I'm 99% sure a paper like this already exists. The various types of windsenses are both incredibly vital to the understanding of magic and have so many examples in and around the colleges that it makes no sense for there not to be entire libraries on this. Usefulness + Ease of Access = Already Done.
…Now if only we could conduct interviews with A few Runelords, dragons, and elves.
College Rep is basically the sum of all college favors we have ever earned, but I don't know if it has any more effects, since we are already a Lady Magister.
Or the written testimony of the greatly renowned and respected scholar Vlad von Carstein…Now if only we could conduct interviews with A few Runelords, dragons, and elves.
Reputation was a bigger deal when Mathilde didn't have any. As-is, she's passed the meaningful thresholds and the Lady Magister title alone is enough to wave around to get access to things that aren't strictly need-to-know-and-Mathilde-doesn't, or to convince people to work with her where the favour economy alone might not suffice.
It's essentially scaled against what other people in Mathilde's position might have achieved. So 194 College Rep is fairly high for a Lord Magister but not truly exceptional on the level of, for instance, Dragomas or Volans, while the Dwarf Rep tracker we used to have scales against what other humans have achieved for dwarves and was removed after Mathilde broke the scale by saving Vlag.
Haha, then the Web of magical science would be measured from Weber.Mathilde will eventually be so prolific that the Weber number will be adopted, defined as the "collaborative distance" between wizard Mathilde Weber and another person, as measured by authorship of scholarly papers.
I am reasonably sure Colleges alreasy do this but with Teclis as starting point.Mathilde will eventually be so prolific that the Weber number will be adopted, defined as the "collaborative distance" between wizard Mathilde Weber and another person, as measured by authorship of scholarly papers.
Did Teclis write papers with the College?
Since Teclis is ultimately the teacher of the entire 'How to Magic' on the Colleges, technically functionally 99% of all papers ever written cites him as a source. The rest probably have to do with the various druidic etc pre-college traditions.
Teclis being the source is natural.
Teclis had decades to do lectures in, and he actually did them. There's a couple snippets of people's notes of Teclis' lectures in 2nd Edition Realm of Sorcery, mostly by Volans I think.Teclis being the source is natural.
I don't think there are many human wizards that have co written papers with Teclis (i.e a Teclis number of 1) because in the thirty years he was with them, they were much more about kicking ass with battle magic, and taking names for recruitment into the colleges, than the modern academic institutions they are now.
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There are papers with a (theoretical) Caledor number of 0 in laurelorn
He was ok with teaching them far longer. Saphery had to smack him with a promotion, to keep him on Ulthuan.
Perhaps i should have specified that teclis' spoken words were the source.
Well yeah, but I was primarily addressing the second part of your post, which seemed to imply that Teclis' presence was entirely war-based. That isn't exactly the case. Teclis spent more time teaching the Colleges when they were at (relative) peace than when they were at war. It's true that he had to create an entire curriculum that boiled down the teachings of magic into a format usable by humans and that he prioritised war due to the circumstances and why the Colleges were created, but most of his time was in fact in an Academic setting. Mainly lectures. And according to Volans' notes, a lot of it was apparently ramblings about the nature of magic rather than just how to burn someone down good.
Again, not talking about Teclis collaboration. I was addressing the frequently espoused viewpoint that Teclis' time in the Colleges was completely centered around war and combat.
Sorry, I'm not arguing with you, but the idea of using Teclis as a center of collaborative distance. Should have quoted @Altom or @SakSak to avoid confusion. RL Erdos Number is a thing because that guy did ALOT of collaborations. Since I doubt Teclis has actually made any research papers with humans and we did collaborations with guys and gals from different colleges (different magic schools even), I think Weber Number is actually a better idea.
