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[FallacyofUrist]

Joining here.

... though it looks like we're a long ways away from cat people.

[Madman198237]

Cat people are heresy in the eyes of the religion of the Loji.

Oh, and I've successfully started developing a preexisting Norse theme, so you and your stupid all-pervading cat-people delusions can kindly just not even bother. Please, legitimately please, confine your desire to make cat-people to some other Arms Race. One I'm not on your team in would be ideal so long as that team is on it, but please don't jump into another one and start trying to ruin all the fluff and stratagems of another team just to get cat people. It gets tiring.

[Atomic Chicken]

Investigate Fate, Form(Fire), Shape(Water), Attack (Fire): (0)

Discover Fate and Master Wood: (4) TricMagic, Madman, Doomblade, AC

[Talion]

Discovery Phase

Investigate Runic Component: Fate Element
The path of Fate defines all with its passage, supports plans and delivers heroes to their destiny. Fate is found most strongly in places and people of great importance. The colour of Fate is purple.

Investigate Runic Component: Wood Element

New System Discovered: Inscription
Inscription is the holy work of anointing an object with the blessing of mana. First, runes are used to transfer mana into plant sap turning it acidic. Second, this acid is applied to an object, etching it in the words of our people. These words are imbued only with our understanding, allowing no foreign nation or traitor to understand them. The object is in turn enhanced in accordance with the words used.

Secret Discovered: Empowered Voice
Although we do not yet understand the full breadth of Inscription, we can still see a potential use with our chanting. Empowering an object to better support the chants of a speaker must surely be possible.

It is now Winter, Turn -1 Design Phase

Spoiler: Rune Skills (click to show/hide)

Rune Skills are a measure of your nation’s understanding of the Runes. They are measured as Unskilled, Apprentice, Adept and Master. You cannot make use of Meanings or Elements until you have at least an Apprentice level understanding of them.

Meaning
Shape - Apprentice
Attack - Apprentice
Ward - Apprentice
Form - Unskilled
Control - Unskilled

Terrestrial Element
Air - Master - Chanting, Fate
Fire - Apprentice
Earth - Apprentice
Water - Apprentice
Wood - Adept - Inscription

Celestial Element
Fate - Apprentice

Spoiler: Discoveries (click to show/hide)

Discoveries are magical effects you have discovered that you can put to practical use inside Designs.

Chants
Shape(Air), Ward(Air), Attack(Air) - Wind
An expulsion of wind directly away from the chanter. The wind generated is quite strong and grows more powerful the more mana is used to empower the chanter.
(Air Mastery) Our Chanters may direct the Wind as they will.

Shape(Air), Attack(Earth), Ward(Fire) - Wind of Embers
This chant transmutes the wind into embers like the sparks escaping a bonfire directed forward away from the speaker. If these embers land upon suitable kindling they can start fires, but they do not seem overly harmful on their own.
(Air Mastery) Our Chanters may direct the Wind as they will.

Shape(Earth), Attack(Fire), Ward(Air) - Spike of Smoke
A chant that concentrates smoke into a spike before projecting it forwards away from the speaker. The smoke does not disperse nor does it cause much damage on impact, instead forming into a cloud. It is possible to choke on it if the target remains within the effect for long enough.

Shape(Water) Ward(Wood) Attack(Air) - Gathering of Poison
Draws poison from the environment into a single mass. The effect of the poison depends on what is gathered, but usually only results in rashes or other minor side effects.

Inscription Words
None

Inscription Secrets
Empowered Voice - An inscription exists that can enhance the power of a chant for a speaker carrying an appropriately inscribed object.

[TricMagic]

Amulet of Wind

By taking a bit of Carved Wood and staining it, followed by inscripting Wind into the Amulet itself, and using a Windforged metal thread to make it into a necklace, we get an Amulet. This Amulet of Wind will boos(Empowered Voice)t all our Wind Spell Chants.

It is hoped that this will also boost the speed of our carts as well. Nonetheless, directing the winds to such a degree is impressive.



Inscription: Forge of Air, The Skyforge
"Empower these Works, Purify this Flame, and Bless this Steel with the strength of the Air."
"So as we Chant, Sever, Cut, and Pierce. Direct, Flow, and Rise. Break, Disperse, and Erode..."
"Bring about the Fate of those who would desecrate this Sacred Art.."

"Rise & Fall, Spin & Eddy. We Trust in this Fate of Ours, Air-Blessed Steel."

These words are inscribed here, directed by our Chants to Bless this Sacred Steel.

More practically, this inscription serves to modify our steel to be better, to be imbued with the true power of Air. To sever, to flow. To act..
To act as the manifestation of our Art. Our Fate lies in this steel. And lo behold any who stand against it.

(As MM says on discord, I shall clarify. It is inscribed on the forges, so that the metal takes on the properties of Air. It's our Pious nature to make it ritualistic.)
(As I see it, inscriptions are using our words to describe effects, in ways that have meaning.)

Amulet of Wind (1) TricMagic
Forge of Air, The Skyforge (-) backlogged

[Madman198237]

Our problem with making an inscription now is that we don't actually know any Words for Inscriptions, as can be seen in the spoiler. It will be similar to Runes, I imagine, in that it uses a limited, predefined vocabulary to avoid driving everyone involved insane.

