Forums
Scions of Sorcery – fantasy RP
Quick find code: 49-50-995-65876991
Natural Abilities
Each ability is followed by number(s), allowing random selection; the tiers are then 1-3.
Infantry and/or Cavalry | 1, 2
Soldiery are trained to fight as light, heavy or cataphract forces, either on foot or mounted on a beast (see page 5 for mounts), armed and unarmed. Infantry are trained to march long distances, and so have lots of stamina and endurance due to always walking, and can run faster than any other soldiery. However, riders do not train so much in marching, so do not have as much stamina or endurance as infantry, relying on their horses for transport. Soldiers have average salaries, so have some starting money unlike most other abilities. Spending points in both Infantry and Cavalry count as separate abilities.
Tiers
Light : No armour, or light armour such as boiled leather, padded, or silk, sometimes have shields. Can effectively wield any kind of weapon, and are fast, hardy, and very acrobatic. Mounts often small, light, fast and hardy.
Examples are peltasts, most militias, velites, hussars, akinji, streltsy, landsknechts, most archers, ghilmans, slingers, musketeers, dog soldiers, jaguar warriors and eagle warriors, most gladiators, or most barbarian warriors.
Heavy : Armoured in mail, plated mail, lamellar, scale, coat-of-plates, brigandine, jazerant, cuirass, partial plate armour, etc. May wield larger shields. Sometimes archers or crossbowmen. Mounts are strong and heavy. Heavy soldiery good at melees, but mediocre with ranged weapons, but can use thrown weapons adequately.
Examples are hoplites, Roman legionnaires and Roman cavalry, phalangites, thorakitai, sarissaphoroi, hetairoi, medieval European handgunners and crossbowmen, medieval knights, winged hussars, janissaries, mamluks, sipahi, bucellarii, bushi, huscarls, demi-lancers, cuirassiers, carabiniers, hakkapeliitat, ironside troopers, or reiters.
Each ability is followed by number(s), allowing random selection; the tiers are then 1-3.
Infantry and/or Cavalry | 1, 2
Soldiery are trained to fight as light, heavy or cataphract forces, either on foot or mounted on a beast (see page 5 for mounts), armed and unarmed. Infantry are trained to march long distances, and so have lots of stamina and endurance due to always walking, and can run faster than any other soldiery. However, riders do not train so much in marching, so do not have as much stamina or endurance as infantry, relying on their horses for transport. Soldiers have average salaries, so have some starting money unlike most other abilities. Spending points in both Infantry and Cavalry count as separate abilities.
Tiers
Light : No armour, or light armour such as boiled leather, padded, or silk, sometimes have shields. Can effectively wield any kind of weapon, and are fast, hardy, and very acrobatic. Mounts often small, light, fast and hardy.
Examples are peltasts, most militias, velites, hussars, akinji, streltsy, landsknechts, most archers, ghilmans, slingers, musketeers, dog soldiers, jaguar warriors and eagle warriors, most gladiators, or most barbarian warriors.
Heavy : Armoured in mail, plated mail, lamellar, scale, coat-of-plates, brigandine, jazerant, cuirass, partial plate armour, etc. May wield larger shields. Sometimes archers or crossbowmen. Mounts are strong and heavy. Heavy soldiery good at melees, but mediocre with ranged weapons, but can use thrown weapons adequately.
Examples are hoplites, Roman legionnaires and Roman cavalry, phalangites, thorakitai, sarissaphoroi, hetairoi, medieval European handgunners and crossbowmen, medieval knights, winged hussars, janissaries, mamluks, sipahi, bucellarii, bushi, huscarls, demi-lancers, cuirassiers, carabiniers, hakkapeliitat, ironside troopers, or reiters.
04-Feb-2017 05:35:10 - Last edited on 02-Mar-2017 04:06:05 by Azi Demonica
Cataphract
: Covered with armour or wearing very heavy armour, such as historic cataphracts, late medieval and Renaissance knights/men-at-arms, crupellarii, condottieri, qapukulu, khassaki, ahadis cavalry, gendarmes, samurai, or royal/heavy mamluks/sipahi. Due to very heavy armour, slow and lack stamina, and overheat quickly. Mounts are large and powerful, but slow, and may be armoured. Excels at melees, but limited with ranged and thrown weapons.
Hunting | 3
The skills of stalking, scouting, tracking, trapping, and killing with ranged weapons, and so also increases proficiency with throwing and ranged weapons. Higher tiers enables surviving extreme environments and living off the land. Hunters may have hunting animals with them.
Tiers
Basic : Enables simple hunting and survival.
Adept : Enables efficient stalking, tracking, trapping, and killing, not only of animals, but also men. Allows user to survive extreme conditions and live off the land.
