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Rhi;

"You have it exactly.  There are different magical routes you can take to an "invisibility effect."  The easiest are Glamour, which more or less tricks the viewer into not noticing you as opposed to bending light around you.  When you get into certain techniques for invisibility through Negation or Incantation - approaches that keep light from reaching the caster - they generally have to allow for either "pinholes" or blurring in front of the eyes (unless you have enchanted spectacles or something that allow vision through other/Astrological means), which means some degree of impairment to the caster as well."

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So there probably spells that redirect all light except that direct go toward the eyes and then redirect the light coming back from the eyes to different points.

Edit: For Negation I'm current only can come up with methods that leave some clear visible black spot unless used in combination with other magic.

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16 hours ago, Schwarzbart said:

There might be a other reason if your Enchant or Forge skill did fall below 10 even if only temporary because that the requirements to have it.

Ahh! That's what it is, thank you! Oddly, you can unlock it with EITHER materials knowledge 8 or Forge 10, but you can only USE it with enchant and forge 10.

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@Legate of Mineta: 1. I understand that Tabin is said to seem foreign (although his homeland is not mentioned), Oan speaks about Sung as if she is tired of people asking her whether she is from Sung (suggesting that she is at least somewhat obviously foreign to Mineta), and Miya flaunts her foreigness. But does Sima seem to be foreign in any way to the average person in Academagia?

2. I understand from the lores related to the Shohanwicht school that there was, before Gates magic was banned, a tradition of writing narratives about mages discovering other universes through gates magic, some of which accounts were believed to be true. Were any such accounts held to have literary merit? If so, were they completely destroyed when Gates magic was banned (at least officially) or do they remain highly controversial because of changing laws and norms, rather like "Huckleberry Finn"?

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On a scale of "a student could do this" to "the gods themselves would weep in awe", how difficult would be be to take a blood sample (or similar) and use that to create/incubate/whatever the proper word is a living genetically identical duplicate of someone? The clone does not have to be magically aged up to match their donor's natural age, if that makes any difference.

If accomplishing this is within human limits exactly how horrifically illegal is it (at least I'd assume that it is), and is it illegal more for political/religious reasons (I.E. people growing their own Catherine Chard copies/replacements would quickly turn messy and/or the Temple flips tables at the idea of people intruding upon the sacred duties of the gods, or some such) or more because it's (believed/assumed to be) so close to Gates magic that it ends up falling under that umbrella/required actual Gates magic outright?

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Rhi & Metis;

"1. Sima has an accent that nobody can quite place, but which seems fairly unremarkable all the same.  For simplicity's sake, we'll render this in real-world terms: a Roman might guess her accent came from somewhere in Tuscany; somebody from Florence might guess... somewhere outside Milan, maybe?  Nobody questions that Sima is a native Renaglian speaker, and if she says she traveled a lot as a kid (as she does) people will nod their heads and say that explains it.

2. In the wider world?  No, for the most part, the great multiplanar sagas are banned and forgotten, except maybe in mutated oral form in quiet, semi-forgotten places.

The only exceptions are "homecoming" stories - as a genre.  The formula generally goes: plucky children have been lured off through Gates to terrible places, and by virtue of pure innocence or low cunning or divine intervention they then find their ways home without using Gates magic themselves.  Esto Trapin's seven "Errico" novels (named after their protagonist) are probably the most famous, but they were actually mostly written after the banning - albeit perhaps drawing from earlier traditions.

3. The kind of magical cloning you're talking about is possible, though profoundly difficult, and it's actually considered Mastery. 

Major, super-bad Mastery. 

In cases where this has been achieved, magical theorists believe that there had to have been an existing animus (the exact nature of which is a tremendously complicated theological discussion) that was 'overwritten' by the mage who performed the work - and, therefore, that the victim's very soul was destroyed in the process. This falls into the category of Mastery crime where the criminal can be killed on sight and the killer would probably get knighted.

There are known Gates cases where mages accidentally created physical duplicates of themselves, but those were doppelgangers (not necessarily of the same age and physical condition as the original), even if the souls and astrological weights tended to be rather different (and often dangerous)."

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5 hours ago, Legate of Mineta said:

3. The kind of magical cloning you're talking about is possible, though profoundly difficult, and it's actually considered Mastery. 

Major, super-bad Mastery. 

In cases where this has been achieved, magical theorists believe that there had to have been an existing animus (the exact nature of which is a tremendously complicated theological discussion) that was 'overwritten' by the mage who performed the work - and, therefore, that the victim's very soul was destroyed in the process. This falls into the category of Mastery crime where the criminal can be killed on sight and the killer would probably get knighted.

There are known Gates cases where mages accidentally created physical duplicates of themselves, but those were doppelgangers (not necessarily of the same age and physical condition as the original), even if the souls and astrological weights tended to be rather different (and often dangerous)."

Writes down notes. How accessible is this information to the general public? Not that I can think of a great many legitimate situations where someone would need to access this information where they couldn't point to an existing doppelganger (never mind where they came from), but if this is the kind of thing that, say, asking the guard about would have you send to interrogation on the spot while a team of investigators is dispatched to turn your every known property upside-down...well, let's say it might complicate things 🙃.

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M;

"As a rule, medical practitioners just wear the clothing appropriate to their social class - though surgeons do tend to wear black (reputedly to hide the blood) while magical healers wear white or bright colors (to advertize that there won't be any blood). 

A physician who practices from an office rather than traveling to see clients at their homes will likely have on display a brass object called "the three cups" (though it's usually one large brass platter with three inset bowls).  Though they don't usually have any practical use anymore, the tradition holds that in (relative) antiquity the first bowl was for sanctified water to clean a wound, the second was to hold the herbs the physician would burn to avert the spread of disease, and the third would hold a special eucalyptus wand for healing magic (or, in the case of non-magical practitioners, conventional medical and surgical implements)."

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Uhhmm in a world where human workforce is cheaper then machines I somehow have my doubts that Euthanasia is a topic at all except for very few philosopher.
Unless there is some very obvious reason of dead like a wound or that there was a fight right before I don't think the death will examined for the reason of the dead.
When people even got killed just for anatomic studies in the real world! Simply because a dead body paid more then a few days of hard work and the buyer ask no questions where the fresh corps comes from. That even with a religion actual absolut forbid killing in the 10 sacraments. 

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