I am pretty sure the is is actually the issue with staff making in Colleges, unrelated to whatever tuner is. There just isn't anyone that wants to do this drudge work of sufficient magical skill to make actually cool staffs, so when the last guy up and died, that was it for high level staff makers. So people who want them gotta make their own. Thats what i seem to recall.
Also probably because the Grey Order has relatively few spells which benefit from the output of a staff until you reach the upper levels of skill...at which point learning to make your own doesn't take long but prospective Lord Magisters have better things to do than shit out staves for young wizards.
Turner is, I believe, just a job title, and the Grey College does not have one because making staffs is really boring after the first few and there is no one with the temperment to do so, and everyone with the skill is scared they will get stuck with the job forever.
Wait, what? Where did this come from? Is there some kind of potential anti-aging method Mathilde has uncovered or something?
Huh. No, not really.
More or less what i was trying to say.
Look up Elspeth, except even more tied to Ulgu than Elspeth is to shyish.
Edit: Also, a Turner is a man who works a lathe. Also known as a Woodturner
No, some people just really hope there is and bring it up a lot.
Not really? I mean maybe my outlook on it is different from what the rest of the thread things about when mentioning Avatar of Ulgu, but Elspeth von Draken seems to be doing pretty well as being thats apparently mostly Shyish. Which is what i think of when this gets brought up? And Elspeth von Draken is not really Endtimes thing. I think what you are mentioning is Incarnates which is not really what i had in mind.
It has just as much, if not more, textual backing (Previously mentioned Elspeth but also the Gilding of gold wizards and multiple cultures in whf have unlocked some form of immortallity even if necromantic) as your pet projects of making a hybrid divine lore of Ranald and Ulgu or using Ulgu as a medium for controlling other winds.
To be fair, there is actually a source of anti-aging that Mathilde not only could acquire somewhat easily, but is in fact pretty easy to spread to others!
Eh, he was very unfazed when we met him after we had killed his students.
Talking heads are great teachers though.
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Pretty sure seeking eternal life requires at least some amount of megalomania.
I think the most consistent and formalised one would probably be the Necromancy faction. We are a proud group whose lineage can be traced back to pre-hiatus days (the original hiatus, not this slightly oversized winter break), and can be counted on to show up and argue every time our interests are relevant.
