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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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We need to consult Darleth the Delver and the Shaitan about good wards for the Undercity of Sorcerer's Deep alongside the proper above-ground city, just like we've been poking the Marid for coastline and undersea wards. Shit to make sure a stray earthquake doesn't wreck everything, to make sure an Underdark invasion would be repelled in good order, etc. Every part of the overarching city should be equally secure.
 
Duesal said:
We need to consult Darleth the Delver and the Shaitan about good wards for the Undercity of Sorcerer's Deep alongside the proper above-ground city, just like we've been poking the Marid for coastline and undersea wards. Shit to make sure a stray earthquake doesn't wreck everything, to make sure an Underdark invasion would be repelled in good order, etc. Every part of the overarching city should be equally secure.
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Runecrafted adamantine pillars for stability, maybe? Similar to the ones in Darleth's Super Fortress, but instead of to diffuse magic, it diffuses geological upsets.
 
DragonParadox said:
"You could always, you know bring him back in a new body every time his current one wears out," the younger of the twins suggested.

"That is a potted plant not a husband," Reva counters gamely
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Great, now I have a mental image of a future where bodies are treated like a pair of comfortable underwear.

"Honey you need to get rid of that body."

"Oh come on, it's still got a good ten years left!"

"You have rickets, dear."

"Look I'm telling yo-" *falls over dead.

"Oh Goddammit. And on the good rug!"
 
Evaunit02mark1 said:
Great, now I have a mental image of a future where bodies are treated like a pair of comfortable underwear.

"Honey you need to get rid of that body."

"Oh come on, it's still got a good ten years left!"

"You have rickets, dear."

"Look I'm telling yo-" *falls over dead.

"Oh Goddammit. And on the good rug!"
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That is the conceit of a great many science fiction works.
 
Crake said:
Runecrafted adamantine pillars for stability, maybe? Similar to the ones in Darleth's Super Fortress, but instead of to diffuse magic, it diffuses geological upsets.
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As long as Earthquakes become a non-issue in Sorcerer's Deep I will be happy.
Evaunit02mark1 said:
Great, now I have a mental image of a future where bodies are treated like a pair of comfortable underwear.

"Honey you need to get rid of that body."

"Oh come on, it's still got a good ten years left!"

"You have rickets, dear."

"Look I'm telling yo-" *falls over dead.

"Oh Goddammit. And on the good rug!"
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We're basically becoming Altered Carbon in that regard.
 
tarrangar said:
They aren't anymore immortal than he is, sure they might be able to cast the spells themselves, if they grow strong enough, but they will need the same spells to be immortal he will, unless they get mythic power or something, and Theon is as likely to become mythic as they are.

Or at least I don't think Greenseers are automatically immortal, dragon riders for sure aren't.
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Greenseers can do the Bloodraven-thing.
Though I doubt the twins will choose that path.
 
Acolyte said:
Thwy just go to the green dream, thats what i think they are talking about
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The green dream is an afterlife, if having an in with an afterlife counted as being immortal, then almost everyone could be considered immortal.
Artemis1992 said:
Greenseers can do the Bloodraven-thing.
Though I doubt the twins will choose that path.
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The Bloodraven thing give life extension not immortality, Bloodraven has deteriorated a lot already, and he's not even 150 years old, at most the Bloodraven thing might triple your lifespan, and it's a sucky way to do it, that's still not convincing me that the twins wont have to use reincarnation or some form of ritual magic to become immortal, and a high level ranger like Theon is well on his way to becoming, can easily buy such things themselves.
 
I think the longevity might have something to do with being dragonlords. We didn't see that in canon, sure, but in canon magic is effectively dead. I am guessing in an age of awakened magic the dragonlords draw on the vitality of their mounts and stretch their lives for a few centuries. @DragonParadox, is there any truth to this guess?
 
Duesal said:
I think the longevity might have something to do with being dragonlords. We didn't see that in canon, sure, but in canon magic is effectively dead. I am guessing in an age of awakened magic the dragonlords draw on the vitality of their mounts and stretch their lives for a few centuries. @DragonParadox, is there any truth to this guess?
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ASWAH Dragonlords could live up to the maximum human lifespan, or 120 years, due to copious use of healing magic being ubiquitous in the nobility of Valyria.

But they weren't immortal.

OTOH, archmages in Valyria would have found it trivial to become immortal, but would not have shared their secret with others freely or widely because of its cabalistic nature.
 
Crake said:
ASWAH Dragonlords could live up to the maximum human lifespan, or 120 years, due to copious use of healing magic being ubiquitous in the nobility of Valyria.

But they weren't immortal.

