Ambition: Become Coroner of Natrava [-1]
Collects Coins [-1]
Enjoys Using Magic [-1]
Likes Wine [-1]
Suspicious Nature [-1]
The gift of magery has appeared in the Martiniatta family on a numbe of occasions. This gave the family a bit of wealth and influence from time to time, but Rosario's branch of the family had seen little of for some generations now. Still, they took the trouble to have their children tested for it and Rosario's turned up quite easily.
He was apprenticed to such wizards as they could find, but the lad quickly outstripped these hedge wizards in ability. He'd mastered the spells they had, but he had no real training, many unrelated spells but nothing solid to build a wizardly career with.
That changed when he was 14 or so. He detected something magical about a tree he passed walking through the woods. Investigating, he found the tree to have an illusion over it. What appeared to be a living tree was a dead hollowed out one.
Behind the illusion there was a leather bag, containing 3 swords in their scabards. Two of the swords and one of the scabards were magical. The third sword was not magical but a beautiful weapon with very good pictures engraved on it.
A week earlier a group of travelers on a pilgrimage were attacked by a monster and two dozen bandits. (Actually an illusionist and 10 bandits but who's counting?) Outnumbered (HAH!) and out gunned, the guards surrendered and the pilgrims were robbed of their belongings, and these three swords were the prize catches of the loot.
Rosario was extremely lucky. There were two watchers guarding the tree. One had fallen asleep while the other one had answered the call of nature due to some bad food he'd eaten. By the time he finished purging his bowels and returned to wake his partner, Rosario had been gone a good 5 minutes.
His reward was meagre in terms of money. The pilgrims had little cash left after being robbed. However, they had connections and friends back home in Lonot, and as Rosario's explanation of how he found the swords identified him as a mage, they offered to get him proper training as a wizard back home.
It took another year and a half, but they kept their promise.
Rosario is presently the forensics expert for the Duke of Natrava, and part of His Grace's polizia. Most of his work is magical in nature, summoning the spirits of murder victims and interrogating them, using History and Ancient History on items that appear to be evidence, etc.
Rosario graduated 19th in his class at Santo Giovanni College at the University de Lonot across the Sea of Comani but returned to his native Natava after obtaining his Masters. (Bachelors in Alchemy, Masters in Thaumautology.) He turned down several lucative offers in Lonot to do this.
His reasons are simple: Stefano, baronet of Milin, Coroner to the Duke, is both limited in competence and getting on in years. The office has traditionally been a place to give title and income to younger sons of favored nobles when said sons are not fit for soldiering or the priesthood.
The new Duke, Patrizio, was angered when his polizia failed to catch an assassin who killed two of his friends four years ago, or more specfically, when the assassin bribed his way out of captivity and the superiors of the officers failed miserably in covering up the officer's misdeeds.
At the time, the man next in line for the title, Patrizio's cousin, Michel, had no specific interest in creating a scandal concerning his father's agency of justice. Patrizio could do little but fume.
Then Michel went to war and came back spitted on an enemy lance. The old Duke's health took a turn for the worse when the news of his only child's death reached him, and the old man died less than two months later.
Patrizio all but declared war on his polizia, rooting out coruption with a vengeance.
The restructuring of the polizia into a genuine police force was something Rosario favored in general and was ideal for his purposes. The training he'd just finished would help solve crimes, and would bring him to the Duke's attention.
Rosario has made a practice of going through unsolved cases Stefano was involved with. He hasn't solved all of them, but he has done enough to embarrass the baronet on several occasions.
Stefano misgauged Rosario's intentions. Not even considering the possibility that the lower born Rosario is after HIS job, he believes Martiniatta is the chess piece of another noble at the Duke's court being used to harm him.
As a result, he's been spending a lot of time and effort trying to discover who Rosario's secret patron is. Rosario learned of these efforts recently and is trying to leave evidence that will point towards the husband of Baron Leonetti's daughter. If Stefano gets involved in some sort of "retaliation" intrigues against this man, the more likely his job performance will continue to decline and the better Rosario's chances.
Rosario wants this post because it has a fair amount of prestige even with incompetents like Stefano running things, pays fairly well, and offers TWO villas at opposite ends of the Duchy as well as a town house near the Duke's Manor. He wants his parents to live in that sort of luxury and bask in the limelight of being the mother and father of the Coroner.
Family
Alfredo Martiniatta (father) 54 years old, 5'7" brown eyes, bald, grey
hair
Carpenter appropriate skills, status: guild journeyman, bad temper,
stubborn, hard of hearing, oph (quirk level): laughs loudly at his own jokes.
