You can but i would not have any special powers, it would just be a leather cloak and a rather heavy one at that. That said it could be a good base for a magic item assuming you could find an enchanter. There are none such in the city and rumors of where you might find one are hard to verify (would take an action to try)
Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest
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You can but i would not have any special powers, it would just be a leather cloak and a rather heavy one at that. That said it could be a good base for a magic item assuming you could find an enchanter. There are none such in the city and rumors of where you might find one are hard to verify (would take an action to try)
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I mean, it is useful to show it around for when we are not fighting
I doubt that we are investing the necessary feats to use it as a shield
When we asked Ohun about Inge's dagger, he provided this info:
It is immediately actionable, i.e. if we happen to be in Ibanora (e.g. when the war is over) or in Oromo, could we just go to enchanters, or would it still require additional actions to investigate?
Another question, do we know anything about how Neios is doing? What was he able to accomplish while we were still based in the city? Have we heard from him since we moved out to our land plot?
If you were in either of those places you would be able to find an enchanter far more easily than in Orinilu where magic beyond the domains of the gods has an unsettling reputation, but by the same metric because the blood smiths and the soul-binders are part of the local power structure it would not be as easy as just showing up with a bag of gold at their door and asking for a magic dagger. You would have to make it worth their while.
Now I want to sail to Oromo immediately after Korman even more, it would be super good.
We have an understanding with Moru and Ziku that they will help us get knowledge there, including magical knowledge, and Inaurna empire is the most civilized and knowledgeable realm we know of, the quality of magic must be the highest.
And we can help the princess with her shadow man troubles and get rewards from her, like she indicated:
We have an understanding with Moru and Ziku that they will help us get knowledge there, including magical knowledge, and Inaurna empire is the most civilized and knowledgeable realm we know of, the quality of magic must be the highest.
And we can help the princess with her shadow man troubles and get rewards from her, like she indicated:
And, given that, as DP just said, enchanters are part of local power structure, rewards would include access to enchanters, we could enchant our armor, weapons or make magic items from bases we have:
It would be a very long journey down the coast of Africa, not saying you should or should not do it, just keep the distances in mind
Yeah, I figured, that's why I want to ask House Koire to guard our land, take everything with us, leaving nothing behind, and go on this long journey.
And the longer the journey, the more trade profits would be.
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You missed this question, @DragonParadox.
When I mentioned having House Koire guard the keep for us a few days ago, I was also considering the possibility of the local Shore Sworn partially occupying it to help prevent unscrupulous sorts from taking advantage of our absence.
If House Koire does agree to guard it, they could also make use of the dock and warehouse storage space we're including in the keep.
We will likely need to leave at least a couple of our men behind as well, to represent our interests and keep any eye on any horses we leave behind.
Neios is trying to mingle with the local nobility and thereby gain some independence of you and yours, though he has met with limited success so far mostly because he does not have the ability to appear as a noble. If you guys had chosen to spend less money on the keep and other expenses Antonio might have loaned him the money for the task but with only 14K in the bank he does not feel up for risky investments.
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I'm not a fan of Dragonhide Cloak.
I'd take it, if it were a magic item, but Roland doesn't strike me as the kind of person to wear something that makes him stand out everywhere he goes just for the sake of itself.
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I'd take it, if it were a magic item, but Roland doesn't strike me as the kind of person to wear something that makes him stand out everywhere he goes just for the sake of itself.
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If we're going to wear a dragonhide cloak, it should be because it lets us fly or breath fire, not merely for stylistic purposes. They're a bit too mythical and rare here to be used just for a fashion statement, IMO.
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Arc 11 Interlude 1: Masterful Moment
Masterful Moment
Eighteenth Day of Ikomi-hamba (Ikomi Descendant) 1348 A. L. (After Landfall)
The walls were tall and thick and plastered white, not to keep out the snow and chill, but to keep in the powers which might in this hall be invoked. It was a circle a dozen paces across, because for of all the shapes that the mind of man had conjured it was the circle that was the most sublime and yet the one which escaped the canon of Pythagorean understanding, with even Archimedes of Syracuse admitting with uncommon humility that his calculation was mere approximation. Yet the old man insisted that the circle was as close to that shape as the cunning of his mind could dream and the craft of Orinilu the Fair could make manifest.
