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The new Glowline and Lunar magic


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43 minutes ago, Qizilbashwoman said:

I... disagree. You could have a thoroughly Lunar Empire, living according to the demands of the phases of the Goddess, ebbing and flowing by day.

It's just that this is such an alien experience to the existing, massive metropolides and civilisation already existing there that it wasn't going to work. Such a thing would have required a societal collapse or other similar "world"-ending crisis to offer something better than what already existed.

Well, like the old joke about asking a Kerryman for directions, it's always a problem not just of whether there's a place you could in theory get to, but how do you get there from where you are right now.  And the Dara Happan baggage is veryvery evident.

But what sort of empire would Lunar even be consistent with?  Large Lunar community or polity, absolutely.  But the sorts of things that make an empire an empire, seem fundamentally different from any consistent realization of The Lunar Way.  Yaknow, lots of strict hierarchical organisation, tons of rulership rituals, etc.

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4 hours ago, Alex said:

Arguably some measure of accommodation is necessary just to get the concepts "Lunar" and "Empire" into the same noun phrase!

You could switch "Lunar" for "Artmali", for instance. There were at least two (subsequent) Artmali empires in Pamaltela during the Gods War.

The Lunar Way doesn't have to be the way of the empire, except that it happened to rise in (Greater) Dara Happa, where the Empire is the only conceivable form of society, government etc. You cannot rule over Dara Happa without having an empire. After the Gbaji Wars, the Heortlings tried, and failed. The EWF succeeded for quite a while, the Carmanian Bull Shahs for even longer.

The Arrolian City States demonstrate a Lunar Way without the force of the Empire. The Syndics' Ban may have helped enforce the isolation from the Empire, but their founders had fled from a Lunar Empire that existed mostly in name only, with only very few Lunar holdouts (Glamour, Sylila, the West Reaches).

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13 hours ago, Alex said:

Not exactly a change, unless you have a grand unified theory for RQ skirmishers and regimental-scale mass combat...  the effect doesn't necessarily scale linearly.  Though that'd be the way to bet, absent an explanatory device otherwise...

I don't need a grand unified theory to wonder why half-moon strength of those units is less than they get inside the Glowline. The cyclical factor is at peak in the Glowline, and at less than peak on half moon days outside of the Glowline.

But then, the Lunar magicians in the board game were nerfed when sending their spirits out of the Glowline, even if they benefitted from it while remaining inside.

Units with cyclical MgF: 2 Major Classes, 4 Minor Classes, the Crater Makers (physical magic), the Twin Stars. The Red Emperor gets a straight, non-cyclical 10 MgF.

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On 12/15/2021 at 8:39 PM, soltakss said:

Argrath creates the Temples of the Reaching Storm, which eat into the Glowline, but they are merely a manifestation of this ability rather than explaining how he obtained it.

Maybe he gained it through HeroQuesting against the Red Emperor.

 

Tap?

A variant of Neutralise Rune?

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What is the weekly/seasonal/annual upkeep in human sacrifices for a standard-sized Temple of the Reaching Moon? What would it have been for Tatius' new temple in Sartar? How does that number compare to the Crimson Bat's hunger, or the consumption of human life in the Corn Rites?

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5 hours ago, Joerg said:

What is the weekly/seasonal/annual upkeep in human sacrifices for a standard-sized Temple of the Reaching Moon? What would it have been for Tatius' new temple in Sartar? How does that number compare to the Crimson Bat's hunger, or the consumption of human life in the Corn Rites?

How stable are the demographics of the Empire?  We need a birth/bloody slaughter balance indicator....

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