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Harry Potter and the Scabbard of Excalibur [AU]

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[X] Gringotts Bank
[X] Make a Minor Withdrawal
[X] Magical Menagerie

Do we have to also chose what animal we would want now or will we be given choices later if Magical Menagerie wins
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Raven

[X] Second-Hand Bookshop - Although Flourish and Blotts provided books, these are new books. Who knows what kind of notes a previous owner has scribbled in the margins of their book before parting ways with it.
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Owl
[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Raven
I love Corvids, how could I refuse!

[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour - Eat some ice cream with Sirius. How does this benefit you? Unclear.
Also, ice cream? Ice cream. Let's get ice cream.
 
Birdsie said:
Geist: "Pick whatever you want. They'll teach you to hide animals by turning them into wine goblets anyway."
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[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Basilisk

[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour - Eat some ice cream with Sirius. How does this benefit you? Unclear.

Turn your room into a Chamber of Secrets with 1 easy step! Please, don't look directly at my wine goblet.
 
Sickul said:
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Basilisk
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Somehow, I don't think it will stock those.
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Raven

[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour - Eat some ice cream with Sirius. How does this benefit you? Unclear.
 
[x] Gringotts Bank
-[x] Invest Money - Make an investment to fund the goblin economy. ++Goblin Society.
[X] Second-Hand Bookshop - Although Flourish and Blotts provided books, these are new books. Who knows what kind of notes a previous owner has scribbled in the margins of their book before parting ways with it.
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Raven

[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour - Eat some ice cream with Sirius. How does this benefit you? Unclear.
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Raven

[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour - Eat some ice cream with Sirius. How does this benefit you? Unclear.
 
[x] Gringotts Bank
-[x] Invest Money - Make an investment to fund the goblin economy. ++Goblin Society.
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Badger
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Raven

[X] Second-Hand Bookshop - Although Flourish and Blotts provided books, these are new books. Who knows what kind of notes a previous owner has scribbled in the margins of their book before parting ways with it.
 
[X] SHINY SPANDEX - A form fitting suit made of flayed troll skin and mermaid scale, smoothed and buffed to a glorious shine. Looking at it reminds Harry of weekend afternoons submitting your foes with Mistah D. Its stretch ability makes it possible for use in all sizes and will fit to Harry's size as he grows. "A rejected prototype for Auror underwear" sighs the rotund, yet muscular shopkeep.

[X] Magical Menagerie
-[X] Brown Bear Cub

A friend we can ride to raid the kitchens and inspire Elf rebellions!


[X] Second-Hand Bookshop
-[X] Book on Magic CQC
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Raven
[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour - Eat some ice cream with Sirius. How does this benefit you? Unclear.

I want a badger., but it dosent look like it will WIN. Between owl and raven i prefer raven.
Also maybe getting ice create is A destress option ?
 
[X] Magical Menagerie - Although Hogwarts maintains a populace of messenger owls, Harry may desire to get one for himself so that he doesn't have to travel up to the tower every time he wishes to send a letter or package. Alternatively, you can acquire another pet, like a mouse or a snake.
-[X] Owl

[X] Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour
 
Alright...since no one is really doing it in this thread...time to post some possible Trismegistus builds because that will be a contentious vote and we need to get it right. We've argued a fair bit in Discord and now we might as well bring it here. The longer we have time to work out the kinks the better.

Trismegistus Builds

"But anyway, Harry was pretty excited, because soon enough, he'd be the greatest wizard to have ever lived."

A Great Wizard
  1. Transfiguration
  2. Charms
  3. Potions
This is the classical "great" wizard build I would imagine. Charms, Transfiguration, and Potions are the three biggest subjects taught at Hogwarts and cover a massive amount of magic. Trismegistus picks for these three will result in Harry possessing monstrous talent in a huge portion of magical fields that are taught at Hogwarts. Naturally there are some big pros and cons to this build as with all other builds.

