<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=66222.msg2990465#msg2990465">Quote from: Archivist on 01-05-2010, 18:22:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hairy: Are you sure about that second part? I agree the sponsor isn't the one to execute (IE, Ebenezer McCoy sponsored Dresden but Morgan kept trying to kill him), but I'm fuzzy on whether the sponsor gets killed if the one under the Doom fails.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>The Doom of Damocles<br/>The ostentatiously-named Doom of Damocles is the White Council’s idea of “going easy” on someone who has broken one of the Laws of Magic and gotten caught in the act. The Doom, once pronounced upon an errant practitioner, operates as a probationary period with no specified end date and with a “one screw-up and you’re dead” policy. It can only be granted as a reprieve from a death sentence by a vote of the Senior Council, the White Council’s ruling body. A similar vote is required to lift the Doom. Even if a good case of extenuating circumstances is placed before the Senior Council, the Doom is rarely exercised as an option. This is due to the Council’s attitude that a death sentence is a surer, safer, and swifter way to get to the same result that will be happening anyway.<br/><br/>But that’s not the whole of it. Even if there are some sympathetic ears on the Council, no one is allowed to stand under the Doom without a sponsor—and that sponsor’s fate is linked to that of the Doomed. If the Doom ends, as it often can, with the death sentence carried out, the sentence applies to the sponsor as well. Some sponsors have been able to avoid this fate by acting preemptively to stop (i.e., kill) their Doomed apprentices at the first sign of risk, but often it’s just better to stand back, ditch the idea of sponsorship, and let the blade all. In recent memory, only Ebenezar McCoy and Harry Dresden (formerly under the Doom himself ) have been brave—or stupid—enough to step up to the job.<br/><br/>Characters under the Doom of Damocles, whether as an offender or as a sponsor, should take the Doom as an aspect. It’s certainly going to have a strong (even constant) effect on the character’s life, and it would be a shame not to milk that for every fate point it’s worth. (For one story idea centered on the Doom, see the note on redemption at the end of the discussion of the Laws—page 246.)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=66222.msg2990465#msg2990465">Quote from: Archivist on 01-05-2010, 18:22:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If that's the case do I get brownies for sponsoring him :D<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That and your head examined ;)<br/><br/>If you do want to be his sponsor, the first question would be why? If he screws up, you die too. Why would you risk your life for him?<br/><br/>I'm not saying it's a bad idea, and it certainly opens up both good backstory and roleplaying possibilities, but the question still needs answered.