A player in a game I hosted was curious about whether or not Sponsored Magic came with items, and if not whether he could get them with Refinement. I told him yes to the latter but wondered; can someone experienced with their flavor of Sponsored use Refinement beside this. They don't really have elements aside from our and don't have bonuses afterall. The book didn't offer an explanation that I could find.

So I was playing around with concepts for various villains for my PCs to go up against, including Vampire Mob Bosses, my own take on the Jade and Violet Courts, and a Wizard with Outsider powers related to song, but when I inevitably throw Denarians at my players as requested I wanted to do something new with it, which was when I hit upon an idea. What if a Knight Of The Cross switched teams to work with the Denarians for a reason that I have not yet determined (I have four different candidates for the Fallen Knight).

In my game I house ruled that there were more Crucifixion Swords employed by God's Knights than those made from the nails, with the second set having incorporated the thorns from the Crown Of Thorns. And its been shown that NON-Knights can use the Swords in-canon by Lea and Susan.

My wonder is how I would display this mechanically. My idea was to have his/her Holy Powers be rescinded, give them a Coin, and have them be able to still use their Sword through a loophole in its tenet. Would that work? Are there problems with my line of thinking altogether?

I have a planed plot line for my Players to get into at a later date that requires asking the above question.

Here's the context; since the Wizard character is a WIZARD DICK (which is his High Concept) I set him up with an SI detective named Cassandra Black. She is well known for being a badass (getting the nickname the Black Dog) and I originally planned for her to be the Murphy stand-in until I came up with an idea for her role in later adventures where local crime becomes less important.

Originally I was gonna hand her one of the Swords Of The Crown (a set of holy Swords containing one of the thorns from the Crown Of Thorns) but then I thought about having her be unknowingly magical (Wizard template when the time comes) and until she just starts uncontrollably shooting lightning like Elle Bishop and have her third eye simply snap open. The consequences of either could set up future things fro the character,

The problem I ran into is that I don't know how I'd write that up as an NPC. OW stats up Molly but she seems a bit advanced because at least Molly knows how to do magic. I think I gave her Constitution, Channeling Lightning (which would turn into Air) and noted that it would become Evocation, and gave her The Sight. Would that work? Advice from anyone who's dealt with apprentices in there games would be much appreciated.