Rinn
Coffee Addict
- Location
- Cornfield County, Ohio
Ugh. Forgot that Atreus is a foreigner, and thus uses unnatural, black-magic, witch-measures instead of good, solid Imperial Standards...
Living with dragons
- Thread starter Hiver
- Start date
- Location
- England
Maybe it will look better on you than it did on Pettigrew.
Imperial, you say. Well, first we discarded the Empire, then we dropped the measurement system. If you're feeling nostalgic, we could always send over some tea.
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Itsune
Eldritch horror, Ship's Cat, Emergency Gunner.
- Location
- Somewhere in King County Washington
As long as you don't try to tax it, other wise it's considered overboard.
Imperial, you say. Well, first we discarded the Empire, then we dropped the measurement system. If you're feeling nostalgic, we could always send over some tea.
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I held up the silver arm, feeling the metal and enchantments I had woven into it. Silver was a very magically conductive metal. Almost as much as adamantium, but adamantium didn't need as much enchanting to make it viable in armour and weapons, so it wasn't as good.
But for this it would work well.
"Are you sure this will work?" Ren asked. "You've never tried this before."
I shook my head. "Oh, it'll work. It's the same as the armour."
She frowned at me. "Huh?"
I grinned and put the arm back down on the bench. "You ever notice that when you are wearing your armour, it doesn't actually seem to weigh anything? Nor does it take any force to move?"
"Yeah?"
"That's because you don't move it. It moves when you move, reading your mind on how you want to move and doing that," I explained before pointing at the arm. "Same enchantment. In theory, it should work just as well as my real arm. Might even have gotten basic feedback like pressure working."
I think I got it right, anyway.
Ren slowly nodded. "Oh. That was easy."
"Most of the work was actually done developing the armour," I agreed before I looked at the arm. "That doesn't mean that this isn't going to suck hard, though."
"Why?"
"Because I have no good way of attaching it that don't involve the silver covering part of the bone and remaining muscle," I said with a frown. "Even if I take a pain potion first, that's going to hurt like a motherfucker."
"Then don't do it. It can wait."
I shook my head. "Not going on a quest with one arm and I'm not leaving Alexis hanging when she needs our help. Not with all she's done for us."
Ren didn't look too happy but she nodded.
Shrugging my shirt of, I first summoned Paladin. "Paladin, if you would?"
The blood knight nodded and quickly moved to cover my stump, first with alcohol and then a cure disease potion before doing the same with the end of the arm.
A healing potion followed by her healing spells on me and it should be fine.
"Hold it steady," I ordered her and aligned everything up right before downing the pain potion.
Oh this is going to suck so hard.
Closing my eyes, I gritted my teeth and felt the enchantments in the arm before triggering them.
Tendrils of silver shot out of it and into what remained of my arm, wrapping around the bone and pulling tight.
Even through the pain potion, it felt like being stabbed.
"Son of a motherfucking bitch…" I stumbled back, cursing in every language I knew as the silver half melted, crawling a couple of inches upwards before shifting, going thin and pliant against the skin.
Still cursing, I downed the last remaining healing potion as Paladin hit me with her strongest healing spell.
The stabbing pain slowly faded to a faint throbbing before that too faded to nothing.
"…Fuck," I groaned and sank down to sit with my back against the wall. "Ren, if I ever do something that stupid again, sit on me until I change my mind!"
Ren shook her head and sank down next to me, putting her head against my shoulder. "Like you would listen."
"This time, I would. Just remind me of this. Shit."
Looking down at my left hand, I lifted it and rolled my wrist. It moved smoothly, the fingers moving naturally.
I may be an idiot at times, but damn if I'm not good.
"At least it worked," I said and moved my arm around, trying the movement. Seemed good, but it looked a bit much… T-1000.
How about we…
The silver rippled from the top down, forming dragon-like scales and the tips of the fingers shifted to remind me of the claws in my real form.
There we go, much better.
"Nice." Rengosa said and reached over to run her hand along it. "But… this doesn't carry over to your real form, does it?"
