At the moment we're missing Blackhand and thus our best source on what Sunfire Tricks would actually do, and possibly his bonus on learning Fire Hugarieda stuff...I think waiting for him to come back is the way to go on this.
Do we know if he even had Sunfire? It might be an Alloy that he didn't use? And from past bits with IF in the thread it seems like he's been encouraging us to try and come up with our own Tricks rather than just asking people to make them for us.
Re: the talk on core/ring Style warband stuff, I think that's probably stuff we just have to
make. Not rely on others to make it for us, we have to put in the time and effort if we wanna make warband secrets to pass down. Blackhand might be able to help with advice, but I think the answer we would ultimately get would be 'work to create it' and 'find inspiration for it'.
It seems like another of the myriad paths to increase power we could follow with time and effort. All styles have to be made, and we know a bit about how they're tied to the world and places/things/cultural moors. It's likely that some may have already been made in times.
Could we make a Sunna Style, anchored to Norse cultural and religious moors regarding the sun? What would such a style look like, and what would we want it to do?
actually, since those things might be interesting to see for inspiration: re sunfire, lets look at it for a second. Sól/Sunna is a healer and someone who promotes growth, but is also a protector who without the world would burn up into endless flame.
Sunna is also known for her speed but also restraint: she is forever pursued by the wolf Skoll, but she is the fastest in the sky, and yet she never moves faster than she needs to, allowing her steeds and her to never tire in their endless fleeing. When Skoll rushes faster she moves just a little faster than that, when he slows she allows herself to slow just enough, though eclipses are viewed as times when she misjudged and was injured by Skoll.
She was also viewed as the Dwarf Killer and disliked intensely by them; because her rays turned them to stone and brought them death.
So what would Sunfire do, if it calls upon similar ideas as what the sun was viewed as?
I might theorize it'd the opposite of our Firestorm Alloy. Firestorm is about these wide sweeping extremely powerful devastating effects. Maybe Sunfire is fire tempered with Restraint - fire that doesn't leave everything around it a burning mess, but instead is focused on less collateral damage, only harming who it means to.
It could be growth enhancing flames: either literally through healing type stuff, or as a form of Tricks to provide buffs to your own or others capabilities. Maybe wherever our Sunfire touches, our friends grow healthier and or stronger.
It could also just call upon speed: what is faster than Sunlight. And I mean this in both a modern sense and in that Sol was explicitly an extremely fast Goddess. It could just be the quickest flames in the North!
The view of the Sun as the protector of rhe world from flames thst would devour it without the Sun being there is probably the one I'd most readily borrow for a Style, but might not for the hugaredia. Though protective flames could work.
Or it could be a mix of multiple of these elements, or even all of them. Maybe it's restraint and growth, harming our enemies and growing our allies, or restraint and speed, allowing us to make small but incredibly focused and fast attacks with it.
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