1 [[!template id=character name="Alexios Constantine Commenes Kaloethes" house="Ex Miscellanea" job="Lecturer" rank="Magus" appage=32 born=1165/03/21 updated=1216/10/13 covenant="Schola Pythagoranis" parens="Georgios Ex Miscellanea Orbus Verditius" origin="Constantinople" ethnicity="Graeco-Roman" religion="Orthodox" age=51 image=""" [[!img Alexios.png size="200x" alt="Alexios.png"]] """]]
2 ## Alexios Constantine Commenes Kaloethes
5 [[Main|AlexiosKaloethes]] / [[Magic|AlexiosKaloethes/Magic]] / [[Skills|AlexiosKaloethes/Skills]] / [[Stats|AlexiosKaloethes/Stats]]/ [[Additional Detail|AlexiosKaloethes/AdditionalDetail]]
13 >>Description: This appears to be a large treasure book box filled with pages of the finest calf vellum with covers of apple and hawthorn wood. The covers themselves are plated with gold which has been worked with patterns of trowels worked in jet and sapphire, doorways made of opals and wizard’s staves made of ivory and sapphire. The corners and lock of the book is bronze and worked in patterns of horseshoes.
15 >>Pages: the book includes 100 pages. Each attunement or power require the completion of at least one page. However, it also has cunning bronze locks that hold additional pages. These can be opened so the pages can be reordered. These pages can in themselves be enchanted items (charged or lesser normally and are not part of the book). Alexios also includes pages that are casting tools for each of his known formulaic spells.
17 >>Enchantments (Opened 39 pawns, used 31):
19 >>* *Wizard’s Lectern*: The talisman floats in the air where it is left, holding itself open at the same page and constantly maintains itself within touching distance of the wizard wherever he moves. It also holds itself open at the page he left it. (Base 5 + 5 (concentration) + 10 (unlimited) + 5 (maintain concentration) = 25)
20 >>* *Enchantment of the Enobled Presence*: Four illuminated pages within Alexios' grimoire that includes a four verse poem calling on the light of Apollo, illuminated with suns and crowns. The poem is written in a in sparkling ink that includes within its ingredients alder galls, sapphires and blue topaz and the illumination is heavily gilded.
21 >>>* Stanza of the Enobled Presence: increases the user's Presence by 1 to a maximum of +5. The power is invoked by reciting a stanza of the poem while touching the book and lasts until sunset. Penetration 6. Creo Mentem; Base 55 + 2 sun + 5 touch + 0 individual + 1 twice per day + 3 penetration = 70 (7 pawns of Vis). The power has been invested 4 times.
23 >>* *Enchantment of the Heavenly Tongue*: Two illuminated pages within Alexios' grimoire that includes a two verse poem praising St. Gabriel, illuminated with angels and signals. The poem is written in a in sparkling ink that includes within its ingredients alder galls, and diamonds and the illumination is heavily gilded.
24 >>>* Stanza of the Heavenly Tongue: increases the user's Communication by 1 to a maximum of +5. The power is invoked by reciting a stanza of the poem while touching the book and lasts until sunset. Penetration 6. Creo Mentem; Base 55 + 2 sun + 5 touch + 0 individual + 1 twice per day + 3 penetration = 70 (7 pawns of Vis). The power has been invested 2 times.
26 >>Current Attunements:
28 >>* Magical Transportation: +5 (Doorways, initial attunement)
29 >>* Control Things at a Distance: +4 ( Staves, attuned with Wizard's Lecturn)
30 >>* Nobility: +4 (Gold, attuned with First Stanza)
31 >>* Knowledge: +2 (Sapphire, attuned with Second Stanza)
32 >>* Protection: +2 (Jet, attuned with Third Stanza)
33 >>* Wards: +3 (Hawthorn, attuned with the Fourth Stanza)
35 >*Illuminated Page of Seven League Travel*
36 >>This is a page designed to be bound within a large book. It is beautifully illuminated attic Greek text and its magic can only be used by someone who can read this language (or at least has been taught how to parrot them). Someone who reads the words inscribed on the page can teleport up to seven leagues to somewhere he can see or has an arcane connection to. This item can be used three times per day and has penetration 0.
