[hider=Roll]Player Name: DarckLeon Family Age: 400 Mystic Code Quality: Very High Mystic Code Quantity: 1 Magical Crest Age: 400 Magical Crest Quality: Maximum Magic Circuit Quality: C Magic Circuit Quantity: D Elemental Affinity: Earth Magical Experience: High Magical Talent: Average Magical Paradigm: Tarot[/hider] [hider=The Wandering Dealer][center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8e/af/84/8eaf84a53ae6125ec6eb46ba67598f71.jpg[/img][/center] [color=steelblue][h3] [center]Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto[/center][/h3][/color] [b]Title[/b]: The Wandering Dealer [b]Gender[/b]: Male [b]Age[/b]: 54 [b]Previous Alignment[/b]: The Magus Association (Clock Tower) [b]Motivation for the Holy Grail War[/b]: To personally meet those who have supposedly broken free from the shackles of Fate. Is it truly an inescapable anvil or are those that are more than human an exception to this rule? Can this priceless gift, if it exists, be passed down? He searches the answers to those questions. Anything besides that he will leave to the whims of the Arcana. [hider=Personality][b]Personality[/b]: A free spirited man that lives day by day. He does as he pleases and follow his impulses at every turn, after all why bother with rules and such? everything is pre-destined anyway, so he can't be held accountable for his actions, or so he thinks. While it is indeed true that Giovanni lives a care-free life with a lackdaisical approach, the benefits of living as a wandering gypsy, constantly reading and dealing the Fate of everybody he crosses path with means that even someone like him will accrue a high level of experience in his magecraft. The motive of theses travels? To find someone that can prove his predictions wrong. To this day, no one have been able to escape their Fate, be it a happy one or one full of tribulations. He does this as a way to be free of his own. Surely, if even one of his divinations are wrong, then even he, that was chosen as the recipient of his families collected history (grudges), the highests of honors possible to one of his position, on a spin of the roulette, can be ridden of that weight. Yes, everything is pre-destined indeed, everyone, a slave to their Fate. Escaping his obligations, always on the run, behind his facade, just a man running from his responsibilities. Nothing he had done was his fault, it was just what the cards had in store for him[/hider] [hider=Bio]Biography: Giovanni Scalognatto path in life should have been an average one. Born in one of the many branch families of the Fortuna's, an old and noble heritage said to have been created in the 14th century Italy, his destiny was already set in stone. He would have studied his family own style of magecraft, one derivem from the one in the main branch, found a good enough woman to marry and have kids to pass down their misteries. It suited his own way of life, but it seems Fate had other plans in store for him. To understand his predicament, the way the Fortuna's and their branch families work should be stated. Since their inception, the few men and women who created the main family became obssesed with Luck, Fate and Destiny, believing that, if they could harness those concepts, then, they surely would get to their final destination soon after, and to start with that Journey, they first had to study them, to know Fate intimately. The answer to the question of "did they create the Tarot" seems to have been lost in time, even if they like to said they did; but what is known is the fervor with which they follow it. With the centuries, many branch families with their own way to look at this predicament that was the search for the Root were born. Some decided to treat life as just a game, with 「　」 as the grand prize, while others, treated their lives as just the first stage on their spiritual journey to it. The Scalognattos, a relatively young family of only 200 years, decided to go with the second approach. Using the stages of the 22 Major Arcanas, which describes the Journey of an individual from Zero, boundless posibilities, to spiritual completion, they groomed each individual in the family to represent and embody one of theses Arcanas, so that each and every one of the heirs, from childhood, would undergo this Journey, and, once they were to depart this world, they would imprint their part of this Journey on the magic crest. Surely, with enough repetitions, one day they would reach their goal?. Giovanni was no exception to this, having lived his life on a rail until the day it all went wrong. As it turns out, the heir of the Fortuna family had died. He perished on a freak accident, nobody was at fault and it was something completely unforeseen. Far from grieving this death, the Head of the family saw it as a divine signal sent from the heavens. It was just his Fate, he said, and it is going to be Fate, the most ficklest of mistress, who decides who will become the next heir. From dozens and dozens of able candidates, it was Giovanni who was chosen, completely at random, a whim of Fate. Without losing a moment, the priceless crest that only a heir of the main family could have got, one that many would kill to have just a fragment in their hands, was transfered to Giovanni, and, as Luck would have it, not only the transfer went without any problems, the crest itself sinergized with the style of magecraft he perfomed. From that moment, he became the next Head not of his small, branch family, but of the main one, a station he was completely unprepared for. It was only a few months later that he decided he needed to "expand his horizons". He took a few things and became a wanderer fortune teller. Nobody stopped him of course, not only he prohibited, he said that "if Fate is truly on my side, nothing bad will happen to me". It would seem he was right, after all, after some 20 years on his "pilgrimage", nothing too bad had happen to him yet. Now, rumours of an event known as the Holy Grail War has reached his ears, and what better place to truly test his Fate that a place were legendary heroes are used as living weapons? And with a calm manner, he enters the stage.