"…No," I sighed. "If I want one there, I have to do it again with my real form too. With something like 28 times as much silver. I'm not sure Alexis can get her crew to part with quite that much."
Ren looked thoughtful. "Speaking of which, we have to find spots we can turn back if it takes months to do this. I can't handle months like this."
"Neither can I." I said and nuzzled her. "We'll figure it out. But for now… let's let everyone know it worked."
AN// Posted early and big thanks to Grey Rook for betaing this section. Also, next part is last part for now. Then it's back to ponyland.
But for this it would work well.
"Are you sure this will work?" Ren asked. "You've never tried this before."
I shook my head. "Oh, it'll work. It's the same as the armour."
She frowned at me. "Huh?"
I grinned and put the arm back down on the bench. "You ever notice that when you are wearing your armour, it doesn't actually seem to weigh anything? Nor does it take any force to move?"
"Yeah?"
"That's because you don't move it. It moves when you move, reading your mind on how you want to move and doing that," I explained before pointing at the arm. "Same enchantment. In theory, it should work just as well as my real arm. Might even have gotten basic feedback like pressure working."
I think I got it right, anyway.
Ren slowly nodded. "Oh. That was easy."
"Most of the work was actually done developing the armour," I agreed before I looked at the arm. "That doesn't mean that this isn't going to suck hard, though."
"Why?"
"Because I have no good way of attaching it that don't involve the silver covering part of the bone and remaining muscle," I said with a frown. "Even if I take a pain potion first, that's going to hurt like a motherfucker."
"Then don't do it. It can wait."
I shook my head. "Not going on a quest with one arm and I'm not leaving Alexis hanging when she needs our help. Not with all she's done for us."
Ren didn't look too happy but she nodded.
Shrugging my shirt of, I first summoned Paladin. "Paladin, if you would?"
The blood knight nodded and quickly moved to cover my stump, first with alcohol and then a cure disease potion before doing the same with the end of the arm.
A healing potion followed by her healing spells on me and it should be fine.
"Hold it steady," I ordered her and aligned everything up right before downing the pain potion.
Oh this is going to suck so hard.
Closing my eyes, I gritted my teeth and felt the enchantments in the arm before triggering them.
Tendrils of silver shot out of it and into what remained of my arm, wrapping around the bone and pulling tight.
Even through the pain potion, it felt like being stabbed.
"Son of a motherfucking bitch…" I stumbled back, cursing in every language I knew as the silver half melted, crawling a couple of inches upwards before shifting, going thin and pliant against the skin.
Still cursing, I downed the last remaining healing potion as Paladin hit me with her strongest healing spell.
The stabbing pain slowly faded to a faint throbbing before that too faded to nothing.
"…Fuck," I groaned and sank down to sit with my back against the wall. "Ren, if I ever do something that stupid again, sit on me until I change my mind!"
Ren shook her head and sank down next to me, putting her head against my shoulder. "Like you would listen."
"This time, I would. Just remind me of this. Shit."
Looking down at my left hand, I lifted it and rolled my wrist. It moved smoothly, the fingers moving naturally.
I may be an idiot at times, but damn if I'm not good.
"At least it worked," I said and moved my arm around, trying the movement. Seemed good, but it looked a bit much… T-1000.
How about we…
The silver rippled from the top down, forming dragon-like scales and the tips of the fingers shifted to remind me of the claws in my real form.
There we go, much better.
"Nice." Rengosa said and reached over to run her hand along it. "But… this doesn't carry over to your real form, does it?"
"…No," I sighed. "If I want one there, I have to do it again with my real form too. With something like 28 times as much silver. I'm not sure Alexis can get her crew to part with quite that much."
Ren looked thoughtful. "Speaking of which, we have to find spots we can turn back if it takes months to do this. I can't handle months like this."
"Neither can I." I said and nuzzled her. "We'll figure it out. But for now… let's let everyone know it worked."
AN// Posted early and big thanks to Grey Rook for betaing this section. Also, next part is last part for now. Then it's back to ponyland.
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- Location
- United States
So cyborg body when....
The real question is, will he go with the metal skeleton like the t-1000, or will he go with the metal shapeshifting (magical)nanobots like the later terminators...
