DarckLeon

Strange Gospel: A Heavily Persona-Inspired Urban Fantasy RP

Will decide between 2 ideas I have rolling around my head and get a sheet up soon!

Strange Gospel: A heavily Persona-inspired Urban Fantasy RP interest check

Definitely interested!

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚏 𝙾𝚞𝚛𝚜

Count me in chief

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚏 𝙾𝚞𝚛𝚜

Hey! would love to take part if there's still place!

Fate/Charonioi Klimakes

Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto

District XII

The Magician in the Reversed Position: Manipulation, Poor Planning, Trickery

@Dosthou @Breo @Cu Chulainn @Undyingregret @Phonic

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"What can i say, elegance and eloquency was never my forte, the way people dragged on and on when they wanted to say something was one of the reasons i left y'know?" Giovanni answered the barbs of his acquaintance, a repeated event the few times they met.

"Maybe that's your problem don't you think? you should take some months of vacation from all your dull work and take your time to see the sights or taste the wine of other countries, you never known what you could learn." He bantered back, with an air of nonchalancy, the exact opposite than the emotions he held inside him.

He knew that, being the perfect example of what a proper magus should be, Camillio wouldn't start a fight if there was the slightest chance of them being discovered by an unafiliated party to the War. It was this exact motive that gave him a number venues he could pursue if he really wanted, but after seeing his would be opponent standing up and starting to leave, leaving in his wake what, to all senses and purposes was a order to accompany him, he had just a few options left.

"y'know, you're lucky i'm a pretty honorable guy, anybody else would have put a knife between your ribs the instant you left your back uncovered." He lied naturally as he breathed. If he had just any tipe of weapon at hand that could quickly and easily dispose of the man that had his back to him, he would absolutely do it, but alas, his magecraft required preparation and while Giovanni liked to think he had a nice physique, he didn't think himself capable of knocking a man out with one punch, even with an advantage like this.

Yes, in his mind, anything that leaved even a minimal chance of Camillio forgetting about the "rules" of a magus fight and, instead, fighting to kill, specifically, fighting to kill him in a bout of rage after being attacked blindly from the back, was an option that he would not pick in a million year, and so, the Wanderer relied on one of his favorite tactics as an alternative.

"I would prefer to talk a bit more with an old friend instead of getting straight to business my dear Camillio, we even have time to play a few hands of French Tarot if you want, isn't that close to your origins? what were you again? Spanish right? Hell! i could even give you a bonafide, Fortuna level, Reading of Fate for free! what do you say old pal?" Words flowed out of his mouth like water. He knew they wouldn't convince his fellow Master to change his course of action, but every second spent on talking was a second not spent on getting thoroughly destroyed on a duel, and so, at the same time that he was slowly following his acquaintance, he both though of many possible ways this could go, analyzing and discarding plans and ideas to ensure his survival, yet also communicated with his way out of this if this planning didn't work out, and knowing just how skilled his possible opponent was, chances were, he would need one.

"Hey Patchy, i hope i'm not interrupting something or anything but you see, i met an old friend recently, great guy, a little too serious for my liking but funny in his own, unique, way, and let me tell you, the level he has in the arcane matters? Out of this world!... only problem is, i'm heading into what most likely is a fight with him and i'm not liking my chances to say the least, so how about you look for an opening in your schedule and maybe try to come just a little closer to me so you can pick me up if things get a little too hairy? love ya buddy, drive safe out there." With that, he sent a mental image to his servant, that of a specific route the two of them could take if it came to that, another possible insurance they could use to escape, because Giovanni Scalognatto was anything but an unprepared man when it came to his safety.

Fate/Charonioi Klimakes

Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto

District XII

@Dosthou @Breo @Cu Chulainn

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Giovanni was a rather talkative individual, to say the least, he knew this, his servant knew this and those that spended more than 5 minutes with him knew it too. Most of the times, this was done with the sole objective to piss off the target of his chattering. He too confessed to being a petty asshole to those he feeled deserved it, and by Fate, the majority of the population of the Clock Tower, in Giovanni humble opinion, deserved every bit of his asshole self.

That is not to say that there weren't alright chaps in his book, even if they were few in between, and now, in front of him, he had the fortune of meeting one of them.

"Or is it missfortune?"... he muttered to himself, before doning a grin that could be confused for a smile and engaged his acquaintance.

"Camillo! Good to see you too! I could ask you the same thing my friend, tired of overseeing boring classes and decided to explore the world a little?" Of course, both of them knew this was a pointless question, but for Giovanni every second he was not fighting the emotionless man was a second well spent.

In the span of the few words talked, he had already though of dozens of possible scenarios in his mind. Life on the road engrabbed this habit on soneone if they wanted to last in it, and his well honed instinct told him that, no matter what, he shouldn't start a fight with this man, not now, not ever.