Circles of crystal upon the sky, where wander the planets bright and all the visible worlds in Spheres of Being were held, so said the books written by a dozen quills and in the hand of a madman kept. Thus all existence was in circles writ and in this narrow hall of stone and wood it was reflected that burning hope and dread desire of all mankind to be the petty demiurge of their own small makings.
Power bubbled from his cauldron with the breath of heavy fumes, of slumber, perchance of death, blood seeped between the broken scales still ruby red as though the beast had just been slain rather than laying in the depths of the hold for three full moonturns and more. A dragon's blood scorns the passage of the years and through it passes uncorrupted.
With steady hands, accustomed to the risk of vitriol and noxious humors, Zaia of Alexandria poured it into vials, mixing in shavings of gold and seeds of pepper that stings like fire and does not burn. With wine-numbed lips he spoke the words of power and command that would ignite within the secret fire. Use thou the tongue of thine soul and keep it in the deepest secret of thine heart, that was the advice that Moru, servant of Inoko, had given him, adding that even when two magicians started from the same tongue they would soon part ways in the making of their particular magic, like branches of a tree dividing so that their leaves may drink in the light above.
For Zaia it was his mother tongue that no other soul upon all the world spoke, not even his fellow travelers upon strange currents. It was the tongue of saints and martyrs, of scholars and mystics, going back how far even Zaia did not know save that when the Father of History laid down his first account the land on the banks of the Nile was already old beyond his reckoning.
With these words and by these signs, half of one world and half of the other, did the scholar lay supple leather about the hilt of the sword Durendal and of the black tipped spear which had laid low the beast as day passed into twilight, though he had not meant it so. In halls new raised that which was ancient passed to new purpose by one who had already crossed the greatest of all borders.
In the depths of the world, far beyond the reach of his new awakened sight, felt only in the hand and the heart, something stirred. Zaia of Alexandria knew that he had in this moment a chance to shape more than leather onto steel and bronze.
By a combination of circumstance, skill and sheer good fortune in his first act of arcane crafting Zaia of Alexandria has invoked a deeper magic in one of the weapons he was bending his mind upon.
Which is the weapon?
[] The spear of Black Iron, the dragon-slayer unleashed, it sings most loudly in this hour, but dark is its song
[] Durendal, blade of a great hero, fire to fire is called
OOC: You may be wondering why this is an interlude... you may also be wondering why the hell an alchemist with no crafting feats gets a free crafting. Well he only had two rolls to make since with the wine he auto-succeeded the alchemy. He rolled this... and this. That is not a nat 100, that is the equivalent of rolling 400 on a d400. So there you go, choose which one he accidentally magickes harder like a dwarf fortress dorf in a fey mood.
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All magic is technically reality bending, including alchemy, it is just that he bend a lot harder than he intended to and sort of stumbled into ritual magic.
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[X] The spear of Black Iron, the dragon-slayer unleashed, it sings most loudly in this hour, but dark is its song
They both are hella cool but I'm honestly feeling this one more. The spear that gained magic through slaying a dragon, reaching its full potential through Draconic reagents from the same beast? Cool stuff.
They both are hella cool but I'm honestly feeling this one more. The spear that gained magic through slaying a dragon, reaching its full potential through Draconic reagents from the same beast? Cool stuff.
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[X] The spear of Black Iron, the dragon-slayer unleashed, it sings most loudly in this hour, but dark is its song
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Just plain old Flaming would almost certainly make Durendal a minor artifact rather than probably being one. For whatever reason, Flaming normally requires a 10th caster level to add to a magic weapon, while Frost and Shocking only need 5th or 7th (can't recall which). Combine that with its already existing Keen ability, which also requires a caster level of 10, and Durendal is a weapon just completely beyond the bounds of mortal crafting.
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