Non-Hermetic Grimoire

[Tellus]

@Lamech

Crud. You are actually right about that. I suppose we can always make this a Valgaldrar spell. In fact, Keeper of the Knowledge of the Dead, can be remade to come with 6 points spent on ritual powers.

Cute. The author didn't follow his own guidelines! Valgadr uses the same language, specifying 'powers'. Good catch.

@Lamech

Keeper of the Knowledge of the Dead:
Valgaldrar Ease Factor 33
R: Touch, D: Year, T: Ind
Raises a member of the dead with Magic Might of 15 and the following virtues: The gift, Good teacher, Educated and Arcane Lore. The XP from the two virtues is spread between a language, Artes Liberales and the ability the Tracti desired is on. By use of specializations up to four tracti can be written. Two in two different abilities. Note that so many have died and there is little to stop the Muspelli from summoning forgotten or secret knowledge by this method.
Base: 24+9 year

Cute, except.

Educated provides 50 XPs (Ability of 4), while writing requires requires an ability of 5. Even if the use of Specialties do allow you to write with eg Latin 4 (Wrting), that still kinda leaves you without XPs for Artes Liberales.
Alternatively, you already speak the language of the dead individual, in which case no XPs would be needed for a language, surely, and they could all go into AL.

As well, this is even assuming it was possibly, which I fear I must challenge, as again the daudinga recives points worth of powers not Qualites, which means they cannot be trivially taken as virtues I'm afraid.

This adapted from Death Begets Death, which as you'll note takes nothing but virtues,

As mentioned above, author fails to follow his own guidelines.

Is Mark Shirley on this forum? If so, can we get this cleared up?

and even takes Arcane Lore! Plus you can take virtues as qualities. Death Begets Death even takes arcane lore. The arcane lore can simply be spent on non-arcane abilities. Again as per the example Death Begets Death.

That even violates the language of Arcane Lore. Naughty Author.

But yeah, I was planning on using a specialty in something like writing or something than encompasses the two other abilities. (And giving the abilities a tracti writing spec.) Even if you want that to be illegal, you can still take 75 language, 5 artes liberales, and 20 in desired ability.

Edit: It seems arcane Lore can only be spent on arcane abilities. I suppose you can always take the extra XP quality if you aren't getting an arcane virtue.

@Lamech

Eternal Servitude
Entrancement Ease Factor 33
R: Eye D: Lifetime T: Group
The target serves you. Forever. Carrying out the most heinous or vile requests the Muspelli can think of, only breaking loyalty if suicide is ordered.
Base: 18 +15 Lifetime

I assume this was intended to be T: Individual? both given the description and the lack of a EF modifier?

Eep! Yeah that was supposed to be individual.

no biggie.