Tools of the Trade

Ostanes Character Sheet

---

---

Minor Items

• Body Armor (2 dice)
• Ceremonial Knife
• Dirty Tricks (anise, black pepper, marbles)
• Physician's Bag
• Ritual Components (human knuckle bones, sand, gemstones, chalk, etc)
• Money
• Walking Stick
• The Medallion of the False Face
• Pocket Watch
• Tremere Clan ring

---

---

---

---

Brass (finely powdered)

---

---

Brass-knuckles

---

---

Blood Flask

---

---

Silver Headed Walking Stick

---

---

Portable Temporal Disruption Device

---

---

Tass

7 Vitae Infused Items (Monopoly tokens) -- One was spent in a my first confrontation with the Rakshasa in London. This tass is poisonous with paradox and extremely dangerous to use.

Note: Due to the paradoxical nature of the Tass brought from the future, the tokens were left to burn in the fire that consumed the mansion of the Duke and Duchess in London. (Summer of 1900)

---

---

Elements of Classical Magic

• -- Alchemy (Chrysopoeia = Ouroboros [gesture] / εν το παν (en to pan) or in English "one is the all" [spoken])
• -- Amulets (protective)
• -- Apotropaion -- Greek: To avert evil
• -- Astrology
• -- Carmen (verse)

• Five Classical Elements -- Air, Earth, Fire, Water & Quintessence

• -- Curse tablets (Latin: tabella defixionis / Greek: katadesmos)
• -- Divine figurines (Hermes)
• -- Ephesia Grammata
• -- Evil Eye
• -- Gemstones: Their uses in magick
• -- Goetia (Interestingly, goetia is similar in its ambiguity to charm: it means both magic and power to sexually attract.)
• -- Herbs & Their Magical Properties
• -- Phylactery
• -- Poetry / Songs (Orpheus)
• -- Sator Square (Palindrome)
• -- Talisman (focus for spell effects)
• -- Teletai (mystical formulas / celebration of mysteries)
• -- Theurgy (According to the Greek philosopher Plotinus (205–270 CE) theurgy attempts to bring all things in the universe into sympathy, and man into connection with all things via the forces that flow through them.)
• -- Voces magicae
• -- Wands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_in_the_Graeco-Roman_world

---

---