I prefer the Sorcerer archetype over the Wizard out of D&D classes, so my spellcaster characters in roleplay are almost always the intuitive type. That I found math completely uninteresting in my school years probably contributes; I’d rather play something else entirely than have my OC enjoy something I find dull as dishwater.
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Sadly the Legion one has such potential, if it has to be done there sure but to split the community in two is a shame.
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Real WoW Forum moment right here
Keep going
Underbelly, the potential griefing aside, leans a bit too much into crime and evil
My Character only practises Warlockry offensively to defend herself, and especially fel only as a last resort if at all.
Demonology and all.
Also as someone who recently began teaching magic to someone else in RP, I’ve opted for the route of rejecting magic = math, and instead embracing the idea that magic is a language.
To understand something, you must first understand its nature. If I ask you to conjure a flame, you must first comprehend what it fundamentally means, and language plays a big part in defining it; magic is the language through which we communicate with the universe. And to that end, willpower is one of the most important aspects of spellcasting. Why should the universe listen to you if you don’t believe it either?
It keeps up the mystique of magic while also making it explainable without overexplaining it with maths and equations of which we have no actual examples of what that entails besides couple of throwaway lines. This makes it easier to teach and grasp in RP through metaphors.
Relying on willpower like Medivh said also makes it a personal struggle for the trainee to overcome, and not a matter of pouring X amount of hours into a book off screen to learn. This results in more character growth as the trainee comes to understand themselves and overcome what keeps them stuck in that mental state.
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Variety is the spice of life. It would be a very boring world if all mages went to Dalaran; just as it would be very boring if all mages only went to their own, racial institutions. The existence of both these options, to me, implies both are perfectly viable options that get used all the time, both with their own merits and flaws.
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While this isn’t something I would apply to anyone posting in this thread without any compelling substantiation, there is a bit of a track record relating to Kirin Tor roleplayers behaving like the unimpeachable magic police, which is a shame. Dalaran is a very cool part of Azeroth’s tapestry and there’s a lot of potential there, but that means playing on its flaws and shortcomings as much as its undeniable strength as a bastion of learning and magical strength.
That being said, when the sense of superiority is purely in-character then it’s cool. An arcanist of the Kirin Tor asserting that theirs is the only magical institute of worth and that only it can be responsible for safeguarding magic and administrating over the world’s mages is an interesting premise that’s ripe for creating conflict RP.
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I agree. In my encounters with such characters, the mindset has unfortunately been also one they strongly believe in OOC despite evidence of the contrary. One of the intro quests to Dalaran points out that their laws only apply within the city limits and to their own members, which is why you’re asked to mind yourself and obey their laws while visiting. Encountering someone who acknowledges their character is overtly zealous and in the wrong would be a refreshing take on the Kirin Tor world police trope.
They don’t have world wide authority, and much less so when their influence in the old Alliance was among the northern kingdoms whose mages they had near total monopoly over. Said kingdoms are now gone, and Stormwind saw rise to its own institution of mages due to geographical isolation from the north.
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Please no more, no more!!!
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Master Telaryn, teach my Tauren to be a mage.
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My mage is a human
Oh so what? You think because you’re a human you’re too good to train a Tauren?
Yes.
I’d like to speak to your manager please.
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