Ladies and Gentleman, from Lords of Terror, RuneQuest, Bagog, Beloved Mother of the Scorpion Folk, and K'Rana, The Humakti Scorpion Queen!
Disclaimer: this is going to do profound injustice to both the original authors and to the characters concerned, but since I want to use K'Rana in my campaign and we're using HW rules I had to convert both the queen and her goddess.
As always, I'm eager to be criticized, so that my understanding of the animist rules (which at this stage isn't very deep) and my rendering of a nice character may improve.
BAGOG
[Animist, Chaos, Bagog]
Requirements: only Scorpion things. Be a useful member of the tribe.
Physical Abilities: Hunting, Claw, Sting
Mental Abilities: Bagog Tradition Knowledge, Spirit Sight, Spiritworld
Travel, Shamanic Escape, Spirit Combat
Traditional Spirits: Chaos spirits, Scorpion spirits
Spirit Guardian: Scorpion spirits [1]
Spirit Ally: Bagog Herself [2]
Secret: Devour (the Ritual of Rebirth, if performed on the High Holy Day by
the Queen and only one prisoner is eaten, the new scorpion man has all the
memories of his previous life [3]).
[1] The new shaman's fetch is just the spirit of the former - defeated in
duel - shaman, whose body the new shaman devours ritually to complete his
initiation test.
[2] After all the Queen of the tribe is supposed to be Bagog incarnate,
isn't she? The Mother of the Scorpion Race may grant her mundane counterpart
a Chaos Affinity or a Shapechange Talent.
[3] Or maybe it's just a D+20 magic?
K'RANA, Illuminated [4] Scorpion Queen, Devotee of Humakt
Keywords: Bilini 17, Warrior 5w, Devotee of Humakt 1w, Scorpion Queen 1w
Physical Abilities: Strong 13, Look Beautiful to Scorpion Folk 13, Close Combat (Greatsword, Two Swords, Dagger, Claw, Tail) 3w2, Ranged Combat (Thrown dagger) 6w, Climb 18, Dance 18, First Aid 6w [5]
Mental Abilities: Lead men into battle 5w, Reconcile Contradictions 1w2, Sense Assassin 16, Stirring Speech 3w
Affinities:
Combat (Truesword Stroke, Shield Destroyer, Weapon Destroyer) 1w Death (Shout of Fear, Kill Undead, Bless Corpse, Lay Ghost, Death Song Berserk) 1w Honor (Empower Oath, Know Truth, Rally Warriors, Shame Coward) 1w Talents: (from integrated spirits) Toughen Exoskeleton 5w, Turn Limb into Claw 6w, Boost Venom 3w; (from Bagog) Shapechange 2w; (tradition secret)Devour 1w
Chaotic Features: invisible to spirits, attractive to animals
Gifts: +5 to Greatsword ability, +4 resistance vs. Disease and Poison, Sense Assassin ability, Recover 1 AP per round (as long as APs are above 0), blessed sword
Geases: never use maces, never participate in an ambush, never use poison, never refuse a challenge to one-on-one combat, never accept minor magical healing
Personality: stoic 17, planning 17, honorable 1w.
Flaws: Look Hideous to Non-Scorpion Folk 13
Possessions: Headtaker (iron greatsword, +5 rank vs. Broos), Heler's Shield (a blue crystal which gives her magic resistance a +3 bonus)
Combat [6]: Headtaker 8w2^7(^12 vs. Broos), Two swords 3w2^5, Dagger 3w2^1, Claw 3w2^4, Tail 3w2^6, Thrown Dagger 6w^1; Chitin armor & bronze cuirass ^5
[4] What does it means to be illuminated in this context? Only that she can
ignore some cult restrictions? Maybe something more, so I gave her a
mystical ability (well, sort of). Anyway what path has she followed? In
other words: how is RQ Illumination represented now?
[5] If I understood correctly, you put in "significant abilities" only those
abilities which the character wouldn't normally have - given her keywords -
or whose rating differs from the keyword rating. Is it so?
[6] I made up the numbers according to intuition, if you know better I would
be most grateful if you could advise me.
Cheers, A converting Alex.
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