Master : Become beast master, allowing one to befriend animals. Enables precise utilization of any ranged weapon, always hitting the head or heart to maximize damage.
Mercantile | 4
Rich citizens who can afford the best goods, clothes and food. Militia merchants can afford excellent military equipment and mounts, and can be mistaken for knights, but lack the skill of true soldiery.
Tiers
Common : Adds riches and goods.
Successful : Enables boundless wealth.
Militia : Enables military equipment.
Fervour | 5
Holy and religious individuals, resistant to darkness, evil, sorcery, devilry, and the undead.
Tiers
Common : Basic cleric, such as a friar, preacher, pastor, monk, nun, priest, deacon, bhikkhu, dervish, imam, sadhu, rabbi, etc. Common clerics can preform preaching, form a congregation in a temple, or simply serve as a wandering ascetic.
Hunting | 3
The skills of stalking, scouting, tracking, trapping, and killing with ranged weapons, and so also increases proficiency with throwing and ranged weapons. Higher tiers enables surviving extreme environments and living off the land. Hunters may have hunting animals with them.
Tiers
Basic : Enables simple hunting and survival.
Adept : Enables efficient stalking, tracking, trapping, and killing, not only of animals, but also men. Allows user to survive extreme conditions and live off the land.
Master : Become beast master, allowing one to befriend animals. Enables precise utilization of any ranged weapon, always hitting the head or heart to maximize damage.
Mercantile | 4
Rich citizens who can afford the best goods, clothes and food. Militia merchants can afford excellent military equipment and mounts, and can be mistaken for knights, but lack the skill of true soldiery.
Tiers
Common : Adds riches and goods.
Successful : Enables boundless wealth.
Militia : Enables military equipment.
Fervour | 5
Holy and religious individuals, resistant to darkness, evil, sorcery, devilry, and the undead.
Tiers
Common : Basic cleric, such as a friar, preacher, pastor, monk, nun, priest, deacon, bhikkhu, dervish, imam, sadhu, rabbi, etc. Common clerics can preform preaching, form a congregation in a temple, or simply serve as a wandering ascetic.
04-Feb-2017 05:35:14 - Last edited on 02-Mar-2017 04:08:01 by Azi Demonica
High
: Cleric with power, such as a bishop, inquisitor, shaman, druid, archpriest, abbot, abbess, mufti, sage, or ayatollah. These clerics are in charge of a temple and the lesser clerics in it, or may be wandering ascetics other clerics can recognize as being divinely inspired. They have greater defensive and offensive power than lesser clerics.
War : War clerics who go to battle, such as sohei, ghazi, Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller, Teutonic Knights, crusaders, or European war clerics of the Middle Ages. These warrior clerics are rich enough to acquire good military gear and tend to be fearless and ferocious in battle. May also be riders, but are not true military cavalry.
Guile
The art of trickery, stealth, thievery, infiltration, evasion, espionage, sabotage, assassination, and terrorism. Unpopular with citizenry and the law.
Tiers
Cunning : Possessing skill in deceit and evasion to reach one's goals. Enables the making of poisons and blinding bombs.
Trained : An agent trained to preform one's slyness, increases the chances of successful infiltration, espionage, sabotage, and murder. Enables seemingly supernatural stealth.
Lethal : Elite or brutal operatives tended to be rare in history. The hashashim and shinobi/ninjas (and possibly praeventores) were professional, elite agents of assassination, sabotage and terrorism.
Oppositely of a shinobi/ninja or hashashin, a rakehell was a Renaissance era European noble who delved into debauchery, debt one never cared to pay back, brawling, gambling, crime, murder, heavy drinking, banditry, even plundering. Coming from the nobility, rakehells were also fencers, riders, and wealthy, and sometimes even wore armour. When such a chaotic individual becomes a hired agent, only destruction would await, and being wealthy meant that they could bribe just about anyone!
War : War clerics who go to battle, such as sohei, ghazi, Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller, Teutonic Knights, crusaders, or European war clerics of the Middle Ages. These warrior clerics are rich enough to acquire good military gear and tend to be fearless and ferocious in battle. May also be riders, but are not true military cavalry.
Guile
The art of trickery, stealth, thievery, infiltration, evasion, espionage, sabotage, assassination, and terrorism. Unpopular with citizenry and the law.
Tiers
Cunning : Possessing skill in deceit and evasion to reach one's goals. Enables the making of poisons and blinding bombs.
Trained : An agent trained to preform one's slyness, increases the chances of successful infiltration, espionage, sabotage, and murder. Enables seemingly supernatural stealth.
Lethal : Elite or brutal operatives tended to be rare in history. The hashashim and shinobi/ninjas (and possibly praeventores) were professional, elite agents of assassination, sabotage and terrorism.
