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Who: Lup + anyone!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Heron / Iskaulit
When: Nowish

Hey there, fleeter friends, let me pick your brain for a few minutes, get those creative juices flowing.

If you could have any kind of magical weapon, armor, or a fancy artifact- what would it be, and what could it do? The theoretical sky is the limit, here, this is just a fun thought experiment.

[Toooootally theoretical. She's not fishing for new stuff to work on, no sir.

Lup can be found easily enough in person as needed, either in her room or in the kitchen on the Heron, or messing around in the smithy onboard the Iskaulit. It's project time.]

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Well, I meant more like-

[She steps back over to him, to get within range, and taps each part of the staff in turn: the skull, the grip, the rune, and the blade.]

These components, as in the individual parts. They all have their own magical aura sort of wafting off 'em, you get me? And it would be easier to enchant it if we dismantled the whole thing and went straight for the source.

[ He looks absolutely reluctant to do so, but nods. If it will help in the long run, it's best to take things down to basics. ]

I suppose you're right.

Hey, don't sweat it, my dude. I'll take notes and put it back together like nothing happened at all. Trust me, I am very good at what I do.

[ He waves a hand dismissively. ]

I've gone far longer than a few weeks without a focus.

That's fair. Hopefully it won't take too long, though. Even if the magic isn't 100% compatible, two heads are still better than one. Might cut down on the time a little bit.

[She returns to her notes, jotting down a few more details as they talk- mostly what she'd gleaned from the existing enchantment, and the prospective changes.]

So, remove ice augment and replace with fire... okay, yeah. Totally doable. What kind of necromancy stuff do you do?

Precisely. There's always a chance that more discovery is to be made, especially with two different schools of magic at work.

[ Dorian makes himself comfortable leaning against the wall as they talk. ]

While there are a great number of things that I can do with necromancy, most spells involve binding the spirits attracted to death to make them do my bidding. Several spells have the ability to instill the fear of death into my enemies, which has some rather unfortunate side effects for them, potentially immobilizing them with their own fear. I can siphon their energy to use it for myself, the more people I kill, the stronger my magic becomes for a time.

Oh! I have the ability to summon a Simulacrum if you're unfamiliar with the term, it is essentially a likeness of myself in the form of a spirit. I can mark an enemy, and when they die, their spirit will continue to fight on my behalf..I can inflict a curse upon them and use a fire spell to cause them to explode. Shortly before I arrived here, I mastered the ability to control time within a small radius. I typically use that one to increase the speed of the Inquisition, which makes getting into fights so much less of a hassle.

[ Well now he's just boasting. ]

Yep, sure sounds like a lot of necromancy. Are we dick-wagging, now? Because I've got one where I tell someone to die and they just do it, instantly.

[She sounds amused rather than annoyed, though; she grew up with Taako and has a healthy ego of her own, so she's used to bragging. In a sense he's in good company.]

Haste and Slow- those're common enough spells, but Simulacrum is serious shit where I'm from. Yours is a spirit, you said? What's it capable of, and how long does it last?

Oh, please do! [ He looks impressed, and Dorian is wanting to ask questions of his own about her abilities. How can you not admire a fellow mage's abilities? ]

A spirit, yes. It essentially takes my place in battle if I'm incapacitated, though I haven't tested its endurance fully. One can assume that it will last until my mana is depleted, though it ceases once I'm roused again. It can cast any of my abilities, though it tends toward the strengths of my staff.

[Oh, well then.]

Interesting... same name but different functionality, then. In my world a Simulacrum can exist as a separate creature, a duplicate of whoever you cast it on, for as long as it has life- or as long as it hasn't been damaged to the point of the original creature's "death", at least. It can do any spell you know, but it can't regain its power and can't really be healed.

Fascinating! Something like that in Thedas would require blood magic, I do believe. That form of magic is strictly taboo, only for the weak of mind.

[ That's not a very positive opinion of blood magic. For reasons. ]

Huh... can't say I'm familiar. I mean, you can use blood for it, but any part of the body would work just as well- hair, nail clippings, stuff like that. And there's plenty of spells that use blood as a component for casting, but that's just normal necromancy.

[Probably just an extra specialization that doesn't exist in her world, or something.]

Why's it taboo?

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