Hey all.

I am interested in making a app' wizard/initiate character. I will be an initiate of verena and I'm undecided on mage...I'll wait until I can read the spells to see what I like. My books haven't come in yet so I'm trying to remember what I've read.

both classes seem to use willpower with Wiz using int for spellcraft and In using Fel for Piety (I think)

I know it's not exactly canon but I still want to know what more experienced people think of this combo and any suggestions you may have.

thanks to all who reply.

Hmm, there is a mention of exeat wizards becoming priests in Winds of Magic, so lore-wise I guess it could perhaps work if you start as a wizardapprentice and then switch to initiate. The other way around seems very unlikely to me.

In terms of game mechanics I think you should know that you can never have more than one career active at the same time. If you complete a career you get to keep the career ability, but otherwise you will never have two careers at the same time.

I would be disappointed if 3th ed allowed a character becoming both a wizard and a priest. The way the two of them deal with magic is completely different, and your character would have to re-organize the way he sees reality to conjure a spell or a blessing. There are Wizards who become Priests, as they find themselves becoming more and more pieous and start seeing the way they deal with magic as religious oriented. If they follow this path, sooner or later they'll start seeing everything as divine-inspired, and then the way he deals with magic would change from seeing the Winds to seeing aspects of he pantheon.

I could imagine the other way around as well. A Priest that starts to realize the divine aspects of reality are just an imagery build up by hope and faith, and what they do is change the way sensitive pople perceive the winds of magic. So he could become oriented to the winds and change into a spellcaster, going heretical or joining on of the schools of magic (and maybe becoming an heretical in the eyes of his previous order). But then, as it befits a magician, he would start seeing everything through the influence of the wind he becomes attached to, as his mind would start to sincronize with that wind. More and more he would be an aspect of the wind himself.

So I can see how anyone can use magic and blessings at the same time, being both completely antagonistic ways of dealing with the same energy.

(Of course, that is based in second edition lore.)