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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostknight" data-source="post: 1826972" data-attributes="member: 15338">Strahd:  If Yair is playing straight from the book- The Bjornaer have a special Virtue called "Follower of Bjornaer".  This lets you take on the animal form of your "heart beast", you are restricted to that single animal though shape changing spells can be used as normal.  For a non-combat worthy form it is a +1 virtue, for a combat worthy form +2.Someone:  Careful with being Jewish- seems like a lot of pepole in this group are Jewish (Yair and Strahd in Israel, myself an Orthodox jew in South Africa.)  Also, at this point in time in Medieval Europe, Jews were unpopular.  they were moneylenders, not out of choice, but because they were forced into it by local nobility (everyone else forbidden from it due to the Church not allowing anyone Christians to charge each other interest.)  A Jew was required to wear a special hat when amongst non-Jews and was not allowed in many public institutions (such as universities- those generally being run by the Church and required you to be Christian to enter.)  Another constraint is that most Jews at this time were observant- you would not be able to travel on the Sabath, would have dietary problems etc.  Also, the use of magic is strictly forbidden- Kaballah being the closest thing.  (If I recall correctly, in one of my old 3rd ed supplements it refers to their being an uneasy truce between the Jewish Kaballists and the Hermetic order).  A jew in the Order of Hermes would be considered an Apikoros (heretic) and would need to keep his affiliation secret.  Of course, the above is all subject to Yair changing it as he sees fit for his game  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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