I was wondering how difficult it would be to update the guild registers. A lot of other guilds have different registers for each guild location. I could be wrong but as far as i'm aware of all of ours are just by circle. I think it would be interesting to have one with just targeted magic, maybe another for total magics, it can go on and on. Little things like that are just nice to have, gives a bit of motivation.

- Erixx

Oooh! Lets get this voting started. What categories should there even be?

I'd like to see a board in the fortress for studious mages; arcana, summoning, scholarship?

Riverhaven- Home of the Battle Mage, Average of all weapons, highest armor, shield, and TM..
Crossing- Keep as is.
Hib- Forging, Large Edge(guild leader carries one)
Shard- Something to do with the extreme discipline it must take to control that storm cloud. Perhaps Discipline,Stamina, warding, elemental magic, arcana?

~Worrclan, Dwarf of the Realms-

I always like Hible for survivals, given how remote and rugged most of it is.

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I'm a badger, I be badgerin'

Sorcery is illegal. sorcery is not.

scary inexplicable just plain wrong causes the masses to freak out and want you dead. seeing a war mage cast clear vision, if you were to even notice, is just a, 'huh, thats weird'


>The shadowling exclaims, "Mana neeto!"

<<Sorcery is illegal. sorcery is not.

While true, I often wonder why that is the case. It hardly matters if you blow yourself (and maybe some bystanders) up by jamming elemental mana into a life spell or if you do the same using a lay necromancy spell and mucking up the life portion. I suppose the effects of being successful are different; on one hand you cause a few items on the ground to rot away and on the other you mess with the powers of unlife.

>>http://elanthipedia.org/w/index.php/Post:Sorcery_Lore_-_7/19/2010_-_21:05:22

>>not the post I was looking ... But

I knew about the technical definition. My question was more about how and why governments and pitchfork wielding mobs make the distinction

The guild doesn't entirely care about legality, or they wouldn't teach you half your spells. There was that period where they kicked you under a bus for acting like anything less than a paladin, but I think that was more of concern with image than actual regard for the law.

But the guild does care about sorcery, and has a longstanding policy of quietly eliminating members who delve too deeply into it, so it would be pretty weird to have an open acknowledgement of it on a register.

Anyway,

I agree crossing should stay circle. It's home base. Haven weapons and Shard Magics, then more specific stuff to the farther-away guilds.

Hibben is pretty remote- but we also have the guild up in Muspar'i that seems like an equally good place for Survivals.

I threw sorcery in as a whim for future hylomorphic stuff and cause Kresh is like the edge of the world, so people might not notice as much?

Muspari I see more as an appraisal and craft place, since its a bazaar city. Though they also have the museum - so scholarship and app then?

Shard I could see arcana, warding or utility, summoning, TM, and PM all being relevant. Or something like stats with Discipline too.

Crossing I'm cool with top circle.

Haven as a battle Mage place works - weapons, melee mastery and TM? Defense too?

Hib - outdoorsman ship / mining? Plus Smithing?

Ratha - athletics? I dunno...
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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.

sorcery (small s) is the act of shoving the wrong mana type into a spell. At best, it looks a bit odd when a Ranger pops out a cleric spell or other oddity. At worst, the pattern unravels and dumps the energy into your body, destroying various parts (arms, etc). Again, odd, disturbing, but peasants are no more freaked by this than watching an empath regrow bits.

Sorcery (big s) is the act of mixing two or more types of mana. Because a mage can only sense one type of mana (necromancers are a pseudo-exception) this means they're weaving at least one type blind. This makes it incredibly unstable, and liable to blow up in the face of it's users, quite literally. When it goes right, it's disturbing to watch and ALWAYS results in some sort of destruction, whether it's physical or metaphysical. Beyond the mechanical effects of backlash, the lore of Sorcery is that when it goes wrong, it's the type of thing that leaves craters. And not small ones, but village-sized craters.

Basically, Sorcery is always disturbing, in a way that the game doesn't always go into.

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