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I think Mirror Image, Dispel Magic, and Dimension Door are the best versatility option here.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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I like how I've never seen JoJo's, yet I can find the references to other references anyway
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Part MMMDCLXXXIV: Stranger Paths
Stranger Paths
Nineteenth Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC
Chaos is rarely of itself a desirable state of affairs, even when it is born of the devastation of one's foes. So it is with Crimson Lotus' carefully cultivated 'rebels' in the midst of the Court of Stars, or those fey of the light still willing to walk the twilight paths and converse with the Orphne. Thus your most urgent question upon returning to Sorcerer's Deep, enchanted mirror and foes of dragonglass all wrapped in your glided cloak, is not one any of your agents can answer readily.
"The Sage was often absent and moved in his own time, and did not bow even to the Queen's majesty," Crimson Lotus explains, excuses himself rather.
It is oddly enough the most recent and perhaps least reliable of your sources of information with regards to the fey in the Reach who has the most answers. According to Swift-Eye, who had some interest in keeping portals open to realms other than the Feywild in case some of his more dangerous client preferred him dead or worse, a rumor spread among the fey of the Honeywine that the 'Shadow King had passed into Shadow truly'. Some took this to mean he had perished, others that he mourned the ruin of the Court of Stars and would not emerge back into the world before his tears were spent.
Swift-Eye, being of a practical mindset, suspects that the last lord of the Bright fey went to the one place vast enough to carry him across the world, yet unlikely enough to bar the eyes of his foes, the Shadow Realm.
To your own way of thinking and that of your counsel in the matter, from Vee to Moonsong to Crimson Lotus, the Orphne Lord and Glyra, it makes more sense the more you consider it. The Shadow Realm contains the echoes of what once was. He would not find his kin there, of course, as it reflects only the mortal world, but answers to how mortals had changed and how he might have failed to see the fatal blow, that he might find and the Sage is inclined towards contemplation. You warn the Orphne, and the Inquisition more broadly, to keep an eye on passages into Shadow, then move on to the rest of the day's affairs.
That news has to do with a letter from New Ghis, and most uncommonly for that blighted corner of the world, it actually holds good news. You read a report in Malarys' unwavering hand which, beneath the expected dislike of Ghiscari potentates, actually reveals someone you can cut a deal with, mostly because you already are... or at least your citizens are. While Gramdal mo Ia, Praetor of the People, is involved in what would be under Imperial law the most aggravated and blatant forms of bribery, he is surprisingly free of those crimes that got magisters from Lys to Tyrosh hung in the aftermath of the Conquest. The report scrupulously notes that he may have distanced himself from such practices intentionally when he started doing business in the Empire, but quickly moves on to the crux of the matter, his ambitions.
Gramdal is old, an elder statesman if one is being kind to his record, having spent his adult entire life holding some public office or honor, and he has time and again seen himself passed over for younger, bolder voices. That he lived long enough to see them fed to the lions, literally in one memorable case, serves as cold comfort, and it's growing colder by the day. According to your agents, there are good odds he is preparing to defect and there is little reason not to push him in that direction.
The other part of the report concerns Nandazda Aoq, and it is far stranger. It seems the Green Grace is indeed a sorceress in her own right, and not just a devil's puppet, but it is the source of her magic that had Malarys return to Sorcerer's Deep to confer with some of the elder leshy teaching in the Scholarum. Nandazda Aoq is a warg, the daughter or granddaughter of some lost northern slave and she has somehow honed those arts to heights that few sorcerers not bound to the Greendream have managed.
Salted Earth (New Ghis Information): 23/10 Complete
Who do you approach in New Ghis and how?
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OOC: What happened here is that you rolled high enough that you finished the information gathering already, so if you want to move on to diplomacy you can. XP will be up in the morning.
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No worries, what happened was he got this feat as a bonus feat:
For now it's just a cool fluff effect and bonus, but any actual level he gets will be able to be retrained as a psionic level. Fortunately for Relath, this stacks on Draconic Sorcery innate to his own nature. So say he's an Ancient Brine Dragon with 15 levels of Sorcerer on top of his CL 15 casting inherent in his dragon nature. He can retrain that to 15 levels of psionic shenanigans while still keeping 15 levels of dragon sorcery.
He basically unlocked bullshit in the distant future.
Well fuck. Illyrio and now the Sage of the Court of Stars flee to the Shadow Realm.
Heightened those arts how exactly? Are we looking at a rogue greenseer?
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
Fixing, thaks
Definitely not that. Greenseers are linked to the Old Gods.
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Mirror Image is normally one of my go-to 2nd level spells, but Relath already has a PoSK for that one, so I was considering alternatives.
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...well, I suppose that really good rolls are a reason enough to not have it all summarized like the previous month's report.
Can't lie though, not too happy regardless.
I have about zero interest in SB right now, and yet we gotta handle it in-detail lest we lose it entirely.
Also, yes please for Psionic shit for Relath.
Dragons are already bullshit (case in point: Amrelath is only a little lagging in killy'ness behind Viserys, and mostly because of lacking SoD and rocket-tag spells).
Psionic Dragons with access to Divine magic through ancestry and some sorcerous casting are the cheesiest.
