PtahWithin

4/10, I don't recall ever having RPed with you, but I have seen your name numerous times across the forums and seen your posts before.

Then you see our problem.

I don't have any of chaq's lore, the lore team doesn't, you don't, it doesn't seem anyone does. How then can we know if it is accepted at all?

All that is stated in the guide is that priest healing comes from an indefinite source. The priests typically refer to the source as the Creator - that does not mean that there is even an aengudaemon behind priest magic at all. All the lore says is that the source is undefined, not that the identity of the patron is unknown. To me it heavily implies that there is no entity behind it at all: priests just choose to call it the creator. That rules out it being a deity-based magic, in addition to the fact that they can use void magic. Further, as I explained it does not seem possible to have a void-based healing magic given the fact that you cannot keep summoned matter and energy into the world from the void indefinitely. Being able to use void magic also rules out shamanism, and I'm rather certain that the orcs would not allow you to touch spiritis. There is only one source of magic left: dark magic, which obviously does not work. Hosper in this guide seems to have avoided this problem by clearly stating that the source of the magic is not known and indefinite. You, however, on insisting that it is deitical in nature, arouse these problems once more. The way I see it: either your source is undefined and you can learn void magic, or your source is a deity and you can't learn void magic.

If they can connect to the void, then it can't be a deity-based magic. The only exception to this is Ascended magic, where Aeriel being the Archaengul is powerful enough to transfer power to her followers in such a way that it does not interfere with connecting to the void.

nietzche man What powers do creator clerics have that tahariel clerics do not? Also, for the reasons I explained, what you dub as "arcane priests" cannot exist. So I'm uncertain exactly from what you broke off of.

You did not really address what he said about the prominent possibility of metagaming. Supposing you did in fact have accepted an arcane healing magic after this whole debacle: what sense does it make that you could detect taint with void magic? Moreover, healing with void magic does not seem very possible to me. Suppose I am a thirsty water evocationist, and have an empty glass. I fill it with evoked water and drink it. The moment I stop the evocation spell, the water which is now in my stomach dissipates back into the void and I am still thirsty. Whatever you summon from the void has to go back into the void: evoked fire can burn things and affect the world, but the original amount of fire itself will dissipate. In a void healing magic, would you be 'evoking' flesh? If so, it would dissapear as soon as you stop powering the spell - not a very useful method to heal. The Clerical Patrons and Aspects grant their followers power to heal, but the void is not so generous. At some time, mana out of the void = mana into the void. It does not seem clear to me how you could get a positive sum of matter that stays in the world from the void. It is allowed for fire evocation since you are not adding permanent matter to the world - in many cases you are destroying it, or transforming it from one thing to another.

The money is not transferred, it is absolutely lost. In Aegis, the idea of the mina loss was to make people fear death and consider what it means to enter into dangerous situations. At the time also, a King would be insane to have 168,000 minas on his account. Realizing that things such as gold and diamond have inherit value, he would have spent the vast majority of that money on buying large quantities of diamond and gold blocks, effectively freezing his money into item form, which is then placed in a vault. Realize: diamond and gold blocks aren't the actual currency, but they can be exchanged into currency due to their inherit value and so are a means of storing wealth. In addition, Aegisians propelled by this fear of death would buy a house, and buy diamonds and gold ingots/blocks in order to save their wealth in a similar way, but on a much smaller scale. Having a house in Aegis was when you 'won the game'. In this way, losing minas for dying would instigate a kind of item-currency that you propose, with some differences. EDIT: Also, diamond and gold blocks were immune to mina wipes, which were common in early Aegis due to plugin issues.

I would rather have losing 15% minas on death return as opposed to the return of physical currency. Perhaps then people will not be so eager to just walk away from bandits or fight back when they know they are outmatched.

Though, the Cognat by the very nature of his magic would not be able to target other minds: then that descends into illusionsim.

This seems somewhat like a hybrid between Mind Magic and Cognitism (illusion directed at the self), my own creation. Perhaps you would like to collaborate?

Read my post.

The problem is not that the villains are 'strong'. The problem is that the executions and exiles are 'weak'. Give me rope, give me brands, give me rotten fruit and stones and blood and swords and screams and curses. Don't just make a quick speech of crimes and lop off his head. Make him bleed, make him never want to experience this again, in character or out of character. OOC barriers put in place by rules are weak. Fear is strong. Brand body, throw stone, drown the damned.