We could deal with a few Seekers.It's less about not doing anything with the Seeker and more about not giving Volantis the means to mass-produce an anti-mage weapon.
I want that gold too.
Wights are LE.No. I don't want CE undead guarding our tower. I just want the equivalent of Garin as guards for it. Shadow Creatures are not evil, just nongood. And having a "Shadow Guard" for the Shadow Tower is just awesome. Imagine if Jonny suddenly does something stupid only for 3 guys to come out of the shadows and knock him out.
Cue Ser Richard murdering every mage in existence that isn't under our direct control just so he has an excuse to never wear his meat suit again.It would be neat if we could re-purpose the Seeker into an armored meat suit for Richard to wear, with Gorgon hide grafted onto it, of course. It's an anti-magic Construct, Richard is an anti-magic killing machine; it's a match made in Hell!
Control limit stops that.@DragonParadox
Just noticed something: Creatures that die from Negative Levels rise as Wights, if nothing else is specified.
Does that mean we could make any number of Wights at no cost just with Enervation and then have Dany control the results?
If so this seems like a rip-off.
They might easily be capable of improving the design. Keep in mind that this guy is offering us dead people as minions. He has no moral issue with murdering a few hundred slaves to design Seeker MK.2 for Zherys and the latter would happily supply the warm bodies for it.We could deal with a few Seekers.
There are far worse anti-magic constructs and sooner or later mages will discover the regular Craft Construct.
Seeker are dangerous because they are smart and work well as internal security for the Valyrians, not because they can meet high-level mages in direct fights.
Making Shadows or Umbral creatures is a good bit out of our reach. I'm gussing this guy has some kind of ritual, because otherwise he'd need Greater Create Undead, level 8 spell.We could make our own undead horrors and while the coin would be nice, I do not want the knowledge of how to make more Seekers in the hands of Volantis.
Yes, but making up to her control limit would still be cheaper and stonger than making skeletons, ghouls or similar. That seems counterintuitive, that you can get better results from killing random people with a level 4 spell than from raising them with a level 8 spell.
@DragonParadox
Just noticed something: Creatures that die from Negative Levels rise as Wights, if nothing else is specified.
Does that mean we could make any number of Wights at no cost just with Enervation and then have Dany control the results?
If so this seems like a rip-off.
It's a ripoff anyway.
You are just doing this on the off chance that they will build an army to attack us with, right?
Why waste it on King's Landing when there's already a nuclear option in the form of buried Wildfyre?You know if we ever want to to make Viserys into a full Chaotic Evil (IE True Stupid) PC we could release the Dracolich soul in the Red Keep.
It pays to have a nuclear option ready !
@DragonParadox
Just noticed something: Creatures that die from Negative Levels rise as Wights, if nothing else is specified.
Does that mean we could make any number of Wights at no cost just with Enervation and then have Dany control the results?
If so this seems like a rip-off.
I was looking up the seekers stat sheet up and I could not find his grafts on his page because I know he now has wings.
I cant wait to see what graft we have now to give him.
This plan. Exactly this one. The wood shape spell, a water walking minotaur, or good old fashioned ramming, we put a hole in them. Then its just a matter of waiting for the sea to kill the defenders off and we can raise and repair the ship. We'd even be able to raise our own ships that sink. As long as we can find sailors to man them we'd never lose a ship again, at least not permanently.The best part is that as we loot, Dany can repair the ships. So we could take everything.
Read: Probably enough to make it worthwhile to have the Seeker on mook-cleanup for our next quest.[] More powerful attacks (Moderate DC)
[] Magical abilities (Moderate to Very Hard DC)
[] Stronger physical defenses (Easy DC)
These were the three grafts we harvested from the Pleasure Devil.
Special Abilities :: d20srd.orgIt's not a guaranteed transition to Wight-hood, though, or at least I thought?
A character with negative levels at least equal to her current level, or drained below 1st level, is instantly slain. Depending on the creature that killed her, she may rise the next night as a monster of that kind. If not, she rises as a wight.
Mostly to keep in trade with the Necromancer.You are just doing this on the off chance that they will build an army to attack us with, right?
Hmmm... Well, there's also an eldrict horror under King's Landing.@Duesal the issue with that is that burning people is Aerys problem solving method, ours is to solve our issues either throwing more dragon at them or throwing Dany at them
We could "accidentally" unleash that if we were pushed to it.By some whim of fate her hand touched a faded carving of a dragon's eye once adorned with the flowing script of old Valyria and her blood was accepted as sacrifice by the centuries old enchantment that had lain dormant for many a long year. The stone of the passage drew back like a curtain (much more smoothly than when it was first made for the tides of magic were waxing).
After the pitch blackness of the tunnel the faint greenish glow emanating from the chamber dazzled Myrcella. Desperate for a way out not to mention light of any sort she entered the ancient chamber. It was circular and seemingly carved into the stone under Aegon's Hill. Within lay dusty heavy jewelry adorned with rubies the color of old blood, ancient weapons that looked foreign to the princess' eyes. But the most odd thing by far was the source of the light. On a slender obsidian plinth in the center of the room rested a dark crystal sphere at the heart of which a spectral green flame shone.
In the ordinary run of things Myrcella was a practical child who had less time than usual for tales of sorcery and heroism in ages past but when confronted with actual magic she could not help but be intrigued. As she neared the sphere to get a closer look a whispering started in the back of her mind first in tongues she could not understand (indeed they did not seem to be sounds men could make at all) but then at last shifting into Common:
"Child born of Sin, will you not aid me? I can make you great, knowledge beyond the ken of humankind and dominion beyond the power of Kings shall be yours if you but free me."