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Yes it does, but @kenod is right.
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I've always kind of imagined it as a cross between playing cat's-cradle and re-stringing a lute, except the strings aren't real, and you have to look with your soul-eyes.
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Thanks for the time perspective on that one!
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Ooh I like that!
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Hmm I think I may be about halfway between you and Mac on this one. I think he mentioned changing his age, things like that, which I think is totally fine. What I am talking about is effectively creating "new life" via ritual magic. Cobbling together an organic spirit. Kind of like a homunculus. Creating life/souls, artificially. I don't think that should be possible (or if it is, then this should effectively be the main problem in-universe: someone has created an artificial god). But I do think that messing with a spiritweb via enchantment should be possible - just really hard!.
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By fabricating, do you mean "creating from scratch" or "fiddling with"? Because I think mixing around a spiritweb is well within the limits of ritual magic (as it is now). Kind of like crossing phone lines and plugging them in so that people can change phone numbers or desks as they like (why yes I work in an office, how can you tell?). But true creation of a new spirit should only be under the powers of Natural magic imo, where group-belief does this organically and unpredictably (and no one knows exactly how it happens).
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I agree that soulwork, enchanting and alchemy makes more sense for ritual, since by nature those actions are ritualistic.
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I like this! If we are moving enchanting out of ritual, then this makes perfect sense to me. Not entirely sure what you mean by "flaming candle that isn't consumed." Do you mean an ever-burning candle, effectively?
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People you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley
ZincAboutIt replied to Voidus's topic in The Alleyverse
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I suggested something similar-ish a few days back, but I also like @ShadowLord_Lith's suggestion. Here's mine again for relevance: Each Innate is born with the ability to enchant one thing into being one other thing. Some Innates have a power that seems rather useless: turning milk into sand, for example. However, some Innates have powers that are immensely useful. Turning rock into vapor (mining), turning wood into salt (food preservation), turning clay into water. The one-to-one ratio might keep them from being too powerful, but would also make them powerful and useful enough to drive plot. The "spell" could also potentially be moved from one thing to another thing by ritual mages, if that's how we want to work it out.
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Aw. *wipes small tear* In any case, I do want to hear about @spren_of_cultivation's reread experience. One of my favorite re-read revelations was [WOR and OB spoilers]
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1. Rude 2. Cookies are delightful, don't let killjoys ruin all your fun 3. DO beware of spoilers, they are all over the place in certain discussions and I'd hate you to have some great reveals ruined!
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Hello and welcome! What's the coolest thing you've discovered so far on your re-read? I always love a good re-read, brings up so much stuff I missed the first time!
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Just throwing out an idea for Innate magic here: perhaps Innate mages can naturally transform one thing into another thing. They can use the ritual transformation process naturally on one setting. Each Innate is born with the ability to enchant one thing into being one other thing. Some Innates have a power that seems rather useless: turning milk into sand, for example. However, some Innates have powers that are immensely useful. Turning rock into vapor (mining), turning wood into salt (food preservation), turning clay into water. The one-to-one ratio might keep them from being too powerful, but would also make them powerful and useful enough to drive plot. The "spell" could also potentially be moved from one thing to another thing by ritual mages, if that's how we want to work it out. @xinoehp512 @MacThorstenson
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I don't think I'll be participating in this but I just want to say that it's REALLY COOL! Excellent world you've built!
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As someone who gains an immense amount of meaning from these choices, it really does invoke the ideal mood for the character to me. I love this category! So, is he actually a Windrunner, or does he just follow the oaths? What are his specific limits on the oaths (aka, "I will protect those I hate, [insert addition here]".) Why is he following the oaths? What will cause him to go insane? You don't actually need to answer this but I find that these are the questions that deepen a character into someone who feels more real.
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Is this a place where we could help people with weaknesses and cohesive backstory-creation? Because if so I would be 100% willing to help people workshop these character elements. They are my favorite. Just throwing my hat into the ring on this one.
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ZincAboutIt replied to Curious Anamaximder's topic in General Discussion
:3 you're too sweet, Ene. Thank you! -
FINALLY a character I can relate to!
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I agree the dichotomy sounds good but I am also confused about the Innate magic. What kind of blend were you thinking @xinoehp512?
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1. Yes, I think so. I mentioned an organization trying to undo or "soften" superstition in areas that could help transform dark, powerful gods into something less harmful. I think that the "faerie treatment" could be one way to do this. It's worth noting that something could also then be turned back into its more frightening form if beliefs changed back, which I think is also pretty neat. 2. I agree, I think that human gods would be inherently attuned to humanity and operate on more of an understandable basis (though I could see a war god or something similar being frightening or cruel). Conceptual gods and nature spirits I agree would be very far out of the realm of "humanity" and would operate on their own ideas of what was good, bad, etc. Much harder to reason with.
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Yeah that’s a good point re: folk belief and plants. Complaint against plants rescinded! I think if all memory of the god is gone, the god itself should probably “die” but I think that some memory of belief could keep a kind of weird half-life thing going for it. Like it doesn’t have any power but is still limping along, perhaps trying to revive its own legend? Sounds eerie and bizarre, I like it.
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What kind of magical properties would plants and animals have on this world? I was under the impression that natural magic would work via group belief, so sometimes a plant/animal/person could have miraculous powers but could those properties be shared without the god-ascension aspect? Short of the source of magic being a plant as suggested above, idk if I like the idea of magical plants (in the sense of more traditional wizard-y potion making). I think the idea of alchemy would be much more interesting if it were the art/“science” of effectively convincing one thing it was another thing so deeply that it became that other thing. (Even If that isn’t what is actually happening, I figure that is how most lay-people would THINK it is happening. If people already sort of understand that enough belief can make a god, then I would expect them to conceptualize other magic in this way. Unless of course most people have not made the connection between belief and natural magic, and simply think that life works this way “because it does.”) Although I could be totally not understanding Ritual magic here
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@Fatebreaker @Snipexe I used to have very long hair and people loved to touch it. So odd!
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ZincAboutIt replied to Curious Anamaximder's topic in General Discussion
What a lovely article, thank you!
