Empire Day looks awesome, dude! :cool:

The highlighted section below might be a bit premature. I definitely want to produce some cheaper Wyvern variants eventually (being able to enchant five lesser variants for the cost of three full Wyverns will let us put a lot of them in the sky), but for the next several months it would probably be better if we produced the fully capable versions to give us maximum flexibility when it comes to prosecuting the war with the Efreeti.

-[] Security: "The recent troubles to shipping have not escaped my notice, and we will soon have viable responses to sudden and inclement weather that strikes upon the more vulnerable southern and northern routes, even despite use of divination to ensure safe travel." You will go over some of the details of the Moonchaser, using illusions to display some of its capabilities. You will also announce the creation of Wyvern/Hestati variant, cheaper patrol craft who can ensure decent coverage for the Imperium's airspace without sacrificing combat capability. The more common Principes has already contributed to the War of Three Realms extensively given their relative newness as a combat arm, and you are always looking to innovate in order to better aid your allies the Djinn.

EDIT: @Crake, Instead of mentioning the lesser Wyverns, what about talking up our new Forge-grown creatures instead? They Fiery Dragonbeasts, Mighty Mind Dragons, Seawyrms, etc., are as much for defense of the realm as anything.
I think that we are not announcing it too far in advance to implementation, and I would rather empathize things that people can actually sort of comprehend and be reassured by. I honestly encourage maximum infosec about whatever we choose to grow there, people can divine stuff but they don't have a House of Mirror equivalent and it's a pain in the ass for them to get an accurate account of our capabilities in that area. We should keep it that way and highlight the contributions of the Every Man, our pilots and engineers.
 
What's the timing on this like by the way? Two major speeches back to back might be a bit much for the audience to stay engaged with.
I'm just going to say that's unlikely. We're so news and media saturated in this age that yeah, we can lose our attention span easily, but Mirror Vision is still too new and our actual interaction through it with the public is scattered and rare still.
 
I wonder if we'll be able to get a MirrorVision mirror set up in the Foreign Quarter of Yi-Ti in time for the Empire Day celebration?
 
@egoo Just saw that "Braavos Scholarum" leshy thing.

We don't have a Scholarum in Braavos. I know DP might have said one thing or another but he's just one guy and can't pay attention to the sheets and write the story. That's, honestly, basically my job at this point.

Removed it, we'll have to create a Scholarum there at some point, but we can hold off on growing more teachers until the turn we actually found it.
 
-[] Include an image of a Healing Heart Tree being grown by Viserys, along with the pile of broken magic items used to fuel their growth, with a brief caption to explain that no blood magic was used to raise the trees.
I still deeply disagree with the premise of this. The Imperium still runs off of blood sacrifice and everyone knows it. Even the very trees that "aren't grown with blood magic" will be using blood magic to heal in the first place, so the people complaining at all won't suddenly not have a problem with it.
 
Goldfish's Empire Day Predictions:
1) Enlistment in the Legion and other Imperial services will increase sharply.
2) Attempted enlistment in the Air Force will skyrocket. Seriously, we're probably going to have hundreds, if not thousands of potential pilots eager to fly a Wyvern or serve aboard a Moonchaser.
3) Empire Day Babies. The ninth month next year is going to see an upsurge in births due to the Empire Day celebrations.
 
I still deeply disagree with the premise of this. The Imperium still runs off of blood sacrifice and everyone knows it. Even the very trees that "aren't grown with blood magic" will be using blood magic to heal in the first place, so the people complaining at all won't suddenly not have a problem with it.
Seeing how minor a quibble this is, and how no one commented on it beyond Goldfish who offered up an admittedly weak argument, I'm just going to remove it.

Anyone who is categorically against us on the basis of Blood Magic despite all of the other good stuff we do for the world won't care about it, and may even just use it to point out we're being hypocritical (or insultingly pandering).
 
Seeing how minor a quibble this is, and how no one commented on it beyond Goldfish who offered up an admittedly weak argument, I'm just going to remove it.

Anyone who is categorically against us on the basis of Blood Magic despite all of the other good stuff we do for the world won't care about it, and may even just use it to point out we're being hypocritical (or insultingly pandering).
Thank you.

[X] Crake
 
Goldfish's Empire Day Predictions:
1) Enlistment in the Legion and other Imperial services will increase sharply.
2) Attempted enlistment in the Air Force will skyrocket. Seriously, we're probably going to have hundreds, if not thousands of potential pilots eager to fly a Wyvern or serve aboard a Moonchaser.
3) Empire Day Babies. The ninth month next year is going to see an upsurge in births due to the Empire Day celebrations.
Well, we currently train 600 highly skilled pilots a year with our current training pipeline. We'll probably double that to 1,200 pilots a year after we start suffering more frequent combat losses and expand production.
 
I still deeply disagree with the premise of this. The Imperium still runs off of blood sacrifice and everyone knows it. Even the very trees that "aren't grown with blood magic" will be using blood magic to heal in the first place, so the people complaining at all won't suddenly not have a problem with it.
It's no big deal to remove it, IMO.

What if instead we showed a map or list of where Healing Trees are available, @Crake?
 
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It's no big deal to remove it, IMO.

What if instead we showed a map or list of where Healing Trees are available, @Crake?
--[] Display a series of maps showing people where they can locate the nearest Healing Tree relative to where they live, outlining landmarks and where they can find local municipal officials who can direct them toward it in an organized fashion.

Done.
 
Been reading some books, here's some themed spells.

Impact – d20PFSRD


Summon a number of cannonballs and hurl them at targets as you please. Count as magic, and throwing them at the same target adds the damage together before DR.


Unleash a burst of needles that bleed their victims and can penetrate several types of DR.


Counts as Heal and Raise Dead for objects and constructs. Could be useful for our industry, and we've got at least one golem on our payroll. Could be useful for reusing beetle bombs, if the spell component cost is cheaper than normal repair.

Refine Ore – d20PFSRD


Separates out any ore or gems from the earth, though you can't cast it into the ground; you have to actually mine it first.


Permanently move enchantments from one item to another. Enchantments inappropriate for the new item are lost. Artifacts are immune.


Temporarily turn a sword vorpal, autokilling anything that can't survive a decapitation (a distressingly large group) on a 20.

This book also has a big system and spells for traps. if that's useful for the fortress we're building.
 
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