Arcane & Psionic Quirks | INFO

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ARCANE QUIRKS
Starting at Topaz, take one quirk per gemstone.

Exposure to arcane energy as you grow in magical strength, causes you to manifest certain flaws. Though you grow more powerful, the presence of magic can create serious repercussions. Please choose a flaw from the list below when directed to do so, or roll dice to determine the flaw. You may take as many as you would like if you want more!

1. Bleached Pupils - An arcane backlash when casting one of your spells caused your pupils to become bleached out.
2. Rune-Scarred - To attain arcane secrets, you have undergone painful rituals that have left you scarred with runes on your body.
3. Haunted - You are unable to prevent the occurence of strange noises in your immediate vicinity. These sounds cease when you are unconscious, sleeping or dead.
4. Magical Overload - You have difficulty controlling your most powerful magic, and sometimes odd things happen when you cast high level spells...such as the opposite effect.
5. Phantom Sparks - Your body occasionally emits bursts of bright colored light.
6. Allergy - You develop an allergy to one spell component you use regularly. You sneeze, or your eyes water, or you cough while using that spell component.
7. Visible Aura - Your aura spreads into the material plane often, causing a glowing array of colors around your body.
8. Insomnia - Sleepless nights spent studying have marred you for life. You find it difficult to sleep.
9. White Hair - No matter your age, something about your study of magic has turned the hair on your head stark white. This can be your whole head of hair, or only a section.
10. Lost in Thought - You often lose yourself in your mind, for minutes sometimes hours at a time.
11. Forgetful - You become very forgetful.
12. Phobia - You develop a phobia of some sort or another.
13. Addiction - You become addicted to something, it can be as simple as a morning walk that you have to take every morning.
14. Emotion Lost - You become emotionless, entering this state randomly.
15. Crippling Effect - The toll of magic has been rough on you, and you have arthritis or some other type of crippling effect. A staff or cane is usually in the possession of a magic caster with this flaw.
16. Arcane Blood - Your blood seems to shine, oddly colored veins trace a web of sickly glowing lines.
17. Stonebone - Small bone spurs appear on your body, like jagged stalagmites protruding from your body. This usually occurs from exposure to strong earth elemental energy.
18. Herbal Rot - Touching herbs with your bare hands causes them to rot.
19. Mood swings - One moment your happy, the next your sad.. five minutes later your screaming at the top of your lungs because someone brought you the wrong wine.
20. Living Shadow - Your shadow takes on a personality of it's own.
21. Superstitious - There is one superstition that you believe true.. breaking a mirror, crossing a cat, evil can't cross running water, a certain number is "evil". There is nothing that can change your mind about your superstition and you will adamantly avoid or use it to your benefit (or downfall).
22. Clock Failure - Anything related to the passage of time, including clockwork clocks, sand in hourglasses, candles all are effected.
23. Shattered Mirror - The mage has the unfortunate quirk that any mirror within twenty feet shatters. Anyone within 5 feet of the mirror takes damage as the force of the shattering is so great.
24. Animal Terror - Young children and mundane, non-magical animals will seek to avoid you at all costs. It is impossible to ride a horse, and if restrained in any way, their distress is obvious.
25. Light Sensitivity - The necromancer becomes sensitive to bright light or sunlight, it hurts their eyes, causing physical pain.
26. Arcane Fatigue - Conjuring magical energy is especially draining to you.
27. Arcane Parasites - Thousands of unseen parasites within your flesh draw upon the arcane power held within every spell you cast. Every spell you cast gets that much more difficult as the years pass.
28. Forlorn - You cannot call a familiar.
29. Short of Breath - You have limited stamina and easily become exhausted by physical tasks.

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Psion/Spellborn Quirks

1 - Memory Lapses: You have the tendency to forget, a lot. The most important something, the more likely you will forget about it. This happens sporadically, for no other reason then to annoy you - after all what is more troubling then ordering a new drink because you forgot the one sitting right in front of you. These episodes can last anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of weeks and even years.

2 - Paranoia: Everything happens for a reason, and it's all about you. You are convinced there is something or someone after you.

3 - Fear: You have an irrational fear of something. Be it a creature or even inanimate object. You will not go near it, will not be around it. You cannot stand the sight or presence of the phobia.

