stuck
I would assume stuck with what your magic could mutate into. Luckily for me my characters already fit that just fine whether it’s mutations or scrolls, but it must suck for other people.
tbh I made this idea cuz I liked the aa mutation system and I knew scrolls were planned so i kinda combined them
also the scrolls are supposed to tell you how to evolve magic
I prefer mutations story-wise and lore-wise (it doesn’t make sense for scrolls to be hard to find since they can be easily spread-around and they aren’t one-time-use). Mutations are more personal which I like. And just generally really cool.
Scrolls are way better for gameplay. As Sock said, mutations have the issue that you may have to play with a magic you don’t like to get the mutation you do like. But what’s less talked about is the issue that mutations were going to be non-replaceable, so whatever you picked you’re stuck with for the rest of that file. The Vimir Sea is wayyy too late for players to be making a decision that big, especially with no way to test out all of the mutations beforehand to make sure you actually like the one you chose. Scrolls are just better for players.
I’m gonna vote scrolls because they’re good for gameplay and even though mutations are better for story I think scrolls are pretty good for story too, potentially. A character could still need to develop and grow as a person in order to master the scroll’s teachings, or maybe acquiring the scroll and its magic could represent change they’ve already gone through. Also, if we’re using magics as metaphors for personality then scrolls allow for far more drastic change in character, since you can even go from Water Magic to Sun Magic if you want.
my main headache is from him saying a mage could theoretically learn as many magics as they want from other people, giving birth to many unanswered questions
vetex try not to contradict himself challenge (impossible)
mfw
Doing that tomorrow if someone doesn’t do it before (and if I don’t forget)
even though he said being able to spread scrolls around was a gameplay mechanic this part of the lore doc implies it works that way in lore too lmao. makes you wonder why they don’t have schools for different types of magic like how there’s schools for martial arts
Yeah, that part of the lore doc definitely implies to me that the scroll system is canon. It’s very contradictory.
Beginning to think there’s a different “game canon” and “story canon”
I think that’s just outright true, isn’t it?
“If we’re talking about the game verse”
Its so confusing man
This is the guy who talked about how peaceful Port Mistral is.
R.I.P
YEAAAAHHHHH
real
We’re wizard101’ing this shit
maybe skyhall will have some system like that in place, they are known for strong mages or something if i remember correctly
bro kos is crazy