The Second Apocalypse

General => Author Q&A => Topic started by: Callan S. on June 23, 2016, 04:25:15 am

Title: What is the infection vector of sorcerers magic changing their own constitution?
Post by: Callan S. on June 23, 2016, 04:25:15 am

Ie, the salting of sorcerers - they become vulnerable to chorae salting shortly after their initial castings, if I understand correctly. How so? Is it like the vandalism of graffiti and there's a lot of back blast of paint, so to speak, or something? And the paint begins to replace them?

Title: Re: What is the infection vector of sorcerers magic changing their own constitution?
Post by: Cû'jara-Cinmoi on June 23, 2016, 01:13:15 pm

In other words, why not pillars of pepper? I'm just riffing on Biblical themes, here, is all.

Title: Re: What is the infection vector of sorcerers magic changing their own constitution?
Post by: Callan S. on June 23, 2016, 07:25:23 pm

Well, one never knows when it touches on some deep set theme or if it's just because it's metal as hell! It's got the intuitive feels to it, for sure - but yah, given all the themes, it makes sense I wanted to check!

Title: Re: What is the infection vector of sorcerers magic changing their own constitution?
Post by: Wilshire on June 23, 2016, 11:23:07 pm

What about infection radius? Any hard and fast rules for the effective radius of a chorae?

Title: Re: What is the infection vector of sorcerers magic changing their own constitution?
Post by: Callan S. on June 24, 2016, 01:21:10 am

Quote from: Wilshire on June 23, 2016, 11:23:07 pm

What about infection radius? Any hard and fast rules for the effective radius of a chorae?

I'm guessing it's more a question of how graffiti laiden the sorcerer is - the text going that some ancient sorcerers would begin to salt even when a chorae was held some distance away. So the chorae is contact based, but the sorcerers mark, the thing the chorae touches, can extend beyond their physical skin.