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Salomonis

  • Gnosis 7 Willpower 5 Mana 5

    Attributes

    Strength ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Dexterity ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Stamina ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎         		Presence ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Manipulation ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎
    Composure ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎         		Intelligence ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉
    Wits ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎
    Resolve ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎


    Skills

    Athletics ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Brawl ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Drive ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Firearms ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Larceny ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Stealth ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Survival ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Weaponry ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎         		Academics ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎
    Computer ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Crafts ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Investigation ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎
    Medicine ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Occult ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎
    Politics ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Science ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎
         		Animal Ken ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Empathy ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎
    Expression ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Intimidation ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎
    Persuasion ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎
    Socialize ◉ ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎
    Streetwise ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎
    Subterfuge ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉


    Arcanum

    Mind ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ Spirit ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ Space ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎ Prime ◉ ◉ ◎ ◎ ◎
  • Advantages

    composed. Samuel possesses an uncanny amount of self-control, able to maintain a level head and calm demeanor under duress. This trait is reassuring during a crisis and infuriating to those trying to get a rise out of him. It is exceedingly rare for him to be seen having an emotional outburst of any kind, though those that have witnessed such an occasion attest that it's... good that it's not common. He has quite the temper.

    monster therapist. Given his years in the psychology field, dealing primarily with the other supernatural beings present in the World of Darkness, he has become adept at dealing with extremely dangerous individuals experiencing mental health crises. +2 to Persuasion rolls when interacting with supernaturals with mental illnesses.
  • Disadvantages

    mouthful of lies. Deception has become second nature. When faced with situations where the truth is inconvenient, he will lie and redirect the conversation most of the time. A Willpower roll is needed to determine if he's able to overcome the compulsion to maintain secrecy and tell the truth.

    implacable rage. When his head is unable to rule his heart, he succumbs to his temper. During these rare fits, he proves to be extremely destructive to anyone unfortunate enough to be within arm's reach or earshot with little regard to reason or consequence. While in a rage, -2 to Intelligence and Composure.
  • Artifacts

    the heirloom crucifix.
    Passed down through the generations of Raines goeticists, this simple gold crucifix bestows the power of Celestial Fire upon the wearer to aid them in their fight against evil. Once per scene, so long as it is worn, Samuel can cast the Prime 3 spell "Celestial Fire" as if it were an Attainment.


  • Attainments

    Goetic Projection
    The first attainment of the Clavicularius legacy shapes the Goeticist’s soul in such a way that his own weaknesses and sins – his Vice, derangements and Mental Flaws – stand out in stark relief to his mind’s eye. Because of this, the Clavicularius can sense those taints within others, and project them onto others.

    By inflaming his sin and projecting it onto another, the Clavicularius creates an impetus to behave in a similar fashion in his target. This acts like the Mind 2 “Emotional Urging” spell, including the ability for the Awakened to sense they are being manipulated. However, if the target already possesses the Vice projected by the Clavicularius, she is immune to this attainment – a soul that already battles its own internal sin is immune to that same sin from an outside source.

    Goetic Bulwark
    This attainment is a perfecting of the techniques studied in the “Goetic Struggle” spell. The Goetic Bulwark functions like that spell. The psychic shield’s base duration is an entire day, however, and when the spell is performed, the Clavicularius may choose to protect himself not only from his Vice but from an additional Mental Flaw, Vice or derangement as well. The mage must decide which mental weakness or sin his Goetic Bulwark will protect against.

    Any time the Clavicularius could have his behavior altered by a Mental Flaw or derangement, his player makes a contested roll of the character’s Gnosis + Mind opposed by his own Resolve + Composure. If the Gnosis + Mind roll wins, the Key-Bearer is not required to succumb to those sins, and gains a Willpower point. If the Resolve + Composure roll wins, the character cannot resist his weakness and does not gain a Willpower point for the indulgence.

    The Binding Seal
    This attainment is quite powerful, and gives the Clavicularius their reputation for upstanding morals and spiritual steel. With this attainment, a Clavicularius can bind the Goetic demon manifestation of one of her own weaknesses into a seal etched with the appropriate Solomonic Key.