The real question is, will he go with the metal skeleton like the t-1000, or will he go with the metal shapeshifting (magical)nanobots like the later terminators...
Itsune
Eldritch horror, Ship's Cat, Emergency Gunner.
- Location
- Somewhere in King County Washington
And much screaming was had by all...
Sounds like it just vanishes into the same place his clothes and equipment goes. I guess since it is, technically, an equipped item.
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"How does it feel?" Alexis asked as she walked up next to me at the bow of the ship.
I glanced at her and then flexed my new arm, "Not much. I mean, it have a sense of touch or I would just crush everything I touch, but that's all I managed."
She cringed and put her hands on the railing next to me, "That sounds bad. How strong it is?"
I shrugged, "No idea. Stronger than steel with all the enchantments on it and I crushed a small rock when I tried it earlier."
"That sounds useful."
I shook my head, "Eh, too many drawbacks to be honest. I'll have it replaced by a real arm as soon as I get back and get it healed. If I go through a soulstone, it doesn't come with me. Which mean I would need to attach it again. Which is… uncomfortable. I also need a second one for my real form. You wouldn't happen to have about thirty times more silver I can borrow?"
Alexis shook her head, "Sorry. Does steel work?"
"Not really," I admitted, "Steel is magic resistant to a certain degree, enough not to make it practical. I mean, I could do it, but it wouldn't be very good."
"We'll find you the silver," she said and leaned against the railing, "Bronze?"
"…Bronze would work, Copper would be better?" I admitted, "Not as good, but better than steel."
"You could get one of the smaller cannons, one of the chase ones. It's bronze and should have enough."
I smirked at her, "Awesome, thanks. Not to mention, I'm a lot more useful in my real form if I'm not missing a leg. Especially as I don't have my armours or weapons."
"Speaking of which, not sure we would be able to get you what you need for the armor. But you're free to go through our armoury an see if there is something you like."
"Oh, I plan to. And then get to work on some other stuff," I said and with a frown as I looked at my new hand, "I realized that I have… become complacent. I'm not getting better and what I have been learning, I haven't been using. I had my armour, I had my weapons… and then what? Why weren't I wearing enchanted rings? Necklaces? Goggles letting me see magic?"
I shook my head and turned my back against the railing, crossing my arms, "I'm not a good spellcaster. But why don't I make magic guns or wands that shoot big fireballs or bolts of lightning? Even if the Manalaser don't scale down enough, I could do that! I know how to do that on the top of my head, why don't I!?"
Alexis watched me for a moment before she nodded, "We do have some jewellery. Some of might even fit you."
"So do I, mostly for sale," I said before I frowned, "…Or rather, we did before I lost my bag. Fuck. I think Sheila has some still. And why don't they have more enchanted stuff!? I'm an idiot."
Alexis frowned and nodded, "Yep," she said before she smiled a bit when I looked at her in surprise, "But that's expected. You're a man after all, dragon or not. I don't think you're stupid, you just got a bit… stuck in your way. Too focused on the big projects."
"…I suppose I am," I admitted, "But if I could just get it done, it would make transports so much easier."
"Do you even know it can be done? Moving a ship through the Blind Realities?"
"…No," I sighed, "But there have to be a way."
"Just forget about it for now. You'll figure it out eventually."
Rubbing my face, I then nodded, "You're right. You're right, Alexis."
Damn it, she was right. So very right.
I needed to cover the base first, not go for massive projects that might take years even if possible at all.
Sighing, I shook my head before looking at her, "So, where do we start?"
"We stopped at the island to pick up some supplies, our next destination is Port Marigia. We need to resupply on gunpowder and see if we can pick some more metal for you. I have a contact there that might have some clues on where to start looking," Alexis explained and looked over to where the last boat of crew and equipment returned towards the ship, "As soon as the boat is stowed, we'll be raising anchor. We'll talk later, I have some business to attend to."
"Aye, aye, Captain Castle."
That got a grin from her, "How long have you waited for that one?."
"Oh, just since I saw you," I admitted before I leaned against the railing and started to hum a themesong to myself.