It can not be underestimated just how versatile of a wizard Harry would be with this build. It times it would appear as if Harry has the answer to any problem that comes his way. A bit of an exaggeration but perhaps not too far off the truth. Charms, Transfiguration and Potions offer solutions to a massive amount of problems that Harry can face. With potions lets take the potion The Dark Lord used to protect one of His Horcruxes as an example. Dumbledore himself had no magical means of getting around this potion. Dumbledore...one of the greatest wizards of all time was stumped there. Potions are a branch of magic that is hard to undo unless one is a skilled potioneer. What we could accomplish with potions would be amazing.

Transfiguration and Charms? Everyone knows what they can do. Trismegistus in both would give us the greatest set of magical options. Charms in particular covers so much magic that it might as well be the "be good at magic" choice. Both combined together is essentially mastery of a battle. Charms not working against a foe? Start adding some transfiguration to your spellcasting to throw the opponent off his or her game. Transfigure the ground into ice or a sinkhole or whatever else strikes your fancy.

This build is naturally not without downsides. The biggest downside is that all three are fairly broad/big subjects that cover a lot of things. Each Trismegistus slot would be boosting a massive amount of stuff in each field and thus result in an overall slower progression. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Charms which covers well over 50% of spells/magic and even includes parts of magic from the Dark Arts and so on. Birdsie has stated that our progression for Charms would have us learning post-graduate charms by the time Harry is studying for OWLs. So year 5. Which is bonkers speed and more than worth it considering how vast the subject of Charms is as our arsenal would be humongous. We would just be progressing with a faster speed if we chose a more refined sub-subject or branch of magic where we could be professor level by year 4/5. Transfiguration and Potions are probably to result in a faster progression than Charms. Perhaps close enough to professor level by year 4/5?

One other less than ideal issue is that Potions does not have much synergy with Charms and Transfiguration. While you can certainly make some potions to help you out in a battle where you use Charms and Transfiguration (maybe something to boost your reflexes or strength) but it mainly is another avenue.

This build is not designed to beat The Dark Lord in a magical duel. Hell, I imagine that no build would be able to do so. Not without a decade+ of time to train and get up to speed. Birdsie said that with Trismegistus in say Charms/Transfiguration it would take us ten to fifteen years to become as skilled as Dumbledore. Which is absolutely amazing progression but it isn't quite fast enough as we assume that our conflict with The Dark Lord will come sooner. If we had ten or fifteen years to train? This build and all other builds would be holy shit amazing. It would be a lot of time for Trismegistus to work its magic and our own raw magical power to develop.

So why am I fond of this build? This build is meant to deal with every other situation we come across. Death Eaters, magical creatures, drunk wizards harassing our significant other, assassinations that we need to arrange, duelling competitions that we want to take part in, ancient magical temples with deadly traps, and so on. We have no idea regarding what we will confront. This build is designed primarily to confront nearly everything that we face and give us great odds of success. Dungeon crawling, fighting, magical research, competitions, and more will be handled. Also, this build is most likely to get us the most amount of general public relations boost. By being the next up and coming super prodigy at the three big fields of magic we will boost our rep as the Boy Who Lived the most. No wonder we survived the killing curse. We're a super wizard of unfathomable talent. And so on. If we're known as the next Dumbledore people will come flocking us for alliances. With our general preference for making friends...we could really create a massive circle of friends and allies. And when The Dark Lord comes back? People will know that we are a great wizard and we will provide them massive massive amounts of hope much like people put their faith in Dumbledore to be able to beat Grindelwald and The Dark Lord. A more specialized Trismegistus build is likely to not garner as much awe. Say we choose three spells as our picks. We would have three absolutely amazing spells that we will continue to push but each spell will take decades to truly become a broken spell. We will be above average with everything else. Nothing truly remarkable.

This build is also the most likely to fit Harry's desire of becoming the greatest wizard to ever live and that is a desire that I fully intend to support and help Harry reach.