Oppositely of a shinobi/ninja or hashashin, a rakehell was a Renaissance era European noble who delved into debauchery, debt one never cared to pay back, brawling, gambling, crime, murder, heavy drinking, banditry, even plundering. Coming from the nobility, rakehells were also fencers, riders, and wealthy, and sometimes even wore armour. When such a chaotic individual becomes a hired agent, only destruction would await, and being wealthy meant that they could bribe just about anyone!
04-Feb-2017 05:35:18 - Last edited on 09-Mar-2017 03:09:16 by Azi Demonica
Generic Magic
These disciplines are not specified to a single discipline, but include multiple forms of magic.
Wizardry | 7
Casual magic, practitioners of wizardry often do not have a bad reputation, as they tend to be educated and responsible; sometimes called mage or magician. Their magic popularly involves the casting of variously shaped coloured projectiles, which seem to be fragments of the supernatural itself, but it is unknown what exactly this typical 'magic' really is or consists of, but it is capable of damage. The wizardry community sometimes use the term prestidigitator to humorously refer to inept or failed magic-users.
An individual's wizardry may involve alchemy and a fraction of various divinations and psionics, but even masters of wizardry do not possess the full potential of any divinations or psionics. Adept and Master sorcerers can induce simple shape-shifting and enchant items, however specific divinations can interfere with their enchantments. Higher tiers allows greater control of the shape, size and speed of the magical projectiles.
Tiers:
Novice
Adept
Masterful
Sorcery | 8
Magic that is more dangerous or darker than wizardry, practitioners of sorcery often have a negative reputation, and may go by names such as witch, invoker, conjurer, sorcerer, or warlock. Such magic is more potent than wizardry and the users tend to be disobedient and serve their own interests, hence their negative reputation. The projectiles of sorcery tend to be dark, and seem to be fragments of evil or demonic magic.
Sorcery often also involves dark magic, alchemy, psionics, pyromancy, necromancy, and other forbidden divinations, but even masters of sorcery cannot utilize divinations or psionics at full potential. Stronger sorcery can induce simple shape-shifting and enchant items, but specific divinations can interfere with the enchantments.
Tiers:
Novice
Adept
Masterful
These disciplines are not specified to a single discipline, but include multiple forms of magic.
Wizardry | 7
Casual magic, practitioners of wizardry often do not have a bad reputation, as they tend to be educated and responsible; sometimes called mage or magician. Their magic popularly involves the casting of variously shaped coloured projectiles, which seem to be fragments of the supernatural itself, but it is unknown what exactly this typical 'magic' really is or consists of, but it is capable of damage. The wizardry community sometimes use the term prestidigitator to humorously refer to inept or failed magic-users.
An individual's wizardry may involve alchemy and a fraction of various divinations and psionics, but even masters of wizardry do not possess the full potential of any divinations or psionics. Adept and Master sorcerers can induce simple shape-shifting and enchant items, however specific divinations can interfere with their enchantments. Higher tiers allows greater control of the shape, size and speed of the magical projectiles.
Tiers:
Novice
Adept
Masterful
Sorcery | 8
Magic that is more dangerous or darker than wizardry, practitioners of sorcery often have a negative reputation, and may go by names such as witch, invoker, conjurer, sorcerer, or warlock. Such magic is more potent than wizardry and the users tend to be disobedient and serve their own interests, hence their negative reputation. The projectiles of sorcery tend to be dark, and seem to be fragments of evil or demonic magic.
Sorcery often also involves dark magic, alchemy, psionics, pyromancy, necromancy, and other forbidden divinations, but even masters of sorcery cannot utilize divinations or psionics at full potential. Stronger sorcery can induce simple shape-shifting and enchant items, but specific divinations can interfere with the enchantments.
Tiers:
Novice
Adept
Masterful
04-Feb-2017 05:35:26 - Last edited on 20-Jul-2017 20:37:04 by Azi Demonica
Aspromancy
| 9
Meaning 'white divination' aspromancy is magic that is focused on healing the sick, wounded, and unhappy. As such, aspromancers are healers, workers of miracles, and exorcists, and their presence debilitates the undead. Useful among clerics, but is sometimes used as a means to make money.
Tiers:
Simple
Saintly
Angelic
Ieromancy | 11
Meaning 'holy divination' this sacred form of magic can only be used by the saintly and angelic, allowing the casting of bright magic that burns evil and heals the good. Only those pure with kindness, mercy, and sacrifice can use this magic; any form of deliberate evil causes this magic to leave the user until repentance. Unsurprisingly, ieromancers can combat any kind of devilry, wickedness, undead, sanctify corruption and curses, cure demoniacs, and are resistant to all evil forces.
Enables 'Angelic Metamorphosis', of which the user sprouts large feathery wings, gets a halo, and has a bright aura; higher tiers grant larger wings and brighter halo and aura. The transformation requires one post to complete, and another to revert the user back to original form.