"Oh god… muppets!? Really!? You couldn't at least have gone with the movie with the hot guys in it!?" She groaned before she just shook her head and headed towards the aft.
Sheila moved past her to join me, "I found us a place to sleep. It's a pirate ship, not that much room away from other people, but I found a corner close to the captains quarters. We should be left alone there."
"Awesome," I said and slipped my arm around her waist, "Where did Ren go?"
"She's below deck, going through our gear," she said and leaned against my side, "See what we lost, what we still have left. You carried most of it, so most is missing."
Another mistake. We should have split it evenly between our packs.
I just nodded, "Yeah."
"How's the arm?"
"Working well," I answered and held it up for her to see, "keeping an eye on it for a while though and see how it goes. It should work until we get back home at least."
Behind us the boat was hauled onboard and Boltar started to yell orders, the crew bursting into action to get the sails going.
Looking out over the water, I rested my head against the top of Sheilas, "I have been rethinking things," I told her quietly, "We… we have to be smarter about things. Better prepared. What happened with Sakila, the water world, the desert… it can't happen away. Not sure what I can do about crazy Planeswalkers yet, but the rest… there are enchantments that would help. Temperature control, water breathing… we're going to sit down and go through everything we can think of. Then we find ways to counter it."
Sheila frowned slightly and turned to look up at me, "…Atregos, nobody can plan for everything."
"No. No we can't. But we can try. I'm not a strong spellcaster, I can't just cast spells to solve the problem on the fly like some. I don't have enough useful summons, nor ones that's strong enough. I have to prepare beforehand for as much as I can."
She nodded, "We can try. We might need it for this."
I rested my forehead against hers, "Yes. I think we might."
AN// And that's the end of this story for now, next story in the series will be high adventure on the high seas! But next time we'll return to the lands of the pony and see what Page can stupidly volunteer for next.
I glanced at her and then flexed my new arm, "Not much. I mean, it have a sense of touch or I would just crush everything I touch, but that's all I managed."
She cringed and put her hands on the railing next to me, "That sounds bad. How strong it is?"
I shrugged, "No idea. Stronger than steel with all the enchantments on it and I crushed a small rock when I tried it earlier."
"That sounds useful."
I shook my head, "Eh, too many drawbacks to be honest. I'll have it replaced by a real arm as soon as I get back and get it healed. If I go through a soulstone, it doesn't come with me. Which mean I would need to attach it again. Which is… uncomfortable. I also need a second one for my real form. You wouldn't happen to have about thirty times more silver I can borrow?"
Alexis shook her head, "Sorry. Does steel work?"
"Not really," I admitted, "Steel is magic resistant to a certain degree, enough not to make it practical. I mean, I could do it, but it wouldn't be very good."
"We'll find you the silver," she said and leaned against the railing, "Bronze?"
"…Bronze would work, Copper would be better?" I admitted, "Not as good, but better than steel."
"You could get one of the smaller cannons, one of the chase ones. It's bronze and should have enough."
I smirked at her, "Awesome, thanks. Not to mention, I'm a lot more useful in my real form if I'm not missing a leg. Especially as I don't have my armours or weapons."
"Speaking of which, not sure we would be able to get you what you need for the armor. But you're free to go through our armoury an see if there is something you like."
"Oh, I plan to. And then get to work on some other stuff," I said and with a frown as I looked at my new hand, "I realized that I have… become complacent. I'm not getting better and what I have been learning, I haven't been using. I had my armour, I had my weapons… and then what? Why weren't I wearing enchanted rings? Necklaces? Goggles letting me see magic?"
I shook my head and turned my back against the railing, crossing my arms, "I'm not a good spellcaster. But why don't I make magic guns or wands that shoot big fireballs or bolts of lightning? Even if the Manalaser don't scale down enough, I could do that! I know how to do that on the top of my head, why don't I!?"
Alexis watched me for a moment before she nodded, "We do have some jewellery. Some of might even fit you."
"So do I, mostly for sale," I said before I frowned, "…Or rather, we did before I lost my bag. Fuck. I think Sheila has some still. And why don't they have more enchanted stuff!? I'm an idiot."
