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This section is designed to store charachter descriptions and any charachter information that might be important.

The first step however is to generate the charachters. Use the standard Mage Crusades method.Please make sure your concept fits into the setting. Also check out the Magick Style section.

Step One: Charachter Concept

Choose a concept for you charachter. Remember the traditions do no exist yet. Some time in the future you would probably be asked to join a tradition. The tradition that approach you will be influenced by your concept. Some concepts available are: Physician, tradesman, scholar, houri, alchemist, defender of the faith, Diplomat, weapons-master, sage, studetn of foreign Arts, translator, young apprentice, vengeanceminded warrior, Healer, guardian, merchant, assasin, spy, ghost-tender, necromancer, Holy hermit, priest, Church Reformer scholar, knight, elemental master, noble, young wizard, dancer, prophet, madman, poet, Mysterious stranger, painter, astrologer,Hermit, herbalist, shapeshifter, forester

Please people stay away from inventors, witch hunters, demon worshippers, scientists, explorers and other Order of reason or nephandus charachters. If this game had alignments like AD&D I would have asked for only good charachters.

Choose the essence of you mage. Essence refers to your Mystick Self. You have a choice between Castellum (Pattern), Furo (Dynamic), Mare (Primordial), Susurro (Questing). You don't have to choose one right now. You can choose one when choosing a Daemon.

Next is the Nature and Demeanor. Demeanor is how other people perceive you and Nature is you own inner self. Choose one word that best describe each of these. Choosing Noble as Demeanor does not mean that you are not allowed to cower in a corner. It means that when people talk about you they will say things like "John is such a noble person." I'm using the Willpower rule that states you only regain Willpower if you roleplay your nature or demeanor. There are no other means of regaining Willpower.... but a well chosen Nature and Demeanor will make regaining Willpower a breeze. Some natures and demeanors are Architect, benefactor, Guardian, Martyr, Renunciate, Sage, Sensualist, Supplicant, Theorist, Trickster, Waif.

Step Two: Attributes

Step Three: Attributes

Step Four: Select Advantages

Divide you 7 background points between Allies, Arcane, Covenant, Cray, Daemon, Destiny, Familiar, Influence, Library, Magickal Treasure, Mentor, Resources, Sanctum, Spies

Divide 6 point into you spheres.

Step Five: Finishing Touches

• Arete: You start with 1 point. Your Magick sphere may not be higher than you Arete rating. You may not have a arete rating higher than 3 to start of with. Arete can only be raised with freebies.
• Willpower: You start with 5 permanent willpower points.
• Freebies: You can divide freebies at the current costs
  Attributes = 5 per dot
  Abilities = 2 per dot
  Backgrounds = 1 per dot
  Arete = 4 per dot
  Willpower = 1 per dot
  Spheres = 7 per dot
  Quintessence = 1 point per for dots
  

Step 6: Filling in the blanks

• Appearance: What does your charachter look like? What kind of clothes does he wear? (See setting)
• Faith, Magickal style and Tools: I always say to little about this so players are not led but rather make up their own minds. Please this is probably the most important detail about you charachter. What religion does you charachter follow - Christian, Jewish, Pagan, Muslim.
  "All magi have a magical style and ritual tools - the implements of the Great Arts. These tools direct your sorcerer's intentions and weave them into spells and rituals. Each practise has its own beliefs, style and instruments, adn the various societies favor certain practices." - Mage Crusades Handbook
  Magick is not something that happens because you feel like it. Magick is the result of a ritual. Pray to God and he might smite down the heretic with a thunderbolt. Draw a pentagram with silver place a bowl with fire in the middle and the Hermetic can summon a demon from Hell. You are all used to fanatasy worlds found in story books. Look at them for examples. And please .... the I touch my crystal and concentrate is very lame ..... 100 other players have already thought of it.
• Specialities:Choose a speciality for any score over 4. Also Explain why this score is so high. A blacksmith will have a strength of 4 because he work hard every day.
• Possessions:Your character can have any possessions within reason. Look at you resource and concept. A peasant might own only a knife as a weapon. Excotic equipement must be purchased with the magickal treasure background.
• Quirk: Mages tend to be strange strong heade people. Does you charachter have any strange quirks like being foul mouthed, limp...etc
• Motivation: What makes your charachter tick. Is he a greedy merchant, a Seeker of knowledge looking for immortality or is he just trying to find his daily food.
• Mortal Life: No one is born a mage. Your Daemon is asleep until someday it awakens. What were you when you were still a normal mortal - a soldier, noble man? Did you have any rivalries, enemies or friends. Do you still have contact with any of them?
• The Awakening: For any mage charachter this is the most important event in his life. This is the event that opened his eyes and allows him to do Magick. The awakening can be a very traumatic near death experience. Falling down a cliff, being chased by a bear and nearly killed. It can also be an event streched over a long period of time. A sage reads about the mystick side of life. He continues to research and over a period of time actually understands the concepts and meanings and thus awakens. Make the awakening part of your magical style. A priest believing in miracles will have an awakening filled with angels. A Hermetic might awaken because of a ritual he was not suppose to know about but could mayby bring his beloved back to live.
• The Daemon: hmmm.... this is as much part of the charachter as the the magical style. Priest will have Angels. Hermits might have imagenaury friends. Pagans have animal spirits. Or it might be the ghost of beloved, ancestor or other important person in history. Only you can see and communicate with it. Other mages can only interact if they have the right sphere combination. Also remember the essence you have chosen. You might have to change it. Many Castellum spirits appear as castles, parents, angels or even soothing light. Furo resemble pillars of flame, devils, whirlwinds and shadows. Mare often take the form of animals, Pagan gods and nature spirits. Susurro rarely take solid forms and change.