Avedetus Fabri

Characteristics: Int +1, Per 0, Pre +1, Com 0, Str +1, Sta +1, Dex +3, Qik 0

Size: 0 Age: 85 (50) Decrepitude: 0 Warping Score: 5 (10) Confidence Score: 2 (5)

Virtues and Flaws: The Gift; Hermetic Magus; Major Magical Focus (damage); Improved Characteristics, Items of Quality, Self-Confident, Puissant Finesse, Puissant Perdo, Verditius Magic*, Warrior; Ambitious, Painful Magic; Weak Magic Resistance (When caster has Avedutus' casting tools), Hubris, Poor Formulaic Magic, Slow Caster

Personality Traits: Disciplined +2, Hubris +2, Violent +2

Reputations: Mysterious Knight 2 (French tournament circuit)

Dodge: Init –2, Attack N/A, Defense +5, Damage N/A

Fist: Init –2, Attack +9, Defense +6, Damage +1

Long Sword & Heater Shield: Init +0, Attack +18, Defense +16, Damage +7

Soak: +16 (+3 if Gift of Bear's Fortitude is active, and a further +3 against metal weapons due to his Form Bonus)

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

Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Incapacitated (16–20), Dead (21+)

Abilities: Area Lore: Roman Tribunal

2 (geography), Armorer 5 (mail), Artes Liberales 4 (ligatures), Brawl 5 (fist), Code of Hermes 2 (mundane relations), Finesse 6 +2 (craft magic), Italian 5 (Lombard), Latin 5 (Hermetic usage), Leadership 4 (in battle), Magic Theory 7 (Perdo), Organization Lore: Order of Hermes 2 (items), Parma Magica 6 (Corpus), Penetration 4 (Perdo), Philosophiae 5 (items of quality), Ride 4 (battle), Single Weapon 6 (long sword), Swordsmith 5 (long swords), Verditius Cult Lore 3 (initiating others)

Arts: Cr 12, In 5, Mu 5, Pe 15+3, Re 10, An 5, Aq 5, Au 11, Co 16, He 5, Ig 17, Im 5, Me 5, Te 11, Vi 11

Equipment: Enchanted arms and armor (see later), large hammer (casting tool for Ball of Abysmal Flame)

Encumbrance: 2 (3)

Breath of the Open Sky (CrAu 40/+44)

Bind Wound (CrCo 10/+29)

Gift of the Bear's Fortitude at Touch Range (MuCo 30/+22)

The Hammer Falls (PeCo 35/+51)

Burn His Eyes Out (PeCo 40/+51)

Ball of Abysmal Flame (CrIg 35/+42)

Ward Against Heat and Flames (ReIg 25/+28)

The Swordsmith's Art (ReTe 10/+22), Mastery 1 (precise casting)

The Armorer's Art (ReTe 15/+22), Mastery 1 (precise casting)

Spell of Wrought Iron (ReTe 15/+22)

Wizard's Communion (MuVi 15/+17) Watching Ward (ReVi 35/+31)

Appearance: A mature knight, still

young enough to fight but old enough to rule the world. He wears his graying hair savagely short and his steely eyes are lined with age. His square jaw is perpetually covered with a growth of mottled-gray stubble. He is never without his mail armor Talisman and his enchanted sword. His surcoat bears the five-ringed hand of Verditius against a red shield. He wears a red sash tied around his belt, as a knight might wear the colors of a lady.

Casting Sigil: The sound of hammer against anvil is heard with his spells, but the sigil manifests as the odor of red-hot iron in spell residues.

* House Virtue

Avedutus has a number of Rego Craft Magic spells, which thanks to his well-practiced Finesse he can cast with some proficiency. His favored technique is to work his magic within a forge, where he can draw the molten iron and steel into the form he desires. He usually prepares himself by creating a ligature to provide natural resonances, and relies upon his self-confidence and belief in his own abilities. He has mastered these spells with the Precise Casting mastery ability (Houses of Hermes: Societates, page 34).

He also has a number of damaging spells and rituals that he is able to cast from the safety of his forge and anvil, though he now most often casts these with the aid of the Wizard's Communion taught him by Al-'Aqrab.