[✗] Malflame vs Ectoplasm Amendment

[Zonty 994]

While reading through mysticism, under a spell Walling I stumbled on a redline that stated Malflame instantly destroys the waged barrier on account of malflame's soul-burning properties.

I don't see any sense behind this as Ectoplasm (of which the barrier is made) is NOT in any terms a soul. It's just a mixture of mana and lifeforce. The inflated weakness to malflame of mystics themselves in the lore has always been rooted in a simple fact that any mystic stores more than a single soul. Thus, when malflame starts searing them, the agony is multiplied due to the assault of multiple souls simultaneously. 

 

I've hastily gone through ectoplasm - related lore-pieces and found no other spot where this correction needs be applied, though I could certainly miss something. Do let me know if I did and I'll tack it onto the amendment.

 

The amendment itself:

 

- Mysticism -> Liturgies -> Walling -> Redlines

 

Old:

Spoiler

• Nothing, not even phantoms may pass through walled shields.
• Walling ends if the mystic's arm is dropped or disturbed from facing the shield, if their line of sight is block, or if they move more than three blocks away.
• Walling consumes two units of ectoplasm to perform.
• The mystic must have undergone amputation to perform walling.
• Requires [2] strikes from a spell from holy magics, aurum, and abjurations.
• Requires [3] strikes from voidal fire. 
• [4] strikes from mundane blunt/sharp weaponry will shatter the wall.
• Malflame instantly destroys the wall, on account of its soul-burning properties.

New: 

Spoiler

• Nothing, not even phantoms may pass through walled shields.
• Walling ends if the mystic's arm is dropped or disturbed from facing the shield, if their line of sight is block, or if they move more than three blocks away.
• Walling consumes two units of ectoplasm to perform.
• The mystic must have undergone amputation to perform walling.
• Requires [2] strikes from a spell from holy magics, aurum, and abjurations.
• Requires [3] strikes from voidal fire. 
• [4] strikes from mundane blunt/sharp weaponry will shatter the wall.
• Requires [4] strikes from combustive malflame, taking no damage at all if malflame is not combustive. 

 

[FlemishSupremacy 6115]

Ectoplasm definitly is made up of soul. Quoting Mysticism lore directly;

Ectoplasm

 

A baffling substance — one which begets the phantom beings that propagate the mortal realm. Ectoplasm is an unorthodox cross between mana and lifeforce, wrought of the soul as opposed to the flesh. When conjured materially, it may appear as a quasi-gelatinous substance, composing phantoms, wights, and other spectral entities. 

 

If anything, you could see it as the mystic extending the conjoined soul outwards to manifest their various abilities

[SethWolf 2340]

To my knowledge, Life-force meta materials are for all intents and purposes soul-bearing or soul adjacent. The list of creatures and beings who possess it and would therefore be susceptible are: lesser and greater mortal souls, dragons, ectoplasm, spirits, plants, undead, and other infernals. 

[Tentoa 3160]

Looking me in my eyes and telling me: "nah mysticism needs to be stronger." -1 

[Zonty 994]

1 hour ago, Tentoa said:

Looking me in my eyes and telling me: "nah mysticism needs to be stronger." -1 

Mysticism is weak ass save for wights

 

But ok apparently i was confused on how lifeforce and ectoplasm are integrated with the soul. So this amendment should be nulled

[Johann 2498]

This lore has been self-denied.