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

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Crake said:
Thought y'all might be interested to know how many mages we're responsible for having trained.

When you compare it to the next largest magical organization which isn't based out of Asshai (which has no more than several hundred mages total) it's pretty goddamn prodigious. Granted we've really only trained around 128 mages who are worth their salt in magic. That's after having opened the doors on the Scholarum in late 292 AC, so less than a year and a half of work.

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1843,00693,00254,0068,0081,0044,003,00

Total: 2,986

If we keep up a similar pace, I expect by 300 AC we'll have anywhere from 40,000 to 50,000 mages. Granted, over two thirds of them are likely to be Hedge Mages, Adepts and Magewrights.

If we suppose the average stays fairly regular over a longer time scale, around 5% of the PC classes have the potential to breach the soft cap.

So if you think about it, there's potential for nearly a thousand Paragon (10~) mages in our empire over the next half decade.

And that's just with the current projected numbers, we'll be establishing new branches of the Scholarum in due order, probably increasing the numbers by an order of magnitude.

If we suppose that a mere tenth of a percent (being generous) of every Paragon has the potential to be a PC, for every 1,000 we're responsible for training, there's one Companion grade mage hidden in the pile. So we could create another PC every five years, or if it's a hundredth of a percent, every fifty years.

Realistically speaking, fifty years seems closer to accurate, but then that's having your perspective skewed by the fact that we've uncovered dozens of PCs in the span of five years. Could just be a one-time bonus due to the Reawakening of Magic having some confluence of metaphysical events at its core resulting in dozens of people with some grand destiny converging all at once.
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It won't be long before some of the first graduating alumni are ready to start administering and teaching at Scholarium branches as full time faculty. 🤓
 
I imagined a version of the gif at the part where he's slapping all the constables, and above the head of each Constable read names like "Tiamat", "Anu-Simung", "Elder Brain", etc.

Alas, there's not enough people in the entire video that's from to represent all the bitch-slapping we've done and will be doing.
 
egoo said:
Gonna loop the video 3-4 times with each loop having different names, then.
*nods wizely*
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Honestly, you could loop it four times and use each individual name of every named villain, and I don't mean the extreme mooks, I mean exclusively the arc-focus antagonist we've faced like the Bright One, Azema's Mom, etc. and the quest would be large enough you'd still have room for a couple more loops.
 
[X] Travel to Mardosh, to negotiate a more permanent agreement with the Lord Protector

Well, that was fun, now let us make sure our loot doesn't slip from our grasp.
 
Goldfish said:
I doubt the already diminished demiplane of a dead god will remain stable for long, but it's definitely worth checking out.
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Good point, we should do this soon. Wonder if we can find Anu's avatar non-functional

As for Gornath, I'm pretty sure that we got some indication that the Rat King didn't really have any "civilian" Undead, and that they had all been pressed into service as his army. That would explain the 500+ Bloody Bones and the countless Devouring Mists (which are normally 10ft-ish swarms) being so numerous that they were more like a bloody fogbank than any individual swarms.
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Maybe, but I doubt these things would be good at crafting. They still need smiths to make swords for their skeletons for example. Worst case is its a relative waste of time that gives us a bit of loot. Agree its not as urgent as the other cities.

[X] Travel to Mardosh, to negotiate a more permanent agreement with the Lord Protector
 
DragonParadox said:
Skyforger:
The true version of this hammer would be an instrument of creation beyond anything mortal magic can create, but this feeble remnant of a deity merely managed to will a copy suited for destruction into existence. The large Returning +5 Starmetal Warhammer has a range increment of 50ft when thrown and suffers no penalty when used as a thrown weapon. Once per day, the wielder may call on the hammer's full power and throw it to unleash and explosion of thunder and lightning on impact, dealing 6d6 Electricity and 6d6 Sonic damage to everything in a 30ft radius around the impact. Targets can make a Fortitude save (DC 25) to take half damage and avoid being deafened for 1d4 minutes.
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Also, damn, this hammer is bitchin'. It's basically Mjölnir.

Any plans for it?

The armor is pretty great too, though most of the people who need to wear mithril to rock full-plate unfortunately can't wear it, leaving it basically to just to martial characters.

The Cloak is a lot more limited in terms of casual usage. Can become very inconvenient to time magic usage in a group.
 
Azel said:
Can someone fill me in on what the Lord Protector's deal is?
Kinda flew over the chapters with him.
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Hes more a less put all of the undead in the city in the Matrix so that they think they are still alive thousands of years ago.

Also the void sent absolutely jacked daemon to try and corrupt the place.

This is slightly concerning.

He has a nephew that is the last piece to making the matrix permanent but the nephew is holding out because the lord protector ordered the entire city put to the sword to spare them the Dothraki.

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I think that's it. Feel free to chime in if I missed something guys.
 
zxzx24 said:
Hes more a less put all of the undead in the city in the Matrix so that they think they are still alive thousands of years ago.

Also the void sent absolutely jacked daemon to try and corrupt the place.

This is slightly concerning.

He has a nephew that is the last piece to making the matrix permanent but the nephew is holding out because the lord protector ordered the entire city put to the sword to spare them the Dothraki.

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I think that's it. Feel free to chime in if I missed something guys.
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Ah. Alright. I had the gist of that, but the part about him killing everyone and the illusion being his doing are new to me.