    This is treated as the Spirit 4 “Create Fetish” spell, with one core difference: as long as the mage wears the object the demon is bound into, he is considered to be protected against that flaw by the Goetic Bulwark power. Additionally, the character does not need to roll against the influence of that weakness: the Vice, sin or Flaw cannot exert power over the mage while she has bound its demonic manifestation. The actual binding of this demon uses a dice pool of the mage’s Intimidation + Mind.

    Use of this power does not prevent the use of Goetic Bulwark, for they are two different powers. The item that binds the mage’s personal demon is considered to be an Intimate item.
  • Clavicularius Spells

    Goetic Struggle (Mind • • •)
    Most treatises on goetic magic begin by teaching an initiate to master his own Vice. To rule another, one must rule oneself first.

    This spell “summons” an inner demon into a mage’s consciousness and binds it to his will. Then, whenever the mage’s Vice might come into play during the spell’s duration, he can mentally wrestle the demon (a contested roll between his Gnosis + Mind and his own Resolve + Composure). If he wins, he gains Willpower as if his action had reflected the Vice (even though he didn’t actually act upon it). The demon is put down and banished (this spell must be cast again to gain the same effect). If the demon wins the contest, however, the mage must act out the Vice — and he doesn’t get Willpower for it.

    At Mind 4, Clavicularius mages learn to aid others in confronting their flaws of spirit, casting the “Goetic Struggle” upon another person. Some Key-Bearers use the techniques of religious castigation or psychotherapy to help a subject bulwark herself against her personified sin. Conversely, the mage can project her own defeated Goetic demon on to another person and tell it to work its temptation.

    Egregore of Sin (Spirit •••• + Mind ••••)
    The mage manifests a denizen of his own psyche, his repressed or unsavory urges given form as an ephemeral entity in Twilight. Using the appropriate Keys of Solomon, the Clavicularius grants his deepest sins a spiritual form, calling upon a manifestation of his inner demons through an intense summoning rite.

    The demon can use its Influence to seduce someone into acting out the demon’s Vice(which is not necessarily the victim’s own), succumbing to its derangement, or falling prey to its psychological Flaw (depending on the type of demon summoned). If the demon’s Vice is the same as the victim’s, the victim is not rewarded the usual Willpower point for acting out the Vice— the demon gets this point instead, although he doesn’t have to act out the Vice himself (and hence, doesn’t get the blame).

    The demon follows the mage’s orders, although if the mage himself engages his personal Vice, derangement or Flaw while this spell is in effect, the demon is freed from control and turns its attentions to corrupting the mage.

    Temenos Sanctuary (Mind •••••)
    This spell creates a sanctuary within the Temenos. Many of the Clavicularius construct Astral sanctuaries where they can study their deepest internal darkness, and learn to use its strengths without falling victim to it. The Great Temple of Solomon is one such edifice, and all who reach the first attainment of the Legacy can enter this sanctum.

    This ability is treated as the “Spirit Manse” spell of the Spirit Arcanum, save that this spell constructs a sanctum within the Temenos realm of the Inner Planes.


    Mind Spells

    Initiate Spells (•)
    • Aura Perception
      The mage can discern the mental and emotional states of a thinking being by reading his aura. Some mages perceive auras as a series of colors, while others describe them in terms of musical notes, odors, tastes or other purely non-physical senses.
    • Sense Consciousness
      The mage can detect the presence of minds in the material world or mental projections in the state of Twilight. He knows how to detect the presence of psychic activity, from the basest (that possessed by the simplest of animal life) to the most complex and elevated (powerful lords among spirits, the most enlightened of willworkers and the like). This sense allows the mage to know when other thinking creatures are present, and roughly what sorts of minds are present. (Experience may not teach a mage the distinction between a cockroach’s mind and a dung beetle’s, but it does tell her the difference between an insect and reptile mind.)

      The mage detects the general type of mind she senses (a ghost, disembodied consciousness or spirit, for example) and this sense is useful for helping the mage to know when she is spied upon or just watched by a being currently lurking in refined dimensions.

