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freebooter	Apr 26 2009, 11:50 AM
Mercenary Posts: 1,163 Group: Members Member #72 Joined: Mar 5, 2009	Bresak muttered as he felt the cool night air race through the room at the opening of the door, banishing the warmth of the hearth to the furthest corners of the room and waking him from the first sleep he’d gotten in far too long for his liking. Honestly, it’s hard being the only Arcanist in town who won’t be knocked over by a strong breeze. He leaned forward and pulled the remains of a thick cigar from behind his ear looking at it almost with disdain. A small rune suddenly became visible on the shoulder of his armour, glowing red for a moment before fading back to black as the stub of the cigar began to smoulder. Bresak placed the stub between his lips and leaned back to get a look at the newcomer. He could see that the newcomer the blood of his people within him, but diluted somewhere in his past. ‘Poor bastard’ he thought to himself. Bresak knew all to well what it was like to be an outcast and had the scars to prove it. He fit neither in with the bookish Arcanists of his family hold, nor with the war parties. The first thought him too rash and militant whereas the latter wanted nothing to do with him and his magics. Lost in the musing of his past, Bresak sunk back against the wall, the shadows seeming to wrap themselves around him in their comforting embrace. ++OOC++ Right… The last one of these I did ended badly. So lets see if this goes any better. Bresak, (pr. Bres-ack) is a Dwarf, if you hadn’t picked that up My idea is based on the Dwarven runic magic seen in some fantasy series’. General idea is that he is a pretty strong fighter in his own right yet he has this large selection of Runes that he can use at will. They don’t require a gesture or a vocal command, although some of the more complex Runes will require a spoken command or even the caster to shed his own blood to focus the magic. The Runes can do anything from personal buffs, say making him stronger or healing him, to more offensive magics such as firebolts or shaping the earth. Sure it’s powerful; I wouldn’t get away with this in a D&D game unless we were a very high level. But this is a story, so I promise to behave. In a way of balancing it out so it isn’t quite so powerful, is the theory that all the magic has to be channeled through the caster. This will mean that even though he may be able to cast some extremely powerful spells in the blink of an eye, it will gradually take its toll on his body and mind if he doesn’t get a chance to rest. Sorry about the detail here but I think it’s really cool I’m playing a Runesmith (see Races of Stone) in one of my games at the moment and the ideas I’ve talked about here are all part of a project of mine to increase the prestige class from 10 levels to 20.
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