Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Stories About Children
Ages of Man
How to Use This Book
Chapter Two: Creating Young Characters
General Characteristics
Age
Characteristics and Size
Virtues & Flaws
Social Status
Virtues & Flaws
Apprentice
Bastard
Orphan
Virtues That Grant Experience Points
Virtues & Flaws That Affect Size
Inherited Virtues & Flaws
Child Virtues & Flaws
Boundless Energy
Bully
Deft Characteristic
Dependence
Grows Quickly
Inconspicuous
Infatuation
Know-It-All
Late Bloomer
Protection from Diseases
Turbulence Prone
New Flaws
Abandoned Apprentice
Frail
Low Tolerance
Short of Breath
Slow Reflexes
Suppressed Gift
Abilities
Transitions of Maturation
A Standard Apprenticeship
Chapter Three: Infantia: Birth to Age 7
The First Years
Birth and Blessing
Childbearing
Birth Apparitions
Religious Rites for New Babies
Illegitimate and Orphaned Children
Early Childhood
Born with The Gift
Gifted Babies
The Gift Revealed
Turbulence
Incurring a Turbulence
Controlling Turbulences
Effects of Turbulence
Infant Characters and Stories
Character Design Notes
Infant Stories
Children and Animals
Story Ideas
Chapter Four: Pueritia: Ages 8 to 14
Growing Up
Hermetic Apprenticeship
Finding an Apprentice
Becoming an Apprentice
Opening the Arts
Opening Arts with Supernatural Abilities
After the Arts Are Opened
Delaying Opening the Arts
Legal Issues
Teaching
Hermetic Virtues
Acquiring House Virtues
Gaining Hermetic Flaws
Study
Teachers
Book Learning
Training
Cantations
The Apprentice’s Delight
The Appropriate Attire
The Chameleon Cat
The Cleric’s Pate
The Cook’s Revenge
The Curse of Diana
Curse of the Baby’s Bladder
Closing the Campfire
The Dancer’s Dame
Ears of the Hare
An Evening’s Illumination
Hurling the Droplet of Lye
Hypnotic Gaze
The Jongleur’s Steps
Jupiter’s Tears
The Laundress’ Clothesline
Mimic the Christ’s Miracle
A Pestilence of Fleas
Physician’s Sense
The Poor Performer’s Reward
The Racing Rot
The Reward Delivered
Sense the Sleeping Hound
Shattering Touch
Slap of Awakening
The Smokeless Campfire
The Studious Doppleganger
The Unruffled Traveler
Whispering Fingers
Chaptere Five: Adolescentia: Ages 15 to 21
Coming of Age
Marriage
Supernatural Interests
Life in the Covenant
Life in the Laboratory
Laboratory Turbulences
Laboratory Adventures
Bellum
Failing an Apprentice
Losing the Gift
Apprenticeship’s End: The Gauntlet
Learning Parma Magica
Post-Apprenticeship
Scholae Magicae
List of Inserts
Aging Chart
Example Childhoods
Changing Social Status
Optional Rule: Abilities for Infants
More Powerful than Normal
Companion: Noble Child
Apprentice: Foundling Child
Story Seed: An Introductory Adventure
Story Seed: Fetch the Baby
Turbulences and the Aegis of the Hearth
Grog: Blacksmith’s Son
Story Seed: A Toddler’s Tale
Story Seed: Who Stole the Baby?
Story Seed: The Curious Cleric
Grog: Urchin
Story Seed: An Unlikely Ghost
Companion: Merchant’s Son
Story Seeds: Finding a Parens
Detecting the Gift
Apprentice of House Bonisagus
Story Seed: I’m Not Going Anywhere!
Hermetic Terminology
Teaching Schedule
Story Seed: Midnight Rescue
Story Seed: A Temporary Reprieve
Story Seed: The Inheritance
Story Seed: A Convenient Suspect
Apprentice of House Verditius
Story Seed: The Unlicensed Loan
Tales of Wondrous Enchantments
Optional Rule: Learning Cantations in Play
The Dream Witches
Story Seed: Against the Master’s Wishes
Story Seed: The Thrills of Love
More Marriage Story Seeds
Story Seed: Time to Die
Story Seed: Where’s the Money?
New Laboratory Flaw: Shared Lab
Story Seed: Where Did the Cat Go?
Story Seed: Visiting a Colleague
Story Seed: Where Are My Bat Wings?
Story Seed: Investigating Evil
Story Seed: Missing Mail
New Spell: Ager Belli
Story Seed: Trial by Fire
Houses of Hermes Gauntlets