      The mage can detect the presence of minds within sensory range. Successes are used to pierce any supernatural occlusion a mind may possess. While the spell is in effect, it creates a “safety zone” around the mage into which no mind can enter without his knowledge.
    • Third Eye
      The mage gains the Mage Sight. He senses when others nearby use exceptional mental powers, such as telepathy, psychometry or ESP, reading the telltale ripples left by the movements of exceptionally advanced thought.

      The mage can also read resonance, discerning the emotional and psychic qualities of it: the particular nuances of will, conscious or otherwise that went into creating it. He can feel the mental processes that went into creating the resonance (such as strong emotional states or a powerful exercise of will), effectively detecting its context within reality, the “why” behind the resonance.

    Apprentice Spells (• •)
    • Alter Aura
      The mage can alter his own aura. She can create the seeming of any mental or emotional state she wishes (she does not actually alter her emotional state, only its appearance in her aura). She cannot, however, alter her nature to appear to be something she is not (she can’t take on the aura of a Sleeper or vampire).

      This spell cannot be detected except by a “Third Eye” or “Supernal Vision” Mage Sight spell with a higher Potency. Even once this spell is detected, the true mental or emotional state of the mage can only be perceived by overcoming this spell’s Potency with that of a spell designed to read an aura’s mental state, such as “Aura Perception,” unless the altered aura is dispelled.
    • First Impressions
      Sometimes you just get the feeling you know someone, can trust him or are meant to be his friend. A mage with this spell can generate that sensation, regardless of whether or not it is genuine. This sort of normally spontaneous connection can make a chosen person feel more at ease in the mage’s presence and may help to lay the groundwork for a friendship, love affair or even just a con.

      Each success adds one die to the dice pool of the first Social Attribute-based roll made for the mage in regard to an individual she meets for the first time. The result of that first impression tends to stick with the subject and color the rest of her interactions with the mage.
    • Memory Hole
      By compartmentalizing his mind, the mage can make it so that even he does not remember certain thoughts hidden within his mind (whether temporarily or permanently), allowing for convincing lies to even a polygraph or telepathic scan.

      The mage partitions parts of his consciousness off, subtracting one die per success from others’ dice pools for rolls undertaken to detect specific lies he might tell. In other words, he could choose to hide the fact that he killed a member of his cabal by obfuscating his memory of the event, but couldn’t conceal every truth he knows at one time.
    • Mental Shield
      The mage can erect a mental shield to protect himself. He can defend his thoughts, shielding them against the notice of others. This may mean concealing his mind from any kind of detection, blatantly preventing others from reading any of his thoughts or just concealing particular thoughts.

      In addition, the Mental Shield helps its caster see through mental illusions such as “Misperception” or “Imposter”. Upon first encountering such a spell, the user can see through the illusion with reflexive and contested Gnosis + Mind roll.
    • Misperception
      The willworker can protect herself from harm by manipulating the perceptions of others and convincing them that she is slightly displaced from her actual location, causing an attacker to momentarily believe that the mage is a half-step to the left, for example. Alternately, the caster might project subtle but persistent suggestions, compelling enemies to hesitate at critical moments and turn blows astray. A fatal shot to the chest could be turned into a graze, or a crippling blow to the leg might be reduced to a painful strike that leaves the leg functional. Such magic is of no help in dealing with attacks that cover a wide area (such as explosives) or those that don’t depend on the mage being exactly where she appears to be (like a fall from a high ledge).

    Disciple Spells (• • •)
    • Multi-Tasking
      The mage performs complex multitasking. The mage can perform three mental extended actions or two mental instant actions simultaneously. Note, however, that none of these can be spellcasting, which is more than just an exercise of consciousness.

