Insight
Insight Ranking
1-999 Natural, unititiated
1000-1999 Ordinary Magician
2000-3999 Notable Magiician
4000-7999 Famous Magician
8000+ Extraordinary Magician
One time honours
Inititation 1000pts
Traits and passions of pagan religion only (underlined) of 16+, get insight each year equal to the Trait ot Passion.
If all religious traits are 16+ get 100 pts
Receive insight equal to one fifth the quantity of Life Force used in a spell, if successful. If cast by a triad, insight is divided by three.
Maintain a sacred place
A stone circle, visited occasionally 25pts
A hillside of wild herbs, visited twice yearly for a week each time 10pts
A small sacred spring, visited 4 times/year for 2 days each.
Performing Sacred Ceremonies
Lead a seasonal ceremony, with less than 100 participants 25pts
Lead a seasonal ceremony, with upto 250 participants (village-sized) 50pts
Lead a seasonal ceremony, with 250 or more participants (town sized) 75pts
Uses of Insight
Other magicians can recognize you magnitude with their Sight.
Each 1000pts gives a +1 bonus to the magicians Sight Skill.
Each 1000pts gives a bonus point, in same manner as accumulated Glory.
You can also accumulate Glory, and benefit accordingly
Each 1000pts of Glory gives +1 bonus to Recognition roll
Each 1000pts give a bonus point.
Glory is gained in following ways:
Defeating an enemy in combat (surrendered, captured, incapacitated or killed)
Ordinary Knight (1000-1999 glory) 50 pts
Notable Knight (2000-3999 glory) 100 pts
Famous Knight (4000-7999 glory) 250 pts
Extraordinary Knight (8000+ glory) 500 pts
If the fight is for love (to knockdown, first blood) 1/10th the glory is gained
If multiple fighters took part in combat the glory is divided
If the enemy’s plan is defeated but he escapes no glory is gained.
unruly peasant 1pt
thief 5pts
ordinary bandit 10 pts
notable bandit 25 pts
armoured and mounted non-knight 35 pts
Saxon raider 35 pts
Pict raider 20 pts
vicious rat 0 pts
huge snake 1 pt
large wolf 5 pts
bear 10 pts
huge white bear 100 pts
witch 25 pts
orge 25 pts
small giant 100 pts
unicorn 100 pts
lion 250 pts
griffin 250 pts
giant 250 pts
fire-breathing wyrm 400 pts
huge giant 500 pts
basilisk 500 pts
If successful with a skill roll in critical or important situation 10 pts, if a critical success 20 pts
If the succss if preformed before nobilty 20 pts, a critical 40 pts
Heroic Death 1000 pts
Glory is gained upon marriage equal to the spouses glory up to a maximum of 1000 pts.
If the spouse dies and re-marriage occurs glory is gained again.
Conspicuous Consumption gains glory, for each £1 spent upto £100 in a year 1 pt of glory is gained, beyond 100, 1 pt is gain for ever £10 spent, e.g £120 would gain 102 pts of glory.
Any traits or passion of 16+ gain glory equal to the value each winter.
Battle participation gains glory on a round to round basis, and is derived from the size of the battle, with adjustments for various factors:
Small Battle 15pts
Medium Battle 30pts
Large Battle 45pts
This is modified by how well knight did with that round weapon skill roll
Critical Success x2
Success x1
Failure x0.5
Fumble x0.01
Disengaged x0.1 (being in field but not engaged)
Participation in a victory is far more glorious than surviving a humiliating defeat
Clear Victory x2
Indecisive x1
Clear Loss x0.5
If the odds in battle were against your side, more glory is gained
Outnumbered more than 2:1 x1.5
Outnumbered more than 5:1 x2
Success in tasks gains glory dependant on the significance of the task e.g.
Trivial Task (save a maid from a wolf) 1pt
Ordinary Task (carry a message through unknown territory) 10pts
Heroic Task (free prisoners from a tribe of giants, or carry a message safely into a very dangerous place) 100pts
Very Heroic Task (lead a tiny army to repel a huge group of Irish invaders) 250pts
Extraordinary Task (rescue Queen Guenever from death) 1000pts
