I really want a "wander the earth seeking out ancient mysteries and forbidden secrets until we become the second coming of Nagash" arc.
Just, you know, not right now.
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I really want a "wander the earth seeking out ancient mysteries and forbidden secrets until we become the second coming of Nagash" arc.
Just, you know, not right now.
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Pretty sure second coming of Nagash is Teclis. He is explicitly stated to be one of the only mages to match his genius.
Which is funny, because an Elf is being compared to a (former) human.
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Idea for new battle magic: some kind of acid shadow fog that rolls across the ground and sticks/sinks in holes and low areas. Obscures vision and blots out light. Something like dnd Cloudkill.
Perhaps some Burning Shadows implementation where the fog casts the shadow and the shadow applies the acidic melting?
Situational, with lots of weaknesses: still needs light source to melt things, wind, friendlies, area (either distant zone or area caster radius?), would likely require gas mask, sticking to ground limits targets, some targets resistant, slow moving fog, .
Situationally powerfull too. (Sinks into ground and crevasses, warpstone glows, etc.)
Also kind of in Mathilde's wheelhouse (thematic?) with fog affinity and experience with larger scale burning shadows.
Mathilde's Murky Melting Miasma?
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Perhaps some Burning Shadows implementation where the fog casts the shadow and the shadow applies the acidic melting?
Situational, with lots of weaknesses: still needs light source to melt things, wind, friendlies, area (either distant zone or area caster radius?), would likely require gas mask, sticking to ground limits targets, some targets resistant, slow moving fog, .
Situationally powerfull too. (Sinks into ground and crevasses, warpstone glows, etc.)
Also kind of in Mathilde's wheelhouse (thematic?) with fog affinity and experience with larger scale burning shadows.
Mathilde's Murky Melting Miasma?
-long time lurker, love u boney <3
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In all fairness, those two roman emperors were the fault of Julius, who also messed up the numbered months.
That said, he did fix the calendar so that it didn't need to be manually adjusted anymore... Just wish he had put those roman emperors at the back of the year instead of the mid.
That said, he did fix the calendar so that it didn't need to be manually adjusted anymore... Just wish he had put those roman emperors at the back of the year instead of the mid.
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Wasn't him actually. That got messed up when the custom became to start the year at January, which predated him by something like a century.
And it was Augustus that renamed the 5 and 6 months to Julius and himself.
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Truly? That's my bad in that case. I could have sworn it was Julius who did that.
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Julius Caesar: "As Dictator of the Romans, I now declare that two months of the calendar shall be set aside. One for me, one for Augustus"
Marc Antony: "Who's Augustus?"
Julius Caesar: "Oh, you'll find out."
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Yeah, that's on me.
Similar concepts have been discussed in the thread for a while now—a magical fog that kills people is very much within Mathilde's wheelhouse, and we have the skills and talents to throw something together—although it might be better to let Mathilde figure out the exact details of how it works?
My personal preference for the name is Mathilde's Malevolent Mist (assuming that doesn't get applied to a Whispering Darkness apparition first). Maybe we can have a Malevolent Mist and a Malicious Mist? It's peak Ulgu to have multiple spells using confusingly similar names.
... Oooh, Murderous Mist sounds good too.
I strongly suspect it'll be one of the next big personal projects we do, after apparitions and AV (I fear that if we don't get those finished soon, the thread will riot).
A better mist based battle magic spell IMO would be one that allows our Apparitions to condense out of/teleport around within a bank of it, killing the enemy horror movie style.
It would trigger our Warrior of Fog spell creation trait as well as leverage our Apparition knowledge and our staff.
It would trigger our Warrior of Fog spell creation trait as well as leverage our Apparition knowledge and our staff.
I suspect the handmaidens would be able to do that naturally, the Black Essence and the Whispering Darkness are already fog monsters, and the Red Riders are the exact opposite of "stealth assassin". I don't think we need to figure out how to create a fog that can attach a short range Smoke and Mirrors cast to specific individuals within it. It sounds too complicated for too little gain.
And faster, like, a lot faster.
Actually is there just a standard mist spell?
I mean a normal spell that just makes a big area of mist? Because that is probably easier (and faster) to design and might be useful to the colleges.
Edit: ok so i just checked the spell book and theres no simple mist/fog spell in there. That would probably be a really useful spell for us specifically and for the college generally.
I mean a normal spell that just makes a big area of mist? Because that is probably easier (and faster) to design and might be useful to the colleges.
Edit: ok so i just checked the spell book and theres no simple mist/fog spell in there. That would probably be a really useful spell for us specifically and for the college generally.
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Any mist based spell I know of from the Colleges has some sort of other affect to it. The closest to "just mist" is a spell used by Asur Sea Mages that creates heavy fog over a large area.
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Yeah I'm less of a fan of direct damage battle magic, and more of the buffs and debuffs- at least when taking the phrase to mean "magic used in large battles" and not the "magic potent enough it remembers it is chaos" sense.
Uglu is really conceptually not the greatest for doing damage. We are the wind of mystics and tricksters, not flamethrowers and tanks. Leave that stuff for the brights and the golds, let us focus on what we can do that they can't.
Uglu is really conceptually not the greatest for doing damage. We are the wind of mystics and tricksters, not flamethrowers and tanks. Leave that stuff for the brights and the golds, let us focus on what we can do that they can't.
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I wouldn't say that. Pit of Shades, Penumbral Pendulum and Okkam's Mindrazor are all very deadly. It's just that there is no middle ground. You either dive face first into the abyss or stay at the edge.
Okkam's Mindrazor in particular is absurdly powerful. Like even putting aside its mechanical power, it lets an entire cohort of soldiers wield blades equivalent to their willpower that goes through armor and shreds people's mind and spirit. It makes normal people into murderblenders.
Although I suppose Okkam's is a buff rather than a direct damage spell. I don't think the thread will try to go for it anytime soon. It's one of the hardest Battle Magics in the Colleges and we don't have any bonuses for it.
Personally i want either the hole of doom or the pendulum of "why are you in the grey spell book again?"
The sort-of-not-really-a-problem with existing Battle Magic spells is that we're very tied into Elemental Ulgu rather than Mystical Ulgu, specially with the Staff of Mistery. It makes all fog/mist/miasma based spells easier to cast, but none of the remaining Battle Magic spells fit that description.
Building a new spell from the ground up that does synergies with the staff is probably the best and most reliable way to expand our spell repertoire, rather than learning a spell we don't have any existing bonuses for.
It'll probably be more work and AP to make our own spell, but it'll be more effective in the long run because of our preexisting traits and equipment.
Building a new spell from the ground up that does synergies with the staff is probably the best and most reliable way to expand our spell repertoire, rather than learning a spell we don't have any existing bonuses for.
It'll probably be more work and AP to make our own spell, but it'll be more effective in the long run because of our preexisting traits and equipment.
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It's also kinda fun to have a lady magister who presumably has the reputation of being a massively destructive blunt instrument among the less informed wizards mainly developing logistical spells and complex meta-magic, like the array.
For people who actually know how Matty does things, namely "figure out how hard you can hit, then manipulate the situation to make sure it'll be sufficient and properly aimed" her focus on creating force multipliers makes perfect sense.
For people who actually know how Matty does things, namely "figure out how hard you can hit, then manipulate the situation to make sure it'll be sufficient and properly aimed" her focus on creating force multipliers makes perfect sense.