38 >>(Lesser Enchantment Base 30 + uses 2 + Touch 5 = 37
40 >>(Lab Total: Rego 17 + Corpus (10*2 = 20) + Magic Theory 5 + Inventive Genius 6 + Philosophiae 5 + Craft (Illumination 4) + Picture of Flight magnitude 6 + Magical Aura 0 + Risk Modifier 3 + Simple Die 9 = 75 (10 on Extraordinary Results table = Discovery)
42 >*Enchanted Book: A Transport of Delight* (Planned - never made)
44 >>Slim applewood bound book with beautiful illumination. The book itself is a copy of Alexios Kaloethes’ translation and translation notes of De Poetica by Aristotle (and as such counts as a quality 12 tractatus on Artes Liberales (Literature) and a second, quality 9, tractatus on Artes Liberales (Translation). The middle page of the book has a short poem in Latin and another in Greek by Alexios, designed to show off the rules laid out in De Poetica.
46 >>A user who holds the book in one hand and an arcane connection to another place in the other and reads either of the poems aloud is transported immediately to the location of the arcane connection (along with the book). If the book’s power is triggered without an arcane connection then it defaults to using the person holding it as an arcane connection and the user is teleported to the exact same spot as he was standing in.
48 >>The book can be used twelve times per day and has a Penetration score of 10.
50 >>Lesser Enchanted Item, Rego Corpus 49, R: Touch, D: Mom, T: Ind
52 >>(Base: 35 + 1m R: Touch + 4 (12 uses per day) + 5 penetration 10 = 49)
55 > *Sphere of the Dry Covenant* (Note: given to Covenant)
57 >> Description: A sphere the size of a large fist made of bluish-white marble with golden lettering, in the greek alphabet that translates to hermetic spells to control and banish water, illuminated with pictures of Poseidon, that seem to swim just under the surface of the marble.
58 >> Effect: If placed in such a way that it touches water, the item exerts a forceful but gentle pressure to move it out of the relevant area. The item continues to concentrate until there is no water left and then retriggers if water returns. This can retrigger up to 50 times per day.
59 >> _(Base 4 + 1 Touch + 1 Part + 1 Concentration + 3 environmental trigger + 5 Maintains Concentration +6 50 uses per day = 29)_
62 > *Page of the Duck's Back* (Note: given to Raffaelo)
64 >> Holding this sheet of vellum, beautifully illuminated with pictures of ducks and swans, and reading the poem inscribed upon it, makes the reader and his clothing immune to rain for the remainder of the day.
66 >> The page has 0 penetration and can be used once per day. The magic is broken by a full immersion.
68 >> _(Base 1 + 1 touch + 2 sun + 1 slightly unnatural control = 5)_
73 >>Creo Ignem (Terram, Herbam)
75 >>This illuminated panel of hickory wood has brass edges worked into the wood. The centre is an illustration of a hearth fire whose ruby red glow and golden flames draw the eye. Around the fire is a mantlepiece set upon two columns and above is scrolled a poem that invokes Apollo's blessing. The poem is illustrated with images of fires and cats.
77 >>Effect: when activated, this does +20 fire damage to the being touching it.
79 >>Use: The panel's magic is activated by someone picking it up. This can be done up to 24 times per day.
81 >>(Base 15 (+20 damage) + 1 touch + momentary + individual + 5 24 uses per day = 25)
86 >>Creo Ignem (Terram, Herbam)
88 >>This illuminated panel of hickory wood has brass edges worked into the wood. The centre is an illustration of a hearth fire whose ruby red glow and golden flames draw the eye. Around the fire is a mantlepiece set upon two columns and above and below are scrolled poems; the first invokes Hestia's blessing and the second thanks her for them. The poems are illustrated with images of fires, furnishings of the home and cats sleeping blissfully.
90 >>Effect: When placed on the wall of a building and activated, the walls of the building radiate a gentle warmth that keeps the entire building comfortably warm.
92 >>Use: The panel's magic is activated and deactivated by reciting the poems illuminated upon it. This can be done up to 24 times per day.
