Ok, I think I'll do it too. Build a character for my story.

[melchi]

If they make a contract with Cain can they be a vampire magical girl ? Asking for a friend.

 

[melchi]

Also something with Chronus might be interesting too

 

[Jemini]

Fate also had Jack the Ripper as a Servant. I don't think I'm going that low on the legendary scale here at all.

I'm going to call King Arthur as the minimum bar for this one. And that would mean Baowulf would actually fall below the bar and not be allowed, since he's more of a literary figure while King Arthur is more mythologized.

EDIT: To put it another way, the more solid criteria for making a human literary figure into a power you can make a contract with is...
1. They must be over 200 years old and still well known. (Some wiggle room on the 200, but in that realm of age at a minimum. It can feasibly be between 150 and 200, but best not to push it too hard there.)
2. They must be known well enough as to be a house-hold name. (You can say the name in any company in the culture the figure comes from, and you will be looked at as strange for NOT knowing who that character is.)
3. They have to be told and re-told in many works of fiction both ancient and modern.
4. Their legend must include them actually accomplishing some really great feats of either incredible combat prowess, or causing national-level impact of some form.

By these criteria, I think Musashi out of Japan works as well. He was actually a real person, but he has a legend that has risen up around him that transcends his actual life, and also qualifies under those criteria.

After a bit of thought, I believe I have to amend this. Reason being, Dracula most certainly meets the house-hold name legendary standard that should have him be viable as a contract, but his story was published by Bram Stoker only 127 years ago.

So, I think it's going to become more of an unofficial total points system, with a more or less arbitrary bar that it needs to cross. Main thing, It can't be a "new" creation, and it's ubiquity throughout the culture must be by means of natural interest, not people forcing you to read about it in English class.

(And each category does still need to cross a certain minimum, and if one item is at that base minimum then the other categories had better be darn near topped out.)

 

[Jemini]

If they make a contract with Cain can they be a vampire magical girl ? Asking for a friend.

I have not read enough Apocrypha or Hermetic study books to have an answer to that question. I only know what's talked about in Genesis 3, which does not give any vampiric aspects to Cain.

 

[melchi]

Mostly a random thought. Vampire the masquerade setting has Cain being the immortal progenitor as the whole premise for the game and how many generations from him is a big representation of their power.
Real vampire lore probably is different.

 

[Jemini]

Mostly a random thought. Vampire the masquerade setting has Cain being the immortal progenitor as the whole premise for the game and how many generations from him is a big representation of their power.
Real vampire lore probably is different.

Yeah, that sounds entirely of artistic origin to me. Doesn't sound a thing like any biblical or vampire lore I know of. Apocryphal texts have some stuff about Cain marrying Lilith, which brings forth some demonic connections, but nothing about vampires that I'm aware of.

 

[melchi]

Also something with Chronus might be interesting too

Looks like someone else already had this idea. I don't want to steal it.

 

[melchi]

Name: Aida El Sayed (F)
Current age: 18
Age at time of contract: 14
Contract: Isis / Aset

Reason for contract: She was a queen bee type personality in school. However, she didn't use her popularity to abuse other classmates but to get people to understand one another to de-escalate conflicts. Isis saw potential and formed a contract with her.

Patron's lore. Isis has power over life and the afterlife. She was able to bring deities back from the dead. She kept the pantheon from falling apart. She also did so in the mortal world as well to a lesser extent.

Power set: Aida's contract with Aset gives her two domains: Life and soul.

Life: She is able to heal. She is also able to bring them back from the dead.

Soul: She is able to speak with the dead. She is also able to affect living things souls. Neither of these is a quick process so her value as a combatant is limited. However as a support or an oracle she is very useful.

The weapon she's given is an Ankh.

Her general combat abilities are things like mummifying touch and slaying spells like finger of death. She can also partially transform into a falcon.

Using both of these aspects makes her very survivable. While she might not be an offensive powerhouse, killing her doesn't really stick.

 

[owotrucked]

Here, have a gyaru

Name: ??? (F)
Nickname: Party Destroyer
Current age: don't ask her age
Age at time of contract: ??
Contract: Cupid

Reason for contract: Gyaru wanted to understand love after a heartbreak. Cupid answered her aimless prayers and offered her the opportunity to study love in action with a set of bow and arrows

Power set:
Cupid's Pair - Summons two arrows. The first target falls in love with the second one. The user can't shoot themselves.
Power of Love - Summon an arrow. Its damage scales with the number of parings induced by Cupid's Pair.
Obsession - Homing arrow, accuracy scales with the target's popularity with opposite gender

Backlash:
Breakups - Whenever Cupid's Pair wears off and the affected couple breaks up, suffer from a short depression. Can be deflected if at least one of the target is embroiled in another pairing (love triangle)

Narrative consequences:
She is incentivized to sow chaos because her best skill scales with the number of lovers she induced. She will always push people forward to speedrun towards marriage.
Cupid's Pair can be a soft CC, to change the enemy's target (usually have the 2nd target an ally). It's a bit weak because she is CC'ed by backlash whenever Cupid's Pair wears off and enemy decides to 'break up'

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Mostly a random thought. Vampire the masquerade setting has Cain being the immortal progenitor as the whole premise for the game and how many generations from him is a big representation of their power.
Real vampire lore probably is different.

Allegedly that was based on one of the 300 or so various vampire legends out there in the real world. Others (Marvel Comics) have them created by a spell gone wrong in Atlantis, extradimensional invaders (Beyond the Supernatural RPG). people who sold their souls for immortality (a few different ones, including the background for the "original" Ravenloft villain in AD&D/D&D, Strahd von Zarovich), were cursed for gluttony, etc.
At least as many origins as there are human cultures.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Ever since the age of fourteen, Parker Wallace (who recently celebrated an 18th birthday) has been plagued by dreams of a snake and a large ball of fire. For the last year, Parker, who is best described as "Bishonen" - nobody is completely sure if it is a boy or a girl, and Parker likes keeping it ambiguous - has been in therapy because these dreams made sleep impossible.

Then Parker's therapist revealed that he was truly Xōchipilli, the Aztec god of games, song, and knowledge, and that Parker was being courted by the "great rivals" - Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl - and that if Parker ever wanted to sleep again, it would have to sign a contract with one of them. After a few more sessions, Parker made a choice and embraced Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Normally Parker is an androgynous person with black hair and gray eyes but under the power of the Contract, rainbow-hued wings sprout from Parker's back and similar scales cover Parker's skin.

Parker was always good with machines, and this contract has enhanced that ability greatly, making Parker a "master Tinker" able to cobble together nearly anything, given parts and time.

As Quetzalcoatl was the Great Teacher, Parker also has an ability to grant any non-magical skills to others. If Parker understands the skill well enough to explain it, the skill is granted permanently, but if Parker is only vaguely aware of how the skill works, it is granted for a single use.

As a curse, Parker is filled with the same wanderlust that led Quetzalcoatl to first visit, then leave the Aztec Empire back in the days of its greatest power, and has trouble remaining in one place for more than a fortnight without getting fidgety and wanting to move on.