I wonder how much arete it would cost to generate FindrossAzoth? Hmm, perhaps the name is too silly for such a thing to exist. Any kind of buffing element we choose would also run the risk of being out-scaled, so I think something like Azoth, which we could hand off to people we like and/or people with money, would have some serious social utility.
For the uninitiated, Azoth is a substance from Rihaku's "As-Yet Unnamed Quest", the quest which introduced Seram. It's a substance which induces chrysopoeia, a sort of gradual transformation into a superperson. Features include rapidly scaling physical might (speed, strength, durability), less rapidly scaling immunity to the forces of the world, (eventually yielding flight, slowly allows you to shrug off or selectively ignore exotic problems), and even less gradually scaling clarity and quality of thought.
It was a pretty cool ability, available both through a devilishly complex mental exercise of a spell, and a tasty blue drink generated by a quirk of that world, called Azoth. Both the spell and the drink offered improvement every time, with diminishing returns on investment.
I'd guess that between the two power-granting substances, Findross is probably the harder one to just spit out of thin air, and the more difficult one to apply to one's self and others. I think it's less tangible, and I don't know the rules it follows.
Probably moot, there's no surety that either of these are even possible to generate with Surgecraft, or that Azoth would be compatible with this world. Still, fun to dream!
