Snow Fauns

Magical Might 5 (Animal)

Characteristics Int +-1, Per 0, Pre +2, Com +2, Str +2, Sta +2, Dex +1, Qik +2

Size +1

Virtues and Flaws: Faerie Speech, Faerie Sight, Improved Characteristics, Hybrid Form, Large; Aloof, Incognizant, Lecherous (major), Weakness(sex), Traditional Ward (Religious symbols)

Personality Traits: Lustful +5, Hasty +2

Combat:

  • Brawl (kick), Init +4, Attack +8, Defense +9, Damage +5

  • Spear, Init +4, attack +7, defense +6, Damage +7

  • soak +3

Abilities: Area Lore: Home Forest (secret places) 3, Athletics 2(dancing), Awareness 2 (listening), Brawl 5 (wrestling), Carouse 6 (drinking heavily), Charm 3 (seduction), Language: Scottish 3 (dirty songs), Music 4 (harp), Single Weapon 3 (spear), Thrown Weapon 3 (spear)

Powers:

  • Grant Puissance in Combat (2 might, init -1, Mentem ): Everyone who hears his music gets +3 weapon skills for attack, and Bravery, for the scene [from fauns, ROP: Faerie p93]

  • Endless Basket of Berries (o might, init -1, herbam, Pen 5): The snow faun's cournocopia is an endless source of sweet winter berries, so rich and sweet that they are as intoxicating as wine if taken in excess. [similar to Endless Wine from Fauns in ROP: Faerie]

  • Steal Judgement (2p, Int -2, Mentem, Pen -5): The target of a Snow Faun's games are often making foolish choices, to party and dance and cavort all night til they collapse. Their lies are believable, even if unreasonable, and it requires an Intelligence roll against 6 to resist, though really outrageous lies will be Ease Factor 3.

Vis: 1 Animal Vis if encountered about in the forest - in the Stag Lord's court, they are usually part of his glamour.

These fauns are both male and female, and tend to be tall and slender to blend into the leafless trees of the winter forest. The Snow Fauns are mostly inactive all through the year, stuck in their Regio until the Winter Queen releases them during the coldest of Winter. The Snow Stag Lord is their direct master, and they sometimes are allowed free of their regio at his behest to seek out sources of vitality for their master. Snow Fauns tend to dance and play at the edges of the wilderness, often leaving intoxicating berries from their cornucopias in clusters to be found. They seek to snare the isolated and lonely souls who are starved of attention during the coldest of winters, and a number of satyr-blooded individuals can be found around the cold northern forests where the Queen holds sway.

Design notes: These are re-flavored Fauns from ROP:F, who thrive on the the vitality generated during long freezing winters when people get snowed in their homes and start to experience cabin fever. They maintain a lot of the traditional faun personality because of the spread of classical stories through the Medieval European world, and because I was lazy and decided to use them. More importantly, they're additional 'arms' for the Snow Stag Lord, who is a more unique character and the focus of the story these were made for.

I re-wrote them here for an ease of reference during my game.