Lucia Martiniatta (mother) 49 years old 5'1" salt & pepper hair, brown
eyes
Homemaker appropriate skills, charisma +1, IQ 13 quirk: frustrated with her
social role
Rigo Martiniatta (brother) 28 years old 5'11" brown hair & eyes
Minor city bureaucrat, Literate, appropriate skills, handsome appearance,
charisma, lecherousness, tries to maintain a pious appearance.
Mary O'Hanrahan Martiniatta (sister in law) 25 years old 5'3" red hair,
green eyes.
Hedge witch, Magery 1 IQ 12, several Earth and Food spells, homemaking
skills, attractive appearance, Literate, speaks several languages, once a
fellow student under a local wizard with Rosario. Minor jealousy over
Rosario's successes as a wizard.
Aphrodite Martiniatta (neice) 6 years old 3'8" red hair, blue eyes,
upwards of 2 trillion freckles.
feel free to write up some background for the kids here if you
want...
Marius Martiniatta (nephew) 4 year old, light brown hair, brown eyes, more freckles than his sister.
Giovanni Martiniatta (nephew) 3 years old, dark brown hair, brown eyes.
Anna Martiniatta (neice) 7 months old, light brown hair, brown eyes.
Diana Martiniatta Luccietti Brascone (sister) 26 years old 5'4" brown
hair, brown eyes. (Widowed & remarried last year)
Except for age and height, she has truly become her mother. She is also 3
months pregnant.
Leonardo Brascone (brother in law) 41 years old, blond hair blue
eyes.
Carpenter, appropriate skills, former soldier, appropriate skills, local
reputation as a hero, one eye.
Brascone lost his first wife in childbirth and his son died less than a day
later. He became a soldier, good enough to survive 13 years of warfare,
retiring after losing his right eye in battle. He was able to use his fame in
defending the city to get into the carpenter's guild and has become, over the
last 4 years, the best of friends with his immediate boss, Alfredo.
Alfredo more or less pushed his widowed daughter and friend into marriage, but
it seems to have worked.
Katrina Luccietti (neice) 4 yeas old brown hair & eyes.
Grimoire
(notes: unless stated otherwise, energy reduction for skill is
factored into the figures below, time will be in seconds, any "h" under
"Maintain" means half that of the value listed under cost, rounded down.
The rules say round up but rounding down factors in the -1 to cost for
skill that every "h" spell below earned. Any "s" under maintain means
use the same cost to cast it.)
Perm = Permanent duration, Instant = Instant duration, 3600 = 1 hour,
36,000 = 10 hours, 86400 = 1 day, 300 = 5 minutes, 1800 = 30 minutes,
Spell Name Casting Time Duration Cost Maintain Analyze Magic 3600 Instant 7 n/a Ancient History 60 x Cost Instant varies n/a Aura 1 Instant 2 n/a Bravery 1 3600 1(+2/hex rd) n/a Compel Truth 1 300 3 1 Control Zombie 1 Perm 2 n/a Create Air 1 5/Perm 0(+1/hex rd) n/a Create Earth 1 Perm 3(+4/hex rd) n/a Death Vision 3 1 1 n/a Detect Magic 5 Instant 2 n/a Earth to Air 2 Perm 7(+8/hex rd) n/a Earth to Stone 1 Perm 4(+5/hex rd) n/a Earth Vision 1 30 1(+2/10 hx rd) s Fear 1 300 0(+1/hex rd) n/a Foolishness 1 80 0/1/2/3/4 h Forgetfulness 10 3600 2 2 History 1 x Cost Instant varies n/a Identify Spell 1 Instant 1 n/a Keen Ears 1 1800 0/1/2/3/4 h Keen Eyes 1 1800 0/1/2/3/4 h Lend Health 1 3600 1/2/3* n/a Lend Strength 1 Perm 1 to ???* n/a Loyalty 2 3600 1 1 Madness 2 60 3 1 Mage Sense 1 60 2 1 Mage Sight 1 60 2 1 Mind-Reading 10 60 3 1 Mind-Sending 4 60 3 3 Purify Air 1 Instant 0(+1/hex rd) n/a See Secrets 5 60 4 1 Seek Earth 10 Instant 2 n/a Seek Water 1 Instant 1 n/a Seeker 1 Instant 2 n/a Sense Emotion 1 Instant 2 n/a Sense Foes 1 Instant 0(+1/hex rd) n/a Shape Air 1 60 0 to 9 s Shape Earth 1 60 1(+2/hex d) h Shape Stone 1 60 3(+4/hex rd) h Summon Spirit 300 60 19 9 Telepathy 4 60 3(+4/add pers) s Trace 60 3600 2 0 Truthsayer 1 Instant 1 n/a Turn Zombie 2 86400 1(+2/hex rd) n/a Zombie 60 Perm 7 n/a
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