Aaron Crane

Name: Aaron Crane

Nickname: Crane

Tradition: Dreamspeaker

Essence: Primordial ( Avatar takes the form of a raven )

Nature: Caregiver

Demeanor: Loner

Concept: Spiritual mountain man

Physical Attributes: Strength: 2, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 3

Social Attributes: Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2

Mental Attributes: Perception: 4 (Intuitive), Intelligence: 4 (Creative), Wits: 3

Talents: Alertness: 2, Athletics: 3, Awareness: 1, Brawl: 1, Intuition: 2

Skills: Crafts: 1, Drive: 2, Firearms: 3, Meditation: 1, Melee: 1, Stealth: 3, Survival: 4 (Foraging)

Knowledge: Cosmology: 1, Enigmas: 3,, Medicine: 1, Occult: 1

Spheres: Mind: 1, Prime: 1, Spirit: 3, Time: 3

Backgrounds: Arcane: 5, Avatar: 5, Mentor: 3 (Arslan / Sheila Runningbear), Resources: 2 (He receives social security disability. See note in history.), Status: Community 1

Resonance:

Merits: Linguistics: Spanish

Past life 2 pts (Memories of being a native shaman who lived in the Phoenix area before the Spaniards came. )

Oracular ability 3pt.

No, your mage is not one of the mystic Master mages living in an ivory tower in the Deep Umbra. Neither is she a software company. What she is, is an ordinary mage with a flair for divination and glimpses into the past, present and future. Whenever the Storyteller feels you are in the position to see a sign or portent, you may make a Perception + Awareness roll, with the difficulty relative to how well the omen is concealed. If successful, you may then roll Intelligence + Occult to interpret what you have seen, the difficulty is relative to the complexity of what you have seen. Your difficulty for all divination with magic (generally with Time) reduces by two.

Flaws:

Lifesaver 3 pts

Arete: 3

Fate: 2

Willpower: 7

Quintessence: 5

XP: 2

Notes:

Crane grew up as an orphan in the state system of Kentucky. He was an odd child who seemed to live in his own little world. They diagnosed him with anxiety and schizophrenia. What no one realized was that he had a strong, primordial avatar that was pushing him, latent past life memories and the occasional bit of future sight.

Unable to cure him with medication he merely stayed in the system of state care till he was eighteen at which time he was awarded social security disability which accounts for his resources. With that he moved to Arizona and lives in a mountain hunting cabin outside the city in Prescott National Forest. There he hunts for his food and mostly lives off the land. His checks are deposited in the bank automatically and when he needs money he just goes there.

For the past several years he has been living alone and has thus become a bit awkward socially. In that time he has been searching the land for an answer to all the visions he has had since this is where he lived in a past life as a native shaman. Recently all of the factors that had been driving him culminated in his awakening and he wound up in the Umbra.

At that time he had little control over his magic and less comprehension of what he had become. The lucky appearance of the Dreamspeaker Arslan and then Sheila Runningbear from Phoenix Rising saved young Crane from making any horrible mistakes. That is when his education as a mage began. Now he has to reorient himself from concentrating on the past and his visions and trying to understand his place in the world now and building a future.

Possessions:

Mountain hunting cabin, old jeep, assorted hunting weapons and naturalist crafting items.

Background Descriptions:

PARADIGM

Native Shaminism

FOCI

Raven feathers, polished stones, a gourd rattle filled with sand and stones.