Not worth it if they draw from the Cleric list like Tyene.
For good under or in-water casting you want a Druid or a specialised Wizard.
In that case, any objections to giving a few dragonseeds to Bloodraven for training via weirwood?

I've still got my heart set on determining what kinds of magics everyone is best suited for, and then sorting them appropriately.
 
Part MCI: Bargains and Black Sorcery
Bargains and Black Sorcery

Tenth Day of the Fourth Month 292 AC

The death mage is as morbid a sight as when last you saw him. You almost have the urge to drag him into the sunlight through the open door just to verify he is nor some manner of unliving horror. He is also to your quiet dismay... enthusiastic about Argo, launching into detailed anatomical speculations about how the bull-man is in his words "put together." Argo himself may not be able to understand more than one word in every twenty out of the mage's tirade but from the way his hand grips the haft of his axe it is quite enough.

Fortunately the bull-man restrains his rage so you are not put in the unfortunate situation of having to explain incapacitating your own guard, or worse left with the dismembered body of a prominent mage on our hands. Once the discussion shifts to the matter of the Seeker the tall cadaverous mage grows more subdued: "I have been encountering revere impediments in using divination on the construct non-destructively... magic fails to bind properly in to bone and flesh which makes the results garbled at best..."

The dark-robed sorcerer motions with his left hand as he speaks words of power shadows trailing in the wake of his movements before coalescing into blurred man-like shapes. The sounds the shadows made were muffles as if heard through deep water or heavy stone, save for the odd fragment of a word you could not even guess the language of.

"I am sorry it was not all that you had hopped, wisdom," you offer, and empty platitude that cost nothing.

The mage snorts. "Not half as sorry as I am young one... the depth of lore just out of reach. I would be willing to pay for a chance at further study, at least half a year. In simple gold if you prefer or..." A cold wind whistled through the house, setting the windows rattling against iron frames. "Other servitors of unwavering rare and exceptional skills."

What do you reply?

[] Take the Seeker back

[] Accept the deal
-[] To be paid in coin: 1800 Gold
-[] To be paid in unliving servitors: a total of 12 HD of undead including
--[] Skeleton (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the corpse)
--[] Zombie (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the corpse)
--[] Ghoul or ghoulish creature (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the corpse)
--[] Shadow or umbral creature (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the living victim/soul; HD cost x1.5)
--[] Wight (HD cost x2)


OOC: The minotaur passes quite a difficult will save there.
 
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I'm tempted to just take the money, because we will need it, and my inner collector wants a lot of shadow creatures to guard the Shadow Tower.
 
I'm tempted to just take the money, because we will need it, and my inner collector wants a lot of shadow creatures to guard the Shadow Tower.
We are propably better off gathering Shadows from their homeplane with Dany's help.
That way at least we could assume they are natural predators, not unfortunate souls that were raised as monsters.

The only offer of value here are the Wights.
 
We're not going to be doing much the Seeker would be helpful with for the next six months, so I'm really tempted to take the gold. We don't need undead, and many in our party would not be happy to have them around, but more money is always nice.

EDIT: Then again, as Azel pointed out, I would prefer that Volantis doesn't gain the ability to create new Seekers, or even learn how to reproduce some of its more interesting features.
 
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We're not going to be doing much the Seeker would be helpful with for the next six months, so I'm really tempted to take the gold. We don't need undead, and many in our party would not be happy to have them around, but more money is always nice.
It's less about not doing anything with the Seeker and more about not giving Volantis the means to mass-produce an anti-mage weapon.

I want that gold too. :(

But, if we get the Seeker back we can start sending Maelor, the Seeker, and Leila on mini-adventures to Lys. Hopefully push Leila up to level 5 and get some loot.
 
We are propably better off gathering Shadows from their homeplane with Dany's help.
That way at least we could assume they are natural predators, not unfortunate souls that were raised as monsters.

The only offer of value here are the Wights.

No. I don't want CE undead guarding our tower. I just want the equivalent of Garin as guards for it. Shadow Creatures are not evil, just nongood. And having a "Shadow Guard" for the Shadow Tower is just awesome. Imagine if Jonny suddenly does something stupid only for 3 guys to come out of the shadows and knock him out.
 
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