Backstory and Coven Advice

[Mark_Wilkin]

Nope no Covens in Highguard that specialise in curses, there’s one in the League who are somewhat famous/notorious but in Highguard the space for that is wide open .

Handily there is a category page on the wiki for Curses. I’d go through them and see what personal curses you like the look of and then work towards being able to cast them, Winter appears to have the most personal curses, but some of the other realms have very entertaining curses like Unfettered Anarchy if you can work out how that works with your group goal.

Rituals very simply you either do them in the Imperial Regio, which gives each person in the ritual an extra level of lore which lets them spend more mana to cast spells, or anywhere where you can gather your group together. The Regio comes with it’s own ref to record the ritual, but there can be a queue and as you have 15 minutes to deliver the curse after the ritual it can sometimes be better to find a ref and do the ritual closer to your target.

Here are a few threads on the forum about the how your characters do rituals:

So how do you ritual?

With my new character being a ritualist I’ve been reading through the wiki on the subject but I’m still undecided as to the actual practicalities. Both Rune Magic and Astronomancy seem to fit, Dramaturgy being cool but not so Highguard, but apart from what’s on the wiki I’m still a bit unclear as how you actually perform rituals in these traditions? How do you conduct Rune Magic and Astronomancy rituals in game? Any tips for keeping track of time or remembering your ‘script’? How do you bring t…

Examples of Solo Rituals

I find planning solo rituals a bit daunting. For the benefit of new players like me, would some experienced ritualists please describe what an onlooker watching your favourite solo ritual might see? I’ll kick this off with one I am working on. If you have any advice I’d appreciate it: The Volhov in the pointed black hat walked slowly around the regio, dragging her foot on the ground in a rough circle. At three points around the circle, she paused, crouched, placed a small wooden rune and waved…

But it could be worth posting a new forum thread specifically asking about how Highguard players do their rituals as we have quite a number of different covens in the nation.

Also excellent group idea, a++ ignore anyone IC who tries to tell you that you shouldn’t be doing that, remember Courage says things like “Do not fear to act; only be shamed by inaction.”, “Despise cowardice which steers the spirit to weakness and inaction.” Check out the rest of the virtues for other things that will back up your totally justified actions promoting the Way .