#RPGaDay26 Day 1: Discipline

The theme for Day 1 of #RPGaDay26 is "Discipline". With that in mind, I have made a character for Ars Magica Definitive - an autocrat, an important servant of the magi, who governs all the other servants on their behalf (a job they are far too busy working magic to do). Matilda is a highly disciplined person, desperate to put her life at the service of magic ever since she lost her own magical gift in her youth. Despite her intense devotion, of course, the magi are unlikely to think about her as anything more than a reasonably competent underlying.

I hope to make more characters for RPGaDay - the covenant to which they belong will get fleshed out as I go, but for now it is "somewhere in the English Midlands", perhaps in the Malvern Hills.

Name: Matilda

Character type: Grog (autocrat)

Born to a young maga of House Bonisagus, Matilda showed signs of the Gift, and was soon taken as an apprentice by her mother. In the fourth year of her apprenticeship, however, a magical accident left her stripped of both her Gift and her left eye, and forever unable to handle metal without it melting in her grip. Refusing to allow the loss of her future to define her, Matilda threw herself into working for the covenant, and discovered a talent for leadership working in the scriptorium. This - and perhaps a little nepotism - led to her eventual selection for the role of autocrat, responsible for governing the mundane servants and specialists in the covenant. A covenant attracts strange and difficult people, even setting aside the magi, but Matilda has managed to impose a kind of order on the chaos. And if she feels any resentment toward her mother and the other magi... well, she tells herself it's the effect of the Gift, and gets on with the life she has been dealt.

Virtues: Failed Apprentice, Natural Leader, Strong-Willed.

Flaws: Missing Eye, Covenant Upbringing, Warped by Magic, Lesser Malediction (if she takes hold of anything metal, it melts through her fingers).

Characteristics: Str -1, Sta +0, Dex +0, Qik +0, Int +1, Per +1, Pre +2, Com +2

Abilities: 

Artes Liberales (mathematics) 4

Athletics (running away) 2

Awareness (idle hands) 2

Bargain (disgruntled servants) 3

Brawl (kick) 2

Covenant Lore (servants) 2

English (giving orders) 5

Etiquette (magi) 2

Folk Ken (magi) 5

Guile (fobbing off magi) 4

Latin (Hermetic terms) 4

Leadership (servants) 5

Magic Theory (Terram) 1

Magic Lore (English midlands) 2

Order of Hermes Lore (Stonehenge tribunal) 3

Profession: Autocrat (managing resources) 5

Profession: Scribe (covenant records) 2

Single Weapon (club) 1

Warping: 1(5)

Age: 40 (no decreptitude points)