Age of Dragons: Scholar-Sage

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Overview

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.

"It is an academic point I admit," continued Words-Remembered, "but an important one at that."

"I fail to see..." started the warmaster, but it was the scholars turn to interrupt.

"Indeed, you fail to see. Which is why you need my help. You imagine that I can summon some arcane force to decimate the enemy army... and indeed I could."

"Then do so."

"But what then would you do about the remaining nine-tenths of the invasionary force? No... I can help you far more with thought than with magic. Consider this... the silver moth is not usually found in this area. Its normal ecological pattern is to boom in population every three centuries or so some seventeen leagues north of here, then for populations to follow the tricentennial storm front as it sweeps along the edge of the Kestrel Hills. If they are here at this time, then the storm front has been changed, and I can only surmise that the weather has been magically manipulated somewhere in the region to the north here..."

The war-master was listening silently now, so the scholar continued.

"If we look at the map of this region, we can see that overt attempts to create rainclouds over the Kalarni desert to the north-east would have been noticed from a great distance, especially from the Citadel of the Mother's Sword. So we must presume that instead additional rain must have been created here, along the so-called 'scorpion path'. Water here would have eliminated the titular scorpions, who are of course not animals but guardian demons of an earlier age. Thus, a route not usually available..."

"..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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Lifepath Powers

Concentrated Study

• Experience level required: 50
• Activation Cost: 1 Mental Energy
• Keywords: Discipline;

Order 1

• Experience level required: 100
• Activation Cost: 1 Arcane Energy
• Keywords: Suspire; Hierarchomancy;
• Hierarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Chaos-aligned Dragons.

Death 1

• Experience level required: 100
• Activation Cost: 1 Arcane Energy
• Keywords: Suspire; Necromancy;
• Necromancy spells cannot be cast by Life-aligned Dragons.

Chaos 1

• Experience level required: 100
• Activation Cost: 1 Arcane Energy
• 'Keywords: Suspire; Autarchomancy;
• Autarchomancy spells cannot be cast by Order-aligned Dragons.

Life 1

• Experience level required: 100
• Activation Cost: 1 Arcane Energy
• 'Keywords: Suspire; Vitamancy;
• Vitamancy spells cannot be cast by Order-aligned Dragons.

Lifepath Resources

Archive Access

• Experience level required: 25 years

Personal Library

• Experience level required: 200 years

Apprentice

• Experience level required: 500 years

Archive Master

• Experience level required: 750 years

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