      This spell enables the mage to hold three individual and wholly distinct trains of thought at once, provided neither is intensely physically demanding. He creates parallel processes within his conscious mind. The willworker can hold three thoughts in mind simultaneously, allowing him to perform three separate extended-action knowledge tasks (as opposed to instant actions or extended tasks involving physical labor) at the same time.
    • Telepath
      This spell enables the mage to make direct mind-to-mind contact with another sentient being (usually but not always a human), and to converse, share thoughts, images and emotions in a medium free of the awkward constraints of physical communication. With some creatures (goats or exceedingly alien spirits, for example) this is largely an exercise in futility and frustration for anything more complicated than the most basic of concepts. Ideas, images and words can all be shared freely between the mage and another individual.

      The target cannot be compelled to act in any particular way, although the mage could use the telepathic link to try to socially persuade him (or to use other spells that do allow for psychic command). Only conscious thoughts are gleaned at this level. It requires Mind 4 to read someone’s subconscious thoughts.

    Adept Spells (• • • •)
    • Breach the Vault of Memory
      This spell gives the willworker power over that which helps define a person: memory. The mage can add to, modify or delete a subject’s memories in whatever way he sees fit. (It helps but is not necessary to cast “Read the Depths) An individual could be made to forget where she parked her car, the fact that she likes strawberry ice cream, or even why she wears a wedding band. Naturally, short-term and less deeply ingrained memories are easier to manipulate than those that are long term or more fundamental to a person’s identity, but just about any memory can be sculpted according to a mage’s desires.
    • Psychic Sword
      The mage performs a greater psychic assault, causing psychic trauma that translates into damage on a victim’s body as neurons misfire and muscles spasm damagingly.
    • Read the Depths
      The mage can telepathically enter a subject’s subconscious. This includes the ability to read an individual’s memories as opposed to just his surface thoughts.

    Master Spells (• • • • •)
    • Psychic Reprogramming
      The mage can perform psychic reprogramming.

      A subject’s Virtue and/or Vice may be changed (each requires a target number equal to the subject’s Composure), and other parts of the subject’s fundamental psychic makeup can be altered or even deleted. Each success can affect a single aspect of the subject’s fundamental psychic makeup, such as turning a friendship into a rivalry, making the target fall out of (or into) love, or making him follow a new career calling.

      Although this spell’s effect is lasting against Sleepers, it can be dispelled (using Prime 1 “Dispel Magic,” Prime 4 “Supernal Dispellation,” or Death 5 “Quell the Spark") to undo reprogramming and to restore the target to his previous state. Dispelling successes must exceed those achieved in this spell.


    Spirit Spells
    Initiate Spells (•)
    • Exorcist’s Eye
      This spell enables a mage to detect the presence of a possessing entity within a terrestrial being, often to the end of expelling that spirit by means of the “Exorcism” spell. Those who are knowledgeable in the ways of the spirit realm may be able to identify what sort of spirit inhabits a given individual, but such information is not necessarily conveyed by this spell.
    • Second Sight
      The mage gains the Mage Sight. He can also determine the Strength of the local Gauntlet. The caster gains a +1 dice bonus (regardless of the number of casting success) on perception and scrutiny rolls to sense spirit Numina and werewolf Gifts and rituals, as well as loci.
    • Spirit Tongue
      The mage can see, hear and speak with spirits. He can also detect their unseen presence if they are hiding or have chosen to not reveal themselves. Unless the mage has some means of peering across the Gauntlet or affecting the Shadow World, he can converse only with Twilight spirits. (The mage can speak across the barrier of the Gauntlet with the Spirit 2 “Peer Across the Gauntlet” spell.)

      The mage can see ghosts, too, but they appear hazy and indistinct and he cannot hear them unless he also uses Death 1 while casting this spell. He cannot perceive mental projections in Twilight unless he adds Mind 1 to the casting.

    Apprentice Spells (• •)
    • Ephemeral Shield
      The mage protects himself with ephemeral armor that defends against physical attacks or attacks made by ephemeral entities.
    • Gossamer Touch
      Through the casting of this spell, the mage gains the power to physically interact with spirits and spiritual things in the Twilight state, as the Death 2 “Touch of the Grave” spell. She can also touch spirits and be touched in turn by any nearby spirit. She cannot affect ghosts or affect mental projections (she needs the Death and Mind Arcana, respectively, for those effects).
    • Peer Across the Gauntlet
      The mage can peer across the Gauntlet into the Shadow Realm, the spiritual reflection of the material world. If he is in the Shadow Realm, he can use this spell to peer into the material realm.

