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[Errol]

The Kingdom of Varian had a multitude of venerable traditions - weird handstand folk dances. A delicious apple-butter pastry. The Magical Decathlon, staging ground of the rivalry between the four major academies of the mystic arts in Varian. And, last but not least, waging war on its neighbours, the Duchy of Celavar to the west and the Holy See of Grambaton to the north. This had become just as much a fact of life as the delicious apple-butter pastries, serving in the army had become the rite of passage of the youth of Varian. Of course, land was won and lost, but at no point in history either side made gains major enough to upset the delicate balance of this war. This could have gone on forever, except that the economy tends to suffer in times of war - fields fall into disrepair, famines course through the common folk... banditry starts to crop up at every crossroad, and spread like wildfire. Faced with complete economic annihilation, the newly ascended Falx Varian III. negoitated for a ceasefire in exchange for minor cessations and put all that remained in his coffers into a bounty system, to encourage the extermination of banditry.

It worked well - the problem was that it worked too well. Lured by the promises of riches and nobility, mercenaries of might and magic, fortune seekers and vagrant adventurers from the entire known world descended upon Varian, drove out the hordes of brigands and then wouldn't leave. First they fought over the right to extinguish the endangered species known as banditus vulgaris, then they saw the business opportunities the bandits once saw - and took their place. In some places, they even rose against nobility, aiming to seize power for themselves - in a form of cosmic irony, some of those nobles were only recently elevated accomplished bandit killers themselves. In short, the entire Kingdom was in a mess that went hot real fast after King Falx fell victim to a magic-using assassin and the infamous Demon Sorceress of Destruction conquered the prosperous port city of Magnadine almost single-handedly.
The successor to Varian's throne, King Blok Varian I., restored rudimentary order with an iron fist, taking the chance to seize some war funds, before launching a grand campaign to reclaim Magnadine. A great host of warriors is currently being assembled in the south along the coast, composed of Varian's nobles and their valorous knights, the finest wizards of the four academies, a massive militia of peasants and conscripted criminals... and an horde of mercenaries, former rogues and innocent adventurers, lured once again by the pay or, maybe even more important, amnesty. Blok isn't too kind with criminals.

You are one of these valiant men and women, currently boarding a ship to the south, in pursuit of glory! Or maybe booty! Whatever floats your boat!

Right. This might have a chance not to die horribly during the first four turns, I'm actually pretty pumped up. To increase the chances of survival, I'll only take the four best sheets. Knowing me, this game will not be entirely serious. I'll try not to pull my punches this time around, though.

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name, Age, Gender, Race:
Description:
Bio:
Attributes: Physique/Stamina/Willpower/Finesse/Swiftness/Affinity/Wit/Charisma
Skills:
Perks:
Equipment and Inventory:
(Spells:)

Spoiler: Sheet guidelines (click to show/hide)

Name, age and gender are self explanatory. A nickname or nom de guerre is just fine too.
Race might grant some innate bonuses, and govern what kind of skills your character innately knows. While Knights and conscripts are almost exclusively human, Mercenaries are a pretty mixed bunch, so you can go reasonably wild here - however, since the Kingdom of Varian is a human-dominated society, if you're not human you might get to experience some fantasy racism firsthand.