Should be easy to get him to swear fealty then.
 
To do a quick summary

The city was being attacked by Dothraki. The city was Sparta like and so fought and fought but when shit started getting desperate they killed(I think) their own people. Now they are back and the citizens don't remember shit because of some magic spell meanwhile the soldiers remember. Straight up no one leaves the city because of some weird magic. Now the Lord Protector (the prince's uncle) wants the prince to take charge so that the city's magic can take full hold (A little spotty there) but the prince wasn't for that bullshit in life and isn't in undeath.

There was also some weird Void Demon that we fought and killed that we suspect was trying to capture/corrupt the local undead.

Edit: I think that's everything.
 
Crake said:
Also, damn, this hammer is bitchin'. It's basically Mjölnir.

Any plans for it?

The armor is pretty great too, though most of the people who need to wear mithril to rock full-plate unfortunately can't wear it, leaving it basically to just to martial characters.

The Cloak is a lot more limited in terms of casual usage. Can become very inconvenient to time magic usage in a group.
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All three items are really nice. The hammer doesn't appear to have the conceptual association with smithing that I was hoping for, but it's still a bitchin' weapon. We don't really have anyone who can use it right now, at least not anyone on our radar. I would keep it in the Armory for now until a good wielder comes along or we find a better use for it.

The armor is relatively simple, but very effective at what it does. Worth holding on to, like the hammer.

The cloak, on the other hand, is a serious asset. It's not necessarily something we or a Companion should be wearing all the time, but I would keep it in Viserys' cloak to pull out in the event of an enemy who can use Time Stop. It's like Spellbane, but with a much larger area and no vulnerability to another Spellbane effect.
 
Why not try to suckle the remained of the god-juice out of the statue to turn the hammer into a crafting tool?

Just because the avatar manifested it as a weapon doesn't mean it can't be reforged into something else.
 
Important note on the Lord Protector and the Prince:

The issue with the Prince is that he was born disabled and essentially treated as a non-person in life so he really disliked his uncle and the soldier obsessed culture even before they killed every civilian in the city including him. It also means he had no power in life and even the general population thinks little of him, but once they find out that the soldiers they so admired killed them all I figure his previous status will make him more acceptable to the population rather than less.

Also the Prince was the one the Daemon was trying to corrupt since he has a lot of potential power but no agency to use it on his own.
 
I always assumed he was a possible cornerstone of the ritual because of his royal blood. We may be wrong about that.

I also suspect the Lord protector to still cares greatly for his nephew. Crippled status aside.
 
@Goldfish if the Hammer languishes in the armory for too long, Ceria might later shape up to be a good wielder for it. Aside from the fact she's one of the few PCs we have who uses warhammers, at least she's on theme. :V

Edit: There's also the possibility for creating our own crafting hammer artifact, though I'm not sure what kind of effects that would have for stuff we make with it. Make Constructs even cheaper then they already are?
 
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Crake said:
@Goldfish if the Hammer languishes in the armory for too long, Ceria might later shape up to be a good wielder for it. Aside from the fact she's one of the few PCs we have who uses warhammers, at least she's on theme. :V

Edit: There's also the possibility for creating our own crafting hammer artifact, though I'm not sure what kind of effects that would have for stuff we make with it. Make Constructs even cheaper then they already are?
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@Azel's idea has merit. If there is any Divine mojo left in Anu-Simung's remains, Lya and Anu might be able to extract it and modify the hammer to be helpful with crafting.

I'm not sure what the effect of that would be if they succeeded, however. Maybe something that could enhance Constructs, or make them cheaper like you suggest? I still have the idea of the hammer being used in conjunction with the anvil we learned about in the Plane of Water possibly be components to repairing the Inevitable Forge in Axis, or maybe just allowing the creation of individual Inevitables via ritual. Imperial Inevitables... 🤤
 
Goldfish said:
@Azel's idea has merit. If there is any Divine mojo left in Anu-Simung's remains, Lya and Anu might be able to extract it and modify the hammer to be helpful with crafting.

I'm not sure what the effect of that would be if they succeeded, however. Maybe something that could enhance Constructs, or make them cheaper like you suggest? I still have the idea of the hammer being used in conjunction with the anvil we learned about in the Plane of Water possibly be components to repairing the Inevitable Forge in Axis, or maybe just allowing the creation of individual Inevitables via ritual. Imperial Inevitables... 🤤
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I could see the hammer giving mythic crafting, similar to the higher tiers of Lya's mythic path
 
Goldfish said:
@Azel's idea has merit. If there is any Divine mojo left in Anu-Simung's remains, Lya and Anu might be able to extract it and modify the hammer to be helpful with crafting.

I'm not sure what the effect of that would be if they succeeded, however. Maybe something that could enhance Constructs, or make them cheaper like you suggest? I still have the idea of the hammer being used in conjunction with the anvil we learned about in the Plane of Water possibly be components to repairing the Inevitable Forge in Axis, or maybe just allowing the creation of individual Inevitables via ritual. Imperial Inevitables... 🤤
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I like @Azel's proposal for the hammer best. Anu was a god of artifice and metal. While he brought that hammer into being for war, it's still his divine essence invested in creation, which has some amazingly thematic abilities for basically everything Lya does for us. If we can get her and our Anu to repurpose it into a crafting tool that would be fantastic.
 
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