#i brought this up in the discord and they had some REAL GOOD adfitions especially vis a vis devo

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you know what would have been really cool in taz ethersea?

if using prestige salts to cast magic had physical magic effects on the body, kinda the same way prolonged exposure to ethersea water itself had caused physical effects on some people's bodies

because like, it's basically the magic equivalent of nuclear waste bonded to sea salts. it would be cool if bringing that kind of pollution into your body had more tangible negative effects

you could identify experienced magic users in this world by how not-quite-human they look

and perhaps most effects would be more long-term, but if you use more than you can handle of it in one day, you'd have some pretty nasty acute effects.

and that would be a fun way to tie the mechanics of spell slots into the worldbuilding (at least, in a way i personally find more interesting than just simply tying it to having to acquire sufficient quantities of this resource). and getting more spell slots as you level up could be like your body building up a bit of a tolerance.

(maybe you would even able to push yourself to cast one last spell in an emergency even after you run out of slots; you can try and cast that extra spell but you'll have to deal with some pretty bad acute effects of prestige overdose: have your hp painfully reduced to almost 0 and maybe have to roll some sort of altered wild magic table to see what else it does to you)

and this is not even getting started on the Implications that would have on devo as a character