Attributes are basic innate statistics. They go from 0 to 6: Terrible (0), Poor (1), Average (2), Good (3), Great (4), Excellent (5), Pinnacle of Humanity (6). You will have 21 attribute points to spend on this. If you put an attribute at Excellent, you'll have to put another at Terrible and you can only be Excellent in one attribute. Going up to 6 is verboten unless someone makes a really, really compelling sheet. As a fair warning, due to the way attributes work out in my system, every low stat can become a serious achilles heel.
Copy-pasted attribute explanations:
Physique - How well you take care of your body. This is important for carrying around weights, winning armwrestling competitions and not hitting like a limp noodle. Equipment may have Physique requirements.                        
Stamina - How well you can keep up doing strenuous labour over a long time. Most parts of fighting can be classified as strenuous labour. Wearing heavy armor definitely is.                        
Willpower - The power that can screw the rules of reality because the blood boils hotter. The enabler to exceed one's physical limitations in times of desparation. The ability to withstand the temptation of chocolate.                        
Finesse - The measure of accuracy, dexterity and general precise finger/object manipulation. Important for certain weaponry and general usage of small finicky devices.                        
Swiftness - Speed of movement and evasion. Voted #1 most likely stat to be used for random stat checks. Prepare to slip all the time if you have only one point in this.                        
Affinity - How strongly the magic flows within you. Affects your mana pool, which besides acting as an important spell resource also helps as a natural barrier against other magic.                        
Wit - The ability to think on one's feet. The power of intuition. A certain degree of smarts as well. Mundanely, this helps with critical hits and figuring out the weaknesses, as well as spot checks.                        
Charisma - Your ability to not be a complete social failure. Not solely based on cup size or amount of skin exposed by your armor.                        

Skills affect how easy a given task is for you (there's tables) and go from Level -3 to 7: Absolutely Inept (-3), Incapable (-2), Unskilled (-1), Mediocre (0), Decent (1), Capable (2), Remarkable (3), Outstanding (4), Master (5), Genius (6), Legendary (7). Skills have a different baseline level depending on how complex they are (for your race). Basic skills, like Running, Searching, Dodging and so on have a baseline level of 1, skills that need some training like sword fighting or carpentry start at -1, and very academic and specialized skills, like Magic, start at -3.
Again, this may be influenced by your race - Elves might have a natural connection to the elemental and natural spirits, so their baseline level for Shamanistic Magic is -1, as an example. For statting your character, you have 15 skill points to spend - one level is one point below level 3 and 2 points at and above level 3. You cannot put a skill beyond Outstanding.
Furthermore, you can use a skill that's above Level 0 for related tasks as well, which will be performed at half the level of the main skill, rounded up. As an example - a woodcutter can use his axe for combat and it counts as a related skill, a weaponsmith can also bang up some armor and it counts as a related skill, and so on.

Perks are anything else that skills and attributes don't cover, like an explosive temper, a super special attack, an abnormal attunement to fire magic or the innate ability to do shit sometimes that nobody can really explain. My guideline is 3 positive and 2 negative perks here, for some nice flavor. If you add some more negative perks, please take away some power from other parts, and vice-versa for more positive perks.

Equipment and Inventory are reasonably self explanatory - your tools of trade, perhaps some personal belongings. One exceptionally good piece of equipment, maybe even enchanted, is perfectly fine, more means you'll have to subtract some power elsewhere. As for money and valuables - unless you were fairly well off before, chances are the ship fare has left you pretty broke.

The biggest rule, though: I have no problems with people freestyling with their sheets a bit - this is intended as a guideline chiefly. If an excellent character doesn't quite fit the guidelines, the guidelines will have to bend.

Spoiler: About Magic (click to show/hide)

Four basic schools of magic: White Magic, Black Magic, Shamanistic Magic, Alchemic Magic. Each of them has a lot of smaller branches, of course, but this rough classification works well.
White Magic calls upon the power of the divine. It is mostly protective and restorative, but also capable of suppressing and control feats like sleeping, sealing and illusion spells. It has almost no straight offense spells, though.
Black Magic calls upon the power of the unholy. It revolves around curses, chaotic magic and a whole lot of other nasty stuff - disintegrates, petrification, black fire etc etc.
Shamanistic Magic calls upon the power of the spirits. Each spell borrows the power of a different elemental or natural spirit, and as such you have a wide variety of possible spell effects. Elementalism is the mainstay, though.
Alchemic Magic utilizes the magic innate to the things themselves and innate to the caster himself. As such, it's a rather subtle form, focused on enhancement and manipulation of the properties of items as well as a variety of useful cantrips like flight, teleportation, invisibility and so on.

