Plus, as we're a vampire, he'd surely have the same metaphysical potency as a dragon, so eating him would permanently quench our thirst.
They were willing to go to that trouble on a whim, and that before we learned our battle magic lore trait, personally annihilated an entire army of greenskins, and then wrote the first book on counterspelling them.
They're near the bottom of our todo list. How long have we had taming our Arcane Marks on our todo list? I mean, I wouldn't fight against a focused push to do all of that in the next two turns, but looking at the research rabbitholes we're already planning to go down your proposed requirements are the next best thing to never. AP hell is a thing.
True.
Call from the past: Where were these from again?
Readers care not where stories flow from only it does (?).
Only the ones wearing gaudy jewellery. Which is to say, most of the Lahmians.
Yes, because of course the shadowy ninja elves who get ostracized for being so impersonal have a guest list they keep posted for snooty noble elves to scoff at? We're not going to be attending elf parties, we're going to be camped out in a twisted, shattered land hunting even worse people while attempting to fraternize with what could be charitably described as 'dark elves, except not on the side of evil'. The only warning anybody will get of our collective presence will be when we put our various bladed instruments through their anatomy.
Only the princess vampires. So, yeah, the Lahmians.
A standing invitation is going to take more than being really good at killing enemies. Maybe something like demonstrating that we actually understand how the waystone network works, or publishing a paper on an aspect of magic that even Teclis has never heard of.
Are you thinking of Hoeth, perhaps? We were invited by the ninjas, not the mages. There's considerable doubt as to whether or not they were even referring to magic when they compared their 'shadows' to Sapphiry's arts.
Do we have any reason to believe this trait will come into play with available research options? I confess between months of forgetting the details of what happened and generally not touching multi-wind stuff, as well as "as long as other Wizards provide the other Winds" I've been worried that we made a poor choice back then.
But they're willing to defy the law of the land to let us show up in the first place? Or maybe both instances would be sanctioned, because they are loyal, and they're following the rules in order to bring us onboard. If the shadow elves want us to visit, and they set things up with the border guard to give us permission years in advance, that's going to be because giving us permission to do that is something they have the authority to do.
The first and third earned her respect, not doubts as to her sanity.
It lets us work collaboratively with other wizards and make more complicated stuff, like towers that use multiple Winds. The issue is that winds in proximity interfere with one another and can cause Dhar. Windherder lets us avoid that; we still can't use it to make winds interact without causing Dhar, but we can at least make something that uses one wind to do one thing and another wind to do another thing.
I'd argue that Qhaysh pre-dates the winds of magic because the elves and Slann have been using it since before the Elves split the winds.
If it's suicidal, but we live, is it suicidal?
They've already done so. They're not going to lose anything they haven't already for saying 'yeah, this was a great decision' and deciding to keep her on. The super secret ninja elves aren't going to extol the virtues of how we stabbed one particular Druchii in the face, they're just going to nod and say we do good work, because no other elf actually wants to hear about that sort of thing (again, they're basically social outcasts because they do so much murder).
Those two are not mutually exclusive.
