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Strangers handing out candy are, I suppose, somehow infiltrating children's lives - but I never thought of it in that way until now. Many thanks for the suggestion, though.

@Legate of Mineta: How easily could Isabeau find a spell which would allow her to identify her father?

@Legate of Mineta: Was the exceptionally pious nature-loving student emulating clergy of a goddess given the name Eliana as a deliberate reference to the Eliyanas - Lykian nature spirits (nymphs, basically) dedicated to a goddess? This is an obscure reference, but when I readed about the Eliyanas and their role, Eliana Carosi leaped into my mind - especially once I learned that some people spell Eliana as "Eliyana".

@Legate of Mineta: Are there any thoughts about selling a guide to Y2, rather like Spiderweb Games does with their games?

@Legate of Mineta: Are there any plans for introducing more spells to allow characters to train themselves?

@Legate of Mineta: 1. Would it be legal in the Empire of Man to publish a story pretty-much identical to "The Words of Guru", by C. M. Kornbluth - a horror story that is a first-person account of learning how to use gates and mastery magic (where the precise techniques are not described)? 2. Are there rumours about people operating like Guru in "The Words of Guru", by C. M. Kornbluth - sneaking into children's lifes, secretly teaching them gates and mastery magic, and inducting them into extra-universal cults of gates mages?

I just save and reload, alas, although I have asked the Team to develop a tool to eliminate randomness. As for getting love, I find for Cinzia that one should not try for that and affection in the same day - the chance is too low. Rather, get affection on one day, save. and then try for love - if necessary reducing the relationship to below 13 first.

The game produced by @ShiningCity seems to have interesting premises and mechanics, based upon its development diaries. Maybe the Team can reconsider its no release policy, eh, @Legate of Mineta? Even twitter posts would be interesting for me.

Great!

@Legate of Mineta, would this mod make the resulting game incompatible in Y2?

Actually, you need relationship 13 to get love, which can only be reached naturally with Sheary Warrington - for those other students whose relationships can be elevated to that level, you need to save-scum with the Etiquette bonus at level 8. And even then, merely being of the right sex will not guarantee love with a relationship at 13 - some students have higher chances of giving love than others. Zoe Melis, for example, is very lonely in-story and accordingly has a low chance of not generating love, but Cinzia Ammacampani has a high chance of not generating love in order to match her dominant and controlling personality (I assume).

Emilia Picotti's adventure "Out of Charm" is a way (may be easy, depending upon your character's skills) to get 2 points in charm or 1 in charm and 1 in luck.

@Legate of Mineta: Are there any entities whom scholars are uncertain were gods/fays or powerful human mages, akin to, for example Red Horn/He Who Wears Faces on His Ears among the Ho-Chunk and Zalmoxis/Salmoxis/Zamolxis/Samolxis among the Getae of Earth?

What sorts of things does he whisper? Forbidden knowledge? Tips about handling bees? More innocent things?

@Legate of Mineta: Do the bees in the Academagia have an actual link to mastery magic, or are they just a way through which a person with knowledge of mastery magic can gain better knowledge of mastery magic? I would think that the first option would make more sense from a story/gameplay integration standpoint, because mastery is portrayed as a secretive and forbidden art - rather undermined if anyone with knowledge of basics mastery magic can learn more by studying ordinary bees (and a method not associated with any other pillars of magic). But I ask you, motivated in part by hopes of writing a certain adventure.

@Legate of Mineta: Are any fay opposed to humans cutting down trees or using leather? And can this opposition become violent?

Then, dare I ask...is Y2 playable in whole or in part? For example, is it possible to play through a week (or even a year!)?

Can Rimbal be played in Y2 yet?

@Legate of Mineta: Has "Isle's position" been restored in Y2?

Ugh, it will probably feature realtime combat at which I suck - and its setting will probably be as bizarrely inconsistent as Rowling's world is - wherein dark magic is never defined! Still, it tempts.

@Legate of Mineta: How much warning did gates mages and the broader Empire of Man have about the ban on Gates magic?

@Legate of Mineta: Is Pelia bi-cultural, or did her father assimilate into Minetan mainstream?

Is such studying legal and capable of being done openly?

@Legate of Mineta: Have any students from the Academagia (or professors!) defected to the Oursukis?

But random events reveal that Cante is willing to purchase dubious potions from people claiming to be alchemists, so I can easily imagine his actively seeking out Pelia, a genuine alchemist, regardless of their difference in years. But I would not dare to write such content because I have no idea how Pelia would react, how far Cante would go in such efforts, and whether the interactions should be incorporated into the Vernin-Morvidus rivalry. I am glad, though, that the Team apparently has plans.