4 - Insomnia: You can't sleep. No matter how you try or what spells you cast, whatever dream speaker tries to enter your mind. You simply cannot find the peace of mind to close your eyes and rest.

5 - Obsession: You are obsessed with something; the most common of all obsessions for Psionic's are their elements of Psychokinetic ability. Fire, Water, Light. Etc. You cannot stand to be without your obsession and must keep is on or near you at all times.

6 - Voices: They speak to you.. you hear them. The whispers in the back of your mind. Shhh.. listen.

7 - Noises: You hear them. Tick.. Tick.. Tick.. Drip.. Drip.. Drip

8 - Frenzy: Every now and then. Nothing goes as you planned, the world collides and it's all your fault. You simply snap. Finding yourself unable to channel your Psionic ability until the time when you can "right" the situation.

9 - Fantasy: You mind creates images and thoughts which are not real, altering you own perception of yourself. Perhaps you think you are a princess, or a valiant knight. You may walk around mewing like a cat or think your a bird.

10 - Hyperactivity: You are constantly drifting in and out of thoughts and daydreams. You have problems finishing things, often antsy and impatient.

11 - Gibberish: Every now and then, you forget how to talk. Words come out backwards, jumbled or simply with no meaning what so ever.

12 - Determined: You hate being interrupted. You must always find a "finish" to whatever your doing before you can go onto anything else. Whether your building a temple or reading a book, your liable to snap someone's head off verbally if they dare to intrude onto what your doing.

13 - Mood swings: One moment your happy, the next your sad.. five minutes later your screaming at the top of your lungs because someone brought you the wrong wine.

14 - Hallucinations: You see things; no glimpses of the far off future or inspirational tales of woes or what really happen the night of October 12th. Rather.. dancing pink monkeys in yellow tutu's.

15 - Multiple personalities: One day your a ranger named Chase, and the next your an assassin called Remorse. Make up your mind!

16 - Dead Senses: Every now and then, you are simply unable to taste or smell anything. It's nothing per say wrong with your tongue or your nose.. but rather your mind's ability to register.

17 - Addiction: Chocolate, Coffee, Tea.. a certain spice, spoon full of sugar. It doesn't matter what it is. You absolutely have to have it, at minimum once per day.

18 - Dark Fate: You simply couldn't resist and your studies gone too far. You have seen, felt or discovered something that should have remained unknown and now.. a dark fate awaits you.

19 - Psychosis: Every now and then, you lose touch with reality.. succumbing to fits of delusions, thought disorder, hallucinations and voices.

20 - Superstitious: There is one superstition that you believe true.. breaking a mirror, crossing a cat, evil can't cross running water, a certain number is "evil". There is nothing that can change your mind about your superstition and you will adamantly avoid or use it to your benefit (or downfall).

21 - Burn Out: Once in a while, you completely exhausted yourself. Your ambitions it bottom, you become overcome with fatigue. Your constantly tired, unable to eat and have no desire to do anything or interact with those around you.

22 - Stoic: Hate, Love, Anger, Discontent... you've simply become completely emotionless. You enter this state at random and it comes and goes as it pleases.

23 - Routine: There is something you absolutely must do. It must be the same thing each day, done at the same time, same place. If you are unable to follow through with your routine, the outlook of the day is nothing but negative.

24 - Echoes of the Past: You have at some point in your life experienced something so horrendous that it has stuck with you over the years.. dwelling just underneath the surface of your subconscious thoughts. Every now and again you relive those events, experiencing them as if they where happening to you there and then.

25 - Ghosts of the Past: Occasionally you are haunted by the ghosts of your past, those that you have either let down or you see as having let down, constantly criticize you. Only when you have performed your job well, whatever that job may be will they be silent for a time.

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Chronomancer Quirks

Lost Gaze: The chronomancer's eyes become lost to some moment in their memory, while lost the chronomancer is blind. This happens once a week to the chronomancer. This can last anywhere from 5-30 minutes of time.

Shock: The chronomancer's body has developed an odd electrical field that can be felt as a static shock by anyone that touches them.

Stillness: The chronomancer has developed the strange ability to sit or stand perfectly still when not involved in physical movement. The chronomancer has no idea he is doing it, and doesn't even seem to be breathing.