The way magic works in game is: Spells are named and have specific effects, though their mana cost is roll-dependant. You have a (mental) spellbook. This spellbook is filled with a bunch of spells, and the size of it depends on your magical skill level (3 plus the number of points invested in that skill). You can also cast magic off scrolls, but that's less reliable, and you first have to own some scrolls. Furthermore, the field of White Magic is a bit too broad to be covered by just a single skill. You'll have to specialize in one branch. But fear not - you can still access the other branches of your field of magic through the related skill system, or add another specialization for 2 more skill points.

Spoiler: System Details (click to show/hide)

It's all in this table.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApSTExsgbLI3dG51VGVVMXBkWHAzUFBEMjRTQ2Vma2c#gid=0

Since this might have been rather confusing, here's an example sheet to help remove any moment of clarity you might have had.

Spoiler: Example Sheet: Agatha de Sidhrun (click to show/hide)

Name, Age, Gender, Race: Agatha de Sidhrun, 21 years old, female, human
Status: 32/32 Mana
Attributes: 4 PHY/2 STA/3 WIL/2 FIN/3 SWI/3 AFF/1 WIT/3 CHA
Skills: Martial Arts (Remarkable), White Magic/Exorcising Arts (Capable), Shamanistic Magic/Spiritualism, Elementalism (Capable)
Perks: Of Noble Descent, Boiling Blood, Natural Leader, Prepare Yourself!, Evil Is Unforgivable!
Equipment and Inventory: Billowing white cape OF JUSTICE, white travelling garb, signet ring, shackles.
Spellbook: [5white 9shamanistic]: Visfanrank, Bras Shield, Recovery, Holy Restrict, Starcall | Burst Rondo, Windblast, Ray Wing, Elmekia Lance, Fairy Light, Freeze Arrow, Fireball, Wall of Stone, Astral Pulse

Do note that 16 skill points were spent (magic is expensive) - this is still reasonable, though, since she didn't really bring a lot of equipment at all.

Alright, let's get this on! Won't start until thursday, once exams are over, but feel free to ask questions if you have some and are interested.

[Remuthra]

Any race, or just the traditional ones?

[IronyOwl]

Awww yeah.

On the other hand, it does make me sad to lose Maka, but I don't think I want to recreate her for this.


As for questions: I see nothing about leveling or the like. Will it be possible to increase attributes and/or skills, and if so how might that work?

[Tiruin]

Alright Errol, I'm sighing up for this. :I
...
Wow I miss my old character. >_> Anyways.
RESERVE THIS.

[lawastooshort]

Edit: whoops, did it later.

[Errol]

Any race, or just the traditional ones?

Any race that could vaguely belong in ye olde heroic fantasy, plus more. Ancient robots built by a lost civilization? Dragons in human form? Flaming gay incubus? Small plush animal? Give me a good character around things like that and you're in, though if your race is strong then that's gonna cost you somewhere else on the character sheet.

Awww yeah.

On the other hand, it does make me sad to lose Maka, but I don't think I want to recreate her for this.


As for questions: I see nothing about leveling or the like. Will it be possible to increase attributes and/or skills, and if so how might that work?

Leveling's supposed to be hard. The main way will be training or skill books, and that's gonna cost a pretty penny or a few favors. Leveling on the battlefield is a big 'maybe', but if you exceed your limitations consistently that might happen too.
You might gain perks for particularily remarkable actions, so watch out for that.
For your attributes, you'll probably be better off finding magic items to boost that the other way.

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I'M SORRY, EVERYONE But I wanna try this for now.

[killerhellhound]

Name:Mark Parur Age: 24 Gender:M Race: Half Dragon Human

Description: Mark has red scales that cover his body all the over going down to his clawed legs with his eyes having pupils slit like a cat. His teeth are sharper and longer with a jaw that sticks out and scaly shrunken ears with frills. He has a tail he normally hides with a cape and some wing stubs (way too small to fly) He has a scar below his eye from a close shave in a fight with a Spellsword (swordsman with magic) with another scar just to the left of his heart (where the heart would be on a %100 human) from a sniper who never showed his face.
 
