#wild mage

[liskadeart]

(I spent like 20 hours on this shit post) Gale is a wizard and Vaxx is a wild mage, and they don't always agree on how to magic.

Where Gale taps into the harmony of the weave to channel his like a musician, Vaxx channels the elemental planes of chaos like a lightening rod trying to connect the sky to the ground. Where Gale feels magic is to be conquered, Vaxx feels it is to be respected in its most raw and natural form. Where Gale has a prodigal talent to control it, Vaxx has the innate ability to cast it. Where Gale needs discipline to learn his spells, Vaxx needs discipline to direct it. They are polar opposites in several ways, and I love them, Your Honor.

[nopiedraws]

[OC] Magnifica's show ! ♠️♦️♣️♥️

[valiantvillain]

Welp, cue another fanfic idea to add to the list of future works: Beitris unwittingly drinking poor Wyll under the table because he tried to keep up with dwarven alcohol tolerance and she doesn't realize until it's too late and he's clearly very drunk.

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Before I get too far into Lady Knight which is very much peak Bigness Book, I want to go back to Daine and what I mean by the Bigness of Tamora Pierce novels.

There's 2 parts of Realms of the Gods that I think are really good (2.5 if you count the democracy dragons) the first is Daine getting to make her peace (and ultimately outgrow) her family. The second, which is what I want to talk about, is the final scene where she kills Ozorne.

Realms and Emperor Mage both have very similar climaxes, they both end with Daine running Ozorne down with the absolute intent of ripping his throat out. The only reason she doesn't do it in Emperor Mage is because Numair and Kaddar thwart her, but its absolutely the natural ending for them.

And then that's sorted (or not) and we get to the actual ending of the books. The ending of Realms is totally unremarkable, its practically a checklist. But the ending of Emperor Mage is amazing.

Daine starts off completely cut off from any of the wider picture. She's from a tiny village in a politically unimportant country (Galla never features in any of the political stuff in these books, its practically an afterthought), she hasn't had access to an education, she thinks of herself as unimportant.

And for the first two books, Daine is increasingly involved with doing powerful magic, and clearly is getting an education and a better opinion of herself, but she's outside the wider discussion. All the politics goes over her head, most of the wider discussion is taking place off page.

By the start of Emperor Mage that's starting to change. Daine has been given, at minimum a crash-course by Thayet. She isn't involved, directly, in peace talks, but she has a solid grasp of the impact her healing Ozorne's birds, or failing to, will have on them.

And then in the end of the book, Daine is actually wielding political power. Like, at the beginning of Wild Mage she didn't think she was important enough to ask Alanna for a job and at the end of Emperor Mage she tells the new Emperor that he needs to get his act together about slavery. Its an amazing personal arc but its also the really cool bit about Tortall world-building. Magical power affects the politics going on at the time, and this is where Daine finally goes from being someone other people make political decisions around to actually using all of her own power, not just the magical stuff.

[thundergoodspeed]

when casting shield i told a dm that chiaro’s magic basically looks like art and he went on to describe van gogh style swirls of paint creating a shield

(that particular shield failed but this one just covered his ac so he’s good)

[fenlirias]

a quick sketch of my (chaotic) Descent into Avernus solo party

here’s Deandra, a chaotic good celadrin wild mage with amnesia, Undr’re, a chaotic neutral drow bard of the College of Whispers and Silhaenn Jardeth, a chaotic evil tiefling warlock, a nobleman from Waterdeep

[chaosbolted]

chiaro had fun during the dead wars

[monstrousmaws]

My current D&D character, Random! Random uses They/Ae/Fae/Zey/Xe pronouns. Ae are a Teifling Wild Magic Sorcerer with the Charlatan background and a Chaotic Neutral alignment.

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[germanich]

[crazycat-dnd]

I am so excited for my next session.

I am playing a Mountain dwarf barbarian. And I have just gotten her subclass picked out. It’s a bit late. At level five but it works much better narratively.

She is a path of the wild mage barbarian. Her rage comes from her love for her friends. And our wizard was killed last session. Don’t worry he’s ok now.

So she’s just going to roll up next combat and wild magic happens, then I’m planing on having her look back to see who shot a spell over her shoulder.

She will have no idea she has magic for a bit.

[mourn-and-watch]

you know what. i actually love that trying to talk to solas was the last thing varric did and it ended in complete failure. especially if you put it in the context of his feelings about anders. varric was so bitter every time he mentioned him because he could not stop him. he didn't even realize that anders was up to something and when it was too late he started to think of him as of someone who destroyed that fragile peace in kirkwall that actually never existed.

it adds layers to the way he felt about solas. he believed that time he could stop a friend who simply lost his way. because varric tethras can talk anyone out of anything, can't he? anders was just too dodgy and self-centred and cut everyone off just like solas did but this time varric is completely prepared. surely. absolutely.

he could have never talked anders out of it even if he had known what was coming. he could have never talked solas out of it either. anders was a desperate person standing against (as varric himself put it) forces he couldn't possibly defeat. solas was a god standing against a couple of mortals and his own conscience buried under his guilt and regrets. being a good friend would not stop meredith's oppression. being a good friend would not stop someone who fears so much that all of the atrocities he committed were for nothing and would mean nothing at the end. varric died because he didn't realize it. he died and left his second in command with an immense guilt because they believed he knew solas enough to pull that off and there's something tragic about it

[valiantvillain]

Beitris just powering through all of act 3 hell-bent on getting Wyll to prioritize himself and his happiness more...and maybe trying to convince him to let her trademark Blade of the Frