Do we even need magic for that? IIRC elephants are perfectly fine in that kind of environment.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy Users' Choice!
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NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
- Location
- the Philippines
There are instances of people solving equations which were previously thought unsolvable, simply because they didn't they were supposed to be unsolvable. I think this might be a similar situation, with Boney outsourcing the problem solving to the thread to represent that. The thread has surprised Boney before after all.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
We're great for Grey wizards- why bother constructing different viewpoints to examine a topic when you can outsource?
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- Australia
It doesn't sound like it'd be more flesh-implodey than something like teleportation or phasing, which Mathilde can do.
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- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
I am reminded of Shovern's amazing fanart:
Eike is getting plugged into that. May Ranald have mercy on her.It might be a little something like...
This:
And to think, that's the Highly redacted version.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
It sounds like a lot of power to get an effect (a ground effect boat, not soil-water) that Ulgu can accomplish without any special tweaking.
If we were contemplating the topic in a negaverse, Mathilde would be the subject specialist we'd think about tapping for a more efficient product, so to speak.
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- Earth
How about a Tower of Smoke and Mirrors? It wouldn't be that much more expensive than an enchanted wagon/boat, surely?
...poor Eike's been studying her spellbook too much and now she has magic on the brain
...poor Eike's been studying her spellbook too much and now she has magic on the brain
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dinomannitro6
all your gender is belong to us
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- The Land Where The Sunflowers Bloom
With those we were learning the already codified spell, that had the 'don't implode yourself' bit already made. If we were making a new spell we would have to make that part right the first time.
- Location
- being near locations is my passion.
The large error we made as a thread - although I did see at least two posts where this was avoided - is not post pics of what one is picturing when talking about 'swamp', 'fen' ect.
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
Mostly right. Alkharad's spell seemed to let him remotely project himself as mist while still actually being in his Black College. Boney noted that you don't need a trait to adapt existing spells, but also it might not have been a spell but a general vampire ability.
Actually bodily turning into mist was the hypothetical 'Dispersed Location' spell, which created mist and then merged Mathilde with it. Then, Mathilde could reappear anywhere within the mist. That's... newer territory, I would say.
It'd still probably be risky to create a Substance of Mist spell (and far more niche, I don't think there have been many situations where it would have helped), but we'd at least have an existing spell that we actually know to base ourselves off of.
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dinomannitro6
all your gender is belong to us
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- The Land Where The Sunflowers Bloom
Mathilde at least had the benefit of a slow ramp up of Thread over many years, Eike got 20 pages of it to the face in just a single day.
NavySeel
"I don't know what I'm doing."
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RORow... row your boat?Not!@ B New spell proposal: Rite of Row. Creates a fog that envelops a ship and enables it to travel over land and other terrain.
Gently down the street.
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is quite a treat
I found this, which gives numbers and sources on different speeds and costs for upstream and downstream transport. But that was rather incidental, while I was wondering why the 1/5 ratio matches so well with the ratios given for roman transport costs (and the 1/2 ratio is so far off). So I checked, and the biggest change to English riverine transport in the 18th century was the concentrated building of canals. So it might be a possibility that the 1/5 ratio holds true for rivers and canals that are built, improved and managed to support riverine transport, while the 1/2 ratio is more indicative of the performance of natural rivers compared to road based transport.
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Does Mathilde herself currently have a affinity for mystical fog? Or literal fog?
Also is it possible to gain a affinity for both? Or are they mutually exclusive?
The 'literal' was because Mathilde has an affinity for the metaphorical fog of war. If Mathilde had, say, set up on the city walls and watched the fog roll in every morning way back when she was looking for her first home, or maybe if the first few votes had put her in Hochland instead, she might be on a more weather-attuned path. As is, she's more about shadows and ambiguities.
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- Earth
Which is kind of funny when you read about her journeyman struggles with learning more shadow spells because her Elemental Ulgu was more foggy. I guess she's gotten more into that by now.
Living inside a mountain will do that to you.
I mean if we really want a 'turn into mist' spell we could try imitating the vampire gift. It has been confirmed way back we can try this. But it's all or nothing to turn back, we fail that roll Mathilde is dead. I do not see the thread voting for it.
Okay but is it possible in general for a grey wizard like Mathilde to attuned to multiple paths? Like simultaenously having a affinity for shadows and ambiguities as well as weather-attuned elemental ulgu?
It's possible, but it's not something you pick up at the shops, it's something that arises from spending years of your life immersed in it.
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- Actually pretty lost
That's interesting - I've been thinking of Mathilde as being more about fog than shadows, probably because of the "Warrior of Fog" trait.
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
Clearly, at some point we should consider moving to Hochland
... You know, Johann and Max have lived for years now on a mountain where they could expect to see all kinds of metals. I wonder if that's helped their perceptions of Chamon.
... You know, Johann and Max have lived for years now on a mountain where they could expect to see all kinds of metals. I wonder if that's helped their perceptions of Chamon.
dinomannitro6
all your gender is belong to us
- Location
- The Land Where The Sunflowers Bloom
Mathilde seems to be more of a generalist really, she knows the Ulgu of shadow and fog, elemental and mystic, not to mention a decent amount about the other winds, but she only has the one deep mystical insight trait in Warrior of Fog.