Bio:Mark is the result of a very successful dragon not caring what race a beautiful woman was. He probably has a bunch of half Brothers and Sisters but he wouldn't know as his father never really was around and some adventurers killed him later in life because he was there and must be evil because he was a Dragon.
He joined the Guard of his town so he could have an excuse to learn to defend himself, and hide his nature from strangers without suspicion. He also joined so that he could have some people he could relate to in terms of interests. His town was later attacked by 'Mercenary's' where he received his two big scars one to the face the other to the chest. Having blacked out after being shot he woke up in a monastery bed where he learned his town was gone with no survivors. He stayed at the monastery for a while learning healing magic but the desire to make the murderers of his town pay for their crimes, got him to leave.

He now wishes revenge for his friends in the guard and his mother who had loved him despite his difference's.

Attributes: Physique:4 Stamina:4 Willpower: 3 Finesse: 3 Swiftness: 2 Affinity: 2 Wit: 2 Charisma: 1

Skills: Pole-arm weapons (Outstanding)  White magic [healing] (Decent) Searching (Remarkable)

Perks: Fire breath: As a half dragon Mark can breath fire, unlike a full dragon he can only do this a few times a day(=to stamina)
Hard Scales: not as strong as a full-blood but every bit helps, Acts as extra natural armor
Fire immune: Mark doesn't feel the heat and enjoys sitting in fire like a hot bath
Heavy Armor Skilled

Drawbacks
Dragonic: Non modified helmets and chest-plates are uncomfortable and might not fit at all
Cold blooded: Cold (magic or environment) hurts mark a lot

Equipment and Inventory: Halberd; Full body guard armor modified for his use has some repairs since the attack on his home town still has the old icons of his home and hides his nature from casual viewers 

(Spells:) Heal; Cure posion; Shield; Seal magic; Featherfall;

This good

[Remuthra]

How useful will Physique be to something without arms or the ability to hold weapons?

[darkpaladin109]

Reserved, will make sheet later today.

[Dwarmin]

INCOMING

Name, Age, Gender, Race: Conra Harrac, 24, Female Dracotaur
Description: Racial~Large reptilian beings-average ten feet long from tail to snout, and over six feet tall, Dracotaurs are akin to heavyset, quadrupedal lizard-men. They are covered in tough scales and bony spikes, armed with sharp teeth and claws-their tails are also covered in spines or bony knobs, and capable of being brought to bear in a fight. They have five fingers on each hand, and four large, bony toes on each of their four feet.

Personal~Conra is a bit shorter and lighter than most of her people-only 6.5, and hardly 1500 pds. She has dark green scales interspersed with light brown-white stripes along the entire length of her body. Her eyes are deep, ocean blue-and her claws a shade of deep purple. Her belly is almost entirely a creamy white, soft and unarmored due to her young age. Otherwise she is fairly well muscled and pretty, for her species, without any obvious human dominant traits. Preferring human style garb, at least on her upper body, she usually prefers fashionable vests and chainmails that compliment her skin tone, and large brimmed hats for style-though all her head and bodywear had been modified to make room for the slightly translucent green frill that runs from the top of her head to the tip of her tail, which is shaped almost like a round, spiked mace. Various painted tattoos in bright gold adorn her body, many related to the element of fire, or the sun.

Her lower body is covered in somewhat more piecemeal armor, which looks cobbled together from other, more humanoid leggings.

Bio: Conra is only truly a visitor to the lands of Varian-hailing from another plane entirely, the Lands of the Feywold. A strange world where the seasons exist all in a single time, and constantly vie with another for supremacy-a world where the balance affects many others, like the spindle of a top, even the world Varian stands upon. The courts of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter wax and wane, becoming stronger or weaker as time goes by-but no side has ever gained enough of an advantage to prove superior. The rampant energy of Spring might overcome the courage of Summer-but Summer will always prevail over Autumns stoic defenses...and Autumn can withstand the worst of Winters fury...and so on.

