I have a character in my game that was destined to pick up a sword of the cross, but he was "tricked" into becoming the Summer knight.
My question is how can he get out of being the summer knight?
But that means he could get resurrected correct?
318 “Does Dresden’s current condition mean that the Knights power has flowed back to Mab?”
That’s one of those questions that will be more fun to answer in the book. Smiley
But merely being dead does /not/ necessarily get you out of promises to Mab all by itself. I mean, come on. Like she’s never heard THAT lame excuse before… Smiley
I would think that maybe intervention on the part of the Heavenly Host might help out, or if you could prove that the contract was somehow not legal in some way. He could go on strike and Titania would have to force him to do anything that she needed, less than a desirable trait in an employee. So far we have also never heard that a queen could not take the mantle from a knight. Mab just wanted Slate to suffer for a VERY long time. That is my take on why she didn't just strip him of position and power.
Why not just ask the Queen to pick someone else? Surely she wants a willing Knight.
I am in this particular game, he already did...attacked a RCV lair without provocation in the early stages of the WC/RCV war....
he has to use powers from the Summer Court and the SotC
Furthermore, don't forget that the Summer Knight can be compelled by their sponsor without incurring debt. That's just free Compels. Their High Concept could just as easily be compelled.
Yep, but that costs the compelling entity Fate points. And faeries don't have too many of those. Plus, it earns the Summer Knight Fate points.
Yep, but that costs the compelling entity Fate points. And faeries don't have too many of those. Plus, it earns the Summer Knight Fate points.
Also, a AWOL Summer Knight could always change his High Concept (in fact, going AWOL with a SotC would make such a change almost mandatory).
I think it's a bit silly to try and track compels with NPCs like that. Not only is it arguable whether a compel to follow Titania's orders is coming from Titania or the GM, you also can't keep track of Titania's fate pool. She has other things going on in her life, and they could give her or cost her fate points. Besides, what if you're one of her aspects? Does she get a fate point every time you do something that causes her trouble?Compels come from the GM not NPCs.
Compels come from the GM not NPCs.
New High Concept: Rogue Summer Knight of the Cross
Also, I don't think that your sponsor has to spend fate points to compel you, its part of the whole, "I give you power, you do my will" kinda thing.
The only exception is sponsor debt.
However, once they break the wrong sort of oath (and I'm inclined to think that the mantle of a Knight of the Faerie Courts probably qualifies as one of these) the sponsor gets to compel them a certain number of times without spending fate to do so.
Compels can come from NPCs. Exactly the same way that they can be done by PCs.
If you are aware of and can access an aspect on another character or NPC, you may spend a fate point to try to trigger the circumstances of a compel. If the GM decides this is a compel worthy-circumstance, then she takes the offered fate point and proceeds with a compel, running it as if she initiated the compel herself (YS107).
So I guess if the GM wants her NPC to initiate a compel the GM can have a discussion with herself and pay herself a fate point if she decides its compel-worthy and then she can run the compel as if she herself initiated it and offer that fate point to the PC.
Life is really too short.