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===An Academic Point=== | ===An Academic Point=== | ||
− | '' | + | ''"...a butterfly, of the order Lepidotera, though specifically it is Hesperia argentia, or silver moth, as we can see from the silvering on his pectinate antennae. It is easily mistaken for the grey iron moth, though we can see from its horn-shaped genitalia that it is indeed argentia and-"'' |
− | '' | + | ''Impatient to get to the point, the warmaster interrupted '''Words-Remembered.''' '' |
− | '' | + | ''"Yes, yes, I'm sure the sexual organs of insects are fascinating, but I believe I was asking you about more pressing matters, vis a vis arcane solutions to our current situation."'' |
− | '' | + | ''The situation the warmaster was speaking of was that the Ascendancy's mortal armies had invaded the region.'' |
− | + | ''An entire barony had crumbled under the surprise appearance of an orcish legion, that had seemingly managed to march across a vast expanse of Kalarni desert undetected, and was now pillaging the domain at the edge of the Arrantian City-States. The invasionary force formed a beach-head, and that beach-head could have a profound impact on the greater war.'' | |
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− | ''An entire barony had crumbled under the surprise appearance of | ||
''"It is an academic point I admit," continued '''Words-Remembered''', "but an important one at that."'' | ''"It is an academic point I admit," continued '''Words-Remembered''', "but an important one at that."'' | ||
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''"..is where we will find the orcish supply line," finished the warmaster, smiling.'' | ''"..is where we will find the orcish supply line," finished the warmaster, smiling.'' | ||
− | + | ''Words-remembered smiled and nodded. Attention to detail, a little knowledge and observing a butterfly could change the course of a war. Sometimes, the academic point was the important one.'' | |
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However, a true Scholar-Sage knows that the mastery of magics is a mere side effect of diverse learning and represents only a fraction of useful knowledge. A draconic mind is capable of incredible feats of applied thought, deep philosophy and academic mastery. While a mortal has only mere decades to study, the dragon has centuries, and is has the advantage of far greater intelligence as well. | However, a true Scholar-Sage knows that the mastery of magics is a mere side effect of diverse learning and represents only a fraction of useful knowledge. A draconic mind is capable of incredible feats of applied thought, deep philosophy and academic mastery. While a mortal has only mere decades to study, the dragon has centuries, and is has the advantage of far greater intelligence as well. | ||
− | To the Scholar-Sage, to waste this gift of superior | + | To the Scholar-Sage, to waste this gift of superior sophis is an insult to to their own potential and a rude denial to the world of the gifts of thought that might be formed through a millennium of study. |
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− | = | + | =Lifepath Powers= |
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− | + | The suspires on this path are provided as examples of spells that might be mastered by a Scholar-Sage. The player and GM can collaborate to create substitution spells of equivalent power if desired. Regardless, the dragon learns 3 Perception-level spells at 150 Experience, 3 Influence-level spells at 300 Experience and 3 Control-level spells at 450 Experience. | |
− | With | + | ===Concentrated Study=== |
− | + | *'''Experience level required:''' 50 | |
− | + | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''Always on, no cost.'' | |
− | + | *'''Keywords:''' ''Discipline;'' | |
− | + | The Scholar-Sage must first learn how to learn. With this Discipline in place he gains +1 dice on any Sophis rolls relating to learning new information, memorising or study. | |
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− | '' | + | ===Knowledge of Aligned Academia=== |
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 100 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''Always on, no cost.'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Discipline;'' | ||
+ | The Scholar-Sage gains +1 dice on any Sophis rolls relating to knowledge relating to his own alignment. For example, life-aligned dragons would gain the bonus to knowledge about ecological cycles, biology, wilderness survival and related topics. Order-aligned dragons would gain the bonus to knowledge about hierarchical structures, society, history of society and similar topics. Chaos-aligned dragons would gain the bonus to knowledge about conflict, emotion, art and other chaos-related fields. Death dragons would gain knowledge of poisons, of disease, and of other death processes. The fields of knowledge should be defined fairly widely. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Unity of Spoken Word=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Perception-Level Hierarchomancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 150 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''1 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Hierarchomancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Hierarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Chaos-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | When this spell is cast, the Dragon draws a circle on the ground and inscribes runes in the ur-draconic language within it. Within this circle anybody and everybody can hear the spoken words of anyone else in the circle in their own native language, regardless of what language is being spoken. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Read Weather=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Perception-Level Autarchomancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 150 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''1 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Autarchomancy;'' | ||
+ | *Autarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Order-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | The dragon takes a moment and inhales, absorbing a deluge of information from the environment that means little on its own, but combines to allow the scholar-sage to make an accurate weather prediction for the next few days, barring arcane influence. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Post mortem=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Perception-Level Necromancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 150 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''1 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Necromancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Necromancy spells cannot be cast by Life-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | The dragon breathes in over a dead creature's face. The dragon ebcomes instantly aware of the exact cause of death and time of death. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Smell of Blood=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Perception-Level Vitamancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 150 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''1 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Vitamancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Vitamancy spells cannot be cast by Lifer-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | The dragon inhales the scent of a sample of blood. He becomes aware of what species and breed of creature the blood came from, as well as their general state of health. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Knowledge of Unaligned Academia=== | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 200 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''Always on, no cost.'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Discipline;'' | ||
