## Character Generation
-You are the descendent of one of the younger members of the Merlin
+* You are the descendent of one of the younger members of the Merlin
Saga; and have the blood of Amber in your veins. You've been brought
up by Prince Martin (or rather mostly nursemaids with him overseeing)
with probably occasional visits from at least one parent whom you know
who they are. Feel free to pick.
-
-You all have Pattern Initiation and have had at least a decade to get
+* You all have Pattern Initiation and have had at least a decade to get
used to it. You have some kind of trump communication device (this
can be a deck of cards if you want) and can be assumed to have trumps
of anyone you've ever met; although outside of the party and possibly
your ancestors; these are unlikely to be very useful. If you have
Sorcery, Conjuration or Power Words then this device is a device of
power that helps you use your magic.
-
-You can have any items / creatures that (a) are less than 15 points
+* You can have any items / creatures that (a) are less than 15 points
each (b) you'd reasonably carry with you on a week long bender.
-
-You have 75 points on top of your Pattern Imprint. No more than one
+* You have 75 points on top of your Pattern Imprint. No more than one
stat sold down, If you sell a stat down to Human I will put you in
situations where this is a problem. No more than 5 points of stuff
either way.
+* You can have Shapeshift.
+* You can't have Logrus; chaos is just a myth to you.
-Modifications to normal abilities:
+### Modifications to normal abilities:
-You can have Advanced Pattern for an extra 10 points. You are
+* You can have Advanced Pattern for an extra 10 points. You are
*really* shit at anything in it because you've had to figure it all
out for yourself, have only recently got any of it to work, and
haven't had a chance to look at any Patterns than Amethyst's.
-
-Sorcery costs 20 points but so long as you have your device of power
+* Sorcery costs 20 points but so long as you have your device of power
with you:
-a) it works reasonably well near the Pattern
-b) you can have up to 4 simple effects that you can use at whim
-(e.g. "fireball", about as effective as hitting someone with a
-sword, "teleport 10m foward" etc)
-c) you can come up with arbitrary effects on actually useful
-timescales (not on the scale of falling, combat, or geology unless
-they're very simple modifications of one of your known effects; but
-on the order of 15 minutes or so).
-
-Don't expect to lose your device of power unless you do so
+ + it works reasonably well near the Pattern
+ + you can have up to 4 simple effects that you can use at whim
+ (e.g. "fireball", about as effective as hitting someone with a
+ sword, "teleport 10m foward" etc)
+ + you can come up with arbitrary effects on actually useful
+ timescales (not on the scale of falling, combat, or geology unless
+ they're very simple modifications of one of your known effects; but
+ on the order of 15 minutes or so).
+* Don't expect to lose your device of power unless you do so
deliberately or really deserve it.
-
-You can have Shapeshift.
-
-You can't have Logrus; chaos is just a myth to you.
-
-You are the descendent of one of the younger members of the Merlin
-Saga; and have the blood of Amber in your veins. You've been
-brought up by Prince Martin (or rather mostly nursemaids with him
-overseeing) with probably occasional visits from at least one parent
-whom you know who they are. Feel free to pick.
-
-You all have Pattern Initiation and have had at least a decade to
-get used to it. You have some kind of trump communication device
-(this can be a deck of cards if you want) and can be assumed to have
-trumps of anyone you've ever met; although outside of the party and
-possibly your ancestors; these are unlikely to be very useful. If
-you have Sorcery, Conjuration or Power Words then this device is a
-device of power that helps you use your magic.
-
-You can have any items / creatures that (a) are less than 15 points
-each (b) you'd reasonably carry with you on a week long bender.
-
-You have 75 points on top of your Pattern Imprint. No more than one
-stat sold down, If you sell a stat down to Human I will put you in
-situations where this is a problem. No more than 5 points of stuff
-either way.
-
-Modifications to normal abilities:
-
-You can have Advanced Pattern for an extra 10 points. You are
-*really* shit at anything in it because you've had to figure it
-all out for yourself, have only recently got any of it to work,
-and haven't had a chance to look at any Patterns than Amethyst's.
-
-Sorcery costs 20 points but so long as you have your device of
-power with you:
-a) it works reasonably well near the Pattern
-b) you can have up to 4 simple effects that you can use at whim
-(e.g. "fireball", about as effective as hitting someone with a
-sword, "teleport 10m foward" etc)
-c) you can come up with arbitrary effects on actually useful
-timescales (not on the scale of falling, combat, or geology unless
-they're very simple modifications of one of your known effects;
-but on the order of 15 minutes or so).
-
-Don't expect to lose your device of power unless you do so
-deliberately or really deserve it.
-
-You can have Shapeshift.
-
-You can't have Logrus; chaos is just a myth to you.
-
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