Mathilde doesn't really have a lot of connections with the Winged Lancers, it was just a single battle. If we make a mass apparition charge spell I'd rather it be more connected to Mathilde. We have more of a connection with demigryphs and the like. If we spent more time in Kislev, I guess it'd be fine. But it just doesn't seem earned to me.
Boney's said something similar to that. Right now Mathilde is doing work that benefits the Empire and Colleges, so there's not a point to sending her requests like that. It's probably not strictly about having negative College Favor.
It didn't surprise Mathilde. The Magister Patriarchs and Matriarchs were busy pondering their orbs while Mathilde was thinking about what she wanted in exchange for the breakthrough. The thread wasn't very surprised by it either, there had been theories about it breaking the College Favor economy.
Oh we expected college favour, some even thought of breaking the favour economy.
That's not even a little bit true. Besides the fact that it's normal for Mathilde to receive rewards for academic accomplishments, through CF, she outright says in the update that the normal flow of this sort of thing is to get a reward after showing off the discovery.
That's at most a player issue, not a Mathilde issue.
Huh that actually sounds like really good idea. Leveraging our achivements to create a lasting agreement between Collages and Runesmiths would burnish our good name and more importantly strenghten the collage before the coming of new Everchosen.
Not exactly sure why, but this gave me a very not-so-creative spell idea:
Mechanics-wise, this would be an attempt to create a dumb, brute-force kill spell, making it about as Ulgu as throwing a brick through a window. Yet, it's also a rather Mathilde-ian spell - all that cunning elegance often used to personally smack her enemies with a sword. I wouldn't be surprised if this had several limitations and/or required battle magic levels of force to make work, yet I suspect it would be in the realm of reasonable possibility.
That sounds like it might end up being as hard as Final Transmutation (or maybe harder because Ulgu isn't associated with transmutation?), but it might be possible. The biggest obstacle to us making the "Dispersed Location" spell in the Approved Spells threadmark is that you're not guaranteed the whole 'turn back into a person' part:
...So trying to turn someone else to mist and not caring about them coming back sounds plausible.
Ulgu is the wind of transitions, though, so a mist-style Final Transmutation might be possible. It's still a lot of Ulgu and concentration to kill one target, though.
Creeping mist. People are consumed by it. More mist, no people.
I undersell nothing - the update to update work would still be odd jobs - for the purpose of "what is boney writing", odd jobs is an accurate description, and I was speaking solely to the objection that Boney would not want to write odd jobs, which he explicitly offered to write.
Transitioning someone from life to death is easier than transitioning someone from flesh to mist, and Ulgu already has Penumbral Pendulum.
What is a statue of Haletha doing in Wissenland?
How does a Hedgewise acquire so many books?
More books, and apparently the Hedgewise use Morrslieb water.
I mean, the Winds in general are pretty flexible. Penumbral Pendulum is a swinging guillotine that is infinitely sharp and huge in size, slicing a swathe through a large target or a formation of infantry (or cavalry). A mid-level spell has the user create a horse made out of shadows that travels at the speed of dawn and dusk. And that's Ulgu.
Uncertainty principle. You don't know if someone who is lost to sight in mist is alive or dead until they are removed from it. If they just so happen to be removed from it via dropping them into the border of a liminal space, welp.
Well, the ingredient for Fellstave is 'a cup of blood drawn when Morrslieb was full', so it makes sense that it might be used in other parts of their magic.
I think the likely way for that to go is a more Stephen King style fog bank. It sweeps in over a group, and when it disperses some are just gone. No trace, or perhaps some tattered clothing left behind, but no predictable pattern, no sign of what happened, a person could have vanished into the mist from a foot in front of you and you'd see or hear nothing from them. Do you see faces in the swirling fog? Distant figures? Are you really hearing that distant pained wail or is it your imagination? Why can't you shake the feeling that your buddy who got eaten by this spell last week is back with you, so close you could touch him?
Mathilde drawing from the Mystical aspect of puns to make spells work would probably test Eike's poker face fiercely.
My thought is more along the lines of exploiting the malleability of Ulgu as demonstrated with Smoke and Mirrors. When a teleport can be woven into any spell of sufficient complexity no matter the theme with five different spots to make it work depending on the spell in question without raising its difficulty, there's some wacky ability to fold, spindle, and mutilate reality even by the standards of people who routinely do so.
Sounds delicious, but y'all better not be cooking mexican in there
To be fair, we know there's at least a theoretical grounding for turning yourself into mist and the only reason people haven't tried it is because they don't want to stress test the way to turn back.
