Magical Style: Seven Staffs of Death

Here's a school I wrote up as a rival for one of the martial styles in Martial Arts.  Death Fist strikes me as a style that could use a Magical Styles writeup, but as it predates the Thaumatology book it's listed as a Martial Style.  This one is a hybrid, so I figure it gets the benefits and drawbacks of both a martial and magical style.

Seven Staffs of Death

13 points

Style Prerequisites: Magery 2.

The Seven Staffs of Death is the great rival school of Death Fist, and was founded centuries ago by a former Death Fist student who had been shamed, shorn, and expelled from their secret fortress.  Seven Staffs of Death is a practical and brutal style that combines the martial and magical arts to great effect.  The (unnamed) founder traveled the world studying different forms of stick-fighting and rounding out his spell selection until he was personally satisfied that he had developed the ultimate mage’s fighting style.

Its practitioners have a very distinct mode of dress, wearing long, flowing, colorful robes.  All students shave their hair and beards and wear tattoos over much of their head, in memory of their founder. Martial skill is as prized as magical skill in this style, so students taken are usually fit, strong, and nimble. Those with general Magery are preferred to those with One-College or Aspected versions.

Seven Staffs assumes that a student will be fighting armed and armored opponents in a battle situation.  Defensive Attacks, Feints, and Deceptive Attacks form the basis of attack, to maximize the stylist’s defenses and sneak past a target’s guard to deliver a light blow of surprising deadliness.  Mundane attacks include Disarming and Sweep attacks to disable an opponent without spending precious Mana.

A practitioner is a full-fledged master of the school and able to take on his own students when his teacher grants him his first staff.  There are no formal ranks, belt systems, or structure, but the masters of the school do feel a certain obligation to one another.

Required Skills: Judo, Karate, Meditation, Staff.
Required Spells: Deathtouch, Itch, Resist Pain, Pain, Paralyze Limb, Spasm, Strike Numb, and Wither Limb.
Techniques: Arm Lock (Staff); Armed Grapple (Staff); Back Strike (Staff); Choke Hold (Staff); Disarming (Staff); Feint (Staff); Sweep (Staff); Targeted Attack (Staff Swing/Arm); Targeted Attack (Staff Swing/Foot); Targeted Attack (Staff Swing/Hand); Targeted Attack (Staff Swing/Skull); Targeted Attack (Staff Swing/Leg).
Magic Perks: Blood Magic; Brute-Force Spell; Cast and Strike (Any); Flexible Ritual (Any); Huge Subjects (Any); Intimidating Curses; Melee Spell Mastery (Any); Mighty Spell (Deathtouch); Named Possession (Staff); Power Casting 1 (Deathtouch); Secret Spell (Heart Attack); Spell Hardiness (Deathtouch); Staff Bond.
Secret Spells: Heart Attack.
Perks: Grip Mastery (Staff); Weapon Bond.
Cinematic Skills: Blind Fighting; Power Blow; Pressure Points; Push.
Cinematic Techniques: Dual-Weapon Defense (Staff); Pressure-Point Strike (Staff); Timed Defense (Staff).

Optional Traits

Advantages: Combat Reflexes; Enhanced Parry (Staff); Fit or Very Fit; High Pain Threshold; Recover Energy.
Disadvantages: Compulsive Wandering; Disciplines of Faith (Meditation); Overconfidence; Vow (Own no more than I can carry).
Skills: Polearm; Spear; Staff Art.

Spell List

Spell	Prerequisites
Agonize	Magery 2 and Sensitize
Armor	Shield
Beast Speech	Beast Summoning
Beast Summoning	Beast-Soother
Beast-Soother	None
Borrow Language	Lend Language
Clumsiness	Spasm
Cook	Test Food and Create Fire
Counterspell	Magery 1
Deflect Missile	Apportation
Detect Magic	None
Enchant	Magery 2 and 10 spells of the Seven Staffs of Death
Fool’s Banquet	Magery 1, Cook, and Foolishness
Foolishness	IQ 12
Frailty	Lend Energy
Fumble	Clumsiness
Gift of Tongues	Borrow Language plus 3 Spoken Languages at Accented
Grace	Clumsiness
Great Haste	Magery 1, IQ 11, and Haste
Great Ward	Magery 2 and Ward
Haste	None
Heart Attack*	Magery 2 and at least five Body Control spells, including Spasm
Ignite Fire	None
Iron Arm	DX  11 and Resist Pain
Lend Energy	Magery 1
Lend Language	Beast Speech or 3 Communication & Empathy
Light	None
Might	Lend Energy
Missile Shield	Deflect Missile, Shield
Monk’s Banquet	Fool's Banquet and Resist Pain
Powerstone	Enchant
Purify Air	None
Quick March	Magery 1 and Haste
Reflect	Ward
Seek Animal	IQ 12+, Perception 13+, Magery 1, and Beast Summoning
Seek Earth	None
Seek Water	None
Seeker	Magery 1, IQ 12, and 2 Seek Spells
Sense  Foes	None
Sensitize	Magery 1 and Stun
Shield	Magery 2
Staff	Enchant
Stop Spasm	Spasm or Lend Vitality
Stun	Pain
Tanglefoot	Clumsiness
Test Food	None
Vigor	Lend Vitality or Frailty
Ward	Magery 1
Weakness	None

New Perks

Cast and Strike (Spell)

1 point

You may cast a Melee spell that takes you  no more than one second of Concentration in the same motion as you attack.  This counts as a Rapid Strike; both the spell and the attack are at -6.  You may spend FP in a Flurry of Blows to halve the penalty. Note that this is physical exertion, not an expenditure of magic so it can't come from a Powerstone.  Either of Trained by a Master or Weapon Master halve the attack penalty; Trained by an Archmage halves the spellcasting penalty.