yeah i think its better to have stuff like this rather than just empty sea, it gives the area more personality and detail
I like it for worldbuildingās sake
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Regardless, itāll still definitely going to be more detailed than any Second Sea wilderness island.
The Second Sea was barren for real 
Third had the most interesting/detailed islands from my memory, but very few of them, for obvious reason.
just create a new magic type that already exists
wow, the balancecord is actually able to do that? honestly that impressive, everytime i go there its just a ecochamber where they mostly agree with the bteam
I think it partially depends on what youāre mutating. Like if you only had fire magic and used a hecate shard to mutate it you could just end up with an already existing fire magic mutation. If you managed to mutate your magic into grandpaās lost on your own and then used a hecate shard itād probably mutate it into an ancient although you might need more shards. I dunno if ancients are the limit and it just doesnāt work past that, if something else happens because you used it at the limit, or thereās some super duper uber magic after that. Iām not sure, but everything before that is my guess on what happens if you used a hecate shard despite having mutations in your bloodline.
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Canāt you learn it? Itās not like itās mind-locked anymore.
The lore doc says the mutation you get is based on your bloodline, so I think there is still a lock, just not in the form of minds.
But didnāt that screenshot of what Vetex said explicitly say that using Hecate shards to unlock existing mutations was just a gameplay mechanic? The way he put it makes it seem like Hecate shards are canonically only used for creating new magics/mutations. But idk why heād make that distinction, using them to unlock existing mutations like in the gameplay makes perfect sense in lore
man this lowkey just made me more confused on Hecate shards
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Yeahā¦ Iām so confused
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Kinda glad Iāve put off writing my AO series for so long. Awakenings and lost magic obtainment and the magic system as a whole have changed more times than I can count and itās hard to keep track of whatās canon. Iām gonna keep waiting for this stuff to get set in stone so that I can actually make a plan for how these major events go down in my story.
I donāt think theyāre THAT close to Sameria
I also assume weāll get more islands close to that area + maybe some lore in that area. Itās possible that its a bordering area between an eastern sea like how othrys borders the bronze and nimbus sea
Considering that itās called the āEastern Reachesā, and itās ābordering the Dark Seaā, I think thatās the edge.
nvm i forgor its only going into the dark sea
I still donāt think its THAAAT close to Sameria
I mean, considering that I drew about 1 Claw Island of space between them, I think thatās generous for something that spans from Sameria to the Dark Sea.
make it so using the play dead emote makes bears not agro at you
surely gemini would neeeeever give me bad advice
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tell vetex I am going to publicly hang him
why
nimbus sea coppershrooms lets go!!!