Character Generation/Mage

Please read Banned Concepts before going further with your app first.

Not Allowed

• KinMagi: There is currently a moratorium on Kinfolk who are also Awakened Mages. Always intended to be a rarity, this obviously-popular combination of the Mage and Werewolf spheres has historically lead to more inter-sphere conflicts than any other single concept and has perhaps the highest body count of on-screen PVP kills in City of Hope history, and has thus been disallowed for the foreseeable future. Shifters do not generally do "divided loyalties" well, and Mages are always viewed as a threat to what Gaians hold sacred.

• Kinain Mage: There is currently a moratorium on Kinain who are also Awakened Mages.

Choose Concept, Tradition (Convention for Technocrats), Essence, Nature, Demeanor

• Faction should be Traditions, Technocracy, Wyrm (for Malfean Nephandi), Nephandi (for other Nephandi), or None
• Tradition mages may also set Type (e.g. Reality Hacker)
• Technocrats may also set Methodology (e.g. Genegineer)
• Nephandi must set Type = Infernalist, Malfean, or K'llashaa
  • Non-Nephandi with Faction = Wyrm (e.g. BSD kinfolk) should set a +note to that effect
  • Non-Nephandi infernalists should set Type = Infernalist but Faction = something else, and also set a +note
  • See house rules for context

Note: Applications for mages with the Kinfolk merit are closed for the foreseeable future. See Questionable Character Concepts for details.

Set +notes for paradigm and foci

• If someone ICly asked you how you perform magick, and you answered honestly and reasonably completely, what would you say?
• What is at least one thing that your Paradigm doesn't allow you to do?
• Guide to the Traditions pages 58-65 has suggestions
• Nephandi: Why do you believe the world should be destroyed?

Stat	Baseline	Freebies per additional dot
Attributes	1 in each + 7/5/3	5
Abilities	13/9/5	2
Spheres	6	7
Backgrounds	7	1
Arete	1	4 (max total 3)
Willpower	5	1 (max total 8)
Quintessence	equal to Avatar	+4 dots per freebie (requires Prime sphere, max total 20) (not replaced once spent)
Freebies	15

Spheres:

• Tradition mages should allocate at least one of the six dots to their Tradition's specialty sphere.
• Hollow Ones and Orphans still get a total of 6 dots baseline. (MtA 90: "Some Orphans, especially Hollow Ones, have no specialty sphere." Emphasis added.)
• List of specialty spheres by Tradition / Convention

Backgrounds:

• Familiar Companion stats

Select Resonance Trait(s)

• Essence = Dynamic: at least one Resonance Trait should be of type Dynamic
• Essence = Pattern: at least one Resonance Trait should be of type Static
• Essence = Primordial: at least one Resonance Trait should be of type Entropic
• Essence = Questing: Resonance Trait(s) can be any of the above types
• Your Resonance Trait should not literally be "Dynamic", it should be a more specific adjective whose type is Dynamic (or whatever) - see above link for examples