[/hider] [b]Elemental Affinity[/b]: Earth [b]Magic Circuit Switch[/b]: (We shall grant you this knowledge.) [b]Number of Magic Circuits[/b]: D [b]Quality of Magic Circuits[/b]: C [hr] [b]Magecraft[/b]: [b]The Tarot[/b]: The word Tarot has accrued many meanings throughout the eras. For some, a game, for others, the map to infinite wisdom and a higher existance. The branch family of the Scalognattos personal focus relies specifically in the Major Arcanas, and all the Luck (Fate) that comes with them, for better or for worse. One could say that they are slaves to their own magecraft, but then, aren't all humans too, slaves to their own fates? Giovanni itself, due to his affinity and way of life, is greatly experienced in the art of embedding energy into and from his cards into those that had entered the "contract" that is fortune telling with him. A person Fate is tied to the land he currently lives in, and as such, the Land is tied to the person. But a person Fate is not just of his own, it becomes entangled to the lives of those he interacts with, creating an inter-linking web of Destinies. And who is the determinator of that Fate but the dealer itself? The one that originally manifested it to the person entering the contract, who later would spread it through the Land, making it, when enough people has entered this contract, the Fate of the Land itself. [b]The Major Arcana[/b]: Also called the "Greater Misteries", the Major Arcana are a list of 22 cards, each with it's own symbolism and significance, that describes the earthly and spiritual Journey of a man into a higher existance. Combining and mixing these 22 cards, Giovanni is able to power up his magecraft with various effects depending on the Arcana he has chosen. [b]Earth Affinity[/b]: With the elemental affinity he has been born with, Giovanni excels in changing what is already there for his convenience, reducing the amount of magical energy he has to use for certain aspects of his magecraft. [b]Magic Crest[/b]: 400 Years old. The first of the gifts given to him. A stroke of Luck that wouldn't, couldn't have happened in a million years. An enormous weight that he is reminded for everyday in the search to, paradoxically, find the answer of why he was chosen to carry it. [hr] [b]Equipment[/b]: [b]Mundane[/b]: Various deck of cards, corresponding to the different interpretations of the Major Arcana. For someone like him, even mere plastic and cardboard serve his magecraft as long as the recipient of the contract believes in the symbolism they represent. A number of objects one would use if his life was on the constant move, like a canteen of water, matches, flares and more. [b]Mystic Codes [/b] [b]Name[/b]: Palla Di Cristallo [b]Quality[/b]: Very High [b]Description[/b]: The second of the gifts given to Giovanni. A perfectly round crystal ball that has been in the Fortuna family for generations. While the functions expected of a crystal ball are doable, and Giovanni also uses it as a mean to synchronize with the Land, the real reason this mystic code is so valuable is in it's purpose as an "omni-directional" prism capable of proccesing Luck (Fate) through it's surface, subsequently changing it's "color". While, in theory, as a sphere with infinite sides, it should be able to proccess infinites Fates, in actuality this would take an equally large amount of magical energy, so it remains just that, a theoretical function. [b]Name[/b]: Mazzo De Tanta Meraviglie [b]Quality[/b]: Average [b]Description[/b]: A deck holder made by Giovanni, it has the function of reinforcing the concept of any Tarot card he saves inside it for a few hours, making them more useful in his magecraft that the ones he has to spare. He usually has the full 22 Major Arcana inside it in any given moment, plus any one off of others cards of the Tarocchi. [b]Name[/b]: Cappotto del Viaggiatore [b]Quality[/b]: Average [b]Description[/b]: A coat he uses in his travels. It has the effect of moderately resisting harm from weapons like ordinary knives and swords, but anything else and it would get destroyed in the act. Giovanni, furthermore, added a function to slightly mitigate the consequences of the elements, ideal to use as a makeshift bed in any type of climate. [b]Name[/b]: Anello del Vagabondo [b]Quality[/b]: Average [b]Description[/b]: A magic ring Giovanni uses as a medium for the act of dowsing the Land. Generally, he uses it to find "good places to sleep for the night", but, if he wanted to, he could try to use it to find more important locations, like a high spiritual place or even a leyline, although that would require time and concentration.[/hider]