Guiverna 1242

Guiverna's current character sheet
Guiverna's Quarter
Guiverna's lab
Guiverna's asp form
Guiverna at gauntlet
Guiverna in Summer of 1236 (9 years after gauntlet)
Guiverna in Summer of 1240 (13 years after gauntlet)
Guiverna's advancement
Cleopatra's Bane

Background Information

Full Hermetic Name: Ève Guiverna filia Luce ex Miscellanea Colubra
Tradition: Cleopatra's Bane
Current Year: 1242 (Winter)
Age: 39 (29)
Born: 27 December, 1202
Size: 0
Confidence: 1(3)
Decrepitude: 0
Effects of Aging: (none)
Warping Score: 2
Warping Points: 23
Effects of Warping: (none)
Birth Name: Ève Fabiola
Gender: Female
Race/Nationality: French
Place of Origin: Carcassonne
Religion: Egyptian Pagan
Title: Maga
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 159 lbs. (72 kg)
Hair: Auburn
Eyes: Hazel
Handedness: Left
Wizard's Sigil: Either Guiverna or the target of the spell (or possibly both) take on serpentine aspects; specific details are noted in the spell's listing below.
Voting Sigil: A rectangular plate of limestone with a bas-relief stylized cobra.
Mater: Luce Nibelung ex Miscellanea
Covenant of Apprenticeship: Beauxbâtons, Normandy Tribunal
Gauntlet: Summer 1227

Characteristics

Intelligence: +1
Perception: +1
Strength: 0
Stamina: +2
Presence: +2
Communication: 0
Dexterity: +1
Quickness: +1

Virtues

The Gift
Hermetic Magus (social status, free)
Exotic Casting¹
Improved Characteristics
Keen Sense of Smell
Lesser Immunity: Poisons
Minor Magical Focus: Poisons (free from Mythic Blood)
Minor Potent Magic: Snakes (Cleopatra's Bane's free Minor Hermetic Virtue)
Mythic Blood: Set²
Parseltongue (Cleopatra's Bane's free Major Non-Hermetic Virtue)³
Sharp Ears
True Friend: Semsuhfaw (free, from binding him as her Familiar)
Venus' Blessing
Withstand Casting

Flaws

Avaricious (hereditary Minor Personality, from Mythic Blood)
Blatant Gift
Chaotic Magic (Cleopatra's Bane's free Major Hermetic Flaw )
Hedge Wizard
Lecherous (Minor)
Magic Animal Companion⁴: snake, Semsuhfaw
Twilight Prone
Social Handicap: Egyptian Pagan

Abilities

Apothecary (preparing poisons) 3
Area Lore: Andorra (snakes' nests) 1
Area Lore: Carcassonne 2
Area Lore: Sa Dragonera (where to find men) 1
Artes Liberales (rhetoric) 1
Awareness (men) 2
Bargain 1
Brawl (bite) 2
Carouse (holding her liquor) 1
Catalan (seduction) 2
Charm (flirting) 4
Egyptian Theology (Set) 1
Finesse (Corpus) 1
Folk Ken (men) 2
Guile 2
Intrigue 0
Latin (seduction) 4
Magic Theory (inventing spells) 5
Medicine (antidotes) 3
Occitan /(seduction) 5 (native)
Order of Hermes Lore 1
Parma Magica (Corpus) 2
Parseltongue (poisonous snakes) 3
Penetration (Corpus) 1
Philosophiae (natural philosophy) 1
Scribe (letters) 1
Teaching (one-on-one) 2

Personality Traits

Avaricious +2
Lecherous +3
Loyal to Semsuhfaw +3

Reputations

Hedge Wizard 3

Combat

Armour Worn: none.
Soak: Sta 2 + Doublet of Impenetrable Silk 3 + Donning the Serpent's Scales 1 = 6.

Weapon Inititative Attack Defense Damage Range Dodge +1 n/a +3 n/a n/a Fangs +1 +6 +4 +1 n/a Fist +1 +3 +3 +0 n/a Kick +0 +3 +2 +3 n/a

Wound Levels: Light (1-5), Medium (6-10), Heavy (11-15), Incapacitated (16-20), Dead (21+)
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0/0, -1, -3, -5, Unconscious

Equipment

Amethyst ring (casting item for The Serpent's Saliva)
Silver necklace with an ankh (Talisman)
Gold necklace, with a shield-shaped amulet engraved with a snake (casting item for Donning the Serpent's Scales)
Cloak, embroidered with a snake-scale pattern (casting item for Baring the Serpent's Fangs)
Clothes
Golden Rook (10 pawns of Ignem vis, in the form of a Chess Rook made of gold)
Total Load: 0
Burden: 0
Encumbrance: 0

