Coryani Battle Mages Article

Henry,

Great read! Now I’m wishing I had a Coryani Battlemage in this campaign. I’ll just have to find one for my Legionnaire to adopt.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

Hi Henry,

Thanks for the read, always nice to see these sorts of writeups. I’m interested to hear more about the shamans/hedge mages who fight with some of the legions. Are these people who join the legions as ‘infantry’ and happen to have a knack for the arcane, or do the legions actively (if quietly/unofficially) recruit magic users from villages?

Thanks again, enjoyed the read.

Hello Akira,

I’m interested to hear more about the shamans/hedge mages who fight with some of the legions. Are these people who join the legions as ‘infantry’ and happen to have a knack for the arcane, or do the legions actively (if quietly/unofficially) recruit magic users from villages?

Don’t have time to do a full write up like the one I just did, but in my mind, it’s pretty organic. Either they are infanrty that show some sort of knack for teh arcane/primal and are “promoted” to “Squad Mage” (this is especially true for those Centuries/Legions that don’t have Auxillia Magus).

Other times these hedge mages are recruited by the legions as they “recruit” in an area to bolster their numbers, especially before a planned campaign.

If you don’t mind, I’m going to crosss post this on the FB Group so I can have everything in onme place for future reference.

. . . Have you tried shutting off the FB video play option? My wife and I share 1 GB of data and the only reason we push that is Pokemon. The rest of the time we rely on Wifi.

My objections to FB generally aren’t about difficulty in setting an account up. I work in education and have seen too many articles (and know of someone first hand) who have gotten in trouble or been fired for FB content…sometimes that their “friends” have posted.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I also do not have an account. When I’m curious what friends or family are up to I’ll occasionally go in under my wife’s account, but there are far too many examples of ‘professional’ people getting into trouble through social media.

So a question about this post – it seems to indicate that a significant number of the Coryani Battle Mages may actually be shaman, but that possibility is not in any way reflected in the path. Is there a plan to errata that, or to add an additional path for primal casters in the military? Also, it discusses that many of such people might be those picked up originally as auxiliaries in areas where the legion operates – which indicates it is possible to be active in a legion without necessarily originally having been a Coryani citizen, which also isn’t reflected in the rules. As someone of Coryani blood raised in the hinterlands (so in many ways my character has always thought of himself as Coryani) this is of particular interest to me – though there is no way to become a legionnaire once a character has been created, so I suppose it is academic in any case.

Hello,

So a question about this post – it seems to indicate that a significant number of the Coryani Battle Mages may actually be shaman, but that possibility is not in any way reflected in the path. Is there a plan to errata that, or to add an additional path for primal casters in the military? Also, it discusses that many of such people might be those picked up originally as auxiliaries in areas where the legion operates – which indicates it is possible to be active in a legion without necessarily originally having been a Coryani citizen, which also isn’t reflected in the rules.

Nothing I wrote in the article warrants a change in the Coryani Battle Mage path.

If a Shaman is called a Battle Mage or a rabbit, he/she’s still a Shaman. Here, the term Battkle Mage is a title, rather than a game mechanic class/path.