Al

Name: Doctor Alfred "Al" Otlotleng Parker
High Concept: Wizard, MD
Trouble: Goddamit Grandfather, I'm a Doctor not a Medicine Man!
FC: Lance Gross

Background
Al's Mother, Ranewa Batabe, was the younger daughter of a powerful but very conservative Sorcerer from the southern half of Africa. Her father, while retaining membership in the Council for access to its resources, always saw himself (and his magic traditions) apart and 'better' and thus only visited Edinburgh when he could not avoid it. In fact, he would even refer himself never as a Wizard outside of the Council and preferring the term 'Sangoma' for himself.
Despite this, he wanted his magically gifted daughter to receive the best possible education and thus send her to the United Kingdom for both mundane and magic studies.
He then threw quite a tantrum when Ranewa decided that she had no interest in returning back home to his restrictions on her life. Oops?

Ranewa readily involved herself in the Council, becoming a Council Lawyer specializing in Unseelie Accords Law and generally living a good life. A failed relationship resulted in a pregnancy and Al was born shortly after.

Growing up, Al was pretty much assimilated in the Council and his home city of London. Showing a talent for healing magic, Wizard Listens-To-Wind arranged for him to attend Oxford's Medical program. During that time, the Red Court War started and his mother ended up among the casualties of Archangel, causing him to drop out for a year to deal with that.
He even tried to reach out to his Grandfather, but a agreed upon year living with him ended after only 2 months after an heated argument.

Returning to School, on account of the Council needed *doctors* not just *healers* after the losses taken early in the war, he finished his education and earned his Doctorate and was then sent to a variety of magical healers by Wizard LTW to further his training Council Healer as well as Council Field Hospitals despite his Grandfathers frequent demands he return home where he 'belongs'

Recently, Wizard LTW has put Al as one of the current the "House Call Healer"s to allow him more experience in his continuing education.



Magic Elements: Spirit, Earth and Water
Thaumaturgy spec: Biomancy, Summoning/Communing with spirits
Special skills: Ability to diagnose partially by feeling the patients Aura. (What Jess would call 'feeling their Chi', more of a learned thing)

Skills:
+5 Scholarship, Lore
+4 Discipline, Conviction
+3 Rapport, Empathy
+2 Presence, Athletics
+1 Alertness, Contacts, Resources, Endurance, Investigation

Powers:
-3 Evocation
	Elements: Spirit, Earth, Water
		Specialization: TBD during play
-3 Thaumaturgy
	Speciality: Biomancy (Complexity +1)
-1 The Sight
-0 Wizard Constitution

Item Slots:
4 Focus Slots
Steel Operating Set: +2 Power to Biomancy
Medical Tome: Spirit (Defense Control +1, Defense Power +1)
	(Assuming a Healing Spell is counted as a defensive evocation)

Healing Evocation:
	* As 'reverse damage'? You can only clear one Box of Stress per cast, cast as Defensive Spirit. Does not affect Consequences
	* Can (for a Scene) 'fix' Consequences by using a evocation of similar Stress. Healing progress of the Consequences is set to Zero
		though. Its not a 'healing' but more of a 'magic splint'

Stunts:
Medical Sense: Can use Lore to assess someone medically in lieu of machines (x-ray, CT)

Doctor (Trauma): You have a medical degree or the equivalent of such an education. You may use your Scholarship skill to declare appropriate justification for the recovery of moderate physical consequences when outside a medical facility, and for the recovery of severe physical consequences within a medical facility. For research purposes, gain +1 on Scholarship for any medical research and an additional +1 in a specific area of medicine.  is stunt may be taken twice, with the bonuses on research stacking to indicate particularly deep or excellent medical knowledge (such as with a heart surgeon, etc.).

Upgrade(s?):
-2 Inhuman Mental Thoughness
-1 The Catch: Only while operating  <- special aversion to the -0 Catch of Mental Toughness, because its *situational*. Its more of a
	'Being focused in the OR' thing than a generally mentally fortification
-1 Refinement; Thaumaturgy spec for Summoning and Binding spirits.


Note:
Otlotleng, Setswana for 'Respect him'