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Odin is probably having a great big lark at that, considering the Norse Hat is to approve of mortals with extraordinary skills.

True. To be honest, the only reason she managed to pull off the heist is that she had no clue who she was dealing with. If she knew she was stealing from Odin and ripping off Loki, she would've never taken the job in the first place, and froze up at the first sign of trouble, but, in her ignorance, she was able to keep calm.

@Tentacles

Hm....I wouldn't have minded a Denarian, but given where the Nickleheads currently stand in the series, I would have been a stickler on the why and making sure the back-story worked (In case anyone else wants to make on, that door's still open).

But your right, I much prefer the White Court guy, since it's a good idea to have eyes on all the various factions. Plus- intrigue :P

Achievements in Ignorance is one of my favorite tropes, as it where :P

edited 20th Feb '13 9:38:30 AM by LMage

The problem is that even the bottom-tier Denarians are still -extremely- powerful, and that they are, at the root, a fundamentally destructive force. Sure, so's the White Court, but they at least have some class about it :P

Not all Coins are automatically part of Nicky's or Tessa's Gang. There are a number of them (Lasciel for example) who are independently minded.

edited 20th Feb '13 9:40:10 AM by 3of4

• Name: Leon Wilhelm Johannes Wolfgang Lichtenberg (Goes by Leon, Leo, or Will)
• High Concept: Warden of the White Council
• Trouble: Problems with Winter.
• Background: Leon was for most of his life a fairly normal geek/nerd from the East Coast. He was born to parents who both had low-level passive magical talents and they themselves were not cued in on the supernatural world. His dad had supernatural luck while his mother was a bit of an empath only capable of sensing other emotions but unable to influence them. Both of them were descended from German immigrants giving the young Leon a strong German heritage. During his youth he developed a taste for video games. This led to him accidentally frying a brand new Playstation 2 with his developing powers. After he finally figured out he had magical powers he managed to get in contact with some local practioners who were cued in on the greater supernatural world. From there he was brought into contact with the White Council where he underwent a somewhat short apprenticeship before getting shipped to Camp Kaboom when his skill with combat magic was discovered. He graduated to full Warden status only a few months before the Red Court went extinct. He has yet to see actual combat firsthand but due to how thin the Council has been spread he's been sent off to Las Vegas at the young age of 18.
• Personality: Leon is a nerd who's no longer able to endulge in his primary nerdom. Coupled with being away from general civilization for a while has left him with sub-par social skills. He doesn't always know how to really talk to vanilla mortals anymore. Having no first-hand warden experience he is probably going to be a little panicky the first time he gets into a little fight. Despite this he is pretty confident in his own abilities. Once he gets used to actual combat he'll probably start attempting to crack jokes but he's never been know for a witty repertoire. Thanks to warden shield training Leon actually has a pretty good pain threshold though he hasn't learned how to power through extreme pain yet. Being young and inexperienced if he makes a mistake he'll own up to it and try to fix it in most situations. He is also at the time more trusting then he probably should be.
• Appearance: Leon is five feet and 10 inches tall. He is in great physical shape having taken martial arts as a child and having to go through the physical training regiment during warden training. His hair is brown, whilst his eyes are a bluish grey. At the moment he has a buzz cut that's grown out a bit. He also has a scar in his abdomen from attempting to stop a throwing knife and failing. This scar has been joined by one across the chest from Maeve and another across the abdomen from Billy Blind. Along with a second throwing knife scar to the knee. He has a scar above and under one of his eyes from where he just barely managed to avoid getting them clawed out by Maeve. Also, due to his underground prize fighting habit, his nose is somewhat messed up.
• Job Class/Expertise: Warden of the White Council. Evocation specialist
