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Old 05-13-2021, 08:21 AM   #13
hal
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Default Re: Magery as an improvable advantage?

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
I was thinking in terms of fasting, meditation and a ritual initiation.
Expand please?

Simple fasting, meditation, and a ritual initiation creates a chicken and the egg issue.

If you don't have someone who can create the initiation ritual, then you can't have someone improve past a given point.

If in general, Magery 0 is the DEFAULT level that everyone starts at, then how did the first Magery 1 mage come into being?

But, let's look at the implication of this concept. Looking at the prerequisite of the basic spells for each college (ie, the first spell that has no prerequisite of other spells) - there are a few colleges (Enchantment, Movement, and Necromancy specifically) that can not be done until someone has magery 1 or higher.

Hmm. A possibility - but now comes the hard part, the expansion if you will...

What is the Ritual Initiation? How does that actively change the reality of the initiate undergoing the initiation? As was reputed to have been said by someone in the dim historic past...

"I can command and speak to legions of Demons!"

"So can I, but will they listen?"
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