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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 6980426" data-attributes="member: 12388">Bramas DownjackWizard 10Bramas is War Wizard in his middle years. His face is slender, his forehead bare to the top of his scalp thanks to hair that long ago retreated. His face is clean shaven save for mustachios grown long and threaded through hoops hanging from each ear, and then woven into a tightly braided ponytail that descends to his shoulder blades. The remaining hair on his head sways out over his ears like a pair of bird’s wings.Bramas is circumspect in both his personal and professional life. His status as a veteran in the Brotherhood of the Wizards of War affords him private quarters he shares only with his reflection in a small oval mirror that hands from the door to his bedchamber. He has little need to socialize and can count the number of people he calls friend on one hand. Bramas obeys orders and readily faces danger, but he does not strike out on his own, follow hunches or deviate from orders (unless his orders become impossible to follow).The way of Bramas is one of careful calculation. He weighs and measures the behavior of others, he observes the world around him, considers his prior experience, estimates risk and makes his decision. He insists on a daily review of procedures, and he demands thrice-daily reports from everyone under his command. Bramas annoys the younger, hot-headed magelings in the Brotherhood as well as his peers—all consider Bramas to be tedious in the extreme.The Mage Royal Ganrahast has found a match for Bramas' methods in the daily care and feeding of war wizards unfortunate enough to have had their minds scrambled or their wits burned away. Such mages cling to life, muttering and drooling, sometimes cackling madly and other times sitting comatose. On occasion they spit arcane words of power that unleash warped spells or wild magic. Yet the Crown of Cormyr is merciful and will not put these mages out of their misery. Seeing to their well-being occupies much of Bramas’ time, and that of the staff he commands.By order of the Crown, Bramas possesses the authority to slay any mage under his care if he or she is deemed a threat to the Wardens of the Fallen (as Bramas and his staff are known collectively). Spells that conjure blades of force that cut and slice are Bramas' preferred method for killing quickly, and he is an efficient slayer when faced with no other choice.The return of the Weave of All Magic to Faerûn has added a new wrinkle to Bramas' daily work. At least once a tenday one of the Fallen will return to normal. This lasts anywhere from mere seconds to a handful of minutes before the light in the Fallen's eyes disappears and he or she resumes drooling on the floor while staring ahead at nothing. These brief interludes are scenes of fear and desperation for the Fallen, and sometimes hasty attempts at escape by whatever means are at hand. But on occasion they herald moments of forewarning as the Fallen speak of future events that will befall somewhere in Cormyr.Some of the predictions are detailed, others a mere handful of words. The Fallen never answer questions posed to them while uttering a prediction, and the predictions themselves are often devoid of context or meaning. Nevertheless, the Wardens keep exact records of what the Fallen have said during their moments of lucidity, and reports of all utterances are forwarded to the Lord Warder (Vainrence), who is responsible for deciding whether to follow up on them or not. Trusted adventurers are his preferred means when no other capable Crown agents are available.For his part, Bramas sees the hand of newly risen Mystra in these predictions and he prays regularly to her for guidance.********Torc of True TellingWondrous item, rare (requires attunement)Any time you look at another creature with your mouth open, this torc of wound mithril will record everything said by that creature for up to ten minutes. If you close your mouth or look away from the creature, the effect is ended. As many times as you wish, you may use an action to touch the torc with one hand and open your mouth. If you do so, everything that was recorded by the torc magically sounds forth from your mouth at the same volume and in the same voice by which you heard it. This torc only keeps one recording at a time. A new recording, however short, always replaces a previous recording. If you record the words to a spell with a verbal-only component, then you may use the torc to repeat the words of the casting and no spell effect takes place.Item notes:The Torc of True Telling used by Bramas to record predictions made by the mad wizards under his care is the last of a set of four owned by the Crown of Cormyr. The others are believed lost or stolen. The torcs are of elven design and make, and date back to the era of Illiphar, when the elf lord ruled over the forested region bound by mountains on three sides that was destined to be ruled by humans and called Cormyr. Iliphar's heralds and trusted servants wore the torcs, and used them to deliver Iliphar's decrees exactly as he spoke them, so that no issue of miscommunication could be claimed by his more rebellious subjects (of which there were many in the fading days of Illiphar's reign, when humans settled on the shore lands in the south). Humans gave the Torcs their current name. The elf name for them has been lost to time.</blockquote>

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