• Skill Strengths: Leon has a natural talent with evocation magic. With a sub-specialty in kinetic energy manipulation and lightning. He's decently skilled with elemental evocations beyond that but he generally sticks with just those two for combat. Having trained in martial arts he's capable of holding his own in close quarters as long as he's not going up against significantly stronger or faster beings.
• Skill Weakness: He lacks experience in combat so he can read the flow of battle anywhere near as well as most wardens. He also tends to be a bit overconfident in his abilities. Most of his training was focused on dealing with Red Court vampires and their allies leaving him less knowledgeable about the other supernatural threats out there. Despite owning a gun he's only an average shot at a shooting range and under combat pressure his accuracy will probably take more of a beating. This holds true for his more focuses magical evocations. Despite his mother being an empath Leon is weak in the mind related magics including defense of his own mind.
• Powers/Abilities: Leon has great skill with external manifestations of kinetomancy. He is capable of shooting blasts of raw force or refining it into a blade of kinetic energy that can slice through things with ease. He is also able to pull off full blown telekinesis. He has also created a defensive spell allowing him to rapidly drain incoming objects of their kinetic energy. It only works on small objects at the time being. His lightning abilities are also impressive with him being able to channel electrical energy from most sources or generating it on his own. He has inherited a form of his father's luck allowing him to enchant small items so that their bearers will have good luck for a day.
• Uses German for his spells.
  • slice spell: Schrägstrich
  • raw force spell: Knall
  • fire: Feuer
  • Fire beam: Feuersäbel
  • High level fireball: Wogenfaust
  • electricity: Blitz
  • lightning blast: Blitzschlag
  • wind: Wirbelsturm
  • water: Schwall
  • earth:ErdeKaiser
  • Telekinesis: Kinetische
  • gravity: Massenanziehung
  • veils: Unsichtbar
  • luck: Glücksfall
  • light: Licht
  • Laser: Lichtstrahl
  • lightsaber: LichtSäbel
  • defense: Abschirmung
  • stop shield: Matrize
  • Opening a Way: Spalten
  • Hexing stuff: Verhexen
• Items/Tools:
  • .357 magnum revolver with four speed loaders two with normal rounds and two with iron jacketed rounds
  • M1911 with three spare clips loaded with hollowpoints
  • A heavy bracer/glove combo on his left hand used for defensive spells and small utility spells like lights. Also the input half for channeling electrical energy. It is capable of being used as a physical shield if needed as well.
  • A medium bracer/glove combo on his right hand used to focus his kinetic energy spells along with his other offensive spells besides lightning. Now has spikes added to the knuckles along with twelve bands around the fingers to double as kinetic energy sinks.
  • A old-fashioned metal toy ray gun which doubles as focus and an actual lightning based ray gun. He uses it for all his electrical spells. It is the output for channeling electrical energy.
  • His warden cloak which he has put great effort into making it bullet resistant. It now also has iron wiring woven throughout the entire thing for anti-fae reasons along with a general boost to physical durability. All of it is heavily enchanted.
  • A lightsaber hilt that still isn't all that useful.
  • A rabbit's foot pendant that he can enchant with good luck.
  • The Gladius he got from Lee that's been given an edge so it can be used for slashing as well as thrusting. It has also been enchanted to keep the edge from dulling and has been set up to double as a focus if need be.
  • The tactical gear that holds his .45 and spare ammo has also been enchanted for durability.
  • Upper body motorcycle gear also enchanted for additional durability.
  • Tim's Lasing Rod MK 1
  • A pin that denotes a favor to be collected from Summer.

If you're worried about the luck thing or the lightsaber thing don't be. The luck isn't going to be worth much in combat. It mostly only effects games of chance and he's too young to go to casinos. As for the lightsaber it just doesn't work for him. Mostly the focus just kinda explodes and its extremely draining. He can make it basically a glorified glow stick though.

edited 11th Jun '14 1:55:17 PM by Kosjurake

And i thought Tim was getting the shaft with his name I sense great snark in the future.

edited 20th Feb '13 9:45:31 AM by 3of4

You know I'm going to end up calling half of you "Willy the Wizard." or "Tim the Enchanter"

I won't stop you. That's pretty funny.

