Major Hermetic Virtues

No two characters should have the same Major Hermetic Virtue. Note that a Magical Focus is the exception; the chosen specialization just has to be different! In fact, one theory goes that every magus should have a Magical Focus.

• Chthonic Magic: Your magic is associated with dark spirits or the underworld, giving you various benefits tied to the Infernal realm.

• Craft Automata: You can create mechanized animals and people animated by magic.

• Diedne Magic: You are a descendant of Celtic Druids and a dishonored House of Hermes. Spontaneous spells are very easy for you, but ritual spells are impossible.

• Elemental Magic: You gain experience more quickly in the four elemental Arts: Air, Earth, Fire and Water.

• Faerie Raised Magic: House Merinita only. You can teach yourself spells more quickly and out of the laboratory.

• Flawless Magic: You master every spell you learn, giving you special benefits and reducing the chance of botch.

• Flexible Formulaic Magic: You can modify your formulaic spells on the fly, as you cast them.

• Gentle Gift: Your Gift does not cause everyone else to hate, fear, and shun you.

• Hermetic Sorcery: Your intuitive knowledge of demonic magic allows you to gain experience in Arts when you study black magic or supernatural lore.

• Holy Magic: Instead of traditional Magic Theory, your magic is based on divine principles, giving you various special abilities but causing you to be considered a hedge wizard.

• Leper Magus: House Tytalus only. A magus with leprosy, you can empower spells by wounding yourself.

• Life-Linked Spontaneous Magic: You can use your life energy to fuel powerful spontaneous spells.

• Major Magical Focus: You have a specialization in a broad magical field such as Weather, Necromancy, Birds, or Emotions.

• Mercurian Magic: You are especially good with ritual magic, enjoying many benefits. However, you cannot cast quick spontaneous spells.

• Mythic Blood: You are descended from a magical race, such as a wizard of legend, the Zmir dragons of Transylvania, or the Hyperboreans of Apollo.

• Secondary Insight: You gain experience faster when you study the Arts.

• Sense of the Mystic: Your Intellego spells do not need to penetrate magic resistance; this makes it much easier for you to see and understand magical beings and other magi.

• Tamed Magic: House Mercere only. You can cancel any of your spells at any time or give control of them to another person.