Groz
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🕑 Added 2023-12-04 22:42:44 +0000 UTCTrue Sight. Seeing the world without its bullshit can sound really appealing. It would be a curse in the world of Warden or any magical world, as you would be able to see extradimensional being without being able to interact with them. Imagine seeing a ghost that's looking around for prey among the oblivious people around you and it can notice you looking at it? Horrible. The same thing would apply to monsters hiding their true self, all of a sudden you've become something hiding in the background to a liability that must be eliminated. And all of this is IF it works perfectly without any other hallucinogenic effects...
Which... won't happen. The world of Warden-verse is not so kind and stable.
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Groz
I'll take the compliment. lol. Magic is like a stand in for power. It is addictive. Some have a never ending greed for it to the detriment of everyone around them.
Groz
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
jbezorg
Reminds me of the opening paragraph of "The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft. Just a suggestion. Never show what Insight sees when she looks at the Warden.
Dakkagor
Can I just salute the fact you've come up with a worse, less appetising magic system than Warhammer 40,000? Like, seriously, if the choice is between 'eldritch abominations might explode my skull if I fuck up' and 'the magic in this universe erodes your mind, is addictive, and has a high chance of drawing the attention of awful eldritch abominations or a nation of rape-elves, or both' I'll take the one powered by an actual hell dimension.
