On first impression The Court is extroverted, with each one having their own way of talking but when they get going they do not stop. Oftentimes just open and friendly, sometimes a little flirty, they're the type of person to approach you at a bar, order you a shot, and just get to talking. Its to the downfall of many of their targets - they're so charming one does a double take when the handcuffs come out how their night's going to go. It often ends with a court date and not the fun kind.

They're totally arrogant assholes with skill to back it up. They pull your signature tarot card out of a 52-card deck and act like it was supposed to be there the entire time - because it was. The worst kind of con man - the man that never cons, merely charms. It's an infectious sort of personality that keeps people coming back in for more.

Despite their ego, the Court are deeply compassionate. Deeply passionate about the humanities and its intersections with the physical sciences, they will enthuse about the wonders of humanity and its innovations- each according to their own field and their own levels of trust. They love hearing peoples' stories and making new ones, its just over a layer of pretentious haughtiness that can either be infectious or entirely insufferable.

Every member of the Court has their own personality but what comes through is passion, arrogance, and a strong sense of justice.

Choose The Thread

Glimpsing the many potential futures of her subject, the mage selects the optimal course. The subject’s player rolls twice for her next mundane dice roll, and the mage’s player selects which dice roll takes effect.

Chrono's Curse

The mage slows his subject’s experience of time to a crawl. To the subject, everything seems to move at dazzling speeds, while she feels like she’s caught in a dream, unable to run or punch or move properly. She can’t even speak normally to others while affected — while from her perspective her words are clear enough, to everyone else they’re a long, impossibly drawn-out sound. Divide the subject’s Speed by Potency, rounding down. If Speed reaches 0, the subject is effectively moving so slowly she appears rooted to the spot. While under the spell’s effect, the subject always goes last in a turn. The subject’s Defense is also reduced by Potency.

Shifting the Odds

An Apprentice of Fate always has access to what she needs at the moment. The mage focuses on locating a particular kind of person, place, or thing, and this spell directs her steps to it unerringly as soon as possible within the next 24 hours as long as the spell remains active. Casting the spell looking for a kind of person in a crowd or an item anywhere it could appear is usually enough to immediately succeed. The spell can find someone with a specific Trait, occupation, or context-specific quality (e.g. “corrupt cop”), but it only locates the nearest or most available subject matching the de- scription the mage provides, never a specific person or object (although destiny sometimes draws familiar faces together).

Alternatively, the mage gains temporary access to certain Social Merits (Ally, Contacts, Mentor, Resources, or Retain- er) with a rating no greater than Potency. Fate guides her to dropped cash, unattended mundane items, or useful strangers she can easily convince to do her a quick favor. The mage may benefit from this Merit a number of times no greater than Potency, after which the money runs out or the ally of conve- nience goes his own way unless the mage’s character spends Experiences to purchase the Merit

Correspondence - Praxis

We are all of us defined by our connections, and through this spell a mage learns those definitions. For every level of Potency, the mage learns one of the subject’s sympathetic links. The spell reveals the subject’s oldest and strongest links first. She understands these connections in the same manner the subject thinks of them (e.g. “my childhood home,” not “1414 Willowbrook Drive, Columbus, OH”). If the other half of the sympathetic link is within the mage’s sensory range, she knows that and knows its exact location.

Raised by two teachers in the heart of Los Angeles, Auri Calderon and their younger brother were raised with a love of knowledge and all things exploration. Children of the public school system and the internet, a deep love of nerd culture brought Auri to Summer, a fellow magus-to-be he met on a TTRPG forum. They grew closer, began to date, and then drifted apart due to college stressors getting worse and then, you know, awakening.

Krono Moirai awakened to the Acanthus watchtower in a way he won't describe, living Orderless for a while before an accident near The Garden Near the End of the World brought him into the employ of the Silver Ladder.

The Truth

The magus-to-be is the sibling of their actual partner Romulus, and their relationship is best described as "I am waiting to fucking kill you." He's a Guardian, a Hand of the Horologium, and he's here to smoke out the Rapt, the Scelesti, and who knows what else.

The Billion to Four were shattered by their Awakening, torn apart by Arcadia and brought back together for a Supernal being that cared not for their passions and joys, and saved by a Proximi who wanted to watch it grow. For now, they're making it work.

At one point going under the name "Krono" and the names of the Fates, it was revealed through some close run-ins with the God machine that the names had become too personally identifying for the four and they had to change it for their safety, at which they took on the name "The Court".

When outside of timelines, they all occupy the same body that they call Omni.

They switch their passwords between timelines. They make them increasingly complicated not for security purposes, but to fuck with each other.

They share a collective dream, in a facsmilie memory of LA in which they have all of their own rooms.

They are well known in their local concillia for their first arrest being the Hierarch.

Formative memories include being pulled out of class to do increasingly ridiculous tasks for his parents' classes.

Speaks English, Tagalog, and bad Italian.