Hmm let me guess...the Johann Wolfgang is for Goethe? His Faust version? ;)

@Kos

Heh, so much GERMAN. :P

I like the idea of a truly nerdy Wizard (even Harry is mostly a featherweight nerd). Accepted, I defiantly want to make the lightsaber blowing up A Thing at some point. XD

Well, a lot of Council strength does come out of Europe :P Though Tim is probably going to complain a lot if Willy is doing bad things to german. Peabody was bad enough for him!

You just know our resident magic swordsmen are going to end up throwing down at some point

So many wizards. If half the town is standing by the end of this chronicle, I'll be surprised, especially since my character uses pipe-bombs as his favored "anti-magic" method.

x5 Nope. I just kinda found a name generator one day and picked a bunch of german ones that sounded kinda cool to me. I might look that up though and see if I can apply stuff from it.

edited 20th Feb '13 9:53:07 AM by Kosjurake

Hey, it's not like all of them have some kind of über powerful, incredibly destructive force of nature available to them as their primary means of combat evoca-

Forget I said anything.

Also, just a note from the RPG books on the classical elements: It's noted that most wizards find it incredibly difficult to maintain control of even one or two of the elements at a time, and that there's usually one element that comes particularly naturally to a practitioner (like fire does to Harry.) Something more to add to character creation for the more newbie wizards.

edited 20th Feb '13 9:56:00 AM by math792d

Hey, my Character is not Harry Dresden! You can't track him by cross-referencing rising insurance policies nationwide!

So, how many of the wizard characters have some means of calling up lightning?

The answer? Three.

edited 20th Feb '13 9:59:56 AM by math792d

Harry mentioned that every Wizards has some degree of training in each element, but they are rarely good at more then one or two. So, I'll expect each of the Warden characters to rely heavily on a preferred element or elements.

edited 20th Feb '13 10:03:43 AM by LMage

Tim not. He experiments with Light, not lightning. And while he can combine elements somewhat, its more doing two evocations than one with two elements. And as noted, he needs a moment or two to set them up, instead of firing from the hip like the wardens would an evocation ;)

Tim primarily uses Force. The Fire is mainly because of its "purifying force" element instead of it being natural.

edited 20th Feb '13 10:04:25 AM by 3of4

Hey. I'm the only one who's doing lightning in style. I got myself a ray gun.

But yeah I mostly intend to focus on force and lightning.

edited 20th Feb '13 10:02:38 AM by Kosjurake

I can't remember the checks/balances on fairy magic. Do they even need to say incantations? I mean I can have her speak Sidhe (but I shall use Sindarin because!!) if I need to. I mean, Emilia doesn't cast most of the time, but it's good to know these things.

I don't think they need incantations. Magic is part of what Sidhe are. For them its probably like using your arm, to a degree.

Jarl uses lightning as his nuclear option because he can't control it very well. Sure, it's going to hit its target, but it's probably going to slam all the air out of his lungs and create tons of collateral damage along the way.

He tends to focus more on water and air magic because it's much easier to manage (and much harder to dent buildings with.)

It depends on your Court. Basically a faerie practitioner can use magic that pertains to the Court they belong to. Changelings get the magic associated with their fearie parent, which is either Seelie magic for Summer, or Unseelie magic for Winter. Seelie magic tends to be about life and fire, Unseelie tends to be about cold and storms.

edited 20th Feb '13 10:07:06 AM by math792d

x3

From "Summer Knight" I think the Changling power works a lot like the half-turned Red Court Vampires- the more strength they draw on, the more their Fae nature starts to take over, but they don't necessarily require incantations or spells. It depends on their what their other half is. (Like....a half Troll would get stronger and more brutish, a half nymph quicker and might have control over water briefly but become more air-headed, etc.)

edited 20th Feb '13 10:08:58 AM by LMage