I do get what you mean but Dresden Files makes a lot of talk about Wizards being like that and then it also shows Wizards that make things like the Dark Hallow do things like a pull satellites out of orbit and use them as ICBM, Challenge mythic Titans to duels, launch curses that strike someone supposedly immune to magic, Animate a T-Rex skeleton and ride down main street, instantly project an image of a Room into the minds of 500 people, get into running transformation battles with demigods and more.
Don't forget that Battle Ground - a book the fandom seems to feel downgraded Mab, Titania, and the senior council in terms of power (because the Eye of Balor was used to destroy individual buildings, and its user [who was exhausted by it] curbstomped Weakened!Mab, FullPower!Titania, and Odin, before ripping through the Erlking and some senior council mages as a treat) also had Carlos Ramirez, who started learning magic after Storm Front, casually disintegrate a crowd of potent enemy fomori water mages by ripping apart their molecules
with water magic, in a way that Harry noted was difficult to do without exhausting/killing yourself.
Wizards be
crazy, guys.
Edit: And before I forget to talk about this stuff-
First of all, we don't really know when Justine gets infected, much less other people. Nemesis has an unknown vector, possibly one not visible within reality. But while a Splendor probably can't pull off Yog's map trick (since the globe is Background-based), a prodigy with a bit of He-Who-Walks-Besides-stuff probably could just… be a constantly-updating list of every person Nfected. I'd like to make that sometime soon, if possible, because fuck Nemesis. I'm not spending Crown questions to find the newest list
every time we find an Nfected; let's make a custom artifact for it and use the pawns to harvest this thing's collected Lore!
Secondly?
Seven dots: Darksight: Watch and listen through any shadow in the world.
Tiffany may be using D:tF Lores… but Nick's been given a Vampire Discipline. A
five dot plus vampire discipline. Alongside an ally constantly using it, to make it worse.
Which brings us to my third point:
the soul oF darKness (10 points)
The Exalt's patron infuses the power of some foreign darkness into her heart. She gains one of the following: Werewolf or other Changing Breed Gifts worth five levels in total; five total dots of Kindred or Hungry Dead Disciplines; or five total dots of demonic Lores. The Exalt substitutes Essence for any Rage, Gnosis, blood point, Chi, or Faith costs they may demand. (Celerity, Fortitude, Potence, and similar powers that simply add more dice aren't recommended when designing NPCs with this system, as it's not much fun to fight an archenemy who simply has such a titanic dice pool that you can never hit or hurt them no matter what, which is what will happen if you stack those on top of the "Excellence"-series Charms.)
I thought we were limited to 5 dots max if we used The Soul of Darkness. (Which is still useful as hell - dots in weird powers, without having to spend XP? Especially DtF 1-3 dots, which manifest as free (as in moteless) abilities, even if they're less effective than what we already do? Useful, even if Tiff takes the impressive powers - the Crafting Lore has a lovely enhancer for items we make, and she probably won't mind if we copy a trick or two to keep ourself relevant after we run out of motes.
But. It's just hitting me that we could acquire 'plot device' (the Antediluvian 10-dot power) by bargaining bits of our soul away - if two purchases, for twenty points, means we can get 10 dots of a discipline. Which seemed unlikely, because Holden disdained archsphere silliness… but if our enemies can get high-tier bullshit, then an exalt selling bits of their soul? Might be able to get the same. Especially if the limit is normally 'free will goes down/refresh goes up,' and we're an EXALT.
Hell sure knows how to be tempting, huh?
And now I'm wondering what the actual in-game effects of those Temporis powers are… Although 10 dot Celerity would be nice.
