8 Caster character sheet
Class: Caster
Master: Elisabetta Einzbern
Name: Aleister Crowly
Sex: Male
Height/weight: 165cm 68kg
Alignment: True Neutral
Strength: D Magical energy: A+
Endurance: E Luck: C
Agility: D Noble Phantasm: B
Class abilities:
Territory Creation C: allows creation of a Workshop of medium size with all advantages.
Tool creation B: allows creation of tools that carry magical energy. Rank B allows creation of the best tools that modern magi are capable of.
Aleister (Edward Alexander) Crowly (the Thief of Secrets,
the Beast of 666, the greatest magus of the 20-th century)
Following the doctrine of the Magical Association, the most advantageous are the magi from the families with long bloodlines. Though officially it's not something bad, the short-bloodlined are objects of bulling. But after the rise of Edward Alexander Crowly, a first-generation magus (though some people believe that he had an ancestor-magus who had passed his recessive genes) the treatment of such magi went better.
Young Aleister found out about his abilities rather early and used to poke fun at his religious parents, who gave him nickname the Beast of 666, which he would turn into his pseudonym.
Unfortunately, the Clock Tower paid him attention too late, when he had already got interested with unorthodox ways of magic. He left The Tower rather early, without even graduating his studies, even though he was the most promising student of his time and even a possible heir of Zeltrich himself.
Soon after that Aleister joined the Order of the Golden Dawn, barely legal organization of magi, ruled by Samuel Mothers. But even there he didn't last long. After having stolen all the secrets of the Order he disappeared, joining later Ordo Templi Orienti.
After that he traveled a lot gathering magical secrets of the past and spent several years, studying them.
The key point of his work was the creation of the Book of the Law, which was the crucial moment of his effort and the basis for a religion cult of his – thelema. In the end he even created an abbey of his own, but at that point the Association was completely pissed off with his actions as he not only became powerful beyond measure, but also broke the only obligatory rule: to hide the existence of magic from common public. Of course, a lot of organizations used to do the same at the beginning of the 20-th century, but they used to cover the truth in the veil of indistinct mysticism, the true power was granted only to high-ranked adepts, who were real magi.
Aleister Crowly, in turn, would quite openly use his powers and teach others. Though, at was also a source of his powers. He effortlessly defeated "cleaners" from the Association and Inquisition agents, which made all his enemies unite against him.
But at that time he once again started an adventure to faraway lands, studying magic and opening secrets of past, which he described in several books. It took the agents of Association a lot of efforts to censor them right before their going for press in such manner, to hide the truth between pretentious words.
In the end all sides came to a compromise: Aleister would live peacefully, but in turn, he would follow the Main Rule. Which, though, didn't prevent him from attempts of joining British Secret Service as an occult adviser. Sometimes one can find hints that he was in charge of training a squad of 7 specialists as an answer on German Ahnenerbe magic union, but the fate of the squad is unclear. Some sources trail it to an Arabian desert.
The end of the greatest magus of the 20-th century is pitiful. Bound with pacts with high and mighties, who could launch a full-fledged war against him, using WWII as a cover, he didn't manage to find sources of eternal life or endless power. In the end he was treated as a dangerous outcast marginal by "official" magic world, while his eccentricity and the fame of "the Thief of Secrets", wakened by his former friends from the Order of the Golden Dawn, discouraged parallel organizations from cooperating with him.
He died not in a misery, but far away from his former glory. Though, did he? Some facts, for example, reading specific chapters from the Book of the Law at his funeral, make some people believe that the greatest magus of the 20-th century hasn't die, at least, in the way, we all treat this word.
Skills
High Speed Divine Language: B (item).
Allows casting magic, reducing spelling time in times. Mastership, which can no longer be found.
This skill is not a truly personal, but given with an item. If it is broken or lost, the skill reduces to D level, which reduces the casting time a bit for all common spells.
Thief of Secrets.
Allows peeping and memorizing spells, magic rituals etc., casted by any magus in the vicinity of the character. The skill doesn't mean immediate mastership of the stolen formula, only its disclosure.
Noble Phantasm
Liber AL velLegis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI
The Book of the Law
Magical grimoire which contains all the notes of Aleister Crowly, all the spell that he had written, many of them are considered to be lost in time and/or nonreproducible. Allows quick or even instant access to them. Also provides the bearer with enhanced magic power.
Rank: B
Type: anti-army Noble Phantasm.
Distance: 100
Max. targets: 400
Thoth Tarot
Allows drawing a divination with random result which gives a bonus, following a Servant's skill (like Battle Continuation), for 1 battle, no matter, whether the Servant is present at the War. Tarot can be used more than once, bonuses can stack.
As the creator of the deck, Aleister Crowly can use his magic to manipulate the result, but every case inflicts a chance of a failure and drawing a negative bonus result during next random divination.
Six manipulation in one War cause automatic critical failure which deletes the deck from the Servant's belonging and decreases all his stats in 2 times for 24 hours, though the skill is still granted.