+ | The Scholar-Sage gains +1 dice on any Sophis rolls relating to knowledge relating to the two alignments that are not his own, but not opposed to his own. Life is opposed to death, and order to chaos. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===The Small Death=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Influence-Level Necromancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 300 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''2 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Necromancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Necromancy spells cannot be cast by Life-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | When this spell is cast, the Dragon moves close to and exhales on a target, which immediately dies. This suspire can only affect a target of Soma, Pneuma and Sophis of 1 or less. If used in combat, it counts as a Battle Action that can only be used at zero range, but which does not require an attack roll. | ||
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+ | ===Surge of Pleasure=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Influence-Level Vitamancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 300 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''2 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Vitamancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Vitamancy spells cannot be cast by Life-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | The dragon blows arcane energy invisibly towards a target, who momentarily feels a small surge of pleasure, somewhat less intense than orgasm but comparable to the satisfaction from fine food or a cool drink when thirsty. The target is unware of having his emotions manipulated. A favourite trick of scholar-sages is to have a victim experience pleasure with an activity not usually considered pleasurable, and thus cause cognitive dissonance. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Set in Stone=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Influence-Level Hierarchomancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 300 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''2 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Hierarchomancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Hierarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Chaos-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | The Scholar-Sage speaks over a tablet of stone, or similarly prepared hard inorganic surface, and infuses his words with pneuma. The words he speaks are engraved into the surface. This suspire can record up to an hour of speech. | ||
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+ | ===Dissolve Information=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Influence-Level Autarchomancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 300 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''2 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Autarchomancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Autarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Order-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | The Scholar-Sage exhales over an information storage medium of some sort (be it a book, an engraved tablet, or whatever else). The information within is scrambled so as to become unusable, through letters jumbling, ink running and stream of consciousness phrases being scattered randomly throughout. This spell cannot be used on any target with a mind, so cannot for example effect anybody's mind. | ||
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+ | ===Knowledge of Opposed Alignment Academia=== | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 400 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''Always on, no cost.'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Discipline;'' | ||
+ | The Scholar-Sage gains +1 dice on any Sophis rolls relating to knowledge relating to the alignment opposed to his own, but not opposed to his own. Life is opposed to death, and order to chaos. Effectively with this and the other two Knowledge disciplines he should be now gaining +1 dice to ''all'' Sophis rolls relating to knowledge. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Womb of Dust=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Control-Level Necromancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 450 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''4 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Necromancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Necromancy spells cannot be cast by Life-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | As a battle action, the Scholar-Sage exhales a cloud of black dust at a single target within long range. The target is rendered permanently infertile. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Rites of Summer=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Control-Level Vitamancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 450 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''4 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Vitamancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Vitamancy spells cannot be cast by Life-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | Whilst flying, the dragon exhales, charging his breath with pneuma. A short rain follows behind him, covering an area of 2-3 square miles. For the next one year, the area which was effected supports plant life as if it were high quality well-watered fertile soil. | ||
+ | <br><br> | ||
+ | ===Crown of Dominion=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Control-Level Hierarchomancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 450 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''4 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Hierarchomancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Hierarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Chaos-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | For six hours after this spell has been cast the Dragon gains absolute dominion over mortals. Any creature with Sophis 1 or less will unerringly follow any commands spoken to them by the dragon to the best of their ability, though they must be able to hear and understand the commands. | ||
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+ | ===Nightmare Incantation=== | ||
+ | '''(Example Control-Level Autarchomancy spell)''' | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 450 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''4 Arcane Energy'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Suspire; Autarchomancy*;'' | ||
+ | *Autarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Order-aligned Dragons. | ||
+ | The Scholar-Sage speaks words of dissonance that echo through the region. Anyone within three miles that is currently sleeping is immediately wracked with terrifying and severe nightmares. The dragon has no control over the form of these nightmares. A character does not regain any ''mental, physical or arcane reslience'' from the hours while suffering the nightmares. | ||
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+ | ===Secret Technique=== | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 600 | ||
+ | *'''Activation Cost:''' ''Special;'' | ||
+ | *'''Keywords:''' ''Special;'' | ||
+ | The Scholar-Sage gains one power from any other Lifepath. This power cannot be one that normally requires an Experience level of greater than 350 in that lifepath. | ||
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− | === | + | =Lifepath Resources= |
+ | ===Archive Access=== | ||
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 25 years | ||
− | + | ===Personal Library=== | |
+ | *'''Experience level required:''' 200 years | ||
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− | + | *'''Experience level required:''' 500 years | |
− | * ''' | + | ===Archive Master=== |
− | + | *'''Experience level required:''' 750 years | |
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