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Bosh:
If I ever get to play, I'd go with either:

A. A burned out old wizard (who looks like George Carlin) who has no eyes and no virtually magical ability besides being able to open his third eye. His power is that his memory is so bad that he can stand seeing with the third eye a lot better than most people which lets him keep keep it open during fights which gives him an edge (everyone telegraphs punches etc.). He'd be confused and mumble a lot and you'd never know if its crazy old man mumbling or deep wisdom. He may or may not be the actual original Merlin. He'd probably have maxed out lore and some stunts to help make his weird-ass claims about reality actually come true. He'd also have a stick to thump stubborn young uns with ;)

B. The anti-Harry, basically a loser focused practitioner who is the polar opposite of Harry in most ways. He started off the same way (talented kid adopted and brought up by a warlock) but then the Wardens took his master out and scared the crap out of him instead of apprenticing him (not enough mojo). He's very focused where Harry is a generalist (Enthropomancer, very good at taking out the structural supports of buildings and creating very bad sculpture out of stone), he's a coward where Harry is brave, he's wimpy look where Harry is imposing, he's sneaky while Harry is blunt, he always thinks of a great comeback 10 minutes too late where Harry is a wise-ass. If I got to play him I'd have by "guest star" phase be well "X female character knows him since my character is the sneaky stalker who always follows her around." Basically I'd play him as a loser who either falls into black magic (if the party mistreats him) or tries to turn his life around (if he gets support from the party).

Enjorous:
So a friend of mine and I were discussing the possibility of a Scion as a PC. Something more along the lines of Kincaid rather then Drakul, obviously. But we haven't fleshed out any of the details other than he'll be a "merc with a ton of guns!" His words, not mine. I figured if he wanted to go with someone who packs all sorts of guns he should go pure mortal "demon hunter" who has high resources to afford such guns, but it's his character not mine.

Anyone have any thoughts on having scions as PCs? I was thinking using the Changeling template but replacing "faerie" with "demon" and taking away their Choice.

Rel Fexive:
I suspect a scion with a powerful/interesting heritage can still draw on enough of that heritage to gain enough personal power to lose what free will they have i.e. lose all their Refresh and become a slave to their (new) nature.  In doing so they become much more like whatever it is they are descended from, which is what the Choice is.  I've got the same idea for my 'scion of an angel' character; once that last point of Refresh is lost, bam, they become more wholly what they truly are, gain lots more powers to complete the transformation, and go "off the board" towards whatever purpose seems most likely.

blackheart:
Emmisary of Power seems tailor made for Scions.

One of my first character concepts is "God-blooded Biker Bad Boy with a Magic Hammer".

Enjorous:
Yeah I was thinking that it wouldn't take long until a Scion lost all of their free will, that's why I was thinking of using the Changeling template and as they start developing their power they lose refresh points until they become essentially a demon. I never considered using the Emissary of Power instead, interesting idea. Thanks for that.

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