[TricMagic]

Inscription Secrets
Empowered Voice - An inscription exists that can enhance the power of a chant for a speaker carrying an appropriately inscribed object.

The Amulet is for powering a chant. It also provides a base for more in revision phase, should we get any others we want to boost. So by inscribing Wind into it, we can boost Wind chants to an even higher level.

Edit, Apparently we need to find the rune combination to this..

Gathering of Lye:

It is by now, well known that we produce a lot of ash. It's also a fact that ash comes from wood like products. What would happen if we used this spell?

By using Gathering of Poison on the ash we produce, we create this sort of caustic substance that eats away at flesh. In addition, it seems that when we mix it with some water, we get something that allows us to tan the skins we have, making them tougher, more flexible, and easy to work with. This means we can more easily create armor that normally uses untreated hides.

This "Lye" is dangerous to work with, but very useful in "Leather Production".

Essentially, upgrading from pure Hide Production to Leather Production with a spell we know.

Gathering of Lye "Leather Production" (1) TricMagic

[Doomblade187]

Gathering of Lye "Leather Production" (1) TricMagic
Skyarms (1) Doomblade

Initial stages are for infrastructure. :3

Edit: can't do it yet, apparently. Changed vote.

Proposal here:

Skyarms

By attacking a modified waraxe head to the end of a long shaft, adding a spearhead, and attaching a crossguard to the sleeve, the design yields a long-reaching axe with almost 3m reach. The weapon can be set against charges, the spears presenting a formidable target.

[TricMagic]

Bluesteel Bō

Suitably long for our warriors, this staff is made with a suitable hardwood branch carved into a straight staff. We then coat sections of it with our Windforged Steel, to give it durability and force while reducing ore costs. This is followed by adding a basic grip to the staff.

It is a suitable weapon against our foes, as we can swing it with great force and speed to crush their heads and break their bones. As well as block their strikes with it's core absorbing the force of the blow, and using that force against them in a counter.

It is a good weapon for it's range and versatility, and shows off the glorious metal we have produced.
It also has the symbol of our people on the ends of the staff to further bless it.

Gathering of Lye "Leather Production" (1) TricMagic
Skyarms (1) Doomblade
Bluesteel Bō (1) TricMagic

From Discord -AC

I'm voting this one-

White-blue design (1) TricMagic

[Madman198237]

Ballista
Based on the concept of the crossbow, the ballista is a larger weapon, storing power in twisted ropes instead of directly in the arms. These fire steel-tipped bolts large enough to punch through an armored man, with the limbs and carriage reinforced with small amounts of steel. These machines, while not as large as ballistae can be made, are still capable of killing anything from a man in full plate all the way up to an elephant, not that we expect to see any elephants on an island so small it doesn't even have horses.

Also good candidates for adding inscriptions, if we don't mind the Moskurg from Wands Race similarities.

[TricMagic]

You did remember to add wheels right? Also, doubt we are going to need it in the open field right now..




This is the map, and forests are not the best for range like that. That design is good for encampment, but not close frenzied combat situations.

[TricMagic]

Inscription Experiment: Ward(Fate) Ward(Wood) Ward(Air)

A triple ward to act as Protection and Gathering Life Force. Mostly to infuse the article in question with a trickle-down empowerment property.

[Madman198237]

I did forget the wheels and the carriage and the details.

Anyway, it's definitely not useless in forests unless you're looking at a jungle sort of forest. Ballistae are very useful whether you're assaulting fortifications or fighting out in the field. It turns armor into a nonissue and allows us to take down individuals, their equivalents to our Chanters, perhaps, or knight-type soldiery, without needing to batter them down first.

Oh hey, can't believe I forgot to consider this:

Temple of the Voiceguard
Far away from the eyes of others and the spies of the enemy, located on the rocks above and around a sacred pool of water and mana, we have constructed a mighty fortress, a great keep and tall towers all looking down upon the sacred grotto. Inside the sturdy keep, craftsmen create Runes of Windforged steel to hold the mana of the sacred site, while higher still above the desolate crags dwells the Voiceguard. Here in reverence they practice their arts, growing ever stronger, ever more capable...ever more plentiful. Pulled primarily from the most devout of the clergy, those who wish to be Chanters are trained here, to join the Voiceguard and be sent to war...albeit in a supporting role for now. Their divine Wind cools our soldiers on the march, Smoke conceals them on the field, Poison coats their blades and bolts, Embers start fires great or small.

If this is an actually doable design according to the GM, then the Temple will be my vote. If anyone else wants me to I'll still fix the ballista writeup because it's kind of insufficient for sure.

Gathering of Lye "Leather Production" (1) TricMagic
Skyarms (1) Doomblade
Bluesteel Bō (1) TricMagic
Temple of the Voiceguard: (1) Madman

White-blue design (2) TricMagic, Madman

[Doomblade187]

Gathering of Lye "Leather Production" (1) TricMagic
Skyarms ()
Bluesteel Bō (1) TricMagic
Temple of the Voiceguard: (2) Madman, Doomblade

White-blue design (3) TricMagic, Madman, Doomblade

[TricMagic]

Gathering of Lye "Leather Production" (1) TricMagic
Skyarms (1) Doomblade
Bluesteel Bō (1) TricMagic
Temple of the Voiceguard: (3) Madman, Doomblade, TricMagic

White-blue design (3) TricMagic, Madman, Doomblade