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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Cython is more than big enough to wield a staff that unwieldy...
But what if we experiment with alternate forms of staff?
Why are staves shaped the way they are?
I assume convenience and portability... But why not make a throne... And then embed an orb of Sorcery in it
I can confirm that lab work is incredibly relaxing. It's just you in a well lit, well ventilated room, maybe some music in the background, and a hundred test tubes that need the same three-step process applied to them one after the other. Excellent way to spend an afternoon.
I wonder if growing powerstones with vitae would allow for something similar to edaphoecotropism (word for when a tree grows around an object). Don't know how useful it would be to have embedded materials within a powerstone, maybe as some kind of composite material, but the embedded materials could take and hold the shape of a rune. A Staff of Orb with layers upon layers of embedded runes. It'd be amazing, assuming of course the runes actually work.
Maybe dragon bone would make for a good material to try this with.
Or what about growing the same type of powerstones into each other?
Maybe dragon bone would make for a good material to try this with.
Or what about growing the same type of powerstones into each other?
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So, one question about the waystones, and I might have missed the discussion on this while skimming the thread, apologies if so: We know now that waystones work because dhar naturally wants to flow to the vortex. How then do closed loops like the Kislev Circuit work? Seems to me like the winds would need to flow up the metaphorical hill at least part of the way.
That seems to me like it would be a useful and potentially pretty important bit to investigate, unless Mathilde already got an idea of how the loops work?
That seems to me like it would be a useful and potentially pretty important bit to investigate, unless Mathilde already got an idea of how the loops work?
Not yet. How the elves make orbs is currently unknown—although it appears that the Eonir might have a source of AV at the bottom of a lake, only that lake is protected by a spirit and I think the priest-smiths of Vaul have a monopoly on any that can be extracted via the waterfall.
Not for certain. Mathilde has theory that places where winds are "primordial" could work. Like portal to Warp, or Chaos wastelands.
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In the tabletop, you roll a 2D6 for miscasts, and and there are results ranging from 2 to 12. That's 11 results. Of them, 3 are Strength 10 hits, and 2 are Strength 6 hits. That's 5/11. The remaining results are Dimensional Cascade (2-4), which is a Strength 10 hit followed by a 50% chance of being shunted into the Realm of Chaos, and Magic Drain (10-12), which permanently reduces your magic level by D3 and removes that many spells from your arsenal.
The odds are stacked against you, even if it's 6 to 5. I'm sure Cython is more than capable of grounding miscasts, but not even they are the type to just shrug them off.
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Yeah, but just general gratitude is a hard sell for something that big and valuable. Usually you want something to direct that gratitude to.
Apparently, either go hang out at the Poles, or rip open a portal to the Warp. Both have their problems though.
Now someone asked earlier if it would be possible to use a big Orb enchanted device to do the latter, and Boney replied that it's actually pretty easy to make portals, the problem is closing them reliably. Which begs the question… could we use one or multiple Orbs in an enchantment to do that closing.
And then the RPG has three miscast tables, each rolled on a d100, with results ranging from "nearby milk spoils" to "a giant hand reaches down and drags you into the warp".
Orbs make the surrounding area "less real". That sounds like it would make closing portals harder, not easier.
If I understand right, problem with closing is not just about, you know, closing portal. But it's also about cleansing area of Warp influence and corruption.
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"I'm sorry Professor Alric sir, but my Emporer Dragon ate my project!"
Actually, Orb of Sorcery is smaller than Cython's head, so why not let him eat itHe did want to eat light, and that way we don't have to give anything to the L*ght college.
That's a fair point. I just figured it was a decent follow-up to make sure.
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No, I get the argument bit (although whether that's a sensible choice is up for debate). I was asking how it would make it awkward if he was only an EC. It's not like it gives him better capacity to rebel over all the stuff that just being an EC gives soemone already.
I mean, Mathidle has definitely discovered how to manufacture Orbs of Sorcery (technically assuming this works). She's using a scarce resource, but that doesn't mean she hasn't discovered a way to manufacture them.
Which you use varies based on the number of magic dice you roll IIRC. Although I think that the highest result on the lower two tables is "roll again on the higher table".
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Isn't it also a problem of killing all the demons who came out of the portal? Or does a portal not necessarily lets demons trough?
This is pretty much what a Battle Altar is.
Warp portals, a trip to the north pole, or a very large supply of daemons.
No idea, and the Ice Witches don't seem inclined to share.
Using magic to close warp rifts is counterproductive. The underlying problem is that reality got thin enough for Daemons to start poking through, and adding magic makes it even thinner. Apart from divine intervention, the only known way is to take away whatever caused the rift and then leave the area alone for a very long time.
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An orb of sorcery as part of a project to make a super staff isn't a bad idea at all. Considering that they are probably rare even for Elves and the best Elven wizards tend to be funneled towards high magic where having eight would be super inconvenient, there's almost certainly gold at the end of this seam but it's never been practical enough for the Elves to try it.
Also yea, the idea that we're going to just gift orbs of sorcery to every character Mathilde remotely likes it kind of ridiculous.
Also yea, the idea that we're going to just gift orbs of sorcery to every character Mathilde remotely likes it kind of ridiculous.
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What better flex than to end your paper on Rite of Way with: "Example Battle Altar utilising Rite of Way can be found attached as appendix D"
We should introduce her to Anton then
Since she's our pilot now, it would be actually easy.
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Ah ok, sorry. It would be awkward because it would be a tactical nuke that isn't in the hand of the head of state. I'd argue it gives him a big boost in his combat capabilities, even against other wizards, which would be a big edge.
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Not all powerful elves learn high magic. Dragon mages use only Aqshy, shadow warrior mages Ulgu and there's probably other traditions if Boney is to be believed.
On the other hand, a battle altar with 8 different Orbs would be absolutely monstrous when used by an archmage. I imagine there's many orbs incorporated into the White Tower of Hoeth, and possibly into the most important fortifications in Ulthuan like the various gates in the mountains and the ones at the Lothern Strait.
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I'm pretty sure the circumstances surrounding the conversation indicates that we're likely talking about Battle Magic Miscast. If you miscast with Battle Magic, you're not gonna manifest a Minor or Major Miscast, you're almost certainly rolling on the Catastrophic or Tabletop Miscasts. The amount of energy involved makes it impossible for a spell of that caliber to be a minor miscast.
as far as I remember, scale of mistcasts in RPG is independent of scale of the spell. It depends on number of dice used to cast (and how many of those turned doubles, triples, quadruples...). So Battle Magics can in fact result in just Minor Miscascts.
SuperSonicSound
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It's based on the number of magic dice used that come up with the same result. So doubles is minor, triples is moderate, and quads is major chaos manifestation.
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That does remind me of a thought I had. It would be hilarious if using Powerstone creation methods got us some kind of Qaysh Powerstone, or maybe just a universal Powerstone or something—affecting all magic equally, not just combined magic like Qaysh—and then… we poured more on and made it into an Orb of that.
It would probably be damned useless for us, but a hilarious flex to show off to elves.