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An Empathic Jack who Crafts Illusions

About Mathias Lav Rua

Appearance:
Matias is 6'2 with the muscled build of a swimmer. His auburn hair tends towards unruly, with a single short braid at his temple. His honey-brown eyes are as warm as his smile, and he's been nicknamed 'gentle giant' by many different people he's met during his travels. He tends to wear earthy tones, and his voice is as sweet as any bard's.

Tier: 1

Might Pool: 12
Speed Pool: 12
Intellect Pool: 16
Edge: 1

Your Effort is 1.

Cypher Use: You can bear two cyphers at a time.

Gear: You start with clothing, two weapons, light armor, an explorer’s pack, a pack of light tools, two cyphers, one oddity, and 8 shins.

Money: 8 shins

Cyphers:

Oddity:

Artifacts:

Practiced With Light and Medium Weapons: You can use light and medium weapons without penalty. If you wield a heavy weapon, increase the difficulty of the attack by one step.

Skills: Trained in - Geography

Flex Skill: At the beginning of each day, choose one task (other than attacks or defense) on which you will concentrate. For the rest of that day, you’re trained in that task. You can’t use this ability with a skill you’re already trained in to become specialized.

Tricks of the Trade

Hedge Magic - You can perform small tricks: temporarily change the color or basic appearance of a small object, cause small objects to float through the air, clean a small area, mend a broken object, prepare (but not create) food, and so on. You can’t use hedge magic to harm another creature or object. Action.

Trained Without Armor - You are trained in Speed defense actions when not wearing armor. Enabler.

Empathic:

Open Mind: +4 to your Intellect Pool.

Skill: You’re trained in tasks involving sensing other emotions, discerning dispositions, and getting a hunch about people around you.

Skill: You’re trained in all tasks involving social interaction, pleasant or otherwise.

Inability: Being so receptive to others’ thoughts and moods makes you vulnerable to anything that attacks your mind. The difficulty of Intellect defense rolls is increased by one
step.

Crafts Illusions:

Additional Equipment: You have an oddity that appears to be a piece of clear glass in a synth frame. By manipulating hidden switches on the frame, you can make random moving images appear on the glass. The images are usually strange and sometimes incomprehensible.

Psychedelic Esoteries: If you perform esoteries, they take on flamboyant visual and auditory qualities of your choosing. This alteration changes nothing other than the appearance of the effects. For example, your attack esoteries might look like monsters made of energy that assail your foes. Your Stasis esotery might look like a tentacled beast that holds the victim in place. Your Teleportation esotery might seem like a hole in space opens up and swallows you.

Minor Effect Suggestion:
Your illusion has a special quality to it—perhaps an observer sees an image of something from his past.

Major Effect Suggestion: The illusion lasts for one hour, or if it already lasts that long, it lasts for 28 hours.

Background: School of Hard Knocks:

You learned things the hard way—on your own. Adaptive and canny, you express the true strengths of humanity in your ability to adjust quickly to circumstances, pick up new tricks to succeed, and ultimately survive when you probably should be dead. Most likely, you grew up on your own, perhaps on the streets, in the wilderness, or amid ruins. The details don’t really matter. What’s important is that you taught yourself how to overcome whatever challenges came along.

Advancement
Just keep on keeping on. You got to where you are by observing, learning, adapting, and adopting. To advance, you need to do more of the same. Constant wariness coupled (somewhat paradoxically) with constant curiosity allows you to hone your skills and new capabilities.

A Slave No More:
Matias was born into slavery in the city of Qi. First, to a kind master who gave him access to the great libraries of the city. After that man passed away of natural causes, Matias was sold to a much more cruel man. It's in his 'care' that Matias learned how to craft illusions, first to distract himself, then to escape.

The most intricate illusion he's crafted in his life took him the better part of a month to perfect. Once he escaped, with his falsely purchased freedom, he needed months to recover and has just recently started venturing into the world outside of Qi.