Mmkay. I voted,
then I read the thread. Now it's time to roll through the multiquote log.
Oh hey, an incredibly useful spell for cavalry. In one of the few lores Bretonnian Damsels can't use.
How much of Mousillon is swamps, bogs, and similar gribbly-infested damp bits, again?
*ponders how much Empire Favor the Bretonnians would have to spend to borrow a Grey Battle-Mage for a few months.*
Shame the Lady is unlikely to approve.
AV only really acts as an energy when it detonates, the rest of the time it acts as a liquid. You might be able to prod these mushrooms - or possibly any mushrooms - into absorbing some, but I'm not sure what use that might be.
Pies for elves, obviously.
I do wonder if this spell works differently based on convayence method. For example could Mathilde cast it on a dwarven ironclad so it could sail in six inch deep water? Or even on top of a fog bank?
Nautical Rite of Way does not currently exist. I'm...not convinced it
could exist, at least not in any significantly related form; water doesn't
have the "too much ground loading for a given ground" problem, and the "uneven surface" problem is
very different in nature.
At least for sailing in six-inch water, you might get more mileage out of Algard's spatial shenanigans- the boat's own shadow being always deep enough to float it comes to mind as a possibility, resulting in the extremely unusual case of an Ulgu spell that has peak function around noon.
I'm more impressed, honestly, that we've gotten a proof of concept for a Meta-spell.
This is very, very true. I expect we'll get a
lot of mileage out of it when it comes time to work on the self-updating MMAPP table project.
When the student realised the name had been claimed, they swore furious vengeance. After long struggle, they stepped through time before the master at the moment of destiny, and spoke:
Master, I cannot let you name your spell Rite of Way, for then I couldn't name mine Rite of Whey!
The master blinked, and she answered: Why would that stop you?
And the student was enlightened.
This is lovely. You're lovely. Do this more.
Missing a title, she is Dame Thane Lady Magister Loremaster
Hmm. I wonder what the actual order of precedence of our titles is?
We are Mathilde Weber, Lady Magister of the Grey Order, Knight of Stirland, Thane of Karak Eight Peaks, Loremaster of Karak Eight Peaks, Court Wizard of Karak Eight Peaks, The Dämmerlichtreiter, Sängerkritisch, Dawongr, Azrildrekked, the Silver Savage, Dawizhufokri.
I'm absolutely certain that this is
not correct precedence. We have, as near I can tell, three types of titles; the character sheet lists "Official Titles" and "Other Titles". The "Official Titles" can be divided into Imperial and Dwarven titles, of which Lady Magister of the Grey Order clearly precedes Knight of Stirland, and Thane > Loremaster > Court Wizard of K8P, but I'm not entirely certain where the overlap is. The character sheet just lists them Imperial > Dwarven, but I suspect the actual order is something like "Lady Magister > Thane > Knight > Loremaster > Court Wizard". I'm not
entirely certain about the ordering of Knight and Loremaster; Loremaster is the more important title, but it's also a position we hold, a job description if you will, whereas LM, Thane, and Knight are titles of nobility that are ours in perpetuity.
Note that while there's been absolutely no indication of such it is at least
conceivable that one could interpret the "first obedience" bit of the Articles of Imperial Magic to require Imperial Wizards to place Imperial titles ahead of non-Imperial titles, which would explain the ordering in the character sheet.
The "Other Titles" are really just nicknames and probably wouldn't be used at all on formal occasions. I doubt they have a strict order of precedence in any case; whoever's using them will do so as they please, but
after the official titles.
tl;dr my best WAG for Mathilde is that she would probably be announced in formal occasions as,
Lady Magister Mathilde Weber of the Grey Order, Thane of Karak Eight Peaks, Knight of Stirland, Loremaster of Karak Eight Peaks, Court Wizard of Karak Eight Peaks(, optionally insert one or more courtesy titles here if they're trying to flatter us or the occasion is relevant to one of those titles).
Lady Magister Thane Dame Mathilde Weber, Loremaster of Karak Eight Peaks, Court Wizard of Karak Eight Peaks is also possible, using the prefixes for the nobility titles and the "so-and-so of such-and-such place" for the positional titles? I'm not sure.
After introductions, we'd be
Lady Magister Mathilde in Imperial contexts and...probably
Thane Mathilde in Dwarven contexts?, as the senior relevant titles. Note that- as we saw a couple updates ago- the dwarves are likely to continue trying to come up with a good term for "a Grandmaster"- as distinct from
the Grandmaster- "Mhornokri", and once they do I have no idea where Grandmaster vs Thane ranks in their own internal precedence.
Can you make Mushroom beer or ale?
As this is (thankfully!) not Dwarf Fortress, I'm gonna go with the real-life answer, which appears to be "yes, but only by adding quite a lot of sugar".
But if he managed to get Teclis in melee, Settra would beat him like a drum.
If Settra can get to melee with Teclis through Azyr divination, Hysh Speed of Light, and Ulgu Steed of Shadows, I wish him joy of it. And that's without even looking at what bullshit exists in the Qaysh spellbook, or the fact that the set of "things Teclis can do" and the set of "things" are very nearly equivalent.
Edit: Also,
@Shovern,
@chocolote12,
@Redshirt Army, and everyone else who contributed to the Karag Dum avatar: it's fantastic work, thanks very much.