Given her position as an ordained Knight of Summer, though a young one, Conra herself might have been expecting a comfortable life of battle in the service of balance, but recent events have shaken the Feywold...the theft of an important artifact from one of Winters own temples, the Spike of Feynerial, has thrown the tender balance askew-by mortals, no less! Now the Forces of Spring have taken dominance-the element which, usually opposed by Winter, has the advantage over Summer.

In short, A desperate search has begun-the Spike must be found and returned to the court of Winter, before the balance of seasons is lost forever...And so, many warriors such as Conra have been sent-almost exiled-from their homes until they find it. Thus she finds herself, on a boat, heading the Kingdom of Varian-where omens have been told may hold a clue to the artifacts location. She knows the other courts have also sent agents to this land...but, one still has to eat however, and in lieu of utter disaster, has found the mortal lands to be quite interesting in themselves, a source of adventure beyond the scope of her ultimate mission.

Attributes:
Physique 3
Stamina 3
Willpower 2
Finesse 1
Swiftness 2
Affinity 4
Wit 4
Charisma 2

Skills:
Elemental Magic/Fire(Specialized): Rank 2 [5 pts]
Claw Fighting (Trained): Rank 3 [5 pts]
Magical Item Appraisal (Trained, needs better name):Rank 2 [3 pts]

Perks:
Positive~
Summer's Boon: Conra is a knight of summer, and has the advantage of courage and boldness-a sure weapon against the Knights of Autumn and their kind, whose powers and abilities are related to the Alchemic school of magic-enchantment and illusion.
Claws and Teeth: Dracotaurs have all the weapons they ever need ready at all times.
Tough Scales: Descended from Dragons, her race is known to have a tough reptilian hide, good as any armor.
Improved Parrying (2skp): Dracotaurs are not as nimble as many other races, unable to avoid damage as easily, and learn to deflect blows to a far more skillfull degree because of it, using armguards, shields and their natural armored hides.

Negative~
Summer's Bane: For everything in balance. The Knights of Spring and those creatures related to that sphere, usually armed with the strongest of white magics, will always have the advantage of her and her kind.
Cant fit through doors: There are disadvantages to being large. Being forced into a cramped space will seriously ruin any attempt at a stylish entrance. She's also a giant four legged lizard, and it is not easy to find a tailor who can easily accommodate her body style.

Equipment and Inventory:
Summer's Claw Gauntlets/Made of naturally grown Feywold Green Steel, these devices are common to Dracotaur warriors-enabling them to sheath their claws when in peace, and trade and parry blows when forced into battle. As an elementally aligned weapon, it is stronger and weaker against certain beings, and at different times of day, or certain places.
Cobbled Chainmail/Unable to bring armor from her homeland (summoning spells from her world have strict weight limits), Conra has been forced to buy or scavenge armor piecemeal and attach to various parts of her body, most of which is centered on the lower body.
Feywold Draught/A small decanter of clear liquid in a that contains a days nutrition and hydration in a single swallow, and had minor healing effects-it's almost empty, however, the gourd slowly drying out and dying.
Eye of Summer/A small blue crystal pendant worn around Conras neck, it allows her to communicate with her homeworld or back, though hardly longer than a few minutes and only once a day-the very peak of noon, on a clear, sunny day. It's usually restricted to official court business, but she occasionally uses it to speak with friends.

(Spells:)


...

I know it's rough If this works, let me have some feedback. I'm sure it can improved greatly.

Edit: Shit, I got competition by KHH in the Dragonman arena. :O

[GreatWyrmGold]

Interested, although this might be one of those things I make half a character sheet for and then don't get around to completing ever and then the game starts.

