Unique Elorii Talents

I think either option that’s been proposed will work. If we want to use the Legendary Summoner we should state whether it can be used with Spell Affinity or not. Combined it allows for a 1 Tier adjustment in casting power with those spells over what’s available today. I prefer the Martial Technique for a couple of reasons.

1. Fits the character and play style well
2. Less risk of unintended consequences when new rules come out such as new spells

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

Anyone else? Scott? Joe? Matt? Bueller? Bueller?

Legendary Summoner [Unique, Racial]
Your soul has over its various incarnations showed a pronounced flair for the summoning of Elemental creatures.
Requirement: Elorii, must be able to cast Elemental Guardian (sp) from the Elemental Tradition, Ruthen Flardrake
Benefits: When casting any spell which summons an Elemental (such as Elemental Guardian (sp)), you may lower that spells final CTN by 2. You may not use this talent with Advanced Spells unless that spell is an Elemental Spell. If you have Spell Affinity with a spell which allows you to summon an Elemental, you may lower that spells final CTN by 3 instead of 2.

Overly Aggressive [Unique Martial Technique]
In all of your previous incarnations, you have been known to sacrifice your own safety for the most powerful strike possible.
Requirement: Kelekene Elorii, Weapon Mastery (any Melee), Melee (any) +3, Ruthen Flardrake
Category: Base
Attack: Avoidance (Pr)
Speed: +0(3)
Range: Melee
Effect: SPECIAL, you may forgo your own safety in a frenized attempt to strike the enemy. The Character performs a melee attack with a +2 bonus to their attack roll, taking a -3 to their Avoidance. You may suffer an additional -1 to your avoidance to deal an extra d4 melee damage. For every Hero Tier beyond the first, you may take an additional -1 penalty to avoidance in order to apply a Die Bump to this damage die. For example, at Tier 4 you may suffer a total of -7 to Avoidance for an additional d10 damage.
Special: This Martial Technique counts as a Wild Assault Maneuver for Kelekene Elorii.

Not Where You Think [Unique, Racial]
In all your previous incarnations, you always seem to have a knack on being in the right place at the right time to avoid danger, especially in times of stress.
Requirements: Osalikene Elorii, Uncanny Reactions (ta),
Benefit: When not wearing Armor or wearing Light Armour, in response to a successful attack upon you as a Push 2 action you may add your passive Quickness to your avoidance against a single attack. Additionally, once per Scene you may deny Free Strikes you provoke through movement.

Fortified Summons [Arcanum, Unique]
Your connection to your fellow Elemental beings is such that it is much harder to dismiss them.
Requirements: Elorii, the ability to cast Elemental Guardian (sp) from the Elemental Tradition, Adaptation: Fortify Spell (ta), [Insert Character name]
Benefit: Whenever someone attempts to either dismiss (such as using Unravel the Thread or Banishment) or Counter Spell your summoned Elemental, you (or your Elemental, as appropriate) gains your Passive Resolve to all defenses or rolls to oppose the attempt. For example, if someone attempts to cast Banishment (sp) upon your Elemental, that Elemental gains a bonus equal to your Passive Resolve to their Discipline Defense to avoid being banished. Additionally, all summoned Elementals gain a bonus to their Avoidance equal to one-half of your Passive Resolve score (rounded down).

Any ideas as to a better prereq selection should be?

Change the requirements to Danger Sense (ta) or Uncanny Reaction (ta) and keep it simple.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

When it comes to the elemental talents, I spoke to Cody last week, but have been to busy to post…given that Elorii magic is, essentially, stolen from the Ssethrics, I would give them a Variation of one of these Ssethric Elementalist talents: (fyi…i deleted the Creationist options…i dont think we want players creating permanent elementals). Also, these are in order they are granted in the Path. So, Teachings would be the easiest (story-wise) to duplicate.

Founder’s Teachings [Limited]
You have embarked upon a path following one of the three followers of the Ssethric Elementalist tradition.
You must choose the Order of Ss’koreth known as the Creationists; the Order of Ophiodes, known as the
Conjurists or the Order of Tantilla, known as the Augmentalists. Once chosen you may not select another
Order.
Benefit:
Conjurists: Enhanced Elemental Summoning
Spells that summon elementals gain the following adaptation:
Adaptation: CTN +2, All defenses and attack rolls for the summoned elemental are +1
Special: If you have Spell Affinity with the spell, the CTN modifier for theAdaptation is +0 rather than +2.
This is separate from the Spell Affinity benefit.
Augmentalist: Channel Elemental Power
For any spell where the base effect of the spell does elemental damage as noted by a die and type, all of the
spell’s listed adaptations have their strain reduced by 1 to a minimum of 0.
Special: If the Augmentalist has spell affinity with the spell, all of the spell’s listed adaptations also have
their CTN reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 2).
Note: In the case of advanced spells containing one or more base spells that meets the requirement, the
benefits of this talent only apply to base spells meeting the criteria.

Founder’s Secrets [Limited]
Benefits:

Conjurists: Elemental Command
Spells that summon elementals have their control range numbers increased by 10’.
pecial: If the Conjurist has Spell Affinity with the spell, the control range numbers increase by 30’
instead.
Augmentalists: Improved Elemental Empowerment
For Augmentalists, theAdaptation: Elemental Empowerment no longer imposes a -2 penalty to hit when
adding the Adaptation to a spell. Each additional application of the adaptation does still imposes the -1
penalty with the Die Bump.

Founder’s Insight [Limited]
The intense study necessary to master the path of a Ssethric Elementalist has provided deep insights.
Benefits: The base CTN for all spells in the Elemental Tradition are decreased by 1 for this caster. In
addition, once per scene, the caster may do one of the following:
1. Lower the final CTN by their Passive Resolve score
2. Lower the final Speed by half their Passive Resolve score, round down
3. Lower the final Strain by half their Passive Resolve score, round down.

If you guys have better names for the talents, please, feel free to throw them at me! I mostly picked them to be either descriptive or as placeholders until Henry (or others) chose more appropriate flavour ones.

Cody…as us currently written, not even remotely. It is limited to Ssanu and Naga. (Which is why I said a version of their talents….story-wise, a clever elorii elder from X lives ago could have discovered the secret of how to use that portion of Ssethric elementalism, but was unable to teach it to others)