Archived Dragonic Possession

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From what I've learned from reading through a bunch of magic pages on a road trip, no magic is truly "good" and, their sorces are definetly not "good". So reading through the primal magic page for the ninth time I realized, there aren't many drawbacks besides how specific each spell is. The main issue was that their isn't any drawbacks to the sorce of power: dragon spirits. You have to be fooling us if there is a source of power multiple races worship that isn't evil. So I came to thinking, what could the dragons possibly care in helping a few alorians cast some spells. In the aweful place aloria is? I would heavily doubte that they are just doing this out of kindness. My theory that sets up my idea is that the dragons are slowly using the alorians to get back to life as they are extinct(excerpt sea serpents). So my idea is that after certain circumstances the dragon slowly creeps into you and eventually takes over. After which, heavy phisical changes happen from the insane amount of energy in each person which can be determined later. This would effectively balance primal magic from other magics by giving a drawback to such an op magic. This would also balance aloria's reputation as being such a corrupt and evil place and would effectively start a lot of corruption rp in tarchlann and isldar societies which could come around and start a lot of neat stories and progressions. Meh it's an idea
 
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You're forgetting, Ice Dragons still live. (Or at least one.) Remember the bone horrors and how the Isdlar survived?
 
Well, not everything from the exist is good, and not everything from the void is bad. It's how they use the magic that determines it.
 
Well, not everything from the exist is good, and not everything from the void is bad. It's how they use the magic that determines it.
But still, there is always a chance of possession from this magics and always an evil there. It's always a gamble. Primal magic doesn't have this and I feel it makes it too op and doesn't balance the magics well
 
From a certain point of view, magic is just a skill or a tool like any other. It doesn't inherently have to be evil or risk possession any more than using a weapon or being physically strong or extremely intelligent would. Primal magic does already have some drawbacks compared to the other magics:

Primal Magic is one of the most unique forms of magic, allowing the mage the ability to cast spells without drawing power from the Void or the Exist. At the same time, it is also a very limited form of magic in how it must be casted. All Primal Mages must carry with them a rather large and unwieldy book that is usually attached by a chain to their belt or waist. This book, the so called Codex, contains pages of Charm inscriptions; pages with an ancient writing that some have called the Forerunner Alphabet, a language presumed to predate the Seraph. Faster skill progression is another advantage for Primal Magic, as the mages do not require long study periods or excessive time spent meditating. Primal Magic has become very popular among so called battle-mages in and around the Regalian Empire, especially due to the the magic's ease of use. That being said, Primal Magic remains a very situational form of Magic that isn't always useful in all applications.
 
From a certain point of view, magic is just a skill or a tool like any other. It doesn't inherently have to be evil or risk possession any more than using a weapon or being physically strong or extremely intelligent would. Primal magic does already have some drawbacks compared to the other magics:
The idea that it must be evil is brought from aloria's pessimistic reputation and think about it,
I give you some power for no reason whatsoever and gain basically nothing from it
 
Spirits cannot possess people over longer periods of time. Also Primal Magic has no native drawback to long term usage, because it is a native energy to Aloria, not stolen from another dimension. This doesn't belong in Feature and Idea discussion though, and if Dragon posession is the suggestion, then it's rejected.
 
The alma magic page says being stuck as a spirit is basically torture. Why would the dragon spirits just give off energy if not getting anything from it? Connecting the dots, the idea comes up that they are giving off energy to get alive again and to get out of spirit form
 
The feature and discussion thread is not a means for you to fish for lore that is not available. Either produce a Lore Q&A or don't ask questions that won't be answered because the lore is intentionally hidden from the player to drive longer narratives.
 
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