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Moriden:

--- Quote ---Hmmmm...  The difference between Sadicas and Kemmlerian necromancy, though, is that the necromancy draws on death everywhere for it's extra juice.  I seriously doubt there's enough pain in a single person, however tortured and/or debilitated they are, to fuel magic to the same degree to justify modelling it as sponsored magic.  Or... does Sadicas draw on all the world's pain?
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ill just paraphrase harry when he said there more magic in a childs first laugh then yadda yadda.

what i ended up doing was 2 separate things here, one i wrote up a form of sponsored magic that draws power from pain similarly to how kemlarian necromancy is powered by "death". I'm definitly not argueing that you should allow this into your game, its at least as dark as kemlarien magic if powered by other peoples pains, Also note the prerequisites i gave it, a specialization in either biomancy or psychomancy, two more or less forbidden areas. Im honestly not sure weather or not id even allow it into the game, i suspect that id require at least as good a story for this as i would for hellfire, kemlarian, or soulfire.

two i then added a stunt allowing a person to pervert that magic by only using there own pain similarly to how kemlarian necromancy was used to save some guys life in one of the books.  The only legitimate way i can see something like this devoling without haveing been taught by someone seriously fed in the head, is if the charecter started of as a focused talent, and iether acquired a painfully debiliting disease or was born with one. Focused practitioners are desciribed as Intuitively able to understand how there magic works. so a fc biomantic magician would intuitively understand how to alter his/other peoples bodies and could at least thereticaly use tht knowledge to learn to tap into the energy created by his pain.




--- Quote ---Or... does Sadicas draw on all the world's pain?
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It could potentially, if you where using a big enough ritual to gather that much energy, but the default assumption i'm going with is that you're "gathering" enough pain to be comparable to torturing a human being whenever you use this power. if you happen to have fibro, well your more or less always in that amount of pain, if your not then you've got to find some poor sap to torture. wrapping barbed wire around your self or carving into your flesh in a ritual manner would both really only be enough for one spell each.

Rel Fexive:
I remain steadfastly unconvinced.  Which is totally fine :)

Moriden:
Fair enough, not really trying to convince you, just explain my reasoning and get feadback on if im makeing sense/ its balanced for its refresh cost.

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