Adelbert, a "Magi of Hermes" look at intellego and Astrology

If I translate 10 standard images into one "room" image and I say that a standard room can be as large as 100 square paces. Then using a meter as a pace, and my 10[sup]10[/sup] images changed to 10[sup]9[/sup] "rooms" worth. I get 1,000,000 square kilometers- smaller than what he wants.

I'll have him add another magnitude to get a map with the storage capacity he needs (he'll get more shape and material boni or something). Really there are enough assumptions in this that using any precision feels more than a bit silly. I'll note that at a gut level it feels like it should be easier to make a small image with all of the detail than to make a full sized image so I don't expect at this point to be swayed by arguments for a higher level. But you could surprise me.

For an enchantment to rotate and zoom in on the image he'd need to use rego imaginem. The rego imaginem guidelines are all about moving images and he doesn't want the image displaced, base 3 moves an image in a disorienting way. If you wanted to be high enough above the ground that the entire area of the map is within your view at once, you'd want to be about 100 km up - to move an image to the location of an arcane connection you need a base level of 15.

I'm going to set the base level at 5 half way between these two things, the effect is doing a lot more than just moving the image in a disorienting way, and it's doing less than moving the image 100 km closer to the viewers face.

Note that despite choosing a base of 5 I added a magnitude of complexity. He should be able to do a level 40 in a single season.

Now as far as updating the image from the observations of linked creatures, I had earlier mentioned a plan where Adelbert first improved the memory of the targeted creatures and then pulled the memories from the creatures minds to update his map. Upon reflection it makes more sense to make an effect that does a live update from what the creature is experiencing at the moment.

So first the table needs to know where the creatures are.

Then it needs to update the image. This involves both base 10 read the surface thoughts of an animal (or 15 for a human), and a rego imaginim to alter the existing image to conform to what the target is observing

I added a magnitude for complexity on that one becasue it seemed justified to me. But level 70 is a huge task for Adelbert so he spends one season inventing the following spell just so he can gain a similar spells bonus.

This is very much like the Crown of Inhuman Perspective and the Vision of the Companion effect of his familiar bond but he can't get a similar spell bonus without an actual spell.

Even with the +9 similar spell bonus, the level 70 enchantment still takes Adelbert 3 seasons.

I recently observed in the A Shelf Full of Spells thread that some of us don't think that a device can run multiple duration concentration effects at the same time. If you happen to be of that persuasion, you should make Location of the Unwitting Surveyor and Reworking the Tiny World duration Sun rather than duration concentration with item maintains. They will then fit better in to your gray, depressing, glass is half empty world :stuck_out_tongue: (Please note the smiley to indicate humorous intent).

I'll describe the enchanted item and clearly write up all of the enchantments in the next post, well at least as clearly as I can manage to write anyway