Unnatural Aura: The chronomancer has developed an odd aura that effects things in their immediate vicinity. The effects are all related to the passage of time. Things such as something going sour, flowers and plants blooming or withering, clockwork items stopping, things about to fall remaining in mid air until the chronomancer leaves.

Shattered Mirror: The chronomancer has the unfortunate quirk that any mirror within twenty feet shatters. Anyone within 5 feet of the mirror takes damage as the force of the shattering is so great.

Minor Phobia: The chronomancer through his twisted sense of perception develops a phobia of some sort, an irrational fear of some creature or object.

Clock Failure: Anything related to the passage of time, including clockwork clocks, sand in hourglasses, candles all are effected. Each time this quirk is taken the distance increases by a 5 feet radius.

Temporal Disjunction: The chronomancer finds it difficult to keep time, and is always 10-15 minutes late to any deadline set. Each time this quirk is taken, the time increases by 10 minutes that the chronomancer is late by.

Amnesia: The chronomancer loses a part of his memory. It is usually from 1 to 3 months in length and centered around an important event. This never affects skills, merely personal memories. Each time the quirk is taken, another memory is lost.

Insomnia: The chronomancer suffers from mild insomnia, finding it very hard to get a good night's rest. When this quirk is taken again, it develops into moderate insomnia. If it is taken again, it is major insomnia.

Bad Luck: The chronomancer has a bout of terrible luck. Each time this is taken, another bout of bad luck happens.

Back Aging: This quirk causes the chronomancer to age backwards very slowly. By the time he reaches old age, he has developed to the physical form of an adolescent. By the time a chronomancer is venerable he has taken on the body of a child. A chronomancer can age backwards all the way to an infant.

Destiny Haunt: The chronomancer attracts the attention of a destiny haunt. This creature will hound the chronomancer until it succeeds in destroying him or the haunt is destroyed.

Ravage Body: A chronomancers body suffers the ravages of time. This inflicts permanent damage to the vital organs. This cannot be healed by any known magics, it is permanent.

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Necromancer Quirks

Animal Terror: Young children and mundane, non-magical animals will seek to avoid you at all costs. It is impossible to ride a horse, and if restrained in any way, their distress is obvious.

Stench of Death: The necromancer's body and clothing carries the stench of death and graves about it.

Holy Aversion: The necromancer has developed an aversion to anything good. You cannot tolerate the holy symbols and icons of good deities, and stay within 5 feet of them. Contact with holy water will burn your skin.

Unnatural Aura: The necromancer has developed an aura of unease that those around him can't help but to feel.

Verminous Graft: The darkness spoke to you, and much to your eternal regret you listened and plunged your hand into a nest of stinging, crawling insects. You give up normal usage of one of your hands, making it home to a colony of insects like ants or termites or spiders. You may no longer use two handed weapons. The sight of your hand invokes fear and loathing in those that see. A glove may be worn.

Disfigurement: The necromancer, through constant use of dark magics, has developed a disfigurement of some kind. (lazy eye, blind eye, limp, withered limb, etc)

Glowing Eyes: The necromancer's eyes begin to glow with an otherworldly light. You gain darkvision to 60feet.

Ravage Body: A necromancers body suffers the ravages of time. This inflicts permanent damage to the vital organs. This cannot be healed by any known magics, it is permanent.

Weak Constitution - A necromancer's body has suffered the ravages of magic, lowering their hit points by 5 no matter what combat they are within. (If their hp is 40 in a ms, they must use 35)

Frail Body - A necromancer's body becomes frail, even light hits are more damaging than they used to be. The first time this is taken, every attack against a necromancer is -5 hp. Taken a second time it is -10. Each time add 5.

Touch of Evil - Even if they are a light necromancer, they are considered evil as far as auras go. People are scared of the necromancer, and a good creature touching a necromancer with this weakness, grows sick and weak.

Obsessive-Compulsive - The necromancer becomes obsessive/compulsive about one thing. If this is taken again, they become obsessive/compulsive about an added thing. Be creative.

Talon - The necromancer's hand becomes twisted and clawed into a talon or bony claw.

Light Sensitivity - The necromancer becomes sensitive to bright light or sunlight, it hurts their eyes, causing physical pain. However you gain low-light vision. [Vampires may reroll.]

Blight - Plants in their vicinity die, grass withers under their feet, and fruit drops rotted from the trees as they pass by.

