When counting scenes, I suppose that you omit scenes like "We are all sitting near the fire, while the sorcerer prepares the next Stormwind rider" or "Our twilight is teaching the peasants formal logic. For the twelfth time!". These are from the system point of view scenes (and count as such for scene long charms etc) but have little to do with gaining experience in any way.<br/><br/>Adding the character here.<br/><br/>Name: Mariula, the Serpent Witch<br/>Caste:Twilight<br/><br/>Description:  Serpent strikes unseen and seldom Mariula shows her face to strangers. She travels with the mists, land and sea, sends elementals to do her bidding and fiery automata kill for her. To the few that know the , she appears as short and slim woman, somewhere in her thirties, wearing simple clothes, bleached by the salty air, but with undeniable aura of authority, demonstrated in her every movement. Her right hand is withered and driftwood-like and her oval face is either olive-tanned or with the colour of greenish bronze. When she enters battle, the mist that surrounds her is pierced by purple and blue vortexes of light in which the silhouettes of thousands serpents swim.<br/><br/>Prelude: From a fisherman's family she spend her childhood, leading calm but unpleasant life. She gathered crabs, sew fishnets, smoked fish, gradually realizing how superior was she in comparison with the local boys and girls. They were  slow, simple, devoid of ambitions...  She could manipulate them easily, she could manipulate even the elders and as soon as she was confident in her abilities, she used it to her benefit to gather money and depart, becoming an imperial's tax-collector scribe's apprentice. With the knowledge that she quickly gathered, she replaced him easily and targeted the tax-collector next.<br/>If it wasn't the trade of house Cynis, she might have never become something more than a bureaucrat, but her superior thought that he was smart enough to steal from the decadents and payed for that with his life. Mariula was next, but instead of being prey she chose to be the predator. With the same stolen parcel she poisoned the assassins sent for her and fled. Cynis Arif, a sorcerer, discovered her location, but gravely underestimated Mariula as an enemy. When he came down from the clouds with his apprentice, she bowed seemingly accepting her fate and then in a blaze of searing light, stuck a needle with lethal venom in his chest.<br/><br/>Life as a Chosen of the Unconquered Sun and Motivation: With her natural talents and what she managed to steal from the dead sorcerer Mariula fled the civilization to seek answers among the less-habitable of the western islands. Discovering a Manse, an air-filled spire 15 feet under the sea, she found out that her initially 'grand' discovery was just the highest point of once magnificent factory-cathedral, sunken in the ocean for centuries. She claimed the place as  'hers' and then went on the next to impossible quest to bring that place somehow to its former glory, or rebuild it elsewhere, never minding the means she was using. Trade with artifacts, piracy, kidnappings, but also deals with several other exalted and gods, some of which remained just partners, but others indeed formed the circle of beings that she trusted. She tried not to gather attention, learning how to strike unseen and never do more damage than what its needed and on several occasions even dared to oppose Cynis again, stealing from another member of the house his most prized belonging - the folding ship "Divine bliss", quickly renamed to "Sea serpent" and redecorated.<br/><br/>Intimacies:<br/><br/>The young apprentice that fled was the only sentient being, that witnessed from close distance Mariula's exaltation (or so she believed) and she often wondered what he had seen. Did he too catch a glimpse of Sol Invictus himself, or it was an illusion, a shadow of his true and much greater power, visible only to her eyes? Did that experience changed him too... He was still in his adolescence and probably felt fear or hatred towards her, but in fact the Serpentine Witch held no ill intentions towards the young dragon-blooded. She was interested only in what he had seen that day.<br/><br/>Mental:<br/>Intelligence 5<br/>Wits 3<br/>Perception 3<br/><br/>Social:<br/>Charisma:2<br/>Manipulation:5<br/>Appearance:2<br/><br/>Physical:<br/>Dexterity:5<br/>Strength:1<br/>Endurance:1<br/><br/>Abilities:<br/>Occult: 5<br/>Lore: 5<br/>Investigation:3<br/>Craft(wood): 3<br/>M.A: 5(favoured)<br/>Presence:5(favoured)<br/>Resistance:1(favoured)<br/>Sail:1<br/>Linguistics:2(favoured)<br/>Awareness:5(favoured)<br/>Bureaucracy:1<br/>Survival:1<br/><br/>Advantages:<br/>Folding ship: 4<br/>Manse:1(Gem of water walking)<br/>Heartstone bracers:2<br/><br/>Virtues:<br/>Temperance: 3<br/>Compassion:1<br/>Valor:2<br/>Conviction:3<br/><br/>Heart of flint<br/><br/>Willpower:6<br/><br/>Essence:3<br/><br/>Personal Essence:15<br/>Peripheral Essence:36<br/><br/>Health levels: 7<br/><br/>Charms:<br/><br/>Second presence excellency<br/>Majestic radiant presence<br/>Terrestrial circle sorcery<br/>Wood dragon's claw<br/>Flight of the brilliant raptor<br/>Summon elemental<br/>Keel cleaves the sky<br/>Body of bronze<br/>Striking cobra technique<br/>Serpentine evasion<br/>Snake form<br/>Surprise anticipation method<br/><br/>Combos:<br/><br/>Threat-evading method<br/>Serpentine evasion+Surprise anticipation method<br/><br/><br/>Elementals:<br/><br/>Most-diligent miner Thirty-three - A mercury ant called for year and a day to help the Serpent witch in alchemy and craft. She is not using its poison, except as rare ingredient.<br/><br/>Calls-thunder - A handsome thunderbird called by Mariula for the sole purpose of entering battles on her side. He enjoys his job immensely.<br/><br/>Urian - A young cloud person who serves as a navigator, astrologer, and often just a witty companion. His most important job is to call mists when "Sea serpent" needs to cleave the clouds. Mariula often calls cloud people but always for short periods, thinking that otherwise they will know too much of her secrets and probably won't appreciate a whole year far away from their society.<br/><br/>Amenech of the stale waters - The current sobeksis, serving the Serpent Witch. She calls them to cure, help the mercury ant with poisons or even to guard her, but always for short periods, because she doesn't consider killing them as a good choice in the long run.<br/>