Alexis frowned and nodded, "Yep," she said before she smiled a bit when I looked at her in surprise, "But that's expected. You're a man after all, dragon or not. I don't think you're stupid, you just got a bit… stuck in your way. Too focused on the big projects."
"…I suppose I am," I admitted, "But if I could just get it done, it would make transports so much easier."
"Do you even know it can be done? Moving a ship through the Blind Realities?"
"…No," I sighed, "But there have to be a way."
"Just forget about it for now. You'll figure it out eventually."
Rubbing my face, I then nodded, "You're right. You're right, Alexis."
Damn it, she was right. So very right.
I needed to cover the base first, not go for massive projects that might take years even if possible at all.
Sighing, I shook my head before looking at her, "So, where do we start?"
"We stopped at the island to pick up some supplies, our next destination is Port Marigia. We need to resupply on gunpowder and see if we can pick some more metal for you. I have a contact there that might have some clues on where to start looking," Alexis explained and looked over to where the last boat of crew and equipment returned towards the ship, "As soon as the boat is stowed, we'll be raising anchor. We'll talk later, I have some business to attend to."
"Aye, aye, Captain Castle."
That got a grin from her, "How long have you waited for that one?."
"Oh, just since I saw you," I admitted before I leaned against the railing and started to hum a themesong to myself.
"Oh god… muppets!? Really!? You couldn't at least have gone with the movie with the hot guys in it!?" She groaned before she just shook her head and headed towards the aft.
Sheila moved past her to join me, "I found us a place to sleep. It's a pirate ship, not that much room away from other people, but I found a corner close to the captains quarters. We should be left alone there."
"Awesome," I said and slipped my arm around her waist, "Where did Ren go?"
"She's below deck, going through our gear," she said and leaned against my side, "See what we lost, what we still have left. You carried most of it, so most is missing."
Another mistake. We should have split it evenly between our packs.
I just nodded, "Yeah."
"How's the arm?"
"Working well," I answered and held it up for her to see, "keeping an eye on it for a while though and see how it goes. It should work until we get back home at least."
Behind us the boat was hauled onboard and Boltar started to yell orders, the crew bursting into action to get the sails going.
Looking out over the water, I rested my head against the top of Sheilas, "I have been rethinking things," I told her quietly, "We… we have to be smarter about things. Better prepared. What happened with Sakila, the water world, the desert… it can't happen away. Not sure what I can do about crazy Planeswalkers yet, but the rest… there are enchantments that would help. Temperature control, water breathing… we're going to sit down and go through everything we can think of. Then we find ways to counter it."
Sheila frowned slightly and turned to look up at me, "…Atregos, nobody can plan for everything."
"No. No we can't. But we can try. I'm not a strong spellcaster, I can't just cast spells to solve the problem on the fly like some. I don't have enough useful summons, nor ones that's strong enough. I have to prepare beforehand for as much as I can."
She nodded, "We can try. We might need it for this."
I rested my forehead against hers, "Yes. I think we might."
AN// And that's the end of this story for now, next story in the series will be high adventure on the high seas! But next time we'll return to the lands of the pony and see what Page can stupidly volunteer for next.
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
- Location
- Australia
YES!
water breathing enchantments!
presumably slowfall ones as well!
But WATER BREATHING ONES! FINALLY!
hmm...
and maybe more summons too?
Twilight: "Come on, whats the worst that could happen"
Page: "You just had to say it, didnt you?"
water breathing enchantments!
presumably slowfall ones as well!
But WATER BREATHING ONES! FINALLY!
hmm...
and maybe more summons too?
Page: "I Regret this, i regret this so much"
Twilight: "Come on, whats the worst that could happen"
Page: "You just had to say it, didnt you?"
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Atregos, halfway through crafting the arm from the cannon. "Wait a minute. CANNON ARM!"
Akatsunami
The Bonetatoist
- Location
- Brazil
Now he will become the Bling Dragon, with seven necklaces, 32 rings, a feather cap, and sandals.
Zap Rowsdower
Ex-cultist vagrant
- Location
- Bright lights, big city
- Pronouns
- He/Him
...and he's chromatic colored, not jewel colored.
