It wasn't wholly originated within the thread. The challenge of the Sevirscope was always the difficulty of interpreting the winds without a mind serving as an interface. Using a mind made of Ulgu does seem like a valid way around it.
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There is one major question in regards to crafting magic like GGH. Are the GGH apparitions after the transformation? Bound to a wizard's soul and immersed in Charmon are they still dark hounds? Or are they something different? Steel is not iron. It comes from iron, but the process of creation changes the nature of the iron. Is something similar happening with GGHs? Is the process of creating them fundamentally changing their nature so they are no longer apparitions but something else?
The first Gehenna was quite likely an elf. Though as people mentioned, this is also pretty much exactly the mindset behind domestication.
Well... we could put the word out that we're looking for a Magister who's close to death that wouldn't mind taking a gamble on immortality? Or even better, dabbing on all of their academic peers from beyond the grave on how committed to advancing academia they are?
I am very confused by these statements, because they seem to contradict one another. The difference between "a cell that is a component of a multicellular organism" and "a cell that is an organism unto itself" is a very real, substantive, observable difference. Like, trivially so. Defining "apparitions" as single-celled organisms and "daemons" as "cells of Four large organisms that we don't want to fuck with" does not seem to me to be in any way arbitrary or political: it's something you can easily check and a distinction which exists in reality.
The seviroscope was never mentioned in the quest except as an option for enchanting actions and the recent Gold patriarch interaction. None of these talked about the difficulty of interpreting the winds without a mind serving as an interface.
I maintain that this is a difficulty that originated within the thread. It might be a very real difficulty! I definitely see how having a mind along would make it easier. But it has never been stated textually to be a must-have.
I agree that it may not be necessary. That said, one of your own quotes literally goes " 'seviroscope' - a way to provide Windsight without interacting with the brain" which is the source of the thread belief.
Yes, because we want dwarves to be able to use it. Not because we believed we needed a mind on the job.
Yes and one solution to this is to give the enchanted object itself a metaphorical brain.
That was a response to a post about 'pack sizes', singular or group, and the relative power of the Apparition.
Certainly one solution. But unlikely to be the only solution.
I agree. I was just making the point that it does have basis in the text. We may choose not to pursue this solution, but the solution is still a valid approach.
...I'm not sure that those are multicellular organisms. Algae colonies, maybe. Not multicellular organisms.
But that doesn't change the fact that one cell is a single cell organism and the other cell exists in it's own ecosystem of multiple cells.
An apparition is a metaphorical brain and more importantly, already have the capability to sense magic.
