Sciurrus

Before the ban on gates, did wizards ever use it to make hereditary magical abilities in themselves, anything from affinity for certain phemes to stuff like shapeshifting and mind reading? If so are there any known magical families that sport such augmentation?

is it possible to emulate some gates effects with negation by negating the distance between to points?

If I made friends with a certain sentient vault with bleeding walls in year 1, will i be able to help give him the death he so desires in future years? (side note: there really should be some action to go visit him. I'm sure he gets lonely.)

Hi all! I've been lurking around on the forum for a while now and well my Hide and Move Silently skills both hit 10 so I figured I would come out and introduce myself.

Howdy. First time posting. A few questions. Are any of the supernatural races able to cross breed with humans? (a fae ancestry background would be awesome) How advanced is the study of Alchemy? Permanent transformation of one substance to another? (lead to gold) Potions of youth? Or is it more closely tied to the Alchemists ability with the other pillars of magics? In theory, could a mage use his skill in astrology to filter out some of the uncontrollable aspects of another pillar? Not that I have been studying any magic that may have been proscribed due to its erratic nature. Honest.