Claudine Ex Mercere

Stats

• Intellect: +0
• Perception: +2
• Strength: -1
• Stamina: +0
• Presence: -1
• Communication: +2
• Dexterity: +3
• Quickness: -2

Misc

Personality Traits

Abilities

Living Languages

Dead Languages

General Abilities

Academic Abilities

Arcane Abilities

Martial Abilities

Magic Items

Ring of Leap of Homekeeping

Takes the wearer to Magnantrum.

This effect was designed for Claudine.

Ring of Leap of Homekeeping

Takes the wearer to The Schola.

This effect was designed for Claudine.

Ring of Masculinity

Turns the human wearer into a man whilst they wear the ring.

Has no effect on pregnant women (Limit of Essential Nature).

I'm not sure if this is a 4th or 5th mag effect, but either way it doesn't cause warping unless used "continuously".

Other Items

Short Bow

Horse

Claudine has the exclusive use of one of the covenant's horses.

Currently this is a geldling called ?Madcap.

Background

Claudine did her apprenticeship at Harco. At some point after that she became a member of the Society of Goliards; however she doesn't usually talk about her life before coming to the Stonehenge Tribunal in 1207 seeking to leave the Mediterranean which she was beginning to find uncomfortably warm.

Since then she has lived a comparatively staid life for a Goliard; finding delight in the day to day tasks of librarianship and satisfying her urge to travel with her Redcap work. She also makes trips to covenants and other libraries in order to copy their books; and frequently travels as a man to pursude this end. There are many monasteries in Britain and Normandy that have been visited by a wandering "Brother Claude".

She has an unfortunate habit of consuming ergot fungus disolved in alchohol; which she claims inspires her art. Perhaps it does. Certainly anyone finding snails assaulting knights in the margins of the libraries' books could reasonably believe so. Trips away from the covenant also take her way from this vice but she does suffer flashbacks...

She is currently being trained how to bind books and illuminate them.

Her usual assignment as a redcap is deliveries to the mundanes. She also steps in when one of the other redcaps is unable to do deliveries.

Notes

Forgettable Face

Moments after speaking with her, very few people can give an adequate description of her. She often gets away with things because people are not sure it was actually her. If other characters must make a roll to identify her, it is at –3.

Free Expression

+3 bonus on all roes to create a new work of art.

Light Touch

+1 bonus on all rolls involving subtle manipulation of objects and one fewer botch dice (to a min of 1). Does not apply to archery, but does apply to musical instruments.

Sharp Ears

+3 bonus to rolls involving hearing.

Hermetic Patron

Patron is Edward, of course.

Compulsion

Ergot fungus disolved in alcohol.

Craving for Travel

She can stave off the boredom for a while, but if she remains in one place for more than a season, she suffers a –1 penalty to all rolls and totals until she experiences a change in scene. This penalty rises to –3 af- ter a year of boredom.

Flashbacks

"When engaged in combat, or a similar violent and tense situation, the stress might trigger a flashback to the horrors of past battles, which left this character mentally scarred. The hallu- cinations seem so real that it is hard to avoid reacting to them. When an event appropriate for the Flashbacks occurs, roll a stress die against an Ease Factor of 9. On a failure, the charac- ter panics and revert to his past night- mares. At the storyguide’s discretion, modifiers from –1 to –5 could apply, for things like full-scale battle, fires, or stampeding animals. In addition, add or subtract any relevant Personal- ity Traits, depending on whether they might lessen or worsen the effects of this Flaw." -- in this case the Flashbacks are ergot-use trip flashbacks; probably in practice similar to LSD flashbacks.

Infernal Stigmatic

When she enters an infernal aura of strength 4 or more; or is affected by an infernal power greater than the 4th magnitude she suffers spontaneous eruption of wounds. She loses a Long-Term Fatigue level while under the influence of this; when the Fatigue level recovers the stigmata fades. If she ever takes a Warping point from exposure her stigmata erupt so violently that she takes a Light Wound as well as Fatigue, and the stigmata remain until she recovers from this wound. This should also be considered a potential Flashback trigger.

Obsessed

Obsession is to the Schola library being the best.

Warped Senses - Sensitive to Heat

Claudine functions normally at temperatures considerably below the norm for the Stonehenge Tribunal. She loses 1 Fatigue level for every hour she spends in an environment "Tropical mid-day" or hotter. Her response to ice is reduced in intensity to 0 (see ArM5, page 181).

Advancement Notes

Claudine gets 15 xp per year. Two points of these should be applied as exposure to skills as relating to her Redcap duties, two as exposure to skills relating to her Librarian duties. The remaining 11 should be divided between Bookbinder, Illuminator, Painting, Latin, and Area Lore unless circumstances intervene.

Player Notes

Inside the library Claudine is pretty much the model librarian; she worries about the integrity of the books and always has a cheerful (if brief and quiet) word for people using the library.

Outside the library she is very goal-oriented. Once her goal is achieved she's not above stopping to sniff the flowers though and she's not very good at predicting the consequences of her actions.

The one thing that will distract her (absent of her Compulsion, which is fortunately hard to indulge in Stonehenge outside of her own room) is the chance to acquire a new book.

Generally she takes care of her Compulsion in the quiet of her own room at the Schola and tries to keep it from affecting other people. Sadly she doesn't have any control over flashbacks. She has in the general case been able to explain flashbacks away to mundanes as being a result of divine exstasy (it's not entirely uncommon for wandering monks to be a little bit odd).

She is completely unaware of her reaction to the Infernal and may well freak out. On the other hand it's a fairly common reaction so if she maintains her calm she ought to be able to guess at what is going on.