    Disciple Spells (• • •)
    • Control Spirit
      The mage can force a spirit to perform an action. A single, simple command (“Attack!” “Flee!” “Stand there!”) can be issued per success.
    • Exorcism
      The mage can exorcise a possessing spirit or haunting ghost, forcing it out of the body it possesses or freeing it from its physical fetter.
    • Greater Spirit Summons
      By means of this spell, a mage can issue a summons to a Shadow Realm spirit of whatever power, known or unknown to her. It is easier and often safer to call known entities, but sometimes mages do not have the luxury of ease or safety.
    • Harm Spirit
      The mage can damage a spirit’s Corpus.
    • Numinous Shield
      The mage creates a personal ward against spirit powers and Numina.

    Adept Spells (• • • •)
    • Bind Spirit
      The mage can bind a spirit into the material world. In some cases, this means tying the creature to a given location (which may be a form of imprisonment or even torture). When undertaken with indefinite Duration (with Spirit 5), this spell can confine a being to a place forever (usually somewhere out of the way and well guarded against intrusion), unless it is freed by other magics.

    Master Spells (• • • • •)
    • Materialize Spirit
      The mage can cause a spirit (including a ghost) to materialize. A spirit that cannot normally incarnate may be given physical substance by way of this spell. (A spirit with the power to manifest can be compelled to do so with the “Control Spirit” spell.)


    Space Spells

    Initiate Spells (•)
    • Correspondence
      The mage can analyze the connections between things, people and places, determining their degree of sympathetic connection. This spell provides useful information to the caster who intends to affect a subject through someone or something to whom or to which the target is emotionally bound. It might be a very dear friend, a treasured childhood possession, or that nook beneath the old oak where the subject fell in love for the first time.
    • Spatial Map
      Statistics show that each individual involved in the average gunfight stands only a relatively small chance of being fatally wounded. Fear distorts spatial perception, just as it distorts the perception of time, influencing shooters’ aim. A mage who casts this spell is not guaranteed to be any less afraid during a gunfight, but she does have a much more accurate sense of where everyone and everything is. The spell creates a mental spatial map that constantly updates the mage on the changing topography of her surroundings, from the guy with the shotgun sneaking up among the parked cars, to the stray leaf blowing by in that sudden breeze.

    Apprentice Spells (• •)
    • Conceal Sympathy
      The mage can conceal any sympathetic connections he has to people, places or things, making it appear that he might know a lover only casually or not know her at all.
    • Scrying
      The mage can view a location remotely. She can employ all of her senses through these “perceptual windows,” allowing her to see, hear, smell and even touch things on the far side. This spell can be used for a variety of purposes, from checking up on a loved one to spying on a hated enemy. Mages through time have doubtlessly used it for virtually every possible reason.
    • Ward
      This spell creates a barrier to bar the passage of other Space spells, closing a given locale out from remote sensing, teleportation, spatial tampering and the like. Effectively, this spell “locks” the current Space template of an area into place, making it difficult to overcome that inertia without considerable effort.

      The Ward effectively renders a person, place or thing immune to Space tempering, monitoring and the like until such time as the spatial barrier is overcome. (In the case of particularly old and/or paranoid willworkers, it could literally take months or years of casting to whittle their Space shields away, during which time the subject is free to fortify his Wards or seek out the one who would so crassly intrude upon his privacy.)


    Prime Spells
    Initiate Spells (•)
    • Dispel Magic
      The mage can dismantle or dispel existing spells, a process also known as “unweaving.”

    Apprentice Spells (• •)
    • Counterspell Prime
      The mage can counter spells from any Arcanum, and he can counter covert spells without first identifying their components.

    • Magic Shield
      This spell creates a shield against outside magic. Such a matrix of power is visible to those with Mage Sight, appearing as ghostly white flames limning the form of the caster.