I see Brannard becoming the Patron of Dark Magic on Mystara.Įtienne (now mortal) working with Rafiel and Benekander will seek a way to purify the Radiance again so that he may regain his immortality. If Brannard McGregor uses the Radiance to become an Entropic Immortal he may want to intensify this effect. The Madness Rules from Wheel of Time may be used to detail the Dark Taint that affects the minds of wizards using the Radiance too often. However, for Radiance Users, they will find that they are slowly becoming corrupted in mind as well as body. What if the taint is slowly turning Mystaran Magic itself into a dark force? For normal wizards this currently has little effect. However, there may also be other more subtle corrupting effects. One side effect of this is that it can only produce Entropic Immortals. The Current Radiance is tainted by Entropy. Still, one can only suspect that if the current taint of the NoS is removed so that the NoS can produce non-Entropic Immortals again, the Immortals will monitor new candidates closely, making a sponsor necessary for that path as well. Whether this was just to undo what Noumena had done, or whether to punish the Immortals by giving mortals more power, well, that is also left up to speculation. However, the latest alteration to the NoS removed this depletion. Whether Noumena was acting on his own in this, or whether he was at the time an instrument of the Old One's is unknown. Also, this would limit the number of newly created immortals without sponsors. This he felt would limit the power of mortals and perhaps teach them that magic should be used responsibly. The Riddle-loving Time Immortal had figured out enough from the NoS so that he could damage it a little, causing it to gradually destroy Mystara's own ability to harness magic from the sun. The Tampering with the Nucleus by Noumena the Immortal of Time was what caused the depletion of magic on Mystara. Whether it worked, or whether Gnomish Technomancy in the current age of Mystara will once again produce a new GRoF is unknown. The Old Ones sought to fix this problem by creating the Nucleus of the Spheres. Perhaps this was due to an Outer World version of the Spell of Preservation (Called the Spell of Alteration SoA) that had already been cast on the Outer World to limit technology being developed on Mystara? Was it in fact Blackmoorian Technomacy's interaction with the SoA that lead to the instability of Blackmoorian technology? Perhaps this is also what caused the FSS Beagle to Crash on Mystara, which again was the driving power behind Blackmoorian Technomancy. The FSS Beagle crashed on Mystara because its technology no longer worked properly. These items are still so rare that the reason why magic won't work on them hasn't been figured out yet. If the Nucleus now creates a separation between magic and technology, it may mean that magic cannot effect devises of higher tech level than the current one.Įven already existing devises of the latest technology may suffer from this limitation such as canons, firearms etc. Though Gnomes and Dwarves seem to have found some way around this problem. This means either that magic can now function perfectly with technology, or perhaps magic can no longer function as combined with technology at all. If the reason for the GRoF was to was in fact the Blackmoorians failure to combine magic and technology, perhaps magic channelled through the Nucleus has removed that problem. Perhaps the Destruction of Blackmoor lead the Old Ones to make this alteration. Not necessary in appearance, but its very nature was different. This may mean that the Skyshield is somehow linked with the Radiance.īefore the creation of the Radiance, magic on Mystara must have been different.
Magic outside the Skyshield can be tapped directly from the sun or from the worlds or moons in question. This effect only applies to mages inside Mystaras Skyshield. This also enables some Radiance Mages to sever the tie between individual mages and magic itself, thus preventing them from casting spells while on Mystara.
Thus anyone using magic on Mystara must tap it from the Nucleus. The Radiance is able to harness the energy from Mystara's Sun and channel it through itself. Each star projects magical energy along with other forms of energy fuelling the worlds surrounding it with magic. How can the Radiance be the Source of All Magic on Mystara? And what exactly does that mean? Here is one theory: The Source of Magic in Mystaras Prime Universe is The Stars. More thought on the Radiance and the Nature of Magicįrom the Mystara Mailing List posted 23 March 2004.
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