94 >>Flaw: This item has a minor flaw, when active the flames painted on the hearth become real and can actually ignite other things as if they were candle flames.
96 >>(Base 2 (warm to the touch) + 1 Conc + 3 structure + 1 touch + 5 maintain concentration + 5 24 uses per day + free requisites = 25)
99 >*Lighting up the Tower*
103 >> This illuminated page of vellum has a poem in praise of Apollo on it and is illuminated with images of lamps, candles and Suns.
105 >> Effect: when activated and touched to a building, it ignites all items that are extremely flammable within the structure.
107 >> Use: the item is activated by reciting the poem inscribed upon it and be used 1/day.
109 >>(Base 2 (ignite extremely flammable items) + momentary + 1 touch + 4 structure = 15)
112 >*Gauntlets of the Forge* (Note: given to Dwarf King for AGNES' TUITION)
116 >>The backs of these heavy leather gauntlets, which reach back over the elbow, are covered with Greek script that which has been carefully illuminated with scenes of forge work in metallic inks that have been embedded into the leather, the red ink of the flames in the illuminations has a shimmering ruby red glitter.
118 >>Effect: when the magic of these gauntlets is activated, they become totally immune to heat and flames up to those caused by the handling of molten iron (+15 damage). The hands of someone within the item are also protected since no heat or flame can pass through the gauntlets.
120 >>Use: This item is triggered by a clap of the hands and remains active unless the magic is somehow cancelled. It can be activated once per day.
122 >>Notes: This item was made for and given to the Dwarf King Dorn of Dorndelve.
124 >>(Base 4 + 2 for up to 15 damage + 1 Touch + 1 diameter + 1 = 30)
128 >*Portable Forge* (Note: given to Agnes)
132 >>This item looks like a small metal cone which rises into a head and collapsible legs that fold up and over the rest of the item. The head is worked into the head of a dragon and a pattern of inlaid silver around a frieze of Greek and Latin characters that spell out an invocation to Hephaestus, illuminated with scenes of forge work made of inks that seem formed from gold, silver and ruby.
134 >>Effect: When this item is placed with its legs to using a fire up to one that does +10 damage (sufficient to melt lead), it collects the heat of the fire and concentrates it within the mouth of the dragon which is a space roughly the size of a human head. There is no flame within this area, simply pure heat which is concentrated into something far hotter than the original (the intensity of the heat is equal to that of the original fire + 5 to a maximum of +15). The inside of the head glows brilliantly red while the item is in use but the outside of the item remains magically cool as the heat is channelled back into the dragon's throat. The fire itself must continue to be stoked while this item is in use but the flames and even the coals are noticeably cooler to the touch than they should be for that intensify of fire (-5 damage to a minimum of +0).
136 >>Use: The forge is activated by unfolding the legs and locking them into the open position. It can be only be activated once per day.
138 >>Notes: This item was made and given to Agnés
140 >>(Base 3 + 2 for a fire of +15 damage + 1 touch + 1 concentration + 5 concentration = 20)
143 >*Ring of Homecoming* (Note: given to Agnes)
147 >>Description: a gold ring with a secret compartment on the bevel, similar to a poison ring. The outside is enamelled with a portrait of Hermes and inside the cap is space for an arcane connection and a short illuminated poem.
149 >>Effect: The ring can cast leap of homecoming on the one who triggers it by reading the poem within.
151 >>Side Benefit: triggering the ring also cleans and tidies the caster and their clothes and leaves them richly perfumed with frankincense.
153 >>Notes: Base 35 + 5 touch + 24 uses per day 5 = 45
156 >*Page of the Servant's Speed* (Note: given to Raffaelo)
160 >>Description: a piece of illuminated vellum with a short Greek poem in praise of Hermes which is designed to fit within a folio.
162 >>Effect: Touching the page and reading the poem triggers the item which then teleports the user up to 500 paces away from where he is standing. The item can be used up to 24 times per day.
164 >>Side Benefit: triggering the item also cleans and tidied the caster and their clothes and leaves them richly perfumed with frankincense.
