It's fine, Jades have the spell Tree-Dweller's Step, which lets the affected character or creature climb and traverse natural obstacles (only natural obstacles/surfaces!) very easily.
I wonder what's up with the disparate reactions. Aksel and Tochter seem to react similarly, though I have a hard time putting my finger on how they happen to know this as an obvious matter of course. But what's up with Cadaeth's lip biting? Is she being cheeky about something specific that she knows is already going on?
I think this time I am a bit lost on the magical side of things. What exactly was Hatalath considering very hard to do? I thought it was directly related to making the energies flow through the Dreaming Wood. Now he is fully onboard with the others ideas?
I have a similar issue here. Maybe it's just late and my brain isn't fully working? What do they want to do while establishing tributaries and how does it change the value of the tributaries themselves, which, as far as I remember, already were very much of low value (when not literally made out of precious metals).
I'd love to read more about the cultural differences that led to this.
Oh. Oh no. There goes all hope for voting in a more niche and neglected option. Why, Boney? Why must you spoil us so?
Merry Christmas to you too! And to everyone else!
It seems massively powerful. It makes a petty spell like Silence into a major offensive powerhouse. Just target the enemy commander from stealth and fuck over all cohesion on the cheap. Or kidnap someone from inside a crowded ball room while they live through a traditional child nightmare. Or bring a bull into the enemy porcelain shop unhindered.
Listen sometimes a wizard has to sacrifice practicality for showmanship
It's not quite as good as that -- it's not "turn this person into an antimeme." It just makes it impossible for them to deliberately get someone's attention, through banging on the wall, waving, and the like. If they already have attention, or would naturally get attention from the circumstances (e.g. a guard checkpoint), the Mastery doesn't help. But it does mean that if you lure someone into a dark corner with nobody watching and then hit them with this trick, they are 100% screwed; it would have, for example, made our assassination of the Tzar completely trivial. It's really strong: the sort of Mastery you could build a career as an assassin on, the way we built our career in fastest-possible message delivery off Shadowrider.
Many of which don't know about each other and frequently need to be stopped from exposing the others.
There are Gold wizards. Anything is possible.
...It just occurred to me that The Red Shoes (the fairy tale) would fit into WHF extremely well.
Hatalath is trying to excuse the tributaries not working by claiming it's a special case of the Laurelorn woods being so loyal to the elves that it rejects anyone else. Cadaeth, the forest spirit, knows he's talking out of his ass but isn't going to contradict her fellows, while the Hedgewise and the Druid know damn well how forests work and that this is nothing but typical elven ego talking.
I want to imagine that Aksel specifically was thinking along the lines of how loyalties can get very divided (hah!), hence the eye-roll - no need to bring in how that's not how forests work, Hatalath's argument fails on a social basis.
Some of them also feed into each other semi-unkowingly, like the Witch Hunter-Grey-Amethyst conspiracy to kill the (Lahmian-connected) Empress, leading to the Ranaldians replacing her with one of their own (and stealing the heir for Ranald in the process), which has lead to the Ranaldian-Wizard plot to create a Wizard Elector, which also feeds into the Witch Hunter plot to have one of their own possibly succeed the Emperor!
Can't be the spymaster for something that doesn't exist.
What about the armor-silks though? Those have no known equivalent in the east.
Still pretty awesome. That said, are those details from the Discord? Or did I just miss them being brought up?
There isn't a Discord.
This quest doesn't have a Discord. It's just picklepikkl speculating, I think.
That's me exegeting this:
It's certainly not "Target is unable to be noticed" -- that would be just a strict upgrade to Take No Heed, a Moderately Complicated Ulgu spell. This is a Petty magic, the least magic you can pull together and have it do something. So I read "unable to deliberately draw attention" and concluded that the stated exception proved the rule: that they could still have attention other ways, such as if it were already there or if it would naturally accrue to them, in much the same way that Take No Heed still lets you be noticed if the thing you're doing is a weird thing. So the situations in which it is strongest are the ones in which your target would not passively draw attention, but might try to actively draw attention if they could, because it closes off the specific escape clause they have.
Take No Heed is Relatively Simple, but yes. I don't think it means people couldn't notice the affected person on their own, but rather that the subject themself is psychologically blocked from actively trying to draw more attention to themself.
Im pretty sure we could just make one for real, possibly even including real cults and vampires
Wouldn't it be hilarious if the Silk Road starts going the other direction.
Mathilde EARNED the right to laugh as maniacally she wants! Anything less is coward talk!
