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greensun said:
Now, remember, this would be a utility Shintai, not a combat Shintai. That is Devil-Tyrant Avatar Shintai's area of expertise and it is an Essence 3 Charm, and the above Jelly-Fish thing would easily fall into that with no bother.

Hmm, it wouldn't be useful in, say, fighting one on one. But it could be used in a ship battle.
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Point.


greensun said:
  • You can carry (Essence) magnitude people within yourself. Perhaps with some functionality to feed and water them?
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The feeding and watering could be done with an enhancement to that Kimbery charm that creates mind-controlling milk - Milk of Primordial Kindness. Maybe an upgrade that just allows you to feed (Essence) magnitude per activation so long as the shintai is active? Though that might be too powerful. I mean, you could really, really quickly enslave very large numbers of people. On the other hand, that's exactly what Kimbery should do. That would also encourage you to have genesis projects (cough secret weapons cough) cooking while transporting your armies which, again, is quite Kimberyan.

greensun said:
  • As a baseline, you'd grow large enough to qualify for the six point six mutation and you'd benefit from the threat size benefit as well.
    • Also, you qualify as equal in size to similar things, so you roll regular damage dice against big ships, creatures or floating fortresses
  • Can't really interact with things...
  • Get the full benefit of Teeming Sea-hag Pluriparosity's size bonus.
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Looks good, although in Revlid's newer Kimbery charms (in the Vault) there's a different charm to TS-HP that lets you incubate multiple projects at once.

The one thing I'm not sure about is how the interior of the shintai - the bits where people are transported - should be/look like. Maybe they're like suspension pods ala the Wraith from Stargate: Atlantis? That might lead to Forgiveness in Form being a prerequisite.

Accelerator said:
Hah! No. The bigger the magnitude of the opposing army, the more motes spent. But other than that, no.
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Sorcerous motes, you mean. Unless we're talking 2e, in which case motes. What kind of price were you looking at per Magnitude?
Accelerator said:
But another idea is to be able to rip the top of mountains out and then invert them to form a platform for your flying city.
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Sounds like a Celestial or Solar Sorcerous Working to me, rather than a spell.
 
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Accelerator said:
Urgh... you misunderstand.

What about.... solar circle spell basically allows you to conjure up the 'Shining City of the Hill'?
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Ah. Like an upgrade on Ivory Orchid Pavilion? I could see that. You couldn't make it permanent, but your army would be very grateful to not have to sleep in tents. :D

EDIT: Fluff-wise, you could make it about summoning up a mental image of 'utopia' and overlaying it upon reality, perhaps incorporating some elements of Malfeas's name as a sympathetic source of power - drop the 'demon' part and summon an alternate Malfeas who is 'the perfect city'.
 
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QafianSage said:
Ah. Like an upgrade on Ivory Orchid Pavilion? I could see that. You couldn't make it permanent, but your army would be very grateful to not have to sleep in tents. :D
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Darn. It's just that....

How about this. Make it so that it is prosperous. Always prosperous. Always the envy of the surrounding areas. They are the magnum opus. The blessing of heaven was on them. Their fields were fertile, their herds vast, their craftsmen skilled, their warriors strong, their poets eloquent, and their rulers wise.

But.

But.

There is a price for this.

The solar, upon building this city, designated something. An ideal. A particular virtue. A principle. A particular school of thought.

The inhabitants of the city must follow this. Not all. That is impossible. But majority must do so.

When they no longer follow the edicts of the lawgiver? Then the blessing is rescinded. The people become more and more depraved, as they abandon the laws of heaven. At the crescendo, the sky above them twists and warps, to form a rain of fire and brimstone to burn the city to ash. The city will burn for 10 days and nights, until nothing is left of the city.
 
Accelerator said:
Darn. It's just that....

How about this. Make it so that it is prosperous. Always prosperous. Always the envy of the surrounding areas. They are the magnum opus. The blessing of heaven was on them. Their fields were fertile, their herds vast, their craftsmen skilled, their warriors strong, their poets eloquent, and their rulers wise.

But.

But.

There is a price for this.

The solar, upon building this city, designated something. An ideal. A particular virtue. A principle. A particular school of thought.

The inhabitants of the city must follow this. Not all. That is impossible. But majority must do so.

When they no longer follow the edicts of the lawgiver? Then the blessing is rescinded. The people become more and more depraved, as they abandon the laws of heaven. At the crescendo, the sky above them twists and warps, to form a rain of fire and brimstone to burn the city to ash. The city will burn for 10 days and nights, until nothing is left of the city.
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That sounds more like the effects of a big sorcerous working anchored in obedience to that edict/school of thought/whatever collapsing than that of a single spell.
 
