There are only three Magic Languages in 2E. Magick, Daemonic and Arcane Elf. Arcane Khazalid is a thing for Runesmiths. Some languages like Nehekharan can be used for magic.
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Well yes and no. I'm guessing I know as much about DL!Egrimm than someone who read the novel, Boney has made so that the circumstances Egrimm is unknown enough whether this would go canon or not (him being a cultist). So since his background was changed, I don't think the wiki would give much.
Was the novel written like a Gary Stu novel? With the Light Order as a whole being portrayed as lawful good, then them being outwitted, the revenge story, and the evil guy at the top. I mean in tone not in the things he did and how he did it kind of way.
I think I will indeed take it up with the setting. Whoever was writing 2e and thought Lingua Praestantia should be universal was making a mistake.
Regular wizards could just as easily use Arcane Language(Daemonic) for channeling their spells, it's just the circumstances of learning and using it over the alternatives are unlikely to result in a non-Chaos wizard (though it is technically possible in certain Norscan Seers and Vitki). Priests don't have that option.
Just in case you're not otherwise aware, Egrimm isn't just from a novel, he started off in tabletop, all the way back in 4th edition as a character in the first Chaos army book, nearly 30 years ago.
There was one point in which he was once the most expensive character in the tabletop pointswise, and his stats showed. I think he had some frankly ridiculous physical abilities on top of his magic and the Dragon he was riding.
Because if you have enough faith to call on your god to work miracles for you, you generally require stronger evidence than understanding some parts of a mage spell to be convinced that your entire relationship to the divine was just your imagination.
Also, theres a reasonable chance that said god not only in fact heard said call for a miracle, but was in fact the one who provided the power to make your desired miracle happen. And you find out the hard way.
Rather than divine casters being wizards, I think they'd take it as wizards being divine casters. After all, the divine casters have been around for longer, with a more established presence. And given the reputation of magic in general, we'd end up with the following claims:
Fair point. I guess we'll see what comes up, and if Mathilde is able to separate out anything that's clearly magical vs. clearly mundane (like how we were able to identify the Cathayan books as safe enough to get translated).
Depends on how much stuff we find. Giant surviving library? Language is more worth it. Just, like, one or two topics? Translation is worth considering.
I don't understand -- what is it that you propose spending CF on? I am not sure how translating texts helps keep an eye on things. Can you explain?
I imagined hiring a (say) Grey College Perpetual with CF to help with some of that proposed keeping-an-eye-on-people. A 'Project Assistant to the Director', could even have a useful 'cover' role as a go-pher and courier between participants.
While the Waystone Project will undoubtedly spawn a lot of papers/books, depending on what we are allowed to release without compromising our collaborators' secrets, writing a paper after the Lay the Foundations action is way, way premature. There's no results to write a paper on yet, it's all wildly preliminary. Once we test some of the things Lay the Foundations unlocks, then I suspect we'll unlock papers. I am extremely confident that Boney has considered the possibility that we, on our giant magical research project, might want to write papers about our magical research; it'll come up when it comes up.
Even if such a thing were allowed, I am skeptical that a Grey Perpetual we have don't know would do a significantly better job at keeping their eye on things than our existing three employees, whom we already know and mostly have the measure of, would be able to, especially given that our employees have pre-existing reasons to interact with everyone in the Waystone project instead of being an invented position for the purpose of espionage (or I guess counterespionage in theory, but we all know how the fellow participants would interpret it).
I was about to quibble before I realized you were talking about Egrimm, not Max.
I love Max. Max is my boy. One of my proudest moments was getting an Insightful react from Boney on my analysis of his character. As a detail-oriented perfectionist who often got on people's nerves before I learned how to tone it down, I relate to him and his tendency to get social egg on his face way too much.
The Bursar in a false mustache?
Oooh, I know! How about that one candidate that wasn't picked when we got the Hochlander? By this point, she should have really strong Stern Grandma energy! That should allow her to bond with the witch, impress Thorek, seduce the Grey Lord, and bulli (for their own good) the Light.