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Some other ideas..

- Archaeophilia : You have an obsession with ancient artifacts and relics, both magical and mundane
- Arachnophilia : You REALLY like spiders.
- Autophobia : You are afraid of being alone.
- Berry Picker : You ONLY eat what you prepare yourself.
- Bipolar : Your moods change on a dime.
- Blatant Liar : You tell tall tales that no one believes to fit in with others due to low self-esteem.
- Chronological Dyslexia : You have an extremely hard time placing events in the correct time.
- Clumsiness : You have an unfortunate habit of dropping things, knocking things over, tripping, losing something, and the like.
- Comfort Object : You have developed a dependency for an object, environment, or person and you have difficulty sleeping without it.
- Conceited : You believe that you are better than everyone else.
- Daredevil : You only really feel alive when you're staring death in the face.
- Dark Premonitions : You see disturbing prophecies in your sleep, often resulting in emotional weakness.
- No Direction : You have no sense of direction, you cannot get anywhere without the help of a map and compass, or someone else. Directions are useless to you. Even setting out more than 5 feet you become obliviously lost.
- Disorganized : You are disorganized and clutter seems to follow you where ever you go.
- Exhibitionist : A character with this flaw suffers the compulsive need to remove all of his/her clothing whenever encountering new people. The more people around, the stronger the compulsion, however the presence of children lessens this effect.
- Extreme Boredom : When nothing interesting is happening, you fall asleep.
- Fear of Starvation : You are terrified of starving to death, as such you must always bring food with you.
- Fidgetophoric : Cant seem to hold still. At all. Must always be moving.
- Ghost-Warped : Your body reacts strangely to contact with ghosts and other incorporeal creatures, granting you some of their disabilities for a short time.
- Gullible : You believe things, no matter how far fetched they seem.
- Haemophilia : Your blood does not clot correctly.
- Hallucinations : You see things that aren't really there.
- Haphephobia : You actively avoid physical contact.
- Hauntings of the Past : You have disturbing Dreams, often reliving past events, often resulting in emotional weakness.
- Hopeless Collector : You constantly collect some random, often useless item.
- Inattentive : Your mind wanders from thought to thought instantly and it messes up your concentration in the heat of battle.
- Jumpy : You have a tendency towards nervousness, & tend to block or parry any percieved threat - even a mere pat on the back.
- Low Pain Threshold : Lowers the characters ability to mitigate pain
- Magic Addiction : You are addicted to arcane energy. You must spend time each morning to sate your addiction or you will suffer a painful withdrawal.
- Magical Mania : Arcane energy has changed you, you have racing thoughts and speech.
- Magical Schizophrenia : Arcane energy has changed you, you fear its powers and your train of thought is also affected.
- Night terrors : Your nightmares run so deep, that they still haunt you upon your waking hours.
- Perfectionist : You need things to be just... flawless.
- Royal Appetite : You can only stand for rich feasts of the grandest kind
- Secret Voices : you hear a single or multiple voices muttering inside your head.
- Short Temper : You get enraged easily, going berserk whenever you suffer damage.
- Spamming Facts : 'Do you know kobolds eat spiders?'
- Stutter : You just can't seem to get your words out... but you are otherwise a quick thinker.
- Substance Addiction : You are physically or mentally dependent on some kind of addictive substance.
- Thinks Aloud : Pfft, what an idiot -- Hey, why's he glaring at me
- Untouchable : Character has a severe distaste for being touched by others.
- Verbal Tic : You can't help but say a certain thing... all the time.
- Weatherfoul : Through a lifetime of living in relatively calm conditions, you suffer from lack of experience with foul weather.
- Whimsical : You decide to do things simply because you feel like it...
- Zealot : You believe in your gods, and you do so with great devotion and faith, so much so that you cannot conceive of why others would do different.
- Vulnerable : You are not good at defending yourself.
- Broadcast Telepathy : You inadvertantly broadcast your thoughts when you cast magic or use supernatural abilities.
- Misled : Sometimes you do random acts opposite of your alignment.
- Overwhelming Empathy : You feel other's pain.
- Perversion : You have a bad habit of saying the most inappropriate things at the worst times.
- Prosopagnosia : You can't recognize faces. You are "faceblind".