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lol no thanks stop trying to add pk clauses to things that dont need them, kloning has a pk clause because you're entrusting your soul to the safety of a vessel and going against all of the deities for it. a potion is a potion, homunculi are separate creatures unrelated to that at all, if we're enforcing PKs for knowing how to make things, let's make sorvians, golems, and atronachs all require PK clauses. edit; before I get called out for 'unrelated at all', I mean in the sense of homunculi are soulless creatures as the tawkinist can't mimic the presence or existence of one. Making a homunculi shouldn't mean you, yourself, are on a PK clause. Damned to the wastes for meddling with life? Sure, but my prior point stands. -1

This is irrelevant to the actual lore piece we're discussing here, nonetheless. Not here to argue in-character things OOC, I was being somewhat factitious, but tone is hard to convey over text. I can agree with this, changing the gleam and maybe have it target only invisible mystics and continue to fulfill its actual purpose and focus against ghosts in general, which then lessens the actual worth of mass-producing these. The rarity is in the recipe and obtaining it in-character, so the exact ingredients wouldn't really matter at that point. I see the reasoning in changing the recipe, but think that the idea that Descendant ashes, at all, deteriorate over time is silly. Reasonings for souls, mana, etc specifically aside, I don't believe any of that mentions descendant ashes specifically, and this is not at all how human ashes work. We might need to start refrigerating our dead, if they spoil.

Why would the darkspawn make candles to expose their own kind? It isn't darkspawn making these candles.

This isn't an issue of powergaming, nor have I ever seen anyone powergaming an infinite supply of bodies, and I haven't heard of anything of the sort either, it feels like an imagined scenario to justify making the one surefire way of exposure difficult enough nobody is going to bother, which gives the mystics, who already only have one method of exposure the necromancer treatment of never being able to be exposed because people don't die often enough to provide ashes and this would then lead to murder squads to just gank random people to make candles. Which isn't fun RP for anyone.

-1. We already have so few ways of reliably exposing most darkspawn, and this is the only one that actually affects Mystics specifically, given the redline within Mysticism is that Mystic Blades feel some pain from Aurum and that's it, as Conjurer's aren't affected by it at all. This is coming from an active ex-Mystic, who never once over 6 and a half months encountered a Siegmund's Candle with the lore as is, though my personal experience doesn't speak for everyone. I'm also considering the lore side of things here, and how it feels, simply put, weird for it to require fresh ashes as opposed to any ashes. Ashes don't lose potency or anything else over time, correctly stored ashes are extremely stable and can last indefinitely. Ergo, taking some from a random graveyard, if they were properly stored, works perfectly well.

Ilyra stared down at the letter sent to her and Vrys, clenching it tightly within her hands as the whirlwind felt like a dagger to the heart. A dagger that saw another crack into her facade of recovery she'd made over the decades. Surely this news wasn't the truth, it was another ploy for safety, she'd had plenty of others fake their demise only to return in time. Surely, surely he would return, wouldn't he? The alternative was far too difficult in the moment to reconcile. The possibility that the boy she'd watched grow up, the one she mentored, she'd healed, the one she watched grow into a man she genuinely respected and was proud to call a brother.. was gone. There were no words from her, only the silent sobs of a grieving older sister who had lost another pillar in her life, and felt another part of herself wither away. Another crack, another fissure, another shattered heart, a promise broken, as the world came crumbling down.

i cant tell if this is supposed to be ascended 2.0 or frost witches 2.0 or both but god please dont bring either back

The snow hadn't stopped falling for weeks, the frigid northern wind blew through the open windows, it's howl the only thing disturbing the otherwise silent manor in the north. Anwen had been waiting for months, sitting in her mothers warm room upon the table, staring out at the road that led to her home. She was worried, but she'd been keeping herself busy with painting and other hobbies in her absence; surely she'd be back soon, right? She always came home, she always kept her promises to Anwen, she always made her smile. It was lonely, and she just wanted to see her mother smile again, and to talk about the snow, and go swimming. The letter was delivered; and her world was shattered. A promise had been broken, and she didn't even know it. She didn't truly understand what it meant, this surely wasn't her mothers, right? In her childlike mind, she wasn't able to rationalize that this was something private, something that spelled her Mother's truest end. And so she waited, for a return that would never come, in an ever-freezing North. Months turned to years, and there was still no sign of her. "Mama, I miss you..." she was alone, and didn't know how to handle such an idea. So she resolved to wait to see that smile again, not knowing, she herself would likely never smile again.

based tech team moment

the aurum part feels entirely unnecessary but w/e I guess at LEAST let me drop seer lmao

If you had read what I posted, this wouldn't need to be explained.

This is a good opportunity to yet again state, with the edits I just made to the amendment, this absolutely does nothing to stop you from hurting and antagonizing random fantasy children you find in cities. You can still be evil bad guy doing evil bad guy stuff, just because you're losing a usable resource from doing so, does not mean the reason IRP of targetting the weak changes. Unless, of course, you'd like to continue proving my point in the value of antagonizing children specifically is for the resources. Stop ignoring half of the amendment, and understand the point of it, rather than arguing the same point I've already clarified. And please, the memes are pointless, and not what this is meant for. The IRP reason makes sense, as you CANNOT perform alchemy, magic, or anything feat related until your character is 16. This follows that same logic, as I have stated, to follow lore. If following lore isn't necessary this can be omitted completely and handwaved away to just prevent targetting kids for ST RESOURCES, NOT prevent the antagonizing and harming of them. But please, keep proving my point.

they actually did it, amazing +1