The probability that he visits a D&D world continues to rise.
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Next part of the series can be found here Favors Owed
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- Location
- Land of Confusion
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, USA
Eh, encountering Ancalagon would still be worse - he made the largest Aspect look like a newly-hatched whelp. Even Bolas would look a little small next to Ancalagon.
Yeah, I'd imagine so. Sauron and the 'Wizards' of Middle Earth are essentially the local equivalent of Dragon Aspects. A 'normal' dragon is effectively Maiar. Titans would be effectively Valar. And two Maiar-equivalents just knocked on his door, who aren't affiliated with either Valinor or Morgoth.
That's because Middle Earth orcs are actually cursed, mutated elves.
That's like saying it wasn't a Man that hit him, it was a sword. If the protection the ring wraiths have could be defeated so easily, they'd have all been killed thousands of years before.
Well I always thought that Sauron was an eyesore.
More like an Eye Sore-Loser.
Not always so fortunate. He likes to write about geniuses and prodigies, then has to give them at least half a dozen idiot balls to carry around, so they never actually use their genius-level abilities for anything that would keep them out of danger. A much more ordinary protagonist would need far fewer idiot balls, but even a borderline idiot is going to do something to preserve their lives, yet his protagonists always get complacent.
Atregos is constantly thinking he's nothing special, yet he is fully aware that he could utterly wreck someone equipped with gear equivalent to what he has made, simply because he knows how it works. He knows other planeswalkers far exceed his power and skill, but he never does anything about it because Hiver hates writing competent protagonists out of a strong dislike for writing curbstomps. The result is either Atregos never risks himself, or he wins implausibly, or he gets stomped. It's hard to cheer for a hero who chooses to carry 6-12 idiot balls all the time in order to have challenging opponents, yet is simultaneously an alleged genius, yet wholly unaware he is doing it.
That one actually was caused by the Alliance. At least in the canon timeline.
The Alliance Navy intercepted a diplomatic courier ship owned by a neutral nation, carrying a diplomatic envoy, during peacetime, in international waters. That envoy was the crown princess of Zandalar, who the Alliance immediately threw into a cell for the crime of being a troll, despite her nation not being Horde members, and the Alliance not (yet) being at war with the Horde.
What would King Varian Wrynn have done to a neutral nation that seized Anduin that way? In contrast, the Horde/Zandalari joint rescue mission was extremely restrained, sending in an adventuring party sized infiltration team, to break her out by stealth.
The breakout worked, though it was discovered before the exfiltration was complete, leading to a very angry Jaina Proudmoore pursuing the rescue team and the princess through the streets of Stormwind, with Jaina considering them nothing but terrorists and criminals. Eventually, Jaina was faced with a choice between saving people or pursuing the hostage rescue team, and let them go.
The Alliance Navy pursued the crown princess of Zandalar and her rescuers into Zandalari territorial waters, and unsurprisingly encountered the Zandalari Home Fleet, and equally unsurprising, just about all of the Alliance Navy squadron died there - a single squadron versus an entire fleet is usually a losing proposition for the squadron even with relative parity of tech, or even if the fleet is substantially lower tech. But the Zandalari fleet was equal to the Kul Tiran fleet in both tech and numbers, putting them far beyond the capabilities of the entire Alliance grand fleet to successfully attack. Only one ship escaped to tell the Alliance of the 'massacre' of 'innocent' sailors.
The Alliance decided to preemptively invade Zandalar out of fear they might join the Horde, pretty much causing what they wanted to prevent, as Zandalar is a fairly thinly veiled expy of Wakanda. And the Zandalari reacted about how you'd expect to being invaded because they objected to their crown princess being kidnapped and her kidnappers trying to murder her after she escaped.
What would King Varian Wrynn have done to a neutral nation that seized Anduin that way? In contrast, the Horde/Zandalari joint rescue mission was extremely restrained, sending in an adventuring party sized infiltration team, to break her out by stealth.