Accelerator said:
..... aw man.

Really?
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Mm. Sorry. It's too... Permanent and disparate in its effects to be one spell. I could see a solar doing it by using a Working to stack a bunch of powerful blessings (BoA, the utopia-city spell etc) on top of one another, all balanced on the occult principles of that ideal/virtue. So when they stop the sustained spells warp and invert and everything falls to ruin. I imagine there was a lot of this kind of thing in the immediate wake of the Usurpation.

My conceptualization of the utopia-city spell is that it's a dream of utopia overlayed onto reality, and like all dreams it ends. It's a paradise while it lasts, but the longer the sorcerer tries to hold it (I'm thinking the normal duration should be a day or so) the hollower and greyer it becomes, until finally the pristine marble crumbles to ruin despite the sorcerer's best efforts. Symbolism!
 
Accelerator said:
But another idea is to be able to rip the top of mountains out and then invert them to fom a platform for your flying city.
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You need to build an N/A artifact first to serve as the focus. And have a sorcererous initiation involving an ancient reptile race creating a self-updating guide to all magic that makes people crazy who read too much.

Accelerator said:
Darn. It's just that....

How about this. Make it so that it is prosperous. Always prosperous. Always the envy of the surrounding areas. They are the magnum opus. The blessing of heaven was on them. Their fields were fertile, their herds vast, their craftsmen skilled, their warriors strong, their poets eloquent, and their rulers wise.

But.

But.

There is a price for this.

The solar, upon building this city, designated something. An ideal. A particular virtue. A principle. A particular school of thought.

The inhabitants of the city must follow this. Not all. That is impossible. But majority must do so.

When they no longer follow the edicts of the lawgiver? Then the blessing is rescinded. The people become more and more depraved, as they abandon the laws of heaven. At the crescendo, the sky above them twists and warps, to form a rain of fire and brimstone to burn the city to ash. The city will burn for 10 days and nights, until nothing is left of the city.
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Alternatively, there must be exactly one abused child kept in a basement somewhere that all inhabitants upon coming of age must be made aware of and either accept or walk away from the city.
 
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Question.

Azure chariot, brilliant raptor, and butterflies.

Can you just fly above an enemy formation, and bombard it 24 hours until they all die?
 
Accelerator said:
Question.

Azure chariot, brilliant raptor, and butterflies.

Can you just fly above an enemy formation, and bombard it 24 hours until they all die?
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Yep. If you've got the motes and focus. Sorcery is made for this, destroying large formations and altering the battlefield at will.

Mind you, I think DBOB is relatively short-ranged, you'll be open to counter-attack from archers and heavier equipment.
 
greensun said:
Yep. If you've got the motes and focus. Sorcery is made for this, destroying large formations and altering the battlefield at will.

Mind you, I think DBOB is relatively short-ranged, you'll be open to counter-attack from archers and heavier equipment.
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Ok. Good.

Now I have a new project, next to all my other ones.

In the space between the named places on the map, there are at least a dozen cities, all ruled by a single sorcerer king, who uses his skill in magic, the lack of true competitors, and people flocking to him to protection.
 
Kaiya said:
Warstriders in Exalted Third are finally the world-shaking weapons of war they should be. They were crappy in 2e and needed homebrew fixes, but 3e they're pretty monstrously powerful.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/282994416283549707/473950944183320588/unknown.png

pictured: All-Conquering Colossus
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I have to say that my personal favourite is the Walking Devil Tower, a moonsilver prison for the Wyld-behemoth Karvara, who could not step within Creation and so unmade it as it went. It's also basically an Evangelion (it even looks like one) and its capstone Evocation is to unmake a huge swathe of reality, replacing it with an utterly alien vista (Voice of the Apocalypse).

Oh, and it can eat your enemies and gain power from them. And if you go into Limit Break while within it, it goes on a berserk rampage.

 
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QafianSage said:
I have to say that my personal favourite is the Walking Devil Tower, a moonsilver prison for the Wyld-behemoth Karvara, who could not step within Creation and so unmade it as it went. It's also basically an Evangelion (it even looks like one) and its capstone Evocation is to unmake a huge swathe of reality, replacing it with an utterly alien vista (Voice of the Apocalypse).

Oh, and it can eat your enemies and gain power from them. And if you go into Limit Break while within it, it goes on a berserk rampage.

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I'm aware. It's Artifact N/A and literally Eva Unit 01, though, so I wasn't using it as a default. (Vance, the main dev, wanted to make an Eva Warstrider from day 1. They finally let him in Arms of the Chosen, when he got all his other Evocations done.)
 
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