#630 Words of Azure Ring Build ideas.
Edit: It clearly has to be Luna, and we'd have to have picked the Doom of Lunacy rather than the Decimation. Which would've slashed our power even further. Hm.
IMO Lunacy can only really be paired with Slumber. You could use the Azure Ring to set up traps and long-term enhancement mechanisms so that your sleep time is not completely wasted: a sort of DIY Might's Repose. Dominion over Time suggests a few mitigation strategies for Hunger, and Artifice allows you to outsource some of your power to 1-use items in order to circumvent having 75% of your
personal power locked down.
This build seems heavily dependent on avoiding making enemies during the early part of the game, but I almost think that's a feature and not a flaw.
Seems like this is very similar to one of my previous 0-arete proposed builds.
Curses:
[] Apocryphal
[] Indenture
[] Lunacy
[] Slumber
Primary Remittance:
[] Regalia
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Fortune: Groundhog Day up to 100 years (but only once).
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Force: You will acquire a modest but useful superpower synergistic with your existing capabilities:
-[] Combat-Thinker power like Cauldron's Numberman seems like it fills the "synergistic" qualifier, by combining time manipulation & tool use to beyond superhuman levels. Otherwise I'd love an invulnerability power for extra defense while Slumbering.
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Favor: Choose one additional Lesser Remittance.
-[] The
Ring Azure, who is the
Ring of Time? The Lunar Band, Ring of the Mind, Jewel of Artifice,
the Ring of Truth?
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Wild: Duplicate
Favor: Intensify
-[] Intensify: Sharpens and narrows the domain of your Primary Remittance. What might that look like for the wide remit of Regalia?
--[] Fortune could be altered to give foreknowledge of doom if you're about to make an irrecoverable mistake, maybe at the cost of reducing the range of your emergency rewind.
--[] Combat-relevant precog would be compatible with the intensified Fortune effect. Maybe the limitation is that once you engage in hostilities you cannot path your way towards win-conditions other than absolute martial victory.
--[] I'm not at all sure what Intensifying the Azure Ring would do, but I bet it would be cool
Art of the Isekai Realm:
[] Seven Seals
Canon Difficulty: Select 3 Lesser Remittances
[] Retinue
[] Ceathlynn "Catherine" of Amarlt
[] Hunger
As with any Retinue build, this involves relationship management. The most important benefit is that a companion who has pledged loyalty to us under Retinue is axiomatically incapable of betraying us. Presumably this holds even if she observes a proc of the Form of Lunacy.
As for early gameplay, the MC would be unconscious quite a bit, while Catherine is out killing things. First priority would be establishing and fortifying a safe base-camp. Second priority is equipping Catherine with fancy gadgets. With Retinue + Hunger, she has a dramatically faster rate of advancement on top of her already prodigious talent for weaponry.
The MC's power set would have two components: one for preparation and one for when the fighting starts. During preparation, 7-Seals and Artifice provide gear for the Cursebearer along with Catherine. This power would be able to somewhat evade the effects of the Doom of Lunacy by creating single-use items instead of focusing on personal power that would get sealed by the Doom of Lunacy. During combat, 7-Seals and combat-precog allows for optimal leverage of single-use artifice items. The 75% rate of progression is offset by Fortune's intensified Groundhog Day emergency button.
Catherine's power set would be much more straightforward. In the short term, we'd give her as many single-use weapons as we can spare, so that she can kill impressive to pursue Dominions / Preeminences. In the long term, we'd pile on as many long-term supernatural buffs as possible using 7-Seals and infrastructure based on the Azure's artifice domain. Theoretically we could awaken both her Rank
and her Soul Evocation, although the training malus from Hunger would make the Evocation less effective.
