Harry Potter and the Scabbard of Excalibur [AU]
Corvus Black
The Inestimable
- Location
- England
[X] The Promised Wand [5 Gnosis]
I greatly dislike special snowflake wands. This worked for Harry in canon and it works for him here.
Plus the font colour is yellow.
I greatly dislike special snowflake wands. This worked for Harry in canon and it works for him here.
Plus the font colour is yellow.
Can't resist the mystery box the wood is of great power according to discord
[x]Plan Ambition
[x]Plan Ambition
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Promised Wand [5 Gnosis]
Special and plot-relevant wand at a decent price.
Special and plot-relevant wand at a decent price.
[x]Plan Ambition
Holly as a Wand wood doesn't fit this Harry at all.
Holly as a Wand wood doesn't fit this Harry at all.
OctarineShrike
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Canon harry had blood protection that burned Quirell until book 4 and a secure house until book 7.
Dudley didn't get healed. So we're going to need to make the most of our gnosis. And while saving is useful for high expense picks, the other side of the coin is that power begets power. It is leverage to face stronger foes, reap greater rewards, to provide greater space for optimization, more resources with which to accelerate our training.
The Promised Wand has high affinity for us(whatever that precisely means), and gives us Priori incantatem in contests with His wand. In every other respect it's an all-rounder type wand. The question is how much does that affinity translate into power?
The Wand of the Maestro as I called it(Affanc Hair, Very Short, Supple, Holly) would explosively accelerate our ability to learn new spells and make us godlike at fine detail work/subtle type spells. It would also be good for shield spells. With our capacity for basic spell modification, we could get very versatile, very fast. And I haven't gone into Trismegistus possibilities.
Ambition has whatever considerable hax the Ancient Roman wand wood is.
Tangentially, I found the Affanc on wikipedia if people are curious. Afanc - Wikipedia
Dudley didn't get healed. So we're going to need to make the most of our gnosis. And while saving is useful for high expense picks, the other side of the coin is that power begets power. It is leverage to face stronger foes, reap greater rewards, to provide greater space for optimization, more resources with which to accelerate our training.
The Promised Wand has high affinity for us(whatever that precisely means), and gives us Priori incantatem in contests with His wand. In every other respect it's an all-rounder type wand. The question is how much does that affinity translate into power?
The Wand of the Maestro as I called it(Affanc Hair, Very Short, Supple, Holly) would explosively accelerate our ability to learn new spells and make us godlike at fine detail work/subtle type spells. It would also be good for shield spells. With our capacity for basic spell modification, we could get very versatile, very fast. And I haven't gone into Trismegistus possibilities.
Ambition has whatever considerable hax the Ancient Roman wand wood is.
Tangentially, I found the Affanc on wikipedia if people are curious. Afanc - Wikipedia
[X] The Promised Wand [5 Gnosis]
OctarineShrike
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I'd like to bring up that the Priori Incantatem problem is circumventable if Harry or The Dark Lord happens to be using a different wand. As such, Priori Incantatem is only likely to be relevant once, if that.
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- Location
- USA
We probably should get into Trismegistus possibilities now. There has been some discussion here and there but it is going to be a titanic choice that we should figure it out now or at least create some good builds now.
I was considering leaning towards a specific spell as one of the Trismegistus picks but Birdsie threw cold water on that idea by mentioning that we are unlikely to learn Apparition until we are a good bit into our education. So one of our Trismegistus picks would being going to waste for a while until we learn Apparition. Other spells might fall into that same category to varying levels. Something like the Patronus charm might not be learned for a good two or three years. Even with the potential brokenness of a single spell being a Trismegistus pick...I'm not sure it will be worth it if we don't learn said spell for a good while. And with Trismegistus spells still requiring decades of effort to truly push into insane power/effect... I think we should nix any ideas of having a Trismegistus pick be a specific spell.
Subject - sub-subject should be the only considerations.
OctarineShrike
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If a very long wand makes transfiguration near impossible, would a very short wand make transfiguration easy?
Birdsie
Sharp Talons Cleave The Worthy
- Location
- Poland
Yes. Transfiguration is more about finesse than raw power.
Alright, let's do a vote consolidation - all options besides Plan Ambition and the Promised Wand are out of the race due to insufficient support.
- Location
- Somewhere with a Thousand Watchful Eyes
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] The Promised Wand [5 Gnosis]
- Location
- USA
Come on guys, vote for plan ambition. Sekret wand lore is a beautiful shiny shiny that we shouldn't ignore. 
Actually we can cast Patronus right now by just thinking happy thoughts so we will not lose 2 years of practice time if we took it as a tris slot
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Promised Wand [5 Gnosis]
Corvus Black
The Inestimable
- Location
- England
This is patently untrue.
I don't follow. What's the problem?
- Location
- USA
I doubt it, would still need to learn the spell I imagine even with LOH and Tris slot. Not that we should even bother with a Tris slot for the Patronus charm.
OctarineShrike
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Aesthetic/Narrative preference differences presumably. Like you didn't want Afanc Hair or the Roman Wand wood due to not liking the snowflakiness(Possibly questionable fanfictionishness) of it and wanting the canon wand.
Dodorosi presumably wants to diverge heavily from canon.
And of course such concerns are orthogonal to the outlook of playing the quest like a roguelike you're trying to win, in which case the Promised Wand's value is considered solely on its mechanical properties, same as Ambition or the no longer valid voting option of Wand of the Maestro.
- Location
- Knowhere
- Pronouns
- You
Its just i generally dislike taking The Canon route, you Know.
I don't see him as particularly angry or impulsive, but your reading of the character may differ. I'm not sure where you see great anger in him (he even excused the actions of the wizards that killed his family instead of being vengeful), and his choices so far seem to make him less impulsive than many other kids his age, so patently untrue is an exaggeration.