Quote from: BalbinusActually, I rather like that, instead of sleep perhaps the witch goes into the woods to commune with the spirits for a number of weeks.

Nice idea, thanks.

Cheers.Your witch might also be known as a vala or volva in Norse. These were priestesses of the Norse religion, though outsider Christians would see them as witches.Female practitioners of seidr magic are known as seidkona.
Utiseta means 'to sit outside' and involves the mage going out of their community to any place wild, preferably at night.Then they sit down and wait for visions or spirits to attend them. I hope that some facet of this information is also useful to your game.

Quote from: AnthrobotCheers.Your witch might also be known as a vala or volva in Norse. These were priestesses of the Norse religion, though outsider Christians would see them as witches.Female practitioners of seidr magic are known as seidkona.
Utiseta means 'to sit outside' and involves the mage going out of their community to any place wild, preferably at night.Then they sit down and wait for visions or spirits to attend them. I hope that some facet of this information is also useful to your game.

I knew about Seidr, but not about Utiseta nor the term Seidona.

So, much thanks, that kind of stuff is always useful.

And as a general aside, for me this is when sites like this are at their best.  When we talk about gaming and share stuff that actually helps us run or play better games.  The rest of it is noise.

Quote from: BalbinusThe rest of it is noise.

Or entertainment.

Quote from: AnthrobotOr entertainment.

Noisy entertainment?

Quote from: BalbinusNoisy entertainment?

Surely the best type?

Sounds good...  the Wikipedia entry on the Seidr seems to peg them as seeers rather than outright mages so it could add an interesting element to the game.  

Especially seeing as a certain GM ambushed us with a magical creature which one of the group, in a moment of uncharacteristic foolishness for which he will not soon be forgiven, attacked leading to the near death of the group's two best fighters.

Either that or convince her to make an archer...

Don't know anything about Pendragon, but it seemed like the "mages" in Norse myths all had to sacrifice some or all of their humanity to gain power. I'm thinking mainly of the wolf-witches from the Saga of the Volsungs and the Swede king Adhils from Hrolf Kraki's Saga, but there were plenty of others.  There really weren't any good sorcerers that I can recall other than a few low-powered seers (who also tended to be mad and/or cursed).  Many mages offered up animal or human sacrifices or bound themselves to trolls or other dark forces for power.  Is there some way to represent this in-game?  Another thing, "Norse mages" seemed to be physically weak (as opposed to Norse priests who tended to also be powerful warriors)---perhaps using troll magic deteriorates their health or causes fatigue/injury.

I might be able to help more if I knew how the sleep system worked.  Sorry.  

Pete