The one thing that reassures me on that front is that you can apparently transfer a binding from your own soul to an object.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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The one thing that reassures me on that front is that you can apparently transfer a binding from your own soul to an object.
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In addition to all the immediate ways binding Drycha could go wrong success would probably cause some friction with the forest spirits involved in the Waystone project. Not because they like Drycha personally so much as because we invented and used magic to forcibly bind forest spirits
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In addition to all the immediate ways binding Drycha could go wrong success would probably cause some friction with the forest spirits involved in the Waystone project. Not because they like Drycha personally so much as because we invented and used magic to forcibly bind forest spirits
I mean we know you can do that with a Hound and probably with others of their ilk, I would not be so sure that we can do that with an elder shadow-wielding Dryad. She would have more of an understanding of what it is to be transferred and know to fight it
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Apparently Grey Lords and Hagwitches have been practising something similar for a while now, so it's not super taboo or anything.
Just, you know, really risky.
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We have an Acorn of the Oak of Ages, honestly can't see a better item to ever bind any Dryad to.
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We cannot currently bind her to an item. We have to bind her to our own soul then in a nebulous future action transfer that binding into an object, which is theoretically possible.
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Is also theoretically possible, has a higher chance of success than bind and would hurt less. Can I persuade bind voters to switch to that? Drycha is not the kind of creature Matty was taught how to bind and she's a user of the wind she was advised not to attempt.
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Mammoth is a much much more reasonable idea than bind
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I mean, we played it safe to stay in character with Ranald's request of us. Now we should only logically play it bat-crazy insane to stay in character from us relentlessly searching for knowledge. Also, ancient shadow magic spirit GET. Besides, if anyone asks we can just point them to the other colleges that bind spirits. They didn't explicitly say not the ancient super powerful ones. They should have been clearer to our poor confused Matty
I mean, we played it safe to stay in character with Ranald's request of us. Now we should only logically play it bat-crazy insane to stay in character from us relentlessly searching for knowledge. Also, ancient shadow magic spirit GET. Besides, if anyone asks we can just point them to the other colleges that bind spirits. They didn't explicitly say not the ancient super powerful ones. They should have been clearer to our poor confused Matty
Ranald's request? What do you mean?
More broadly I do not think we are in a position to bind her but it is not because we have any institutional pressure not to do so. The scrolls of Kadon (yes the dragon wizard) mean that the college is entirely fine with binding magical beings for service. Drycha is manifestly not a Chaos Daemon so we are golden as far as that goes.
Onto the practicalities though, what makes you think we can pull this off given that the one rule about apparitions we had drilled into us on screen was 'do not bind anything with a wind it feeds on'? Drycha may not eat Ulgu, but what she can do with it is even worse, she wields it.
I mean if we had a Scroll of Kadon in our back pocket I'd be totally down with trying to use it, and the Grey College would probably back that play 110% because a bound Drycha would be so incredibly valuable to the College in multiple ways, but we don't.
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*Wizard Jazz stops playing*
I think pucfleck was possessed by Tzeentch to ask that. I'm sure Big and Blue can clutch that out for us, and he'd be thrilled to do it too, y'know. As long as we ask.
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Would that even work on her? Those are for 'beasts' that is beings that resonate with Ghur in some way and I do not think she does.
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I mean worst case Mathilde gets possessed by Drycha, that's bad but not exactly quest ending (probably). I mean look at Malus Darkblade, he got possessed by an actual daemon and turned out
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While many of the options are pretty important, I do feel that It's best to play to Mathilde's strengths. She's an expert counter-wizard. In fact, I'd arguably say she's one of the best amongst humans in that regard, once all her equipment is accounted for.
While many of the options are pretty important, I do feel that It's best to play to Mathilde's strengths. She's an expert counter-wizard. In fact, I'd arguably say she's one of the best amongst humans in that regard, once all her equipment is accounted for.
She's very good at certain kinds of counter-magic. She has no particular skills at counter-spelling Ulgu.
You know thinking about it I do think we could in a theoretical nat 100 situation get something useful (if very risky) out of Bind. This is human magic on steroids, 'fast dirty and it just works... somehow'. It may well be the way the first of the Ungol Hags learned her arts long ago, or even those who would become the ice witches (they too have dealings with spirits), but the thing is I do not think we should bet our soul of being an once-an age genius. We did not get this far by betting we would roll 100.
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I thought it was invented by the Gold Order.
If Drycha is bound to our soul, I'm not sure the belt will protect us. She would be a part of us, so the belt would have no reason to oppose her.
Was she taught to bind, like, anything? Did we took binding classes?
I don't think we actually know how to bind spirits to us, i think we only have a vague idea of the general process. Committing suicide isn't in-character, especially when we have several much safer options.
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Gehenna taught her theory which even gives us the option to do it, but Chamon and Ulgu are too different for us to be able to apply the same techniques so it requires experimentation. We haven't done any of that experimentation.
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Also, let me just say that is was anime as hell, and I love it.
I can just picture her dimissively running right past us while we are out of position in typical Arrogant Big Bad fashion, the clap of thunder and black-and-white shot of