[✗] [Addition] Arcane Tattoos

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Focus Tattoos - By crushing of Focus Crystals, Magegold, Quietus Crystals, or Arcanium into an exceedingly fine powder, then mixing such with a suitable pigment, a mage may inscribe an Arcane Focus directly upon their flesh as a tattoo. These marks may take many shapes and forms: runes, sigils, geometric forms, or various designs. While dormant, the tattoo retains the color of its chosen pigment. However, upon connecting to the void, the markings will glow and shift into a hue reflecting the caster’s aura. Such focuses offer no practical protection from evoked elements due to their proximity to the body, and serve primarily as a subtle, aesthetic medium for casting. Spells may be conjured through the marked limb or portion of the body as the mage connects to the void through the inscribed focus.

Red Lines:

-Tattoo Focuses grant no benefits beyond those listed under the standard Benefits of an Arcane Focus.

-Tattoo Focuses must remain clearly visible and uncovered during casting to gain the benefits of an Arcane Focus. If fully obscured by armor, heavy clothing, or similar coverings, they cannot be used.

-Tattoo Focuses may be placed only upon living flesh and cannot be inscribed upon detached body parts, prosthetics, armor, or clothing.

-If the portion of skin bearing the Tattoo Focus is destroyed, heavily scarred beyond recognition, flayed, magically altered, or otherwise removed, the focus loses all of its properties.

-The shifting color and glow of the tattoo is purely aesthetic and grants no mechanical advantage, intimidation effect, or concealment.

-Tattoo Focuses do not reduce the risk of self-harm from evoked elements cast at close range. Casting destructive magics through a Tattoo Focus remains just as dangerous as any other close-body focus.

-Tattoo Focuses must still be properly named, described as an Arcane Focus tattoo, and player signed as an item representation. Without this item in inventory, the focus cannot be roleplayed for mechanical benefits.

-The tattoos cannot be placed on breasts, the lower half of a body, etc.

 

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OOC Reasoning: An arcane focus is by far one of my favorite parts of playing a voidal mage, the idea that you have the freedom to choose HOW you're going to cast a spell, which tool do you want to use and so on is something that i've always loved in the original lore, though tattoo's, which are something MANY characters on this server have, were never implemented on the arcane focus lore, which is something i wish to fix with this piece.

 

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