Themerlinhawk

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Okay Im gonna need to edit some of Lazarus' stuff and some of it im gonna leave alone cause I want to know what your feeling on them is. Obviously feel free to veto left and right but I think some of his magic is rather interesting but I'll leave that up to yall

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Okay so Im just going to through out enchanting as a school and divide what i think of as its powers into illusion evocation and alchemy. This is all purely academic for the most part since the schools of magic wont really matter once we're actually moving along I just felt the easiest way to ask about a bunch of forms of magic would be to divide them into some easily definable categories. I still need some feed back on divination, necromancy and alchemy (My favorite forms of magic for the record) but I think that mostly answered my questions and I think I can get along with my character creation. Thanks Y'all.

And while im working on the character. Rtron where is most convenient for Lazarus to have his home/base of operation? Since I will be Mary's new guardian

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Oh my goodness I totally forgot Conjuration!
I'm assuming it exists in one form or another because looking at characters abilities I've noticed some people can summon animals or creatures to assist them. As far as theories go could one use magic to move from one point to another instantaneously? or could it concievably be used to bring beings from other planes to the plane of the wielder? (I'm thinking something along the lines of calling a Demon from Hell to the surface or something like that)

This one is mostly academic to be honest because I think summoning up a demon or angel from another plane is just asking for trouble lol

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We aren't talking about the same form of magic.
Your deffinition of Enchanting is what i refer to as Alchemy or Transmutation. Enchanting for me is the manipulation of perception, thought, feeling or will of another being. Although I guess in theory enchanting for me also encompasses what you're talking about to a degree but its only directed at the individual who is wielding the magic not objects. The form of magic you're talking about for me is again: Alchemy or Transmutation, my deffinition of the two involves changing the properties or energies (Essence if you will) of objects and occasionally people. (Im thinking more in the vein of changing ones self into an animal or something like that. While enchanting's alterations would be more focused on personality or physical/social appeal.)

sorry for the confusion

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Okay cool. I actually like Rtron's suggestion of having him move his soul to a statue and then convert the statue to a living breathing person, I like the allusion to greek mythology that has in it. And it is also kind of a cool little surprise to have in Lazarus’ back pocket

And since I’m currently still fleshing out my characters magical repertoire I have some questions relating to some of the schools of magic (at least what I deem to be schools of magic)

If you want to PM me an answer please feel free I think it might be cool to have a few tricks up my sleeve for when the game starts but if you have to okay some of these with the other players thats cool too and you could just post it here.

since you mentioned it lets start with Necromancy:
I tend to think of this school as manipulation of life force is that in line with how you view it? and are you thinking the classic: Raise undead, summon spirits, bring people back to life type of necromancer or did you have something else in mind.

Abjuration and Evocation I think you pretty much covered with the whole bit about angel magic vs demon magic

As far as Divination is concerned are we talking Oracle status where what you see in the future is set in stone? or is it kind of a murky sense of what might be? (I'm just assuming that farseeing, reading peoples thoughts, sensing demons/angels/magic and sorting through past events also fall under this category but I don’t have any specific questions about them)

Enchantment: So I noticed that Rtron said something about body switching falling under “altering people personality with magic”. I'm assuming Enchantment is a no-no with magic in this setting? Which being said I noticed Luciana’s snake bite ability seems to break that rule. Any clarification here would be awesome.

Illusion I don’t have any questions about as the Miracle Angel entry pretty much covered it

As far as Alchemy is concerned I'm assuming Magic has to play by the Laws of Physics for the most part so I'm assuming matter has to be conserved when changing one substance to another. Also could magic theoretically be used to alter the properties of a material (I.E. make stone maliable like clay, make wood as strong as steel, ect...)

Sorry if I’m being super detail oriented right now I just don’t want to step on anyones toes!

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Id really like to make this character an old school warlock with all sorts of crazy applications for magic. And the reason I'm aiming for the whole "Artificially lengthened life" thing is because that is the only way (at least in my head) to explain why he is throwing around some really potent magic. And I like the Galatea style of resurrection that would be interesting, it would force him to be a sort of renaissance man as well as a powerful Warlock

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You wanna email me or PM me The information I need to write Mary into Lazarus bio? And I'd be more than happy to resuscitate her if this is a return from the dead kind of thing. I dont know what all happened in the first part. Other than what Wind Wild has posted. Oh and what I've read from the link

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I actually really like that Idea. Maybe like an apprentice.

Gives me a reason to be a BA warlock for the purpose of protecting a young female character

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was that directed at me?

Additional question: So could a human transplant their soul/mind with the right amount of energy and the correct knowledge? Because I've been toying with the Idea of naming/nicknaming my Warlock Lazarus but I felt it was necessary for me to come up with some sort of reason for such a nickname and then I was thinking about the whole magically extending life thing then I was staring at a copy of the Dresden files and it made me think of the Necromancer Corpsetaker and his/hers ability to switch bodies with people.

You see where this is going? and even if this is possible I'm not sure this is the direction I want to take the character because this would make the character a really evil bastard. Unless he had say......some clones lying around or something. This is purely academic at this point

All the king's men.

Works for me. *sticks tongue out at schradinger* ;)