Magical Arts

Creo: 7
Intellego: 4
Muto: 8
Perdo: 10
Rego: 9
Animal: 10
Aquam: 8
Auram: 0
Corpus: 9
Herbam: 5
Ignem: 0
Imaginem: 0
Mentem: 0
Terram: 4
Vim: 3

Spells

Spell CT Level Range Duration Target Mastery Penetration Sigil Manifestation Notes Baring the Serpent's Fangs† +26 MuCo 4 Personal Diameter Part 0 +24 Her nose flattens into snake-like slits, and the area around her mouth becomes scaled Casting Item: a cloak, embroidered with a snake-scale pattern (+4) Donning the Serpent's Scales† +26 MuCo 10 Personal Diameter Individual 0 +18 Her entire body becomes covered in snake-like scales Casting Item: A shield-shaped amulet with a snake engraved on it (+4) Doublet of Impenetrable Silk +20 MuAn 15 Touch Sun Individual 0 +6 The garment becomes rough to the touch (as though it were made of snake's scales) Eyes of the Cat +19 MuCo(An) 5 Touch Sun Individual 0 +16 The target's eyes have vertical snake-like pupils The Final Cup* +19 CrHe 10 Touch Moon Individual 0 +10 The poison is created in two streams eminating from her mouth Gather the Essence of the Beast +14 ReVi 15 Touch Momentary Individual 0 +0 Her hands become scaled for the duration of the spell Gentle Touch of the Purified Body +20 CrCo 20 (Ritual) Touch Momentary Individual 0 +2 Her head becomes asp-like and her body covered in scales during the casting of the spell Gift of the Frog's Legs +20 ReCo 15 Touch Momentary Individual 0 +7 The target's legs become scaled Herb of Virtue +15 MuHe 15 Touch Moon Individual 0 +1 Her hands become scaled during spell-casting Hypnotic Gaze +20 ReCo 15 Eye Concentration Individual 0 +7 Her eyes become snake-like for the spell's duration In Christ's Footsteps +20 ReCo 5 Personal Concentration Individual 0 +17 Her feet and calves become scaled for the duration of the spell Repel the Wooden Shafts +16 ReHe 10 Voice Momentary Individual 0 +7 Her face becomes scaled for the duration of the spell Revealed Flaws of Mortal Flesh +15 InCo 10 Touch Momentary Individual 0 +7 Her eyes become snake-like slits and her upper face becomes scaled and ridged The Serpent's Saliva† +32 MuAq 20 Personal Diameter Part 0 +13 Her jaw and lower face becomes scaled and snake-like for the duration of the spell Casting Item: Amethyst ring (+3) Seven-League Stride +20 ReCo 30 Personal Momentary Individual 0 -8 Her entire body becomes scaled during the spell casting Soothe the Ferocious Bear +21 ReAn 10 Voice Momentary Individual 0 +12 Her tongue becomes forked and snake-like for the spell's duration Trackless Step +15 ReTe 10 Touch Concentration Individual 0 +6 Her feet and lower legs become scaled for the spell's duration Viper's Gaze +21 ReAn 15 Eye Concentration Individual 0 +7 Her eyes become snake-like for the spell's duration Wizard's Communion +13 MuVi 15 Voice Sun Group 0 -1 Her entire body becomes scaled and her eyes snake-like for the spell's duration Wizard's Leap +20 ReCo 15 Personal Momentary Individual 0 +7 Her entire body becomes scaled for the spell's duration

( Spells marked * fall under her Minor Magical Focus; spells marked † are Potent Spells)

Miscellaneous

Footnotes

1. The words that Cleopatra's Bane use to cast spells are all in Parseltongue, and the gestures have a more sinuous fluidity to them than the standard Hermetic gestures.

2. Guiverna's Special Magic Feat is to turn herself into an asp (or Egyptian cobra). It is the equivalent of a MuCo(An) spell, with a base of 10 (Turn a human into a land animal,with an Animal requisite), R: Personal, D: Sun (that you can end at will) +2, T: Individual, Soft Words and No Gestures +2, for a final Invocation total of 30; as the spell is Personal, it does not need to penetrate Guiverna's Parma.

3. Parseltongue works on any serpent, Magical Serpent and Worm, but nothing else.
Should it need to penetrate, it has a penetration of 5 times the skill.
Otherwise, it acts as a combination of:
- Animal Ken
- Inoffensive to Animals
- Entrancement, at voice range
- Summon Animals.

4. This flaw was made redundant when Semsuhfaw became Guiverna's Familiar, to be replaced by the True Friend Virtue