The air around you feels somehow thicker, slightly harder to breathe.
The humidity in the area noticeably increases.
Suddenly the area feels somehow more... stable, in some vaguely felt way.
You feel a sudden tingle of heat in your palms.
Strangely, everything feels a tiny bit heavier.

You make yourself comfortable and turn your attention inward.
Drawing down extraplanar laws, you attempt to create a fire domain spanning the area.
Discharging a burst of elemental power in the esoteric "direction" of the Elemental Plane of Fire, you carefully draw down subtle lines of power across the Void.
The new lines of power are small compared to the existing ones, leaving the domain unaffected.
Roundtime: 10 sec.

I did a fire domain on top of my previous fire domain, but it said the new lines are too small

*Do they grow stronger as it sits? or was that just its way of saying it's equal/less than the previous domain?
*Seems your alignment affect the ability to make a domain? Fire seemed to use less, and Electricity(my opposite) I was unable to do when full.

You so heavily embody the Elemental Plane of Fire that it already threatens your health. Going any further while in this plane would be fatal.

You turn your perceptions inward, assessing the elemental influences over your body.
You have reached the limits of your body's capacity to store a charge. The laws of the Elemental Plane of Fire scream demands upon your physiology, threatening your life.
Your body is aligned with the Elemental Plane of Fire and opposed to the Elemental Plane of Electricity.

s> summon elec domain
You make yourself comfortable and turn your attention inward.
Drawing down extraplanar laws, you attempt to create an electricity domain spanning the area.
As the ritual winds toward its climax, you realize that you do not have the Elemental Charge to create an electricity domain.


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An agonizing pain fills you as you feel your tongue turn to powder in your mouth! Through a haze of uncertainty and loss, you realize that something you just said was very wrong.

>>*Do they grow stronger as it sits? or was that just its way of saying it's equal/less than the previous domain?

There's a small random element to your effective Summoning score. If your effective Summoning isn't higher than the effective Summoning used to create the domain, you can't change it.

>>*Seems your alignment affect the ability to make a domain? Fire seemed to use less, and Electricity(my opposite) I was unable to do when full.

Yup.

>>Would you ever be able to domain your opposite alignment?

You should be able to with a suitably extreme amount of Stamina.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

Anyone have any data points yet on skill needed? 90 Summoning with 20 Stamina doesn't seem to be enough:

>summon air domain
You make yourself comfortable and turn your attention inward.
Drawing down extraplanar laws, you attempt to create an air domain spanning the area.
Try though you may, the ritual seems hopelessly involved.
Roundtime: 10 sec.

you can align to it too!!!

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An agonizing pain fills you as you feel your tongue turn to powder in your mouth! Through a haze of uncertainty and loss, you realize that something you just said was very wrong.

Wow, that is awesome. Now, what terrible thing did you just bring over?

Elusive
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur

I'm glad I'm not the only one who tried to summon the void.

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>Forgive my snark, but welcome to the life of a warrior mage.

On one hand that easter egg has existed in ALIGN since the elemental charge system came out.

On the other I'm curious what prompted you to try it.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

>>I have a feeling it might break local justice laws when you force the domain... mostly curious if just being aligned would be enough to trigger it, but I'm not sure that's something others could sense on you. The alignment shift is the same slight waver as the other elements.

Being aligned to sorcery doesn't break the law in practice, as it's non-observable.

Calling down a sorcery domain is a Forbidden Practices warrant in the making.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

Nope, just the elements + the sorcerous one.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

So I was sitting at the pavilion at the guild fest and intentionally, accidentally, found the new Domain. Powerhaus was in fact there, as were several other people who were made a bit uncomfortable (lucky for me they do not yet recognize what I did or I might have been burned at the stake.)

But yes I agree completely the potential ideas and possibilities of the domains are quite awesome. Also I cannot wait for what comes of this alignment/domain. I have been intrigued over this side of the elements for a very long time.

And following Powerhaus lead, I will also just refer to it as element X, it sounds like something that though not exclusive to any group or caste needs to stay as quiet as possible for fear of witch hunts and whatnot.

As far as lore I am certain there is some, but I cannot for the life of me find it anymore. So imagine my surprise and the feeling of "duh" I had when I found it.

I think the official name should be element x. That way sorcerous mages can feel like supervillains.

- Starlear, Warrior Mage and Lieutenant of Ilithi's Crystal Vanguard -

- I maintain the Warrior Mage Beginner's Guide at:

https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Beginner%27s_Warrior_Mage_Guide

> I think the official name should be element x. That way sorcerous mages can feel like supervillains.

Or powerpuff girls.

and I was secretly calling myself 'the Professor' for days too...

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An agonizing pain fills you as you feel your tongue turn to powder in your mouth! Through a haze of uncertainty and loss, you realize that something you just said was very wrong.

Disappointed but not surprised I could cast ether fissure on Element X.

No flare with element X aligned barrage either. But it may be working?
- I thought it might've been hinted at when we discussed the new alignment changes to barrage and analogous versions for future hylomorphic stuff.

Does Domain X hinder all elemental spell casting? Does aether or others hinder X?

The Moonies call domains a planar incursion - I like the sound of that.

Aether domains brings stability, so the world is naturally normally chaotic?
The absence of the elements(the Void) makes sorcery easier, since the random failure in their spell pattern is probably accounted to the random fluxes in mana that exist room to room that's just too tricky to account for.
So remove the influence of whatever planes have on ours and bring 'balance'(lack of random chaos) would be helpful to he sorcerer (Necromancers want the Holy to go away basically?)
So really they just want Order.

Thus Chaos = good for your lifespan

And there's nothing more stable than pure chaos, so lets fill the world with Raw aether.
It'll look so pretty too.
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An agonizing pain fills you as you feel your tongue turn to powder in your mouth! Through a haze of uncertainty and loss, you realize that something you just said was very wrong.

< Cast eth Fiss on element X did NOT work (was not surprised)

Was going to say, how did you get it to work! With all my messing around I have yet to find anything overly special about element X except I appear to fill the charge a lot quicker. or maybe it's intentional it's not as large as the rest of the elements.

Want need element "X" ethereal fissure please!

thank you, that is all.

while I type this a question comes to mind, would a fissure of a sorcery element be considered just as bad as the domain justice wise. (please say yes) Not that I would care, I might even eat the consequences from time to time.