166 >>Base 20 + 5 touch + 5 24/day = 30
168 >*The High Magic Laboratory Doors* (Note: given to Covenant)
172 >>Penetration: 0, Uses: Unlimited
174 >>Description: A tile made of solid bronze with Greek characters made of gold winding around its edges them and illuminated with enamelled pictures of a man in winged sandals. In the centre is a short poem in Latin asking Hermes' blessing to travel.
176 >>Effect: Standing on the tile and reciting the poem transports the user, his clothes and equipment, so that they stand on an identical, linked tile, wherever it is. This can be done 24 times a day but one of the tiles must be within a Regio with a magical aura of 6 or above, and the other must be not within such a Regio.
178 >>Details: Base 35 + 5 Touch +10 unlimited uses + 5 for special regio requirements
182 >>* A piece of bronze of sufficient size enough to make two tiles large enough to stand on is forged and then split in two. The two pieces are then fixed as hermetic connections to each other. Each is then enchanted with a Leap of Homecoming effect to the other.
183 >>* Four pieces of work are required to make this item - the two doors must be separately enchanted and the hermetic arcane connection must be fixed for each.
184 >>* This item is specifically designed to work in high powered regiones and has a +1 magnitude for complexity as a result.
185 >>* the initial version is specifically designed to work with the Mages, former Apprentices and current apprentices of the Schola Pythagoranis as of Summer 1252.
187 >Illuminated Cloak Clasp of the Feathery Body (Note given to Raff)
191 >>Description: a golden Cloak Clasp of with a short Greek poem in praise of Hermes enamelled onto it and illuminated with winged sandals.
193 >>Effect: Touching the clasp and reading the poem triggers the item and casts the spell Rise of the Feathery Body on the target which continues until it is ended by the target. The item can be used up to 24 times per day.
195 >>Base 4 + 1 Voice + 1 Conc + 5 24/day + 5 item sustains concentration = 20
198 >*Elemental Shackles of Water* (Given to Covenant for use in Muto Lab)
200 >>Rego Aquam, Constant Effect, Penetration: 20
202 >>Description: These bronze arm bands are engraved on the inside with an tiny enamelled poem in praise of Poseidon, controller of the waves, with illuminated pictures of the sea god wielding his trident. This cannot be seen by someone just looking at the outside of the band.
204 >>Trigger: Both of a pair of arm bands must be touched to a water elemental and the poem written for the item to trigger. At this point, the armbands are sucked into the elemental and appear around two limb like appendages that appear upon it, no matter what shape it takes.
206 >>Effect: The Elemental is bound to obey the commands of the one who used the item on them. It will faithfully obey these commands which may include obeying the commands of others.
210 >>*This item works on a water elemental up to size 0.
212 >>(Base 5 + 1 touch + 14 constant effect + 10 penetration = 34)
214 >*Locket to Locate the Errant Daughter* (sold to Baron)
216 >>Intellego Corpus (Imaginem)
218 >>T: Individual, D: Concentration, R: Arcane
220 >>Description: A golden locket with the engraved picture of a young girl, space for a piece of her hair and a short poem to the Virgin Mary asking for her intercession to protect the reader's daughter.
222 >>Power: when invoked, the user knows the direction and distance of the girl in the locker.
224 >>Notes: this item's power lasts for 70 years only.
226 >>Base 3 + 2 conc + 4 arc + 5 maintain conc + 10 Unlimited = 40. Excess x2 70 year duration
228 >*Locket to Find the Errant Daughter* (sold to Baron)
230 >>Intellego Corpus (Imaginem)
232 >>T: Individual, D: Concentration, R: Arcane
234 >>Description: A golden locket with the engraved picture of a young girl, space for a piece of her hair and a short poem to the Virgin Mary asking for her to watch over the girl in the locket.
236 >>Power: when invoked, the user can locate the girl in the locket to within one inch on a map.
238 >>Notes: this item's power lasts for 70 years only.
240 >>Base 3 + 2 conc + 4 arc + 5 maintain conc + 10 Unlimited = 40. Excess x2 70 year duration
~jdamery / ArtibusWiki.git / blob