Elindor

I think that this is pointing towards what may be a problem that accents the points of your post. Dark magic users should not end up as Undead. If you take away the few of them that are there and suck them into the larger body of our antagonist, then the individual experiences that they do bring are completely overshadowed. As a side note, just because there is a list of these magic types doesn't necessarily mean that they should all be in the game. Frost Witches were very big for a time, just like the mori'quesser, but eventually most of them got killed off and they aren't really around anymore. Sometimes it is fine for a creature or magic type to just die out. Soul Puppetry is teacher locked so that you can only learn it from someone who knows how to roleplay it right. Just like Contract Magic. Who is out there who knows Soul Puppetry though, I have no idea. Contract Magic shouldn't really be considered a "dark magic" but where the heck else do you put it?

Elindor finds a small pile of mail. Curiously, he picks some up and goes through it. His brow furrows at how some of the information is no longer accurate. How long could these applications have been just sitting there? Well. This won't do.

I would say make it an actual tickle and not the impression of tickling. Because mental magic can already do that, and to some small extent, illusion too. So it will work on any living thing, whether it has enough brain to accept an illusion or not, because this wouldn't be an illusion. I would also add that the simplest way to think of this is that it is an extension of the user's hands. Though invisible and can be cast on any area. So perhaps a skilled ticklemaster can up the potency by pulling out a feather...? (The magic would then also require a very small warning that any use of this for acts that are in a FadeToBlack scenario are to be treated the same as if you actually did them. PG13.)

While I don't hate reading those words, in this circumstance I think them incorrect. I actually suggested that this would be adding as much to roleplay as cognitism does. Which is: a whole lot for the one person using it, and hardly anything for everyone else.

My opinion is brief. There is too much going on. The idea getting bigger and bigger only means that the audience it receives grows smaller and smaller. Cognitism is a cool magic, but it doesn't add anything to RP because it is all inside the caster's head. This seems to come into a very similar position. The roleplay is enjoyable only to those who are doing it (based on the complexities of the magic will likely be 3) and other than that it achieves things that can already be achieved through other magic types. A new realm/source of magical power is a HUGE shift. Likewise a language just for the sake of it. This is too big and trying to do too many things.

There's a book from Aegis that talks about the corruption of the pigmen who were the original inhabitants of the Nether before it became all fiery under Iblees' corruption. I had always assumed that (like many things from that blissful time) because it was the first word on the subject it became canon.

This one. Just cut the arm off. The Monks will stitch that right back up.

"They can take our lives but they will never take our freedom" ? He'll look like quite the fool saying that around the Silver City.

Also Subject is always the first word of the sentence.

I wouldn't say ask Princeton because that "never happened" to him. But if Rasha did change bodies, he would certainly have had to have a spirit guide of some sort in the Kal'Varak or he would expect to have never made it out, let alone in a different vessel.

If anyone can move a soul it is the Monks. But we don't fully understand the grasp of a soul upon its mortal vessel. So perhaps it is impossible altogether. The Shade body swap had more to do with the Necromancer involved than Shade magic itself. It was a time before Magic Lore even existed and the ritual was spare of the moment and a mistake that has not been made since. The Kal'Varrak (not sure on spelling) could switch minds with bodies. If two were to enter it and somehow not end up trapped by the maze of that mind's own construction, then it is possible for them to exit in opposite bodies than what they came in. But 90% of interactions with the Kal'Varrak are a one way trip. The result tends to be that a mind is stuck in the rock forever, and the body lays limp till it slowly decays.

Let' not go throwing the word "race" around to describe a bunch of elves with the flu.

I wouldn't have thought our realms had poles because they are not circular, their ends are finite so it is highly likely that we are on a flat surface. But then, there exists an item for a compass, so it has probably already been roleplayed with very many times. This, like the earlier questions, actually becomes a general Lore question about the existence of magnetics. I would have thought that there are no polar activities, but metals can still be charged to attract other metals. IMO the simplest answer for Lore Team on that WHOLE branch of thought is that magnetic minerals cannot be evoked. There are not enough example in the real world for anyone to study it in detail. That'll save a whole tonne of poorly roleplayed magic.

I believe we may have used the blah word for Orc, as it is what they called themselves before Elven did.

Twas sarcasm which bade the man to write the folly.

I like the idea of we have waited this long and it is now very close. So... sure. Do the boat thing. That will get old after a couple days though. Maybe we have stop at an island for some fresh water and to stock up on beef jerky.

((I do love a good Necro thread))

Subject Object Verb. Capital letters are used to mark a secondary subject or a pronoun and not used after a full stop. ' is a modifier that can be used at virtually any time to combine the meaning of two words to create a new one Affixes do not use ' Commonly used combo words with ' are acceptable without the ' where the implied meaning is clear. Schools out. That is all I could think of at the time. Malinor will always exist as the land of the sons of Malin. ((Sporadic's character)) might know more if the ruins in Asulon referred to the motherland as Malinor or if that settlement of High Elves used another term. In which case perhaps the traditionalism of the language can be lost to the more progressive minds of New Malinor.

Wards is an interesting point. The main issue I see is that all wards REQUIRE a way to be broken. But this is not really very clear and probably doesn't get role-played, so there exists this idea that you can make a big strong lock, put a ward on it and it is indestructible. Wards should remain open too. But to do so would need to emerge the science of breaking wards. There is also this incorrect notion circulating that a ward can power itself, of be given a mana battery or anything like that. But nope. In fact, a lot of the lore for Wards is only aimed towards making them, and nothing about what happens after it exists. (I could be wrong. Have never come close to RPing with transfiguration) Also: You failed to mention transmutation Ski. Aren't you worried about all the powergamers who will turn a stick into glue?

Much of the concepts behind transfiguration are about self discovery. I would have wanted to see it never be locked in the first place. Most of what people make with it is just gimmicky anyway, so there's no harm.

What the heck is a harpy anyway? That seems like a halfbreed to me.