OTOH, archmages in Valyria would have found it trivial to become immortal, but would not have shared their secret with others freely or widely because of its cabalistic nature.
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Pretty much yeah, the implication of longevity is from being Greenseers.
 
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  • [X] Forge of Creation: With Anu having finally restored the ritual necessary for the creation of his kin, much may change... But for now, that is but a single ritual. To truly bring his people to life, something yet grander Is needed.
    -[X] Organise a magi-industrial complex capable of producing Warforged en-mass. (Progress: 18+??/30, Cost: )
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While reading the latest chapter, I told myself that the crazy levelling rate of the twins was explained by special tutoring they got (having Bloodraven as a teacher helps! He has literally quasi-divine precognition, and he's crazy high level), and perhaps by being Greenseers.
Otherwise their levelling rate is pretty crazy, considering they didn't adventure.
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
While reading the latest chapter, I told myself that the crazy levelling rate of the twins was explained by special tutoring they got (having Bloodraven as a teacher helps! He has literally quasi-divine precognition, and he's crazy high level), and perhaps by being Greenseers.
Otherwise their levelling rate is pretty crazy, considering they didn't adventure.
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There was a divine boon involved as well, IIRC.
 
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  • [X] Forge of Creation: With Anu having finally restored the ritual necessary for the creation of his kin, much may change... But for now, that is but a single ritual. To truly bring his people to life, something yet grander Is needed.
    -[X] Organise a magi-industrial complex capable of producing Warforged en-mass. (Progress: 18+??/30, Cost: )
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Interlude DCCLXVI: Of Magic and Mechanism
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    • Of Magic and Mechanism ​

    Thirty-First Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

    It was a strange thing to describe, being tired without the ache of sore muscles, without the throbbing pain behind one's temple for staring too long and too fixedly at some scribbled page. Anu felt none of these things which he understood were a ubiquitous part of the lives of those born to flesh and blood, and yet he was weary just the same. The month had been filled with false starts and unexpected setbacks, from actually securing the materials he needed to ensuring the builders understood their tasks and were properly accommodated. The fact of the matter was that for all the theoretical knowledge of large scale infrastructure from across dozens of empires and ages there hadn't been any built in this realm and time. The flesh-forges were salvaged or reconstituted and the Shadow Tower had been brought to its current state during a collapsing ritual from what Anu understood.

    The closest anyone came to being qualified in such matters were himself for his work on the Golden Company's Shadow Fortress and the Lady Lya for her craft of the new sky-ships which were complex interconnected mechanisms of matter and magic. But the Forge of Creation would not be like neither of those admittedly ambitious projects. Anu envisioned it as a ritual in perpetual motion, drawing on the disciplines of alchemy and enchanting to ground and disperse the perilous energies that threatened backlash and worse. Doing so in a way that would require as little supervision from trained mages, of which there were yet so few in the realm and needed in what felt like a dozen other places at once had proven... challenging to say the least

    Forge of Creation Progress 7/12

    The sound of stone shifting and cracking ever so slightly underfoot warned Anu of Saguras' deliberate approach. The adamantine warrior had perhaps the least interest in sorcery out of all the Secondborn, yet she had lingered the longest with him as the project struck snare after snare. "Were you not the one that taught us that we should not mourn failings that cost us naught but time and gain us experience?" she rumbled sympathetically.

    "Alas, like much of my advice to you and your siblings it is proving easier to give than to take," the mage replied ruefully. "So many missteps are obvious in hindsight, such that it is frustrating to have learned of them by doing."

    "Ah, but you to not yet know all that you know," Saguras replied. "Perhaps the failings of the month sowed the seeds for some future triumph. Insight is more precious than diamonds. Come, the festivities are near and your task shall not suffer for a few days of absence."

    Anu sighed, she did have a point and a rather sharp one at that. Thus he allowed himself to be escorted towards the light and singing of Sorcerer's Deep. Unsurprisingly Empire Day seemed to have started early for some.

    What next?

    [] Write in

    OOC: Rather short, but there was not much to say here. Nothing specifically bad happened but progress is slow.
     
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    • @DragonParadox, the below is the state of the action before this chapter, with ?? standing for whatever Anu rolled.
    Please re-check, the stated "7/12" don't seem to make sense?
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    [] Forge of Creation: With Anu having finally restored the ritual necessary for the creation of his kin, much may change... But for now, that is but a single ritual. To truly bring his people to life, something yet grander Is needed.
    -[] Organise a magi-industrial complex capable of producing Warforged en-mass. (Progress: 18+??/30, Cost: )
    ----Anu (4d6 Progress)
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