Autumn

Autumn

Character Questionnaire

1. Describe your character’s physical appearance. (If you can, please include a photo.)

2. Describe what it looks like when your character’s Nimbus manifests to those with Mage Sight. What does it look like when it bleeds over into mortal perceptions? (The Nimbus can be quite impressive to Mage Sight, but is always subtle to mortal perceptions.)

Mages feel a cold wind blow by, carrying unintelligible whispers of the secret ending which await them in the lands of the dead. Accompanying this is a mixed sense of dread and hope, peace and fear. Mortals perceive only an unseasonably cold (or warm, in winter time) breeze blowing out of the east.

3. Describe your character’s preferred Magical Tool, either a Path Tool or an Order Tool. If your character uses any Arcana Tools, describe those as well. Is there a background or back story to this item?

Autumn carries with him a small bowl made from a skull. He crafted this tool from the remains of the first person whose ghost he helped lay to rest -- his sister.

4. When your character’s Unseen Senses trigger, what kind of sensation does your character experience? (This tends to be individual from mage to mage; some examples include a slight headache, a raising of the hairs on the back of the neck, goosebumps, a sudden change in temperature sensation, etc.)

The hairs on the back of Autumn's neck rise and quiver as though they were harp strings being played by invisible fingers.

5. Describe how your character most often interacts with her Virtue.

While Autumn actively works to help ghosts find their peaceful rest, he is not without compassion for those still among the living. Now and then, when the spirit moves him, Autumn will take a keen interest in some project either for the betterment of the community in general or to help one person in specific. Sometimes his efforts on behalf of a specific person can indicate that his feelings for him/her are growing beyond mere friendship.

6. Describe how your character most often interacts with his Vice.

Autumn is prone to lingering on those he has lost. In his mourning, he shuts out the world around him. He is private with his grief and will attempt to isolate himself during these times. As he has grown in proficiency with the Ars Mysteriorum (sp?), he has occasionally taken to walking in Twilight during these moods, brooding on the eternal principles of loss and inevitability.

7. Describe your character’s Mentor, from her perspective. This is the person (not necessarily of the same Path) who brought you into the Order, and taught you the Order’s magical Praxis.

Finder, Autumn's mentor, was like an aunt to him. In the wake of his family's passing and his own resurrection, Finder took him into her home and treated him with warmth and compassion. One part grief counselor, one part personal tutor, one part spiritual advisor. She meant the world to him and provided him an island of safety and stability in the wake of his personal tragedy. Where his grief might have become rage, she channeled it into productivity; where it might have become self-loathing, she transformed it into service. Autumn was quite distraught when the Helots suddenly packed he and his cabal-mates off to Astoria. In many ways, it is like he is leaving home for the second time, and newly finding his way in the world without the support of his mother figure.

8. Choose the Mage Sight your character uses most often. Describe to me how your character interprets the occult information granted by that spell; for instance, some mages perceive various Mage Sights as strains of music, strange smells, memory flashbacks from their own lives relevant to the information gained, physical sensations or other similar sensory input. Each form of Mage Sight usually has its own set of sensory symbols, often in line with aspects of the character’s personality, occult praxis or background.

Autumn is most prone to viewing the world through Grim Sight. I think in his case, the sensory data that he perceives is likely most tied to his past and or the mementos of other people. I want to discuss his background a bit more with you (Joe) before I settle on this, though.