A few in game questions

[Schwarzbart]

1) Was there ever a strong tendency to move the Academagia to a other place?

2) Was there ever a split of a bigger group of students/mages that left Academagia to form a new College?

2b) When was the last time such a split happened and what happened with this former students)

[Rhialto]

3. Has there ever been a combination of negation magic, astrology, and enchantment/artificing to create an artifact to detect other magical artifacts?

4. Are some magical artifacts themselves created from incanted material? if so, does the enchantment needed to maintain an incanted object interfere significantly with the other enchanting magics?

[Legate of Mineta]

S & R;

1) Strong? No.

2) Not large, no.

2b) I'll ask to see how much they wish to reveal.

3) Definitely!

4) Yes, but as you can imagine they do not last very long.

[Urthor]

What do you acutally use Gate Magic for?  I've gone on the adventure and gotten this gate magic, but I seem to never have any reason to cast these spells. 

 

Also, are all phemes temporary buffs/effects or is there a potential to use them to get long term buffs.  

[Schwarzbart]

@Urthor Gate Magic is the school of other planes, summoning and connecting 2 places so that you or other people can move over big distances fast. If you really want to learn it with a character I suggest you take the secret background as it give you a adventure so that you gain access to a school teaching its skills. But keep in mind Gate magic, as well as Mastery, is current forbidden by the law and even knowing a single spell can end in live long imprisonment or dead if the wrong people learn about this. 

Also check out the Wikia if you just curious what you can learn in year 1 about gate magic http://academagia.wikia.com/wiki/Gates

[Rhialto]

@Urthor: But the consequences of knowing about Gates magic have not yet been implemented into the game. Supposedly, in Y2, it will have a greater consequence. One adventure in which Gates magic makes things much easier is "Just Another Day in Mineta".

[Schwarzbart]

@Rhialtoand @Urthor although there will be no problem in year 1 for using gate magic and mastery but the Legate told us that one of the things the import tool of year 2 will checking is if and how many times you used forbidden magic.

[freespace2dotcom]

Will the import tool be nice enough to tell us how many times we used illegal magic instead of keeping that a hidden variable? Also, since it's been said that actual practice drawing the phemes and such is required to get good at magic, how is the game going to treat someone who may not have cast any spells in the wild so to speak, but still trained to get to a high skill level?

[Legate of Mineta]

Free;

I can't say yet.

There isn't, in Y2, any kind of attention paid to skill mastery for Spells. 

[freespace2dotcom]

Since multiple generations of wizards can all wind up going to the Academagia, I was wondering if there are families who have sent their children there for so many generations, it's difficult to keep track of, and if so, how many consecutive generations would the record be?

[Legate of Mineta]

That's a fun one. I'll ask.

[Schwarzbart]

1) Are there magic known that prevent the typical find spells and if so what school do they belong to?

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

This is pretty complex- there is magic that can disguise what typical finding spells are looking for, yes. They are principally in Negation.

[Schwarzbart]

And there I thought its glamour that is focused on misdirection, also that the forbidden magic have developed some way like gate warping the space around them self/the object or that Mastery even can let their aura appear different. Anyway one more reason to learn Negation when dabbling in the forbidden arts ^^

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

Glamour can certainly do it- but you often need better knowledge of the Spell being cast in order to fool it.

[Schwarzbart]

1) Although it would be falling mostly into Negation but I wondering if it is planed that influencing other magic will be its own class someday?

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

Yes, although not as a part of the curriculum of Y2.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: 1. Are any laws or regulations in place preventing satyrs from owning houses in Frontino or Mineta?

2. Are any non-human intelligent humanoid species commonly assumed to be allied to dragons or dragons' puppets?

3. Are Nagas (intelligent magical serpents) known to Cyve?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

1) Yes, definitely. They are unwanted neighbors by most of the City.

2) Hmmm. No.

3) I can only refer you to the Lores for this one.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: Are there or were there ever people who, in a way analogous to contemporary terrestrial "doomsday preppers" constantly strive to prepare for a draconic invasion? Would such activity be legal in the Empire of Man, or would it be seen as a pretext for rebellious elements to gather?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

Yes, and usually it is illegal by local law.

[freespace2dotcom]

After all, all those supplies and weapons can be used to fuel an insurrection.

To be fair, mild prepping for an individual for a couple weapons and maybe a month's worth of food could probably be obtained easily enough as long as you kept your head down..

[Metis]

What kind of weapon supply would even be useful for a Dragon invasion? The kind a civilian could reasonably keep several crates worth in their basement "just in case", I mean?

[isadorbg]

Gunpowders ? Barrels of them ?

[freespace2dotcom]

I can't imagine old black powder holding up too well in the conditions people would bulk store it in. I suppose magic can solve that, but we're talking commoners here.