Character Name: Thorkell
Spirit of Adventure
Maximum Threads: 1
Mystic Defense: 14
Legend Point Cost: Warden
This high-necked cape is made from a fine sapphire blue cloth of elf make that feels like satin and shines brilliantly in the light. The edges are trimmed in ornate gold embroidery, revealing elven runes along the length. It’s held together by a delicate golden chain with an oak leaf clasp, though once a thread is attached this is purely decorative as the cape always rests comfortably on the wearer’s shoulders regardless of the conditions. Attempting to restrain or any other resistance is futile.
Thread Rank One
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the cape’s Name.
Effect: The wearer gains a +1 bonus to Initiative tests. At times the cape billows behind them dramatically. Sometimes it’s at an appropriate moment, others it’s when they’re sitting in the common room of an inn. A very careful observer notes it looks a little like something is holding onto the cape and flapping it to make it look like it’s billowing in a non-existent wind. There’s a non-zero chance those are grip marks at the end of the cape..
Thread Rank Two
Effect: The wearer gains +1 to their Social Defense. The cape spends noticeably more time billowing now, especially in social situations. From giving a grand speech to a clandestine meeting in the shadows: billowing.
Thread Rank Three
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the bound spirit’s Name.
Effect: The wearer gains a +2 bonus to Initiative tests. The wearer may think now they know an air elemental is bound to the cloak, they have some ability to mitigate the billowing. They would be wrong. So very wrong. If anything, attempts to get it to stop only make it worse. Or better. Depends where you are on the billowing issue. Watching a play? Definitely not popular. Watching an adult get into an argument with a rebellious piece of fabric? Perhaps the height of comedy.
Thread Rank Four
Effect: The wearer gains +1 to their Mystic Defense. At least the billowing is quite impressive and the cape seems to get almost impossibly long when it billows.
Thread Rank Five
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the meaning of the runes.
Effect: The owner can use the runes to keep the bound elemental in line or make peace with them. This decision must be made when this thread is woven and cannot be changed. If the owner uses the runes, they have complete control over the billowing and it looks natural, gaining a +3 bonus to Initiative tests. If they make peace with the bound elemental, they suffer at its whims, but it may listen to requests. It also actively attempts to help; as a Free action the wearer can spend 1 Strain to gain a +3 bonus to an Avoid Blow test.
Thread Rank Six
Effect: If the owner used the runes to control the elemental, they gain +1 to the Physical Defense. If they made peace with the elemental, the spirit allows the owner to store Karma in the cloak, up to the thread rank. The wearer may transfer Karma Points between their Karma pool and the armor as a Standard action, and may spend Karma from the armor as if it were in their Karma pool.
Thread Rank Seven
Deed Must travel to where the cloak was crafted and add your own rune representing your relationship to the spirit.
Effect: If the owner used the runes to control the elemental, they gain +3 to their Physical Defense. If the owner made peace with the elemental, they may spend 1 strain as a Simple Action to add +3 to the Physical Defense of an ally with a lower initiative, as the cloak billows in front of the ally obscuring them from the enemies.
Thread Rank Eight
Effect: The wearer gains the
Wind Beneath your Wings special maneuver
Wind Beneath your Wings (Adept, Initiative): Prior to rolling Initiative, the wearer may nominate an ally. After initiative is rolled, compare the wearer’s initiative value to that of the chosen ally. For each extra success, the wearer may spend 1 strain to increase the chosen allies initiative value by 2