I think it is 12 for a Runelord and 12 for a Lord magister separately, assuming no synergy or special interest from either.
10 each:
- Getting a Journeyman/Magister/Lord Magister of a specific College/with a specific spell to come assist with a specific question/project/calamity
2/5/10 per six months. This is assuming they have no interest in the topic and will receive none of the credit (or blame) for whatever it is you're trying to do.
So what's the rationale for people thinking it's a reasonable idea to try to gank Eshin's sorcerer? It seems like an unnecessarily risky proposition.
Much better matchup for us than any of the other hero units other than maybe the stormvermin. Attacking Sleek while he's got a posse around him is suicide, which is why Eshin hasn't been able to manage it. 1v3ing assassins sounds like risky business. We haven't even
seen Eshin's leader, which bodes poorly. But a sorcerer shouldn't be too bad, because our belt makes us a great magekiller. I imagine the modal combat between the two of us goes something like this:
We spot each other at about the same time.
He Skitterleaps backwards to get range on us.
He casts a battle magic spell on us while we're coming at him or casting a spell of our own.
Spellburner does its thing.
We Smoke&Mirrors into melee while he's screaming in pain and remove his head from his shoulders.
Having taken a look at the Lore of Stealth, I'm not too worried about what he might have in store for us. We're him, but better.
As for why we're attacking Eshin at all: because they were winning prior to Sparklebutt entering the equation. We want their fight to be as close as even as possible so that 1) neither side breaks and runs from a clearly hopeless battle, but rather clings on as long as possible in the hopes of eking out a victory 2) mopping up the survivors is less painful.