Again: Light is NOT species.
The fact that this spell requires an ignem requisite to create light at all clearly show that:
Imaginem = species and not light
Ignem = light and not species
There's not a talk of affecting lungs.
If you go saying that Im can create light, and light bright enough to hurt, why not say that imaginem can create foul smells like wreath of foul smoke?
Note that I can take your argument in reverse, in that, even if accepting the notion that Imaginem can create light (which, by the raw, it can't), "your senses might tell you it is blinding but it does not blind".
Well, thanks. I'm relieved. It was a concern to me, and I was bothered by this.
This is interesting. You might want to ask this to... Timothy Ferguson, I believe? Or at least someone more versed in this by me.
I fear this may be something akin to Pink Dot, a discrepancy in the rules.
Yes, this is how I understand it:
If creating an illusion that also emit light, you must use Imaginem (for the illusion) and Ignem (for the light).
Whether it's CrIm(Ig) or CrIg(Im) depends on the highest base.
Oh. I just realise I missed a lot of discussion here, as I'm 2 pages late
Serf's parma, this would work.
See miniatures, in the Jerbiton section of HoH: S, this (IIRC) covers exactly this kind of thing (aiming an illusion at someone's face). Johnatan has quite a good point about magnitudes, though, and I don't know if this adresses it.
Yup.
For rituals, you need to think BIG.
It also helps if the GM ensures that some spells are rituals due to their potency, meaning they become your specialty.
One (IMO) excellent HR that I found in the army killer spells was that any spell with something like Group + 3 magnitudes for size (I believe it was 3, but am unsure) was a ritual. This insured that almost all the spells of mass destruction/manipulation/whatever were rituals, and thus the domain of excellence of mercurians.
Let the smaller magics to other magi! And boost these Artes Liberales and Philosophiae! A non-negligible part of sponts in done ceremoniously, anyway.
So have Isen, fiona, alexei and the rest clean up the carpet... Add a magnitude, and clean the carpets!
So try to learn or develop useful rituals. These may be because of level, size, duration, or just raw power. Boost AL and philosophiae. You could be our magical artillery/mass builder/whatever! Send letters to other mercurians, asking for rituals they may send you... Even if it takes 2 years to get them, once you have enough, you can learn them.
hope this helps at least a little