[Torg] A little Aysle tweaking [my players-- keep out or your characters die]

[Kansas Jim]

James Knevitt wrote:

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> That should do.

> 1) Drakacanus is attuned to the form of Pella Ardinay (and thus Ardinay 
> is effectively an unwilling High Lord). Couldn't Drakacanus simply 
> choose for that restriction not to apply? DDs withdraw their power from 
> High Lords all the time; could one not argue that rakacanus could do the 
> same (and then appear before Uthorion/Bjanni as above)?

It could withdraw from Ardinay but as Smooge pointed out it would still
be stuck in Oxford. My view is that Darkness Devices cannot act on their
own, they must operate through a High Lord, so even if someone created
a new stelae zone it would not be able to utilize that new energy to
move itself away from Oxford, it would have to be attuned to a willing
HL first.

However, canon would suggest that it can in fact do that on its own,
since Drak simply disappeared from Oxford once it decided that the
Warrior of the Dark would be its new HL.

> 2) how much P-energy would Uthorion/Bjanni need to tweak the axioms to 
> those lower levels in a short period of time eg. six months, a year) 
> (which are themselves a matter of interpretation)? Could he do it based 
> on his existing supply (given he reclaims the mantle of High Lord)?

The only guidelines we have for HLs adjusting the axioms of their
realms is the rulebook's statement that a DD can bump an axiom up or
down by one point with the energy gained from the creation of a new
stelae zone "of maximum size". It also says that it normally takes weeks
to months for the change to manifest itself but it can be sped by
burning out some stelae - "Usually a High Lord must sacrifice an in-
place stelae for each point by which he is bumping the axioms". (p88
original rulebook)

Shortly after the Warrior of the Dark became Aysle's new High Lord
two of the small stelae zones in Scandinavia disappeared. While WEG
said in Infiniverse Update #2 that the WoD had them pulled up, not
burned out, if you viking HL is looking for some stelae to sacrifice
for axiom shifts the stelae in those two zones would be good for
that purpose since they were redundant and unnecessary in the first
place (maybe Uthorion put them there planning for just such a use?)

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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