Tiers:
Angel's
Guardian Angel's
Archangel's
Meaning 'white divination' aspromancy is magic that is focused on healing the sick, wounded, and unhappy. As such, aspromancers are healers, workers of miracles, and exorcists, and their presence debilitates the undead. Useful among clerics, but is sometimes used as a means to make money.
Tiers:
Simple
Saintly
Angelic
Mavromancy
| 10
Meaning 'black divination' but often referred to as 'black magic' or 'dark arts', mavromancy is a forbidden form of magic, and includes the utilization of powerful curses, summoning dark forces such as poltergeists or undead or demons, corruption of minds, and other forbidden magics. It is often associated with sorcery: all mavromancers are sorcerers of some sort, but not all sorcerers are mavromancers. Mavromancers are crueler and rarer than sorcerers, and tend to also have blades. Obviously, they are hated more than sorcerers.
Tiers:
Deliberate
Punishing
Demonic
Meaning 'black divination' but often referred to as 'black magic' or 'dark arts', mavromancy is a forbidden form of magic, and includes the utilization of powerful curses, summoning dark forces such as poltergeists or undead or demons, corruption of minds, and other forbidden magics. It is often associated with sorcery: all mavromancers are sorcerers of some sort, but not all sorcerers are mavromancers. Mavromancers are crueler and rarer than sorcerers, and tend to also have blades. Obviously, they are hated more than sorcerers.
Tiers:
Deliberate
Punishing
Demonic
Ieromancy | 11
Meaning 'holy divination' this sacred form of magic can only be used by the saintly and angelic, allowing the casting of bright magic that burns evil and heals the good. Only those pure with kindness, mercy, and sacrifice can use this magic; any form of deliberate evil causes this magic to leave the user until repentance. Unsurprisingly, ieromancers can combat any kind of devilry, wickedness, undead, sanctify corruption and curses, cure demoniacs, and are resistant to all evil forces.
Enables 'Angelic Metamorphosis', of which the user sprouts large feathery wings, gets a halo, and has a bright aura; higher tiers grant larger wings and brighter halo and aura. The transformation requires one post to complete, and another to revert the user back to original form.
Tiers:
Angel's
Guardian Angel's
Archangel's
04-Feb-2017 05:35:30 - Last edited on 02-Mar-2017 21:11:16 by Azi Demonica
Kakomancy
| 12
Meaning 'evil divination' this forbidden, diabolic magic can only be used by the hellbound and demonic in nature, those whose hearts are filled with hatred, sadism, wrath, chaos, or interest in the demonic. It allows kakomancers to summon demons and poltergeists, taint areas or people, cause moral corruption, and unleash swirling black magic that suffocates or enshrouds foes. They are openly despised by most folk.
Enables 'Demonic Metamorphosis' of which the individual transforms into a demonic version of oneself. Higher tiers grant larger and longer wings, horns and tail, and may make the user become animalistic in appearance and behaviour. The transformation takes one post to complete, and one more to revert the user back to original form. Those who change into demons will surely frighten most people, and may instigate hostility from those against evil.
Tiers:
Devil's
Demon's
Archdemon's
Meaning 'evil divination' this forbidden, diabolic magic can only be used by the hellbound and demonic in nature, those whose hearts are filled with hatred, sadism, wrath, chaos, or interest in the demonic. It allows kakomancers to summon demons and poltergeists, taint areas or people, cause moral corruption, and unleash swirling black magic that suffocates or enshrouds foes. They are openly despised by most folk.
Enables 'Demonic Metamorphosis' of which the individual transforms into a demonic version of oneself. Higher tiers grant larger and longer wings, horns and tail, and may make the user become animalistic in appearance and behaviour. The transformation takes one post to complete, and one more to revert the user back to original form. Those who change into demons will surely frighten most people, and may instigate hostility from those against evil.
Tiers:
Devil's
Demon's
Archdemon's
Psionics
Mind over matter; psionics literally use the power of their thoughts to manipulate their surroundings. They can emit brief pushes of force, which blasts things away or amplify one's jumps. They also possess mental projection, allowing them to conjure up to a few handheld items.
Warping | 13
Magical travelling or movement at high speeds. Greater tiers can be used to warp targets up to one's own body weight to smash into other targets. Heavier targets require more concentration and energy. Warp can be cast once every third post.
Tiers
Minor : Warping only applies to oneself or handheld objects.
Major : Warping applies to oneself, animals, lesser beings, and inanimate objects nearby.
Supreme : Warping applies to anything nearby and with greater force.
04-Feb-2017 05:35:35 - Last edited on 02-Mar-2017 21:14:20 by Azi Demonica
Quick find code: 49-50-995-65876991 Back to Top