Can't lie though, not too happy regardless.
I have about zero interest in SB right now, and yet we gotta handle it in-detail lest we lose it entirely.
Also, yes please for Psionic shit for Relath.
Dragons are already bullshit (case in point: Amrelath is only a little lagging in killy'ness behind Viserys, and mostly because of lacking SoD and rocket-tag spells).
Psionic Dragons with access to Divine magic through ancestry and some sorcerous casting are the cheesiest.
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Can someone remind me about Nandazda Aoq?
If we retrain any of his levels to a Psionic class, at best he would be equivalent to a 5th level Sorcerer and 4th level Psion, limited to 2nd level spells and powers. And those Sorcerer levels would only increase as he ages in the coming centuries.
If we instead let him get a few levels, he can retrain to the same PRC as Qyburn, Cerebremancer, which will let him gain spellcasting and psionic manifesting. The absolute earliest we could do this would be when he levels up again, though it would still knock his magic back by quite a bit, down to 3rd level spells instead of 5th level.
It's really not worth it right now. At the moment, Relath's Sorcerer/Dragon Mystic levels stack with his own innate magic to get him up to 9th caster level for magic once we complete his level up. That's pretty good, and getting better.
If we retrain any of his levels to a Psionic class, at best he would be equivalent to a 5th level Sorcerer and 4th level Psion, limited to 2nd level spells and powers. And those Sorcerer levels would only increase as he ages in the coming centuries.
If we instead let him get a few levels, he can retrain to the same PRC as Qyburn, Cerebremancer, which will let him gain spellcasting and psionic manifesting. The absolute earliest we could do this would be when he levels up again, though it would still knock his magic back by quite a bit, down to 3rd level spells instead of 5th level.
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What else do we know of her? Stuff that anyone in the city could learn through gossip or careful questioning, like her attitude, age, etc?
She is roughly 60, her personality and attitudes seem to fall within the norms of her class and position, at least when one accounts for the added fears of a sorceress who can control one's mind.
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Cerebremancer would be an excellent future class. I can totally see Relath taking lessons from Qyburn on how to harness his new insights. That'd make a great interlude.
Good night guys, see you tomorrow with Slaver's Bay.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be much better to cast as a thirtieth level Sorcerer instead of a lv 15 Sorc and lv15 in some psionic class?
Though, if there's some sorta Mystic Theurge-type thing for arcane and psionic (I think Qyburn has this?) that wouldn't be so bad, since you wouldn't miss out on that sky-high caster level.
EDIT: Yep, Cerebromancer.
EDIT2: just said the name wrong two edits in a row.Yay.
(I may be saying something really dumb. If so, please ignore this.)
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There are big benefits to both, so it's mostly which one we prefer. If he went the pure sorcerer route we'd be seeing some ridiculous metamagic out of him, like we saw with that Fey Lord of the Violet Court. But if he goes the psionic route imo it'd be more narratively fitting. That's the power stolen from the very masters that once enslaved him, the strength of an unshackled mind. Imagine him casting Antimagic field and then ripping enemies to shreds as a psion.
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Gramdal mo Ia seems like the safer bet to me, and likely one more easily swayed to our side. Like @ryuan proposed, we can probably buy Gramdal mo Ia's loyalty with a Reincarnation spell.
[X] Approach Gramdal mo Ia. The man has skeletons in his closet, of course, but he has demonstrated enough intelligence and adaptability that we should be able to work with him, and he within the Imperium.
-[X] Invite Gramdal mo Ia to a meeting in Volantis, which we will attend in person, along with Zherys. If he cannot arrange rapid transit, we will have a Teleport Charm delivered that will allow him and a handful of others to travel to Volantis.
[X] Approach Gramdal mo Ia. The man has skeletons in his closet, of course, but he has demonstrated enough intelligence and adaptability that we should be able to work with him, and he within the Imperium.
-[X] Invite Gramdal mo Ia to a meeting in Volantis, which we will attend in person, along with Zherys. If he cannot arrange rapid transit, we will have a Teleport Charm delivered that will allow him and a handful of others to travel to Volantis.
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[X] Arrange meetings with both for next month when you are less pressed for time.
-[X] Quietly pass a message to Nandazda Aoq and request to meet her in person in a neutral location of her choosing, bringing along Dalla as the most knowledgeable about warging.
-[X] Invite Gramdal mo Ia to a meeting in Volantis, which we will attend in person, along with Zherys.
-[X] If either of them lacks the ability to have themselves Teleported, we will supply Teleportation Charms.
I'd prefer to get a good read on both of them. Odds are, Nandazda will become the leader of the local Scholarium, while Gramdal will become the Magistrate of New Ghis.
-[X] Quietly pass a message to Nandazda Aoq and request to meet her in person in a neutral location of her choosing, bringing along Dalla as the most knowledgeable about warging.
-[X] Invite Gramdal mo Ia to a meeting in Volantis, which we will attend in person, along with Zherys.
-[X] If either of them lacks the ability to have themselves Teleported, we will supply Teleportation Charms.
I'd prefer to get a good read on both of them. Odds are, Nandazda will become the leader of the local Scholarium, while Gramdal will become the Magistrate of New Ghis.