Maybe I'm going too far in the opposite direction, but the point I'm trying to argue is not that they're impossible for us to get so much as that logistics is complicated.
The more specific and rare a subject you request is the more involved fulfilling it is. Having more resources around means you're more likely to have it, but also that finding it and moving it is harder. This applies to people as much as material goods.
Request a good doctor? Doable. Request a world class one? Workable but expensive. Requesting 5-6 world class surgeons with experience performing particular operations? That's going to take a minute.
Asking for really good sorcerers with those paths is different than asking for the best around. Especially with the side chatter about them being focused on counter spelling specifically. I can buy that poking our head into Sanctuary and calling for good sorcerers to show up would get results, but the tailor made applicants don't grow on trees and probably have important stuff on their plates. Those things can be handled, but not without lead time.
I guess the root of this is that I'm thinking about what the guy we ask to do this has to work out.
Imagine you work in the Empress's palace, maybe running Molly's fast action security forces. She pokes her head in and asks you to find the best people alive at X task with Y specialization that you didn't previously know to keep around and are in currently out living their lives in one of the cities. In the next hour.
They exist, and they're probably not going to turn down their goddess, but could you even get them on site in time?
I think this problem could be eased by say assigning a subsoul to help organize an office for it, but our security forces aren't exactly set up for that role.
The cosplayers get more dedicated every year.
Yeah phone posting. My bad on that, I never use this site any other way and honestly didn't consider that.
@DragonParadox replied in a way that implies to me that they don't need to worry about being turned into toasters by an uncontested shaping effect.
Wizards usually can't just snap their fingers and banish things or transmute bodies. With some prep yeah, but at combat times they're going to be evoking at them.
At most I'd guess they'd do night people counterspelling, which is wits+occult.
@DragonParadox we saw a sutra use computer to cast fortune magic once, is that a general rule for them? Full disclosure on the point of the question; because of the features I picked for flavor reasons being able to counterspell attacks like this with computer would be favorable to the War Weavers.
They'd get the -2 difficulty on the roll if it was wits+computer, but since they aren't casters otherwise it mostly lets them be good on the defense without investing lots of dots outside of their focus.