[BFEL]

Spoiler: The Real Slim Shady (click to show/hide)

Name, Age, Gender, Race: Slim Shady, 13, male, Living Shadow
Status: er...yeah gonna need your input on this
Attributes: 0 PHY/2 STA/3 WIL/2 FIN/4 SWI/1 AFF/4 WIT/5 CHA (0 physique because no real physical presence)
Skills: Bargaining/Trading (Outstanding), Shamanistic Magic: Spiritualism (Decent), Pickpocketing (Remarkable)
Perks:Positive: Shadow Form, Past Life- Thief, Slip Through the Cracks
Negative: Compulsive Pawnbroker, Dishonest Face,
Equipment and Inventory: Trenchcoat of "Wonders"

Spellbook: Befuddle (LV1 Spiritualism. Mildly confuses targeted person. Can be resisted by focused individuals.), Cloud of Smoke (LV1 Elementalism. Creates a particularly smoky fireball that can be used to cover a getaway.), Levitate Object (LV1 Summoning. Uses the power of an invisible spirit to move objects through the air. The spirit can only move smallish objects, anything above is highly dangerous to MP.), Sap Spirit (LV2 Spiritualism. Saps the strength out of a target over time. This spell requires body contact to execute.)

Bio: Slim Shady was once merely the shadow of a rather mediocre thief. During a break-in to the home of a local noble, this thief found both the infinite wonders of magic, and his death. Slim isn't quite sure of what happened that night, all he knows is that he was no longer a shadow, and his previous "host" was dead.
However, Slim happened to remember where the thief had kept his stash, and quickly pawned off the contents to the local denizens, before setting out on his own, much more successful spree of crimes.

13 years later, having become the most wanted shadow in the history of the world, Slim heard quite quickly about the current state of anarchic warfare, and seeing an opportunity to both conduct business and receive a free pass for his actions, decided to join up with Blok's merc army.

[Remuthra]

Spoiler: Am Rock. (click to show/hide)

Name: Sigma-73
Age: 4968
Gender: N/A
Race: The Monoliths- An ancient race resembling large stone monuments, these creatures live for thousands of years and are rare to see. They have a mass of rootlike tentacles and a single cyclopean eye. The tentacles are used to burrow into the ground and extract minerals the Monolith requires to maintain itself and resist erosion. Monoliths replicate through a centuries-long process wherein a member collects minerals and painstakingly assembles them into a fully formed new creature. Their eyes carry the ability to project a cone of light wherein the Monolith can manipulate the environment on a tiny scale, by which the aforementioned replication is accomplished. Monoliths spend their time wandering the deserted wastelands, collecting resources and contemplating philosophy and magic to pass the time. Monoliths are within the stony shell believed to be precise and highly complicated constructs, rather than an organic creature, and their ocular natures are a puzzling anachronism.
Description: A roughly towering gray granite obelisk, twenty meters in height and a hundred tons in weight. Decorative white glyphs in bygone languages cover its surface. A single large blue eye rimmed by stony lid protrudes from a point in the upper center, gleaming with a manic light. Below, the monument is obscured by a mass of writhing black tendrils, glistening as though formed from polished obsidian.
Bio: Sigma-73 was created in the ancient millennia before the establishment of civilization, on the rocky wasteland of Prax. After millennia of wandering, watching civilization grow and fall around it. Recently, seeing the chaos in Varian, it became concerned with the nature of this "Demon Sorceress", and determined to acquire more information under the pretense of aiding the human king. After all, when one lives through aeons, there is nothing meaningful save simple desires.
Status: 42/42 Mana
Attributes:
Phy: 6
Sta: 5
WP: 2
Fin:  2
Swf: 0 (He's a rock, what do you expect?)
Aff: 4
Wit: 2
Cha: 0 (Rocks disregard persuasive techniques.)
Skills:
Black Magic- 3
Shamanistic Magic- 3
Alchemic Magic- 3
Weaponless Fighting- 3
Perks:
Stone Skin- All parts of the body are constructed of stone, with the tentacles being softer rock and the eye being made of eye. It's kind of hard to damage rock, especially when not using a blunt weapon. Vulnerable to acid damage, explosions, and anything that shapes stone.
Burrow- Tentacles can burrow into the ground to root the creature in place. Also used for gathering nutrients.
Baleful Gaze- Eye can, while open, project a cone of telekinetic manipulation, on a very fine scale.
Stability- Does not fall over easily.
Telepathy- Short-range, low-power telepathy to get around not having a mouth or ears.
No Mouth or Ears- See Above.
Sleepless- Self-explanatory
No Limbs- Inability to grasp objects or move them without telekinesis, and inability to use items.
Size- Being twenty meters tall makes it easy to be hit and presents some problems with confined spaces.
Inorganic- Does not benefit from healing spells, and must absorb nutrients to regain health. On the flipside, can't be poisoned or contract diseases. Also unable to bleed.
Equipment and Inventory: How would that work?
(Spells:)
Black:
Stone-Curse (3)- Turns everything in an area to stone.
Circle of Agony (3)- Creates an aura around a target which causes other creatures great pain.
Smite (2)- Summons a gout of dark flame to immolate a target. The flames consume mana rather than flesh.
Forsaken Curse (3)- Creatures in an area are unable to contact the divine or use divine power.
Shackles (2)- Binds two targets together, preventing them from moving further apart than they already are.
Possession (3)- Imprisons a target's mind within a magical orb surrounding the caster, allowing its body to be commanded at will.
Shamanistic:
Tempest (4)- Conjures a violent storm, the exact nature depending upon the terrain.
Firebolt (3)- Incinerates the target with a large orb of flame.
Planar Gate (3)- Opens a small door to an elemental plane.
Calling (3)- Summons a group of (uncontrolled) elementals.
Fissure (3)- Rends the earth in front of the caster, opening a crevasse to swallow anything standing in just the wrong place. Wreaks hell with foundations.
Spark (2)- Sets flammable objects in an area alight.
Alchemic:
Blink (1)- Teleports the target a short distance.
Inversion (2)- Reverses the effect of gravity in a small column for a few seconds.
Force Shield (3)- Reverses the direction of objects entering the caster's vicinity from the outside with a high amount of force.
Steelskin (3)- Turns the target's skin to a hard steel substance, increasing natural resistance to damage.
Reconstitution (2)- Repairs a damaged object to its original state.
Suppression (3)- Prevents all magical effects being used in an area.

