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Amity Knight is a historian and a scholar of theology and metaphysics. She is also the foremost mystic defender of civilization. Like the clerics, scholars, sages, wisemen and wisewomen that came before her she wields powerful magic. Also like her forebearers, she is reluctant to engage in heroics directly, preferring instead to guide the world's heroes to do what must be done. This is not to say she is a coward or unwilling to take direct action, she simply feels she can comprehend the threats and better read the portents if she remains above the fray.Mother Knight has been involved in most of the big mystic events of the past few years, most notably the empowering of the heroine known as Chatelaine and Fae invasion that necessitated it.
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Mother Knight is the arch-mage of earth. Unlike most lesser mages, she does not need rituals or artifacts to work great magicks. Like Taliesin, Henwen, Arch-Bishop Dewi, Merlyn, Morgan Le Fay and other mighty sorcerers of ages past, she need only communicate with the universe with a specific empathy in order to work her magic. This means binding and gagging her can diminish her ability, but only rendering her unconscious makes her completely unable to do magic.
Mother Knight is tremendously knowledgeable about magic, myth and faerie, but is bound by a set of rules that mundane folk find arbitrary and vague. This means her communications regarding specific threats can seem needlessly cryptic.
Mother Knight is also highly sensitive to the accomplishment of major magic works or the arrival of powerful divine or infernal visitors to her sphere of influence.
Despite all this, when not involved in the business of magic, she is personable and engaging. Contrary to the images of mages toiling away in dark towers, poring over musty grimoires, Amity is a foodie and something of a wine enthusiast. She also enjoys dancing and is an accomplished at the Samba, Waltz and Jitterbug. Unlike many sorceres, she has no familiar since she doesn't care for birds, frogs, snakes or the like and is allergic to cats.
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She's unique and very interesting, a powerful being like her could handle lots of problems. Knowing from her background I must ask what type of event would she nominate herself to talk direct action? World ending or would it have to be more like solar system level or maybe if a diseases is made so only magic can solve?
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A world ending event could definitely provoke her to direct action. A disease that only magic could cure might do so, assuming no mystic healer could handle it alone. My setting isn't overrun with mystics, but Path, White Rose and Bahram are all mage heroes as well and far more inclined to direct action than Mother Knight.
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*nods* Makes sense it will have to be a mystical plague that will require 3 mystics for it to be stop. Then I see her stepping in, she's pretty cool though I wonder does she take a sorta role like The Watcher?
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Think of her a bit like a "Lady Adventurous" from the Arthurian Romances. She can and will take action if necessary, but her primary duty is to motivate heroes into action. She's more proactive the Marvel's Watcher or even DC's Phantom Stranger, but she's more of a motivating force than a direct player.
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Hmm I see I see, like a coach/teacher in a way huh? Thumbs up for her definitely, though I bet when she does enter a battle people will be mindblown
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Thanks! It really isn't everyday I get the chance to include a wimple in a super-hero costume.
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Looks great. But maybe you can answer a question I've had for a long time: what exactly is a sphere of influence?
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Well, a sphere of influence is a physical or metaphorical area over which a person has influence. Warren Buffet's sphere of influence for example, is finance. Mother Knight's is magic. Laird Hamilton's is surfing. Almost everyone has one or more spheres of influence. How broad they are is often dependent on the personal power or authority of the individual or group. Some spheres of influence contribute to other spheres of influence. e.g. Robert Iger's primary sphere of influence is Disney (as the CEO) and his exercise of power within his sphere influences Disney Corp's sphere of influence, which is the whole gorram world.
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That's quite helpful, thank you. I was asking purely in the magical sense.
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Well, in the purely mystic sense divination and glamour would be her stock-in-trade, but as a master mage, she's pretty familiar with everything. Can she create items as potent as Weyland Smith? No, but she can work direct magic he can't. Is her travel and nature totem magic the equal to Path? No, but she has transmutation and other magicks he doesn't. Essentially a powerful specialist may be better in a limited range, but she's formidable across all magic.
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Ohhhhh! Β Blasphemous and cool!!! Β Well done
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Well, not really blasphemous in context. The Arthurian Romances on which the Castellan "mythos" of characters and stories is founded has Christianity and paganism existing side by side. One of the hallmarks of early Catholicism (the christianity of the myths is pre-schism and pre-reformation) is its' ability to integrate other religions and folklore into its tapestry as "part of God's plan", so you get days of the week which reference Norse Gods, the celebration of the birth of Jesus shuffled to coincide with a popular yule celebration, etc.
The Arthurian myths featured several Christian "miracle workers" whose acts were indistinguishable from the pagan sorcerers, priestesses and druids with whom they competed for spiritual supremacy. All the aforementionedΒ religious forces had both good and bad people among them. The only people portrayed as universally "bad" were Heathens (muslims and atheists). The first "modern" interpretation of the Arthurian Myths was written in the 12th century, so it makes sense. The one thing all magic practitioners had in common was books. Mages, christian or otherwise were literate and in a world where 90% of the populace including the ruling class was not, mastery of written language was power.
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Hush... you're ruining it for me 
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Another in a long series of outstanding designs, sir.
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