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[Michael]

It does appear to be from the AO's perspective, though there's at least one other stereotype from the book where the perspective is flipped and it too is kinda ambiguous, so who knows?...

[Michael]

Maybe a reach on the Invisible Runes spell?...

[Michael]

Something else to bear in mind, Awakening being fairly heavily based on real life magical practices means you can buy a book off Amazon that more or less explains how magic works.

[Michael]

It may well not be a hard and fast rule. Left-Hand Path details the Scelesti Angrboda's backstory where his cabal led a sleeper cult until it was wiped out by a Seer ministry. The way the story is told, it's not that the cabal were actively punished for having such close contact with sleepers, it's that other cabals refused to help them. If the Seers murder your cabal because you were an obvious target, that's your problem....

[Michael]

You could make the remains some kind of bizarre T-rex human mashup. I mean, a part of the Prince's aesthetic is humans acting like feral animals.

[Michael]

I think for the historical personages it might be a good idea to simply not state their true identities directly.

[Michael]

Yeah, but 'combat' is a mechanical feature. We differentiate as players because it's a game, but the characters don't. First thing players are going to ask is 'can I use this outside combat?'



Maybe this is my interpretation but I'd call both of these limitations rather than downsides. By downsides, I meant negative reasons for why you might not want to use this. Like how Reaching is good, but has negative consequences that need to be addressed....

[Michael]

I quite like the idea, I'm just not sure of the mechanic. I mean, could you not just keep firing low potency harmless spells to build up a huge amount of momentum and then surprise an enemy and bring that down on them. Hell, why is it restricted to combat? Use it in your sanctum to build any amount of power.

It's very... gamey. Bit like refilling mana by spamming praxis; possible but not terribly evocative at the same time.

It could do with some kind of downside I guess....

[Michael]

I think the VE are kinda special in that their area lends itself to asking those kind of deep questions. I suspect a lot of Technocrats don't bother.

Their technology works and that's all that really matters.

[Michael]

Yeah, I should have made that explicit. I'm suggesting moving everyone who isn't a Techno/Nephandi/Maurader into the Orphan category.

Disparate would maybe work as a term....

[Michael]

I'd suggest cutting it back even further.

Technocracy, Orphans and the Nephandi/Mauraders.