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children to other families, and may exchange fosterlings
with lords as far away as the Saxon lands. After Badon,
many fatherless Saxon boys are fostered by Arthur’s
knights, reaching adulthood in Phase 3.
Next, determine the Homeland, Culture, Religion, and
Father’s Class of both your birth family and your foster
family. Your birth family provides your Statistics, Traits
and Family Characteristic; while your foster family provides
your base Skills, Passions, and Talents. Use your
Foster Father’s class for Step 7, Father’s Class Benefits.
You must spend one third (round up) of the free points
from the Father’s Class table to increase Skills, Traits,
Talents, or Passions from your birth family, even if these
start at zero. You can increase:
Traits that would be higher, as above, decreasing
the opposing Trait even if it was increased by
your foster family.
Passions, as above. If you lack a Passion that matters
to your birth family, the first point you spend on it
gives you a base of 2d6; further points increase
that total. If this gives you two opposing or
identical Passions, discard the lesser of the two.
Skills (and Talents) that would be higher for your
birth family’s culture and class, up to the difference
between their starting values and yours.
Finally, use the higher of the two Glory totals to determine
inherited Glory.
Stepchildren
As children fostered by their stepparent, if he or she
comes from a different culture.
love and Hate
In place of Love (Family), roll 7d6 and divide the total
among two (possibly incompatible) Passions of your
choice: Love (birth family), Love (foster family), Hate
(wicked stepmother’s family), and so on, based on your
sense of the character’s childhood. Each Passion must be
at least 7.
Creating Magician Characters
WiccaNJicce
Wiccas are unofficial magicians, outside the rulers’ halls
and the gods’ lineage. They include ceorlish folk mages,
nobles who teach themselves runelore, and wives who
use household spells for their cynn. (After Badon, many
widowed cwenes emerge as vengeful witches, noted
below.) The Saxons recognize several types of wiccas.
Wicca Types (MaleFernale):
Dryman/Drycge: Users of magical apparatus like
wands, crystals, and cauldrons (represented by
the Industry skill). Cwene Camille of Anglia is a
drycge.
Galdre/Galdoricge: Users of sung or chanted
spells (Singing). Queen Ethfrida of Nohaut is a
galdoricge.
Lyb/aeca/Lybbestre: Potion makers (Folk Lore).
Queen Gunnhild of Sorestan is a lybbestre.
Runere/Runestre: Rune carvers (Read Runes).
Any Saxon can sacrifice to learn Rune Magic,
which may be how Ethfrida, Gunnhild, and
Camille enhanced their powers. [Gaining Runes:
page 1321
Scinn/aecca/(cinnlaecce: Spirit summoners and
necromancers (Banish, Necromancy, Summon
Faerie Creature).
WitegaNitegestre: Soothsayers and prophets
(Celestial Lore). These are the village
fortunetellers in Saxon lands.
Waerloga/Haegtess: One who inspires Curse or
other Talents using a Hate passion: one motivated
by dark emotions, like spite and greed. This
explains why a wicca does magic, more so than
how. Ethfrida, Gunnhild, and Camille can all be
described as haegtesses.
Duties: Informal. Most wiccas cast spells and divinations
for their cynn. Wiccas may serve a lord or retreat into the
weald. Most wicces are midwifes and herbalists, as well as
magicians. Saxon wiccas do not form covens, celebrate
esmats, or worship the Queen of Elphame or the Black
Man. Note that it is a bootless crime to kill by witchcraft.
Wicca Character Generation: Find Childhood Talent
on Pendragon page 270. Find starting values from
Saxons! Basic Character Generation. Find Initiated
Talent(s) from Pendragon page 272.
Miccas do not have Divine Patronage, though they ask
the gods for boons, like other Saxons. Some wiccas are in
cahoots with dweorgian, aelfan, or other faeries.
Talent Starting Values: Bless 3, Control Faerie Creature
2, Curse 3, Dispel 3 Divination 1, Healing 1, Summon
Faerie Creature 1.
Restricted Talent: Demonize.