"How has life treated you? You found that special something you seemed to be looking for? 20 years is a lot of time after all, you could do lots and lots of things in that time, visit lots of places, y'know what i mean?" He grinned, even after reaching the previous conclusion, Giovanni could not pass the chance to try and get a rise of Camillo, like he tried all those years back. Let it be said that he wasn't the most sane of individuals in the best of times.

Fate/Charonioi Klimakes

Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto

District XII

@Dosthou @Breo @Cu Chulainn

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Giovanni liked to think he was a man of very few principles, and the ones he had, they all were of a case by case basis. Having too many, or making them ironclad tended to have you walk to an early grave, or even worse, make you have a troublesome, strict way of life. Sure, some may call this attitude cowardly or not honorable, but after living on the road running for some twenty odd years, you learned a thing or two, and also observed your fair number of honorable men lose their life.

It was for this same reason that, as Giovanni advanced through the streets, he made sure to leave a trail of cards on in his wake, that, aside from their own, innate effect, had a little something on them so no random person would even think of moving or picking them up. They were his path to safety if everything went to shit after all.

As he was doing this, he received a little tip from his servant. As much as he wanted to peek a little, even show up and watch the battle unfold, he knew that, even as patchy talked with a certain sense of disrespect, he wouldn't lie to him... at least he didn't think off, and well, even if he was bullshiting him, he wouldn't really care that much. Honestly, that type of person was a lot more compatible with him than some holier than thou knight or Fate forbid, a crusader or something.

So now, he just walked the streets for the consolation prize, the enemy servant own master. If he or she or it was the type to keep at the side of his servant, unlike himself, then it was his bad luck, but if not, then Giovanni would like to share a few words with one of the people he was competing with.

After a few more minutes of walking and strategically putting down cards, if throwing them at every corner and alleway could be called strategic, Giovanni found a crowd in front of him. He hoped that if his target even was in there, it wasn't one of those nutjobs that could kill you with just a touch or Fate forbid, a glare, he wanted to at least see a few more fights if he had to leave this world behind.

"Now, let me see the face of someone willing to bet their own life in search of something not even gold can buy" he grinned, and throwed his last card before walking into the sea of people

Fate/Charonioi Klimakes

Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto

District XII

@Dosthou @Breo @Cu Chulainn

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"Y'know patchy, i like to put my clients in 3 differents categories" Giovanni started saying. There was a moment of rest on his side of the street, a lot of clients had already used his services, he could faintly feel them slowly expanding his net, and he used it to talk to someone, only problem was, nobody seemed to be near him, his only companion the crystal ball he had on the table in front of him. In his hand, a deck of cards that he constantly shuffle and reshuffled

"The first ones, are those that see me and think 'why not? It's only going to be 5 minutes for some cheap mumbo jumbo and entertainment', i like those, just men and women trying to have some fun, i can respect that ; second type are those dumb assholes that think themselves smart and only sit in my table to snobbishly say 'actually, i know how this whole thing works, i've read it on a book, it's called cold reading and bla bla bla' those shithead love talking, almost like they loved the sound of their own voice" he stopped for a moment and grinned, almost like he spotted the hypocrisy in his words but didn't care about it. He was about to continue but suddenly he felt a slight pain in his right hand. He knew instantly what it meant.

Rapidly, fluidly, like an automatic motion that he had done a thousand times before, he grabbed the crystall ball on the table and throwed it on one of the many pockets of his coat. It bulged slightly. Then he folded the table to a minimal size and saved, alongside the now folded chair, inside the backpag at the side of his feet. The cards, however, stayed in his hands.

"Look alive patchy, story time gonna have to wait, it's time to truly put at test that luck of yours, was that horrible migraine you gave me just a fluke, or is it really that strong? Only one way to find out!" He proclamed. If one were to look at his eyes, they would see the look a crazed man, a man desperately in search of an answer. Maybe this was the only way he would find it. Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto prepared for battle.

Fate/Charonioi Klimakes

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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

The Wandering Dealer

Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto

Title: The Wandering Dealer

Gender: Male

Age: 54

Previous Alignment: The Magus Association (Clock Tower)

Motivation for the Holy Grail War: 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.

Personality

Personality: 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

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 main family had been having difficulty in having heirs for quite some time, either born too weak, too frail or too inept for their position. Far from seeing this as it was, that of their esteemed lineage eventual end, the members of the Fortuna's just saw it as an augury, a signal of Fate itself that their time had come to not only stop trying, but yield up their spot and choose a succesor family.

Soon, each and every Head of the branch families was given an ironclad Geas to firm, with their family crest on the line if they were to disobey it. The reason for this? A new main family would be chosen from those present, and no matter what, nobody could dispute this once it was done. The method? a simple, not magical, reading of Fate. And so it was chosen, from dozens and dozens of potential candidates, the one with the least compatibility for this great role.

