Smashing Axe
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I'm going to hold off voting until Nevil's questions are answered. For once he and I are of a like mind here. I don't trust these others with Nine.
If Nine does reclaim her true self, providing she's not Joffrey Baratheon levels of insane, I'd love us to be her apprentice in earnest. I don't really mind if we go dark wizard queen on this world.
Also, previous mentions of Mazzarin for reference...
I'm all for grabbing as much power as we can possibly worm our fingers around... The question here is what is the most advantageous. C has seemingly the greatest danger, but also the greatest reward. D lets us relegate the guy a bit, but I don't really see what we could do against a 10 wisdom archmage should he decide he doesn't like our style. It just seems like we'd be unable to withstand the force of this guy should we want to stop him from doing something we don't like. Therefore taking the additional risk of five minds crowded into one seems foolhardy, since anything he'd do in B, he'd do in D.
Of course, we could just leave. The guy, whilst powerful, seems fairly limited in the scope of what he can do against us. All we need is a bit of distance and we're fairly safe from him.
Tentatively voting C>A
If Nine does reclaim her true self, providing she's not Joffrey Baratheon levels of insane, I'd love us to be her apprentice in earnest. I don't really mind if we go dark wizard queen on this world.
Also, previous mentions of Mazzarin for reference...
Mazzarin...
The archmage. Anyone that has ever seriously hoped or dreamed of learning magic aspires to follow in his footsteps. The greatest mage of the Wind Age, of any age in fact. He founded the Avatara before the reign of Connacht. It was his artefacts that allowed Connacht to defeat many of his foes as well. Mazzarin fell to the Watcher in the closing decades of the Wind Age and it was the greatest victory of the Dark in that age. Part of you wonders though. A mage as skilled as Mazzarin would not fall easily and he was a true master. Perhaps the historical record is not quite accurate after all...
If we somehow accidentally get into a mindmeld with him, I can see it being potentially very advantageous if we're able to recover enough of our sanity to make use of his knowledge. I do find it strange though that "the greatest mage that has ever lived" is unable to maintain his form against age.A character with high Int and low Wis would likely become powerful quickly but also burn out quickly. Wis helps the mage survive the crippling power that they seek to use, Mazzarin for example probably had/has a 10 Wis, probably the Deceiver as well, like you said, and I would say his old enemy the Watcher also had a high Wis, Alric has a very high Wis but I am not sure I would give him a ten, (maybe if he makes it a few more centuries).
I'm all for grabbing as much power as we can possibly worm our fingers around... The question here is what is the most advantageous. C has seemingly the greatest danger, but also the greatest reward. D lets us relegate the guy a bit, but I don't really see what we could do against a 10 wisdom archmage should he decide he doesn't like our style. It just seems like we'd be unable to withstand the force of this guy should we want to stop him from doing something we don't like. Therefore taking the additional risk of five minds crowded into one seems foolhardy, since anything he'd do in B, he'd do in D.
Of course, we could just leave. The guy, whilst powerful, seems fairly limited in the scope of what he can do against us. All we need is a bit of distance and we're fairly safe from him.
Tentatively voting C>A
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