Hazphar Pharates

Spirit Magic: 86

Spirit Magic Spells: Heal 1, Protection 1, Bladesharp 1, Befuddle (2), Multimissile 1.

Divine Magic: one use

Divine Magic Spells: Mindlink 4, Madness x3, Spirit Block 3.

Power Spirits Total MP: 38

Note: Hazphar is also protected by a Damage Resistance intensity 5 spell.

Hazphar has Cast Back and Damage Resistance at Intensity 5 every week, renewed by his Magic Spirit. For this adventure the same spirit has cast Damage Boosting on the scimitar and Damage Resistance on the buckler — both Intensity 5, one week duration. In melee he casts Befuddle at each foe (using Combine), Amplifying if few targets, then Protection 4 on three allies. If mounted he casts Mobility on his horse and an Amplified Speedart on a hatchet. In missile exchange he uses Amplified Disrupts and probably Protection on himself.

Hazphar wears a bezainted hauberk, with cuirbouilli armour elsewhere. He carries his scimitar and buckler, while his crossbow, 15 bolts, and two hatchets are within easy reach on his horse. He wears a string bracelet with a bow string wound into it — the bow string holds his Speedart matrix, very difficult to detect even with Soul Sight. The Light, Disrupt, and Mindspeech matrices are on a knucklebone in one of Hazphar's earrings. The Mobility matrix and a 14 MP store are on a silver button on a chain around Hazphar's neck. He also wears a bronze torc binding his three Power Spirits and two Magic Spirits. Spell matrices (except Speedart) are usable only by Seven Mothers Initiates; the torc only by Lunar College members. A bronze bell buckle fashioned into a grimacing face houses a bound pain spirit. His horse carries three 5 litre water skins, basic equipment, and the items mentioned above. Hazphar's Ritual Spell matrices are back in Pavis at the Seven Mothers' temple.

Hazphar is proud of his noble lineage, but joined the army to escape the constant webs of bickering and intrigue that plague the Empire. He had particular success in the Lunar Colleges of Magic, before being assigned to the Marble Phalanx. He now hates his choice of career, having been tied down in Pavis for too long. He met Dalamides at a party in the Silk'n'Plume, and decided to join his venture merely for the excitement.