Earthworks OperationsWe have long been starved for metal, bound by an inability to acquire it from underground other than digging down. Now, with [Earth Control Chant Name here], we have all we need to imitate full-scale ore acquisition in the long term.
To help with this, we have a few items.
WJD, Aspect of Fate-Planning: They are Pens of Planning, made up of WJD Elemental Materials. These are used along with parchment to draft plans for digging, as well as to keep well-written records. This will improve the successes of the Operations.
[Earth Control Chant] x3: The Strongest Version, and Specialists. Their jobs include prospecting Ore deposits, and working together to Shape the Earth. Most specifically, they are available for earthworks projects, as well as collecting Ore on according to plan.
They are known as Earthsingers, Shapers of Earth. Duties are twofold. The collection of ore, and shaping of earth. Sail Carts: We have them, and they have carts behind them to transport Ore. Earthsingers and the Planners have also created roads as part of their duties to make transporting said Ore quick and simple.
BJD, Aspect of Earth- Endurance: Bracers of Fine Effort. The playfulness of wind, with the endurance of earth, allows for finer detail work as well as increasing the wearer's endurance. In most cases, while the ore can be brought up, it is often needed to take picks to it to remove it from it's rocky prison. Or at times the collection of stone itself requires some care.
The Earthworks Operations will give us plenty of Ore in time, letting us open new sites for it's collection. And the Earthsingers themselves will make building Earthworks easier when they are assigned to do so. Such large Operations were guaranteed to have issues, but with the Pens of Planning those issues should be resolved before they even become a problem in the first place, enhancing our efforts.
The above requires the Earth Chant, and is more likely to give us plenty of Ore.
I'm pretty sure those spades which make Earthworks appear for the Xi Shan are an example of a Chant through an object? Might be different though.
Horizon's Edge: (3) TricMagic, Madman, AC
Ore Scales: ()
Chant Experiment: Shape(Earth), Control(Earth), Ward(Earth): ()
Bluescale Armor: (1) NG1999
Low Passes Mining Operations: (3) Madman, AC, TricMagic
Yeah, still sticking to Earth. I would want Endurance since mixing Speed, Endurance, and W/B JD would make for a great set of armor. This is an issue where having both would be useful.
Granted, others can vote for Mining, but discussion is ongoing.I am confused. I'd rather not upgrade our armor this turn and wait to have an earth chant to make the best armor set. [BJD+Speed] + [WJD+Endurance]
Skyfold Steel LongswordWhile some may call Windforged Steel a Demi-Refinement, an improper creation, it does not escape notice that the Windforges came to be around this metal, and such methods continue in use. Windforged Steel is one of the most common metals that make up our weapons.
However, our chanters once said that it was possible to lighten it. Now, we know that to be true, but how we do so remains.
So, we have taken 3 samples of Blue Jade Dust, applied Speed, Seperation, & Flight to the three's creation creation. And we used it during the normal creation of Windforged Steel, Chant and all, removing impurities to create a high-grade steel. And then it was folded thrice to form a long double edged blade before being cooled through Wind of Cold.
The result is a metal blade of purest blue, which seems to cut the sky itself in the speed of it's swings. It's light as a feather to the user, incredibly strong against physical damage, and as mentioned simply cuts through objects as a knife through butter. Ordinary steel is of no match against it, and even Stillborn Steel can be cut without chipping.
Also of note is the mana within the created Longsword, which can be tapped to extend the cutting edge to cut through fire, water, and earth with a blade of wind. These are weapons of incredible potency, though the skill needed to wield them requires very skilled swordsmen.
Well, that happened. Kinda sounds like an Artifact more than an average sword. Oh well.
Wind Wall ShieldMade through the process which creates Windforged Steel, with WJD having the Aspect of Separation being used, these metal shields have a trick to them. When the user desires, they can form a wall of wind mana by holding it in front of them, which blocks all magical attacks. They can also be linked with others in a shield wall to extend the effect even further beyond them, strengthening the barrier with each one.
This works by creating said barrier through the Weight of Separation. What is on one side cannot cross to the other. While it is possible for people to break through the wind wall covered in cuts, these walls knock aside arrows with ease. Moreover, Magic like the Iqua's Mire Monks and the Scrolls of Fear, both will be blocked due to the simple fact that they are comprised primarily of mana. While a physical object can potentially pass with enough effort, the mana cannot. And so the spell is blocked, and the mana holding it together dispersed.
Granted, a single shield can only block weak magic on their own. But they are meant to link together, becoming more than the sum of their parts.