[Errol]

How useful will Physique be to something without arms or the ability to hold weapons?

Will still be needed for anything that requires strength. And tanking hits with your face. If your character is engineered to entirely ignore that, you're going to get like 2~3 attribute points deducted.

...looking at the sheets so far, I have realized something in need of clarification. Since skill levels only affect the difficulty of actions, If your skill isn't something you can do as a main action, chances are, it's better off as a perk. This is adressed at Mark's Heavy Armor and Conra's Parrying - Heavy Armor is just something I don't think that'll ever come up as a skill, and Parrying is, in my opinion, already implied in Claw Fighting so it's only a specialization at best, not a full skill. And that's better off as a perk.

So, results of that:
* Heavy Armor becomes a perk, costing 2 skill points. It'd eliminate the mobility/stamina penalties you'd normally get for fighting in heavy armor.
* Parrying becomes a perk, also for 2 skill points, and, uh, it'll improve parries in some way. That'd be needed, since by default parrying is something done with Finesse.

This also means you both have a few more points to spend. Especially since Dwarmin seems to have misunderstood the skill points... 5 points for White is on the money for a Specialized skill: -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 makes for 5 levelups in total. However, Claw Fighting would go 0, 1, 2, 3 with LV 3 costing two points, so you're at one point too many. Post-perkification of Parrying, your skill distribution looks something like this:

White Magic: 5 Points
Claw Fighting: 5 Points
Parrying (perk): 2 Points

That's three free points to spend. I'm assuming you have no natural attunement to the White Magic of Summer - if for some magical dracotaur reason you had, that'd be two points extra on top of this.

I'll do the same for Mark - for him it's 2 points for Heavy Armor, 4 points in White Magic, 5 points in Polearms, so you still have 4 points to spend. Also, you have one spell too many... wait, I screwed up with the example character. White Magic on her is supposed to be Capable, not Decent. So that's totally my fault.

[The Froggy Ninja]

PTA