QafianSage
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I get that it's not default, but it is an excellent high-water mark, in my opinion, of what warstriders are/can be now. And the info in the post was more for @Accelerator 's benefit.
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..... fine then.
Maybe. Maybe.
Nevertheless, we need a self buffing spell for solar circle.
I actually really don't agree. Solar Circle Spells aren't for that. Solar Circle is about summoning alien gods and enslaving them, about ending famines afflicting millions with a word and a gesture, about your eyes flashing with burning green light and all the fires of Hell consume the army that had the temerity to defy you.
It's well beyond "I make myself a stronger personal combatant".
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A question on sorcerers.
Sorcerers can do stuff like create mountains of gold, pearls the size of a fist, egg sized jewels, and other, assorted resource 5 things, right? With the right workings and spells?
So can it be said that a sorcerer with enough knowledge can easily recreate resource 5 things?
Sorcerers can do stuff like create mountains of gold, pearls the size of a fist, egg sized jewels, and other, assorted resource 5 things, right? With the right workings and spells?
So can it be said that a sorcerer with enough knowledge can easily recreate resource 5 things?
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Ok. Personal headcanon.
Every 10 years, there is a party. There, mortal sorcerers from around creation assemble for what is basically a potluck. Using a mixture of spells, demon summoning and sorcerous workings, they seek to outdo each other in creating the most weirdest and wonderful wines.
The value of the food alone, easily reaches resource 5, and can easily feed entire nations or supply entire legions. The grand achievement is for someone to be able to recreate celestial wine. No one has succeeded yet.
okay, no. This...this is not how Sorcery works. They aren't colleagues or alumni. Each Sorcerer is an extremely powerful being who has put immense effort into being magical. Most of them are going to go their lives without meeting another Sorcerer. They live in an post-apocalyptic iron age. This...this isn't a thing. This kind of organization and fraternity among magic users is not something that exists.
QafianSage
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To be fair, I could possibly see it being a thing among a group of already close-knit sorcerers who stick around one another anyway, like the teachers/lecturers at Hogwar- sorry, the Heptagram. Outside of that, though, I agree with you.
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Hmmm.... true. Maybe just a bunch of sorcerers who find themselves close to each other, and not willing to die, engage in non combat pissng matches?
QafianSage
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Hypothetically, yes. Sorcerers are still (debatably enlightened) people, after all. However, off the top of my head I can think of exactly one group like that in the setting - the aforementioned Heptagram. I guess that the sorcerer-elites of that one city-state with the sorcery-based caste system might do it (the name escapes me at present), but in that case it would be a horrifyingly political activity - if you do badly, you are in very real danger of being seen as weak enough to remove from the chessboard. And also they probably wouldn't restrict it to wines.
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Yes, but.... I don't know.
I think I have a liking for more... low powered, down to earth gatherings.
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Well, I mean, there are schools of sorcery. I bet the Heptagram or the Lookshyian place have their full arcane scholastic traditions and rivalries and bits where the alumni get back together and act like members of secret societies.
(plus, as far as I'm concerned, those two schools have an Oxford-Cambridge relationship and do things like yearly boat races across the Inner Sea - only it's totally legitimate to try to sink the other team's boat because these are Dragonblooded sorcerers and sinking their boat is proof that you're a better sorcerer)
QafianSage
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And, of course, if you can't create a new boat, conjure a cloud skiff or have a demon or elemental on hand to carry you, well, you're hardly a sorcerer at all, really.
samdamandias
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A question that came up in my game last night:
When the Ebon Dragon gives a speech, is it a TED talk?
When the Ebon Dragon gives a speech, is it a TED talk?
QafianSage
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...That is bad, and whoever said it should feel bad.
But probably yes. Although, as we all know, thE eBoN DRaGon tALks liKE tHis.
The question was explicitly mortal sorcerers only.
As of Third Edition, at least, all the Realm's secondary schools, the Heptagram included, do accept non-Dragon Blooded students.
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At least some of the schools accepted exceptional mortal students back in 2e as well.
Also in 3rd IIRC Sorcerers don't count as Mortals.
QafianSage
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@EarthScorpion, in your Fourth Soul document you refer to Yozi geomantic charms. Obviously, that's stuff like Holy Land Infliction and Luscious Jungle Germination, but does that also include the various permutations of (Yozi) World-Shaping Cosmogony?