Rolled 4, 6 = 10 (2d20)
>>5922559Here on Earth, and in an area you have not been long enough to meditate and align your energies with, you are notably less energized than on Holy Luna. Your magical regeneration rate is not as great as it could be, and while this form allows <Free Movement> to an extent, it isn’t the same swift, soaring low-gravity travel possible on the moon. You can ‘fly’, but it’s really more like leaping and falling with style. The <Wildshape> could afford you true flight, of course but a hummingbird-elf-man—or even just a large hummingbird, if you were to push the spells shapesifting to its limits—is rather more conspicuous than what are now: a spectral apparition, half-visible in half-light cast by torches and oil lamps around the grounds and castle.
Hawksong’s royal palace is famed for its vast, maze-like topiary garden full of statues, fountains and hidden alcoves where one might sit and read or socialize, pr listen to court musicians play beautiful music on special occasions. There are fields and arenas, too, for various ceremonies and sporting events; these have been increasingly opened up to the common folk of the kingdom since Queen Ekaterine took the throne, or WOULD have been, had not the dragon-pox seen such venues shut down for even the nobility during its most dangerous phases. They have reopened since, but at this time of night there are no wandering art-appreciators, no athletes, no children playing: just scurrying servants wearing the attire of royal maids or butlers… And the occasional knightly protector, a paladin or high-ranking guardsman. Of the lot, only the Paladisn of the Holy order stand any chance of seeing you—they are generally not born or trained mages, but rather gifted the ability to protect the people, expose evil, and smite the wicked by the Gods Above—especially their patrons, Moroth and Marese, whoa re principle deities of Man in the Northwest and the Royal Family in particular.
[Stealth check; no relevant skills, but in your Aetehrial Form, we'll add a bonus die for Feycraft, and the DC is only 10 to avoid the Paladins' attentions; nobody else can see you.]
