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Well written and formatted, and it's nice to see Unwillingly and Witchring's credits considering how much this pulls from their previous lore piece. Here's hoping to it going well in mag!

I'll admit when I'm wrong, probably just a negative reception made me misremember it.

Criticisms are valid for the most part I feel, and I have nothing really to add to them. I don't feel like there can be blame on a lack of reaching out to collaborate. It has been said by Rey in one of our GCs that you both had no interest in working with Leyd and I on any sort of rewrite, which you did not comment on, which in my opinion denotes agreement. We shared this with Pallodium at some point before this rewrite was even in the works, so I could understand him not thinking to reach out. If this doesn't go well, I'd encourage both you and @Witchringboth to reach out for collaboration. We all agree akal needs a rewrite of some kind, and it'd be nice to get something rolling should this fail.

Considering the apparent systemic problems of the CA, I don't think an amendment like this is the thing you really need. Voidal strength is NOT the downside people think it is and is easily worked around. This will not fix your problems, you need a rewrite of Frost Mothers, not a combat buff that ultimately accomplishes not very much.

you're thinking about me and that means I'm winning

Not entirely done reading this, will give feedback as I do. I would be interested in speaking with the writing team sometime to discuss how this might interact with Naztherak in specific, as my Naz character has long played their little cat and mouse game with the Church, and I'm interested to see a new holy magic flourish.

Under the current iteration of the lore, and with this, it only applies to the cursing subtype of naztherak and wouldn't apply to inferi as far as I know (I suppose that's up to ST) EDIT: Honestly cursed fire isn't very powerful when it comes to in the moment combat, and this is a straight buff to cursed fire to make the slot more appealing. This would nullify that redline entirely, and that is intentional. I would also be open if the ST were to say that making something combustive or solid would take away its cursed properties, but never in my life have I seen cursed fire being the tipping point in a CRP.

The intent is for switching the curse to work as things did originally, with it lasting for that one cast

OLD Cursed Fire The malices of cursed fire, much like the general malices, are not inherently acknowledged RPly. Thus, cursed fire is to be taught by the teacher on an OOC basis, and the student may instead roleplay discovery of their newfound malflame imbuement with whatever flavor or justification they desire. By spending [1] extra emote of charging, a Naztherak may harness their Malice in order to inflict it within their malflame, burning deep within the soul of whoever it touches. The Malice being used is limited to the Naztherak’s primary and secondary malice, and must be specified which is being used within the casting emote. Only one malice may be imbued at any given moment. These corrupt forces will linger for [1] OOC day before fading, but may be purged by a Holy Mage beforehand. All effects, upon contact, take [2] emotes to reach full effect. Although the core premise of the effects of cursed fire should be adhered to, creativity and flavorful interpretation are welcome. NEW Cursed Fire The malices of cursed fire, much like the general malices, are not inherently acknowledged RPly. Thus, cursed fire is to be taught by the teacher on an OOC basis, and the student may instead roleplay discovery of their newfound malflame imbuement with whatever flavor or justification they desire. Once a Naztherak is capable of Cursing, the nature of Malice is naturally present in their malflame, and all malflame summoned by the Naztherak is inherently imbued with the Malice associated with the Naztherak's Lord. By spending [1] extra emote of charging, a Naztherak may harness their Malice in order to adjust the curse within their malflame, burning deep within the soul of whoever it touches. This would change the Cursed nature to the Naztherak’s secondary malice, and must be specified which is being used within the casting emote. Only one malice may be imbued at any given moment. These corrupt forces will linger for [1] OOC day before fading, but may be purged by a Holy Mage beforehand. All effects, upon contact, take [2] emotes to reach full effect. Although the core premise of the effects of cursed fire should be adhered to, creativity and flavorful interpretation are welcome. PURPOSE

"Quaint." A musing from an observing cat, "I suppose the secret meetings with the Crow-demon were incidental, not signalling sympathy to the dark."

I like the general idea! My only defense in the old lore's clunkiness was it was an early attempt for me lmao It being an FA was something I asked for back in the day, but I was told to make it open world lore, I agree with it being an FA. I disagree however with an open feat getting prophecies.

A sleeping cat read the letter addressed to her. She'd not tell a soul. The other could handle what came next.

I would like to point out that you need to have Cursing slotted to use it as a Bane, as is stated in the redlines.

Yeah I agree that this is a bandaid fix, but I enjoyed the concept. Unfortunately, I can't really say I have a Set Idea on how to make Cursed Idols more utilized, but I'd love to see a rework of them at some point.