She knows we are Oddysial and there is a reason that the Realm deals with Solars by dropping everything to kill them as quickly as possible before they can build a support infrastructure. If she is at all competent she knows we win the long game and will move as quickly as she can without sacrificing effectiveness. The question is how long does she think it will take to get her shit together, a month, six months, a year?
So you said Ody don't need sorcerry in his high of power Right?
Hmm. If we spend some of our Governance-efforts to finally getting our military back to acceptable levels, then augment our forces with sorcery, conquering an another strategically important asset back and also easily holding it seems feasible.
Sadly, there's only one Ulyssian, and having him hold all the territory he conquers personally is inefficient.
Yes, which is (kind of the) the problem for me. Any location we aren't in doesn't benefit from Uly, which is not much of a problem when we only hold Luseng but could get tricky if we conquer back both Auseng Bu and the Emerald Mountain. The last post you had about this:
For offense it works pretty well, but defense in more than one location? It will be pretty crappy (considering our still existing opposition) in all but that one place where Uly is.
I seriously can no longer be arsed to argue for it anymore.
No. This quest doesn't seem to have explicit vote closings and sometimes things remain contentious all the way up to the point where the update is being written.
Back when he was a baby Solar, there were plenty of friendly Twilights around to perform any necessary sorcerous tasks. Comparative advantage is a thing. Even as he grew more powerful, the same principle generally applied. At some point, he was sufficiently strong that the marginal benefits of sorcery were generally relatively trivial compared to his custom high essence charms.
There appears to be general agreement that it is fairly useful and that we should get it as soon as possible. The biggest use is for sorcerous workings for creating and/or enhancing allies and infrastructure. Even then, there are a number of spells that will be quite useful, like Travel Without Distance for teleporting up to 50 miles, or Demon of the Second Circle for summoning moderately powerful disposable minions.
While the world "trivial" is one I wouldn't use about SCS even with allies specializing in sorcery around, you have point there. Its likely that while Odyssial could have mastered sorcery in a time-frame that would have seemed insanely fast even to other Solars, there would have been only so much he could do with it without negatively impacting his other activities to a non-optimal degree.
He'd also focused so much on his native Charms that any Sorcerous power he might cultivate would be inferior without undergoing the same kind of rigorous iterative refinement that he probably subjected all his other skills to. We have a chance to go down a different developmental path here.
While Consolidate speaks about the viziers of the old king being the problem.
And what this means? We'll likely get to keep Teft-kun around, and he will be even more terrified of Ulyssian after he Limit Breaks and purges the corruption from his court! It could even lead to him performing even better in his job!
