[@Scrapula] Just so I don't open that door, I'll have to ask that you remove his comrades. Everything else is fine. [@clanjos] [quote]they just say that the number of generations in a Magus family don't equal power[/quote] There's a reason that Lords of the Clock Tower commit incest, you know. Magic Circuits are a mutation that aren't supposed to be there, so you need to use selective breeding to keep and strengthen them. [quote]Waver always believed this fact to be incomparably honorable, being very proud of his talent. I am the most capable student of the Clock Tower since its founding. Anyone would have to respect me. At least Waver himself thought this way. In truth, the magus lineage of the Velvets had only existed for three generations. As time goes on, the number of Magic Circuits and concentration of Crests constantly increase and expand. Many students that receive scholarships to the Clock Tower are offspring of families with more than six generations of pure magi blood. The wonders of magecraft could not be completed within one generation; therefore, the results of a whole life of research by parents are passed on to their children... only through this could their magecraft become more refined. The stronger prana of the old magi families is stronger precisely for this reason. Compared to the offspring of well-established magi family, Waver's Crest concentration and Magic Circuit quantity paled by comparison. Furthermore, because a magi's Magic Circuit count is determined at birth, there are some ancestral magi families that deliberately contrive to increase the amount of Magic Circuits in an offspring, thus distancing themselves from new magi families in this regard. In other words, advantages within the world of magecraft are predetermined even before birth. [/quote] [quote] OVER nine generations.[/quote] Nope. Just says "nine". [quote]His name was Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald. He was the heir of the Archibald family with nine generations of magus lineage, a very popular man that everyone called Lord El-Melloi. Engaged to the daughter of the principal, a lecturer at such a young age (needs to say how old he is), he was the best of the best. He was also the representative of authority that Waver despised.[/quote] [quote]Neither of them really screamed "Master of the Arcane" to me.[/quote] ...you're, uh, you're talking about the guy who's mastered runes from the Age of Gods and was trained by a godslayer, and the girl whose family has runes from the Age of Gods in their bloodline, passed down through a magical blood virus, which lets her block High Thaumaturgy and even defensively fight Servants when coupled with another part of said blood virus. No Master in this roleplay should be at their level, that's just absurd. If any Master was at their level I would ban them for the sake of balancing. I'd allow the combination of meanings if he was some sort of prodigy that surpassed a master in skill, but that's not the feeling I get from your profile; feel free to edit it accordingly though. There's not a balancing problem with combining meanings, it's just not something one can do without being prodigy-tier. That stuff's all based in understanding the runic meaning, see the KnK stuff about Ansuz and whatnot for that. The kicker is that as Caster, someone with Rank A in Age of Gods Runes is incapable of combining meanings. [b]Caster Cu[/b] can't combine runes, so you have to understand why I'm hesitant to give that to a Master so quickly.