Never was a curse so obviously leveled
The piercing quality of Shadow Knives doesn't come from sharpness, it comes from the fact that it phases through mundane armor. To my knowledge they are sharp but not supernaturally so.
We know the Jades are basically a fertility cult that's okay with polyamory, I doubt they care much about titles when it comes to love. The Grey College is extremely strict on itself about impropriety and misconduct to earn the public's trust, they probably do care about unequal relationships but at Lord Magister level they trust you enough to have faith that you won't abuse your rank.
I mean, Panoramia's parents (or Panrents, for short) are a Magister and a Perpetual Apprentice.
We bought books to scope out the risks and, when asked about the risks of bringing humans without protection, got this answer:
We're not bringing mooks; we're bringing wizards and members of Knightly orders, for whom "strong will" is a job requirement.
The thought in my mind is that her wording implies that this is something she's known to happen with some frequency. I don't know enough of Hashut's workings to know if there's anything like that in his nature, but it does imply something like the Fire of Gazul, meant to burn away the Aether, might do so repeatedly.
My thought is that transforming AV into winds(as seen in charging the cataclysm runes off of the stuff) requires more space than we can fit in an enchanted fiddle. But if you can make an enchanted fiddle to enable a particular cataclysm spell the world is at your fingertips.
"Wind of being a dork". Dammit, that explains so much about Mathilde.
One of the things I love about the relationship between Mathilde and Panoramia is that in the beginning it was the young naive Journeywoman who was the dorkier of the two, now the dork in the relationship is the Lady Magister who's the most feared Wizard in all of Stirland.
You know, it's really nice to think of Mathilde as a Lady Magister. Just feels right.
Here's a thought: they already had a vestigal secondary soul by virtue of being a vanishing twin (meaning they absorbed their twin in the womb)
Oh... wow. The demiplane is a 'sword' that drinks in Ulgu, connects in indirect hidden ways with the material world, and is one of the most powerful things the Grey Order has access to.
I can't help but realize that once you include us then literally half of the highest echelons of the Grey College collaborated on the Eye of Gazul. Really makes me wonder about Magister Grey, considering every other major contributor is now either Kragg (the Greatest Living Runelord) or a Lord/Lady Magister. Which of loyalty, ability, reliability, or experience is he missing that would prevent him from being promoted?
That sounds like you're suggesting time-travel to me... so it makes perfect sense! Oh those poor, poor students.
Generally the answer would be dirt and stone.
Possibly, but it would also be the perfect place for a super secret anything.
... Does this mean we need to come up with our catchy explanation for 'What exactly is this place?' now that we're part of this circle?
Since, well, every Wizard Lord introduced themselves by giving a theory on what it might be. So. What's Mathilde's theory going to be?
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That was my immediate guess too. Seems much more likely she knows Chaos Dwarves, rather than secrets of Gazul.