The breakout worked, though it was discovered before the exfiltration was complete, leading to a very angry Jaina Proudmoore pursuing the rescue team and the princess through the streets of Stormwind, with Jaina considering them nothing but terrorists and criminals. Eventually, Jaina was faced with a choice between saving people or pursuing the hostage rescue team, and let them go.
The Alliance Navy pursued the crown princess of Zandalar and her rescuers into Zandalari territorial waters, and unsurprisingly encountered the Zandalari Home Fleet, and equally unsurprising, just about all of the Alliance Navy squadron died there - a single squadron versus an entire fleet is usually a losing proposition for the squadron even with relative parity of tech, or even if the fleet is substantially lower tech. But the Zandalari fleet was equal to the Kul Tiran fleet in both tech and numbers, putting them far beyond the capabilities of the entire Alliance grand fleet to successfully attack. Only one ship escaped to tell the Alliance of the 'massacre' of 'innocent' sailors.
The Alliance decided to preemptively invade Zandalar out of fear they might join the Horde, pretty much causing what they wanted to prevent, as Zandalar is a fairly thinly veiled expy of Wakanda. And the Zandalari reacted about how you'd expect to being invaded because they objected to their crown princess being kidnapped and her kidnappers trying to murder her after she escaped.
Atregos's arrogance is showing here. That 'wizard warlord' was that world's equivalent of Deathwing and was just as powerful as Deathwing - he simply preferred different tactics.
She didn't arrest them, she had them murdered - though in her eyes, it was a lawful execution as traitors. Also, Joffrey was dead at that point in the timeline, and his younger brother Tommen was king.
This… would explain so much about why you often find bottles of various alcoholic beverages inside chests hidden away in the middle of nowhere across Azeroth, fish them up out of oceans, etc.
Make that as a dart that shifts with the target into a sheep, and you'd have a truly nasty means of doing non-lethal takedowns. Since it's an item, dispelling the victim would have no effect. You could also do rings of it as landmines for thieves raiding a cache or treasure hoard - sheep can't pull rings off their fingers.
Plus, you'd get wool out of it!
Easy enchantment, lots of items across Azeroth have it. Green quality items usually have charges, but blue and purple items typically have it as an effect that lasts for as long as the item is worn.
This is circular reasoning on his part, and one of the idiot balls he is carrying keeps him from noticing it.
He never seriously researches Land magic, and doesn't go out of his way to link new lands, because he considers it to lack versatility. But it only lacks versatility because he never researches it. It's underpowered compared to other magic systems only because he doesn't have very many lands. But he resists getting more lands because what is the point for something so underpowered?
Like I said, idiot ball. He has been given root/admin access to the source code of the multiverse, and he ignores it.
Consider a penguin, an ostrich and a sparrow. All three are birds with feathers. If your definition of fittest is 'able to win a race' then of course the ostrich is fittest. Same if your metric is able to win a fight. But what if the problem at hand is crossing ten miles of deep water in the arctic? Ostrich dies of drowning and/or hypothermia within a hundred feet after leaving the beach. Sparrow and penguin make it across without issues. If there's a blizzard going on, sparrow dies too but the penguin makes it just fine.
What if the survival issue is a drought causing a lack of food, in a desert climate? Ostrich needs too many calories, dies. Penguin needs fewer but can't chase down prey, dies. Sparrow lives off a seed here, a withered fruit there, and won't enjoy life much, but has the highest chance to survive of the three.
Suppose the problem requires clever thinking to make it through - solving logic puzzles for example. Sucks to be those three bird brains, and they all die, but a human might well live.
That arena scenario selects only for magical might, and even then, odds are the people best at surviving it don't see any point in 'wasting' time on utility spells.
The plants certainly wouldn't agree herbivores are doing it right, so there is a case for herbivores to be at least a little Black, not just predators.
So could Atregos, if he didn't actively avoid Red mana because he considers it useless. Chandra certainly isn't using Blue to cast those fire spells!
Are HP-verse Time Turners the result of sneezes by visiting Bronzes?
Not so archaic, when you consider metric was codified into its modern form in 1789, while the British Imperial system wasn't codified until 1824 - and the US system was codified in 1832. Which is the archaic one, again?
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