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, his small, branch family became the main one, with all that that entailed. Politics, backstabbings, deals. it was 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".

With nothing to anchor him to the Clocktower, he left without hesitation. The only thing he would, perhaps, at times miss, were the sight of that peculiar, emotionless man that without a doubt, had more fire and will in him that any of the other wannabes, pompous scions that he had to share classes with. That one man was an interesting sight.

It would seem he was right, after all, after some 20 years on his "pilgrimage", nothing too bad had happen to him yet.

Sure, he had his altercations here and there, but what did people expect from him? Is not like he knows every and all cultures and proper way to respect the place he's walks. Maybe that one time he tried to test his luck and dig some ancient ruins in search of gold in Australia was a bad idea, that one girl that chased him out surely though so, but the time he has wrongly apprehended by that executor in search of another magus? He, like always, put the faults in the Fate that was given to him. Luckily what it would seem was a local citizen bailed him out that one time... the opposite of what happened in Japan, THAT one, was, without a doubt, not his fault in the slightest, it just happened that randomly one of various... what were they called? shrine priestess or something decided he had done something "uncouth" and kindly informed him to get out of her country.

Now, rumours of an event known as the Holy Grail War in Budapest has reached his ears, and what better place to truly test his Fate that a place were legendary heroes are used as living weapons? He decided to arrive a few days earlier in hopes of the Grail finding him worthy, and what did you know? he was. But maybe the Wish machine didn't have that high of a bar to start with. When he arrived, by chance, he saw what it seemed like a random kid with the same type of mark on his hand. Giovanni became interested in this boy, reminding him of the Zeroth card in his deck, that of the Fool, with infinite possibilities, and what better than a young kid to represent that?

Now all he needed to do was wait. If all the other participants were as peculiar as the one he saw, then his decision to come to this place was the right one. This would be an occasion to remember. What would be stronger? His Fate or the Fate of those that are going to be his rivals in this conflict? There was only one way to find out.

Elemental Affinity: Earth

Magic Circuit Switch: (We shall grant you this knowledge.)

Number of Magic Circuits: D

Quality of Magic Circuits: C

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Magecraft:

The Tarot: 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. The most common of these contracts are those he establish with everyone that agrees to a reading of Fate with him. Each and every one of these individuals Fate will eventually become linked to anyone they come in contact with, after all, a person Fate is not only their own, it becomes entangled to those he or she interacts with. This web of destinies allows Giovanni to not only increase the potency of his future divinations but is instrumental in showing the true power of his magecraft.

People are not the only beings with Fate in this world, the Land itself can be said to be sporting one. After aligning the Tarot to the earth crusts and, with that, to the Leylines of the Land, Giovanni will effectively "read" the Fate of the city and, subsequently, enter a contract with it.

And who is the determinator of that Fate but the dealer itself? The weaver of the network of Fate, The one that originally manifested it to the people/Land entering the contract, who later would spread it through the Land/people. In a way, it can be said that a city is just the sum of the Land and the people living in it, and, what better way to control the city that controlling the components in it?

The Major Arcana: 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 not only the Arcana he has chosen, but the direction it's facing.

Magic Crest: 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.

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Equipment:

Mundane: 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.

Mystic Codes

Name: Palla Di Cristallo
Quality: Very High
Description: 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.

Name: Mazzo De Tanta Meraviglie
Quality: Average
Description: 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.

Name: Cappotto del Viaggiatore
Quality: Average
Description: A coat he uses in his travels. Arrayed with a number of defensive enchantments, it's protective power is enough to guard the user from ordinary knives and swords without a scratch. If push comes to shove, it would be enough to even safeguard him from gun fire. Giovanni, furthermore, added a function to mitigate the consequences of the elements, ideal to use as a makeshift bed in any type of climate.

Name: Anello del Vagabondo
Quality: Average
Description: 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.

Fate/Charonioi Klimakes

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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

The Wandering Dealer

Giovanni Fortuna Scalognatto

Title: The Wandering Dealer

Gender: Male

Age: 54

Previous Alignment: The Magus Association (Clock Tower)

Motivation for the Holy Grail War: 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.

Personality

Personality: 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

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.

Elemental Affinity: Earth

Magic Circuit Switch: (We shall grant you this knowledge.)

Number of Magic Circuits: D

Quality of Magic Circuits: C

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Magecraft:

The Tarot: 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.

The Major Arcana: 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.

Earth Affinity: 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.

Magic Crest: 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.

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Equipment:

Mundane: 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.

Mystic Codes

Name: Palla Di Cristallo
Quality: Very High
Description: 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.

Name: Mazzo De Tanta Meraviglie
Quality: Average
Description: 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.

Name: Cappotto del Viaggiatore
Quality: Average
Description: 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.

Name: Anello del Vagabondo
Quality: Average
Description: 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.