Guiverna ex Miscellanea - Development

[Peregrine_Bjornaer]

@The Fixer

Even just limiting it to Aquam, a "poisons" focus would cover every 5 techniques. And we're also talking of doing the same thing with Herbam and Terram, plus adding a bit of Creo Corpus. Sounds quite major to me.

@Peregrine_Bjornaer

Snake venom would be a Micro Magical Focus?

Better IMO, yes, although still quite broad. And sounding cooler, which is always important^^

Just limiting it to "creating poisons" should keep it a Minor, shouldn't it? It's only Creo Aq, He, or Te, and maybe MuAq, as near as I can ...unless she figures out a way to make a poison out of raw Vis.

@The Fixer

@Peregrine_Bjornaer

Does Parseltongue look good to everyone?

Hum... At its core, I'd put it like this: Works like "Animal Ken", "Inoffensive to Animals" and "Entrancement", but only with snakes.

This does not make it major, IMO, just a nice minor. So how to upgrade it?

First, drop the limitations from Entrancement: This works on any serpent that can hear you.
Then, add another tidbit: This works like Summon Animals (HoH: S p105), but only with serpents.

Is it enough? I don't think so.
Entrancement, aside from succeding the constested roll, must also penetrate. I'd give you a penetration of 5 times your skill. I'd also allow Summon Animals to work on magical Serpents and Worms, as defined in RoP: M in the dragons chapter.

So...
Parseltongue works on any serpent, Magical Serpent and Worm, but nothing else.
Should it need to penetrate, it has a penetration of 5 times the skill.
Otherwise, it acts as a combination of:

• Animal Ken
• Inoffensive to Animals
• Entrancement, at voice range
• Summon Animals.

What do you think of it?

Sounds about right.

@The Fixer

@Peregrine_Bjornaer

Aspis of Living Wood*+19, CrHe 15

It is listed with Diameter duration and lvl 15, whereas the description reads base 2, +1 touch, +3 (???) sun = lvl 10
Since it's a magical plant, it is resisted. Given the slow action, you're probably better of using a mundane poison.

I did catch that one had a Moon duration and the other Diameter, but other than that it looks like whoever posted them just screwed up practically everything, I was able to find the original spells on the Ars forums (post dated 29-1-07), and Aspis is actually making a wooden shield. The one I wanted was the Final Cup, which is the spell description that was copied into both spells. Not sure if you have to add magnitudes for Ease Factor if that's the natural attributes of the poison being created. But, yeah, I think I can toss Aspis.

@The Fixer

@Peregrine_Bjornaer

Spittle of the Poisoned Blade* +13 MuAq 15

The write up is correct, but omits that such a poison can be resisted with EF 3.

I think that's in a footnote on the spell. If I were to up the Ease Factor to 9, that would add two magnitudes to the spell leve, right? Making it a 25?