Covenant: Novus Mane
Characteristics:
Int +2, Per +1, Pre +3, Com +1, Str -2, Sta 0, Dex +1, Qik +1
Size: 0
Age: 29 (20), Height: 160 cm, Weight: 55 kg, Gender: Female
Decrepitude: 0
Warping Score: 0 (0)
Confidence: 1 (3)
Virtues and Flaws:
- The Gift, Nature Lore, Diedne Magic, Unaging, Strong Magical Blood (as Strong Sidhe Blood), Subtle Magic, Personal Vis Source (Ignem), Puissant Ignem, Second Sight, Sorcerous Music (Performance Magic) (Music), Hermetic Magus, Heartbeast (Eagle)
- Dark Secret: Diedne Lineage, Enemies (What happened to her home covenant, and her parents why was she lost in the woods for what seemed like a month and was many years, where is the merinita who went into the woods with her), Susceptibility to Divine Power, Secretive, Covenant Upbringing, Deficient Technique (Perdo), Infamous, Vow (Obedience to Huntress of the Woods ), Fragile Constitution (Healing: -3)
Reputations:
Dedicated (Cultists) 1, Bad Reputation 4
Combat:
- Dodge: Init: +1, Attack —, Defense +2, Damage —
- Fist: Init: +1, Attack +2, Defense +2, Damage -2
- Kick: Init: +0, Attack +2, Defense +1, Damage +1
- Soak: 0
Fatigue levels: OK, 0, -1, -3, -5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: -1 (1-5), -3 (6-10), -5 (11-15), Incapacitated (16-20)
Abilities:
Arabic 5, Novus Mane Lore 0 (geography), Artes Liberales 1, Athletics 2, Awareness 2, Bows 2, Brawl 1, Charm 2, Faerie Lore 1, Heartbeast 1, Huntress in the Wood Lore 2, Latin 4, Leadership 2, Magic Lore 1, Magic Theory 3, Music 2, Nature Lore 2 (Weather) (11), Order of Hermes Lore 1, Parma Magica 2, Profession: Bard 2, Second Sight 1, Stealth 2, Survival 2
Arts:
Cr 7, In 0, Mu 4, Pe 0, Re 5, An 6, Aq 2, Au 6, Co 5, He 0, Ig 8+3, Im 0, Me 0, Te 0, Vi 0
Equipment:
Encumbrance: 0 (0)
Spells Known:
Animal Spells
- The Voice of the Bjornaer Magus (MuAn 15) +10
Auram Spells
- Ward Against Rain (ReAu 10) +11
- Chamber of Summer Breezes (CrAu(Ig) 10) +13
- Circling Winds of Protection (Cr(Re)Au 20) +11
Ignem spells
- Arc of Fiery Ribbons (CrIg 25) +18
- Feathers of flame (Cr(Re)Ig 20) +16
Imaginem Spells
- Aura of Ennobled Presence (MuIm 10) +4
- Notes of a Delightful Sound (MuIm 10) +4
History
Born to two magi of the covenant of Moles Magna who where also members of the Huntress of the woods cult , the mother was a Bjonear from the Novograd tribunal called Elena whose heartbeast was that of the eagle and claimed descent from the Russian Firebird, the Father was a Brettonian Merinita magi with nature magic leanings called Artos .
Artos was one of the descendents of a Diedne apprentice taken into house merinita to protect him amidst the chaos of the Schism war.
Born in 1152 she grew up in the covenant of Moles Magna and once her gift was noticed began training an apprentice from the age of 5 at the age of 15 her heartbeast was awakened at the gathering of 12 years in 1167 and until her training was completed in 1179 and she gauntleted at the tribunal of the same year. She spent her apprenticship and pre gauntlet career studying a the covenant under her parents and with the Huntress of the wood cult and then vanished . While traveling with a fellow junior mage from house Merinita and returning from the Tribunal of 1179 she vanished into the woods of the Morvan while seeking out a faerie the covenant had a treaty with.
Neither of them where seen until the winter of 1219 when she returned from the woods to find her covenant destroyed and her parens missing presumed killed in the disaster. After traveling briefly to Oleron covenant the liege of Moles Magna she traveled to the covenant of Novus Mane to find a place.
Her magical training emphasized both the potential of her Phoenix bloodline and the druidic/bardic legacy of the Diedne magic, this also fitted in well with the pagan nature priestess teachings of her parents she considers that many of the ancient gods where just aspects of the same female goddess and follows Artemis, Diana and several celtic goddesses as well as honoring most of the other pagan gods. Most unusually for a Bjornear her magics emphasize Ignem.
She had only been a member for a few days before she vanished.
It would be nice to find out what happened to her parents and her sister, but going and poking around in the ruins didn't sound like a good idea.
Appearance
Iolar appears as a young women in her late teens or perhaps early 20’s. Her hair is a vivid Flame red , with emerald green eyes. She has a slight build and is fairly short. Her skin is very pale. She tends to wear silk robes and is usually indifferent to the cold. The skin of her torso and upper arms is covered in a series of intricate celtic woad tattoo’s although these do not continue to her face or lower limbs where they would be normally visible.
As an Eagle She is about 95 cm long with a wingspan of about 230cm massing a good 10 kg large even for a golden eagle.
The plumage colours is a dark brown although the edges of some of the feathers have an unnusual red-gold coloration , with a striking golden-buff crown and nape, which give the bird its name. The upper wings also have an irregular lighter area.