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Conan was born to Dr. Janet Harding, an exceptionally ambitious archaeologist, and mortician Thomas Harding. With his mother gone most of the time, he spent much of his early childhood with his father at work and feels most comfortable in quiet, orderly places. After his father died from complications of a stroke, Conan spent the rest of his childhood waiting for his mother at one library or museum after another.

Conan demonstrated a gift for scholarship and especially language while in school. Dr. Carding paid more attention to him, rewarding him for each semester he achieved a perfect 4.5 GPA. In the course of his higher education, Conan came across and was eventually apprenticed to one Hime Zelda, wizard of the White Council, who saw Conan's gift and apprenticed him, starting to teach him the ways of magic.

Hime and Conan were investigating increasing unrest and unexplained supernatural activity in Chinatown and ran afoul of Triad thugs, a strange Chinese mystic, and a Sidhe Knight. Hime and Conan were captured and imprisoned. When Conan didn't show up at the library, Nathanial was worried. When he didn't answer his phone, he decided to find out what happened the mystic way. A few rituals later, he found out Conan was being held in Chinatown. A few rituals more, and he was ready to break him out... Hime used her Sight to see the opportunity to escape that Nathaniel provided, and ordered Conan out, but Saw something that overloaded her brain, replacing her memories of and relationship with Conan with an infatuation with the Knight.

After being clued in by a fellow scholar that someone was using summoned creatures to commit bizarre crimes, Conan used his scrying skills to find the ritual site while Nathaniel then flooded it with water, disrupting the summons and allowing the Mounties to catch their man.

When the forgotten Prince of Autumn was tricked into facing down a troll to recover his father's hammer, Conan started a good old-fashioned mud-slinging contest, blinding the Troll long enough for the Prince to retrieve his heirloom and defeat the Troll in a fair fight.

(5)Superb: Discipline
(4)Great: Lore, Scholarship
(3)Good: Conviction, Resources,
(2)Fair: Athletics, Investigation, Presence,
(1)Average: Alertness, Endurance, Performance, Survival, Weapons

[+9] Starting Refresh
[-0] Wizard's Constitution
[-3] Evocation: Elements: Earth, Spirit, Water
Specialization: Water (+1 Conviction)
[-3] Thaumatury: Specialization: Crafting (+1 Strength)
[-1] Linguist (+4 Languages Known)
[-1] High Quality Workspace (Workspace quality equal to Resources). A Good (+3) Arcane Lab.
[+1] Total Refresh

Icicle Ring: An unadorned silver ring with a slight bluish tint. Provides +1 Conviction to cast offensive and defensive Water evocations.(two focus slots)

Bulldog's Grasp: A leather glove, adorned with the teeth of a bulldog. Increases friction between the target and its environment, attempting to paralyze or immobilize. Casts a 5 shift Earth movement block once per session.
Power Tie: A nerdy clip-on necktie woven with the hair of a changeling. Shifts probability around Conan to reduce power of incoming attacks. Provides a 4 shift entropic defensive block effect (Armor 2) 3 times per session.
Two free enchantment slots

Rotes:
Quick Veil: 3 shift spirit evocation opposed by Alertness to render caster invisible.
Corrosion: 5 shift water evocation that eats away (attacks) inanimate objects only (3 base conviction, +1 with Icicle ring, +1 water specialization). Designed for use on mundane weapons/equipment.
Freezer Burn: 5 shift water attack. Flash-freezes water vapor in air around target.
Epcot Center: 5 shift defensive water block. Conjures a translucent dome composed of triangles hexes to block attacks.

The following rituals are not rotes; just a list of magical effects used by character to date.

Evocations:
Mudslinger: Earth effect that blinds targets with sticky mud.

Thaumaturgical Rituals
Linguist's Friend:Spirit thaumaturical ritual to allow the caster to understand one language that he has a sample of.
Acupuncture:Biomancy thaumaturigical ritual to heal one subject.
Water's Eyes: Water scrying ritual using the sympathetic connection of water.