TECHNIQUE PUBLICATION: SUPERHEAT

[sam33497 7356]

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[!] A portrait of Lanre Cerusil from his noble youth is contained upon the missive, taking up most of the space in an obnoxious fashion.

 

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TO THE DESCENDANT VOIDAL MAGES OF AZURAS:

 

I feel we have not corresponded for so long. I’m hoping to see some interesting developments from you soon, my undeath is getting quite boring. At any rate, this new home is much riper with Voidal corruption. Surely our era shall soon come, and the foolish mages of other practices will be destroyed. Hehe, or not.

 

Many of you practice my techniques. However, it seems that my later, more refined technique has become more popular. The Elemental Domain is quite useful, but my heart remains with my initial technique. As such I have used the energies of our local Heath to properly refine it to a state where it might be accessible to the general master of pyromancy.

 

I have attached the instructions below. Please copy them well and allow the technique to flourish. I have also wrestled with the difficult spell of flamebound weapons, so this technique should find use there, as well. By the way, you should master the rest of pyromancy before you attempt to use it, or you might burn yourself up.

 

For those who seek the Void, I am a perpetual teacher, and my techniques are shared freely. There is no such thing as the responsible or irresponsible transference of power; there are only the horrible chains of fate, and the means by which to break them. Pierce the Heavens.

 

Signed, your eternal watcher, teacher, and scourge,

Lanre Cerusil

 

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SUPERHEAT TECHNIQUE:

 

- The premise of summoning flames from the Void can be thought of as boiling down to producing, dually, heat and combustion.

- Both of these components are highly necessary for most cases, as we depend on the image of flame to maintain its conjurations.

- However, for masters of flame who have come to understand its nature, these qualities can be tampered with. The technique known as Blue Fire adds heat whilst maintaining combustion, whereas the technique known as Combustive Flame maintains heat whilst concentrating combustion.

- The Superheat technique is an extension of Blue Fire under this frame of mind; however, instead of maintaining the nature of flame, the concept of combustion is entirely abandoned, leaving all of the mage’s focus and mana into generating heat.

- The initial image of the flame is depended on, but then the mage pours significant heat into the flame, without bothering to maintain combustion. This must be practiced until the spell can be maintained during the application of the technique, and the image of the flame is not totally lost.

- Though I expected an incredible flame from this method, the true result is a strange state of superheated matter which I cannot even name. This is hardly fire, yet it still burns intensely. It easily melts through the hulls of pesky automata or armored warriors given time, yet it cannot spread flames.

- As such, Superheat is the maximization of the concentrated power of fire. It does not wantonly destroy, only seeking to obliterate the target before the mage. To those who seek to conquer with their own will, treasure this technique well.

 

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[OOC:]

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MArt 158 Superheat has been implemented into the main Fire Evocation lore, usable at second slot. As a bonus, it is now the only modifier usable with Flame Implement (W pallo for the idea). It’s a bit niche in terms of viability, but it has cool visuals. I hope you guys get some use out of my first MArt. Have fun and remember to maintain the agenda at all costs. :3

 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/249435-%E2%9C%93-magic-lore-fire-evocation/

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/230832-mart-158-augmentation-superheat-spellforge/

 

 

[wowj 9747]

The Grrreatest Fire mage in the world (Hinote of the Tatsu clan) suddenly gains a new ability, the ability of SUPER FLAME

[ClassyDryad 2367]

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Someone has attempted to do it before but they got ghosted if I remember correctly

 

[Laeonathan 5889]

8 minutes ago, ClassyDryad said:

Someone has attempted to do it before but they got ghosted if I remember correctly

yes but I got beaten by

[xo31 3979]

[ClassyDryad 2367]

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@LaeonathanMaybe they'll stop ghosting you if the 2nd slot goes through but I'd worry about it having too many "base magic but better" stuff

 

[Slorbin 2932]

when shawty lowkirkenuinely superheat my bong into a pile of slag

[Random 1690]

Asahiriondarel sat at a table high within Aelwen‘s astronomy tower, continously extinguishing and reigniting a candle. Truthfully, his potential had already advanced beyond such simple tricks, yet he did not know how to make use of it. Reading the missive, he wondered if he, too, could learn it. “I wonder where Madam May is, I ought to ask her for a lesson…” he murmured at the thought of it, and of his MIA teacher.

[MsLinni 828]

38 minutes ago, ClassyDryad said:

@LaeonathanMaybe they'll stop ghosting you if the 2nd slot goes through but I'd worry about it having too many "base magic but better" stuff

This is why spellforges have to be a new utility or aesthetic change, over just a damage increase!
Would this spellforge be a good spell in the base list? OFC having a personalized one for a specific group or character is also good, but I think both aspects should be considered when writing a good one.

[Frisket 4538]

Vivien froths at the mouth over how she’s being outshined by a dead man once again. Then again compared to all the evil mages, she can’t help but realize he’s more useful than the rest…

[HugoAntero 1962]

Botsugo kept the portrait of Lanre Cerusil safe, to be posted at the Grub-Bucket's BABE WALL.

[ClassyDryad 2367]

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@MsLinniIt's basically improved Jing reconstruction, which I can see several arguments to why that should remain a spellforge only or not. Spellforges sometimes let voidal magic engage in something outside it's niche given you can only really have one outside the one you made, which is an inherent control against this causing lore bloat like with alchemy. At the same time I don't think even the spellforge heal spell is so powerful that it causes a problem in of itself so le shrug. ST should definitely be careful about it tho

Sam's superheat is proooobably the textbook example of a spellforge that can be added without issue since it doesn't cross into any niches and accomplishes something very in line with the base magic