A Blade Against the Dark
  1. Charms
  2. Transfiguration
  3. DADA
This build is very similar to the prior build but it switches out Potions for DADA. The reasoning for Charms and Transfiguration remains the same and as such much of the pros and cons are essentially the same. Where this build is in some respects better is that it has better synergy with Transfiguration and Charms than Potions does. DADA is a subject for learning how to defend against the Dark Arts. It covers topics such as Dark Creatures, dark magic, and how to defend against it. We alter A Great Wizard build into one focused on fighting the dark forces of the world. Given the conflicts that we will be facing this may not be a bad build at all. Also some overlap as a number of charms are part of the DADA subject. Some quicker progression with some spells I imagine. Easily the best build for fighting creatures such as Vampires, werewolves, and dark wizards.

Child of the Stars
  1. Charms
  2. Transfiguration
  3. Astrology
This build is similar to the above two though this time the third choice is astrology. Here is what we know of Astrology:

"Advanced divination subject, practiced via observation of the movements of celestial objects. Although its use is limited for now, Harry took efforts towards memorizing the core aspects and correspondences between certain stars and planets in the solar system, and their effects on magic back on Earth."

So the stars and planets in the solar system can effect magic back on Earth. Birdsie has revealed that the curse of the DADA position at Hogwarts is an extremely powerful Astrology/Enchantment effect. Targeting the esoteric with our spells will also be greatly helped by Astrology. And this big one:

"If you want to remove that annoying curse that forbids you from speaking the Dark Lord's name, Astrology would also be the goal"

Astrology seems very very potent and I can see it working very well with Charms and Transfiguration and help them be real good at dealing with esoteric stuff.

Now let us head into some other builds that differ a fair bit from prior builds.

Prince of Charms
  1. Charms
  2. Offensive Charms
  3. Patronus Charms
This build goes all in on Charms. Tris to Charms, Tris to sub-subject of Charms (assuming offensive Charms can be selected - if not switch with say Dark Charms) and Tris to the Patronus charms. Seems like a fairly great build on surface. Massive versatility of Charms, a further Tris slot into a branch of Charms resulting in a speedier increase with that branch, and finally a Tris slot for a single spell. All the massive growth of a Tris slot going directly into one single spell that can be broken in a fair powerful manner given time....and that is the issue. First we will have to learn said spell which might not be for a few years and during that time the Tris slot will be doing nothing. Secondly, the progression for a single spell Tris slot still requires decades of training to really push into ground-breaking levels. Naturally some relatively immediate (say a year) gains can be made with a single spell with Tris. Apparition for example would let us bypass the wards of Hogwarts if we give it the full undivided focus of a Tris slot. Probably one of the best effects from a spell getting a Tris slot after just a year of focus but other such spells may not be as equally useful. The Patronus Charm for example is useful against Dementors. We might be able to twist the Spell into being able to actually kill Dementors I suppose instead of driving them off but it is still a specialized spell for a use case. I imagine making it useful against other dark creatures and potentially even Dark Wizards would take much much longer. Having it affect Dark Wizards might take a decade or more even with a Tris slot focusing on it along with some extra xp gains from Charms and Offensive Charms slots.

Hit and Run
  1. Apparition
  2. Protego
  3. Reducto
A build that picks three spells for our Trismegistus slots. We would be outright monstrous with with those spells but our versatility would be lacking compared to the other builds. We wouldn't be a super prodigy in any of the fields and thus our progression would be more normal. And we still willl need time to truly turn the spells into game breaking spells. Reducto probably will be overpowered bullshit after a year or two or even be able to perhaps break some spell effects? Regardless, we would get some super spells in the short terms but they would leave us as predictable. Apparition, Protego and Reducto would be known as our go to spells and we would likely use them signficantly. Sooner or later a counter will be devised.

Suggest any builds you feel might be good or help refine any of the ones I mentioned.

A Great Wizard is my pick for many reasons (imagine Snape's face when he sees our absurd talent at Potions) and the one I feel will truly boost our rep as a wizard the most and give us the best chance at surviving all the situations that will be coming our. No single build will ever be able to overcome The Dark Lord unless we have a decade or more to train up before we have to confront our destined foe. As such we should should focus primarily on dealing with everything else. And with A Great Wizard build...if we actually have the room to train for a decade to fifteen years we would be a monstrously capable wizard able to actually face The Dark Lord. If not, we would be capable of facing nearly everything else.
 
I personally find Charms to be too broad of a subject to maximize the Heaven-defying talent that Trismegistus can provide. Personally I would say that Transfiguration or DADA are the broadest kind of subjects that we should pick. I feel that the fact that Charms cover 50% of all spells to be a negative not a positive, but I also feel that three spells are also a mistake. But make no mistake, I also feel that using Trismegistus to make up for the fact we did not take child prodigy is wasting the power of Trismegistus. Remember we have the support of every wizard in Britain and a massive degree of influence over every Hufflepuff, even the Hufflepuff members of the Death Eaters, so we should take full advantage of the early game protection they provide before the threats we face out-scale the common wizard by specializing so that we can succeed where even Dumbledore failed.
 
Astrology is a branch of Divination. We are not a natural seer/diviner. We needed to take Sage of Ravenclaw to be one. Implications unclear but this makes me wary of Astrology.

Moving on to other thoughts, if my theories are correct we unlocked the metaphorical equivalent of level 7-9 spells, or Underlord+ tier effects, by taking the Ancient Roman Wand Wood. So how do we get good enough to start using effects of that magnitude? The sheer breadth of taking just charms as an option makes me wary because of this. Birdsie has mentioned specific subcategories of charms as valid options in Discord.

1/28/2022 Discord
you can pick Charms
or the related (specific) area of "Fire Charms"
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The Transhumanist

Herbology, Switching Spells, Potions - Herbology lets us get ingredients for potions and potentially make our own magical plants in the future. Switching Spells lets us potentially augment ourselves with features of our creations. Potions lets us empower our allies, useful in a social build.

Rune Gouger

Ancient Runes, Diffindo, Defense Against the Dark Arts - The goal of this build is to be able to wandlessly and trivially cut runes into surfaces or individuals(Yes, like Zorro). If you do a fire containment rune on an object it'll contain heat until the object catches fire of word of Birdsie on Discord on Jan 28 2022 is Indicative. It's got good combat prospects(Defense against the Dark Arts combined with transcendent diffindo aptitude, combined with a long wand amplifying the power of our diffindos beyond that of an average sized wand). We have Geist as a Tutor so we don't have to worry too much about waiting to learn Runes.

The Supreme Alchemist

Alchemical Runes, Potions, Herbology - Replaces the transhumanist potential of Trismegistus(Switching Spells) with even more Potions power.

The Historian

History of Magic, Ancient Runes, Apparition - Knowledge of Locations of power, the ability to travel to those locations of power, combined with lesser potion buffs and other forms of magical programming shenanigans. It also probably gives us social buffs from being able to have meaningful and well-informed opinions on past events in wizarding society.


History of Magic

1/28/2022 Discord
if you picked it once
you'd probably be able to discover
long-forgotten secrets and AU lore
such as where magic came from
but not much else
it'd likely let you track down some locations of exceptional power
and those locations would have cool artifacts and properties to them
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Muggle Studies
1/28/2022 Discord
but obviously its effects are somewhat different from most
it'd let you design exponentially better magitech
computer networks that work in Hogwarts and other magically dense environments etc
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Ok that Rune Gouger build sounds nuts only one other build seems more fun to me and this build is infinitely more practical than that build

Edit: I would say that if The Historian were to replace ruins with Magic Theory that it would then become a build optimized to investigate Atlantean magic but I am uncertain as to Trismegistus effects on Magic Theory. It might be too broad of a category to do anything
 
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