the rest of his time losing himself in drink and women.

Skills/Weaknesses
Eye of Avarice - Ability to sense items with strong magics within your visual range, give off an orange aura.
The Red Deck: Blades
Wet Work - Dexterous blade work.
Lvl 1. Your familiarity with blades of all shapes and sizes allow you to draw them instantly, attacking in the same fluid movement.

Spells
Mind
Lvl 1. Charisma - A target you cast this on will find you more charming and impressive than normal.
Lvl 2. Sleight - Cause a target to think they see an object of your choice in your hand. Must be small enough to actually sit in your palm of your hand.
Lvl 3. Psy-Arm - Generate an illusionary weapon in your hand, no larger than 3' long. This weapon passes through objects without doing harm but triggers illusionary pain.
Artless
Lvl 0: Void - Passive. Creates a pocket dimension you can access at any time, allowing you to seem to store items in, and retrieve items from, thin air.

Quinn's Main Daggers
Huginn and Muninn, The Awakened Blades - A pair of steel scramseax daggers, single edged and guardless. The hilts and sheaths are formed from a polished black wood with gleams of blue. The hilts and sheath are etched with feather patterns, the hilts terminating in a pair of carved ravens heads with amethyst eyes.
Lvl 1. Whenever Huginn or Muninn draw blood, you gain a flash of insight into the mind of the wounded, possibly their motivation, tactics, sensory perspective or intended next move.
Lvl 2. Huginn and Muninn can be granted an amethyst imbue effect, their eyes glowing faintly.
Lvl 3. Shattered Mirror - If Huginn or Muninn is held up directly in front of an enemies eyes, they will see a reflection of their face, except haggard and miserable. All their failiures and shortcomings will flash before their eyes in a moment. This effect leaves them miserable and forlorn and mimics the effects of drunkeness for the next three posts.

Quinn's Dagger Collection
Biter - An ironwood poinard dagger.
Lightmage Dagger - A silver rondel dagger with an ivory hilt. Can be made to appear as harmless other item of similar size and shape.
Firemage Dagger - An iron kris dagger with an obsidian hilt and a dragons-head pommel. As long as the blade is not in contact with a body, it can rapidly heat and reforge itself into any shape you can visualize. This does not change its mass.
Watermage Dagger - A kujang dagger with a silver blade and smooth coral hilt. Can generate ice around its teardrop blade to turn itself into an ice-sword.
Mindmage Dagger - A steel rapier dagger with a silver guard and navy silk wrapped hilt. Parrying a weapon with this dagger instills a subtle suggestion in that weapon's wielder's mind that the weapon is useless. The more you parry any given weapon, the strong the compulsion to stop using it and switch to another weapon or fight unarmed.
Body - A silver katar dagger inlaid with bone with a bronze handle. Those wounded by the this dagger lose a level of strength for the rest of the encounter. Multiple wounds do not stack.
Spiritmage Dagger - A silver kila dagger inlaid with bone with a bronze hilt. The face on the hilt is not his, but that of a beautiful woman. Belonged to Quinn's late wife. Those wounded with it bleed not only blood buy life-force, weakening and and tiring them over time, even if their body is healed, dependent on the severity of the wound. Effect ends at end of encounter. Multiple wounds do not stack.
Aguijon's Sting - A ceremonial oscaran dagger. The blade has an innate emerald imbue effect and can be explosively shattered into three projectile poisonous shards that can be homeguided to back to the dagger the next post.
Cadena's Sting - A ceremonial oscaran dagger. The bottom 75% of the dagger's blade can transform into a fine but durable steel chain, making it into a blade tipped chain whip. The wielders arms becomes double jointed and quicker.

Magical Items
Eldrich Feather – A feather from the raven wings of the Chimera. Contains potent divination magic. If used in any type of potion will create a permanent magical effect or change, nature dependent on type chosen.
The Chimeric Eye – A crystalline orb around the size of a tangerine, roughly shaped like an eye and filled with a twisting rainbow of glittering color.
What Is... - The bearer is able to identify the traits and properties of magical items and materials without the use of further tools.
...and What Might Be - Allows the bearer to see not what is, but what could have been, picking out new threads of possibility and bringing them briefly into reality. Whenever the bearer identifies one of their items, they may also choose to see a ghostly after image of what the item might have been. This is determined using precisely the same methods as determining the results of the original identification, but with new randomization. Twice per encounter the bearer may pull one of these alternate effects into reality, allowing them to replace an items usual properties with its alternate properties for the rest of the encounter.

Mundane Items
> Spool of fine wire
> A few well worn novels
> Old battered and broken flute
> Flint and steel
> Deck of Cards
> Bag of Dice
> Two identical silver necklaces, one worn, one not.
> Two full wine-skins
> Bag of assorted scavenged nuts and berries

Pets
Nevermore - A black scionic raven with blue highlights. Will grow into a powerful familiar. Has been fed Pygmy Root to keep it a normal size.
Lvl 1. The raven's touch strengthens the mind and will counteract any mental magics being used on you by others.
Lvl 2. The raven's glare induces uncertainty and unease.
Lvl 3. You can the raven can perfectly understand each others' speech.

Currency
0 Gold

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I was reading through Folly the other night and amused to see all the very subtly different formatting styles we use. I thought I'd collect them together and try to appreciate something I normally just gloss over.

In truth it doesn't really say much, but it's kinda fun to look at. There are two main styles of posting, which I guess you might call prose-style and script-style. But within those two styles the differences are interestingly minor; whether or not to use quotation marks, whether to put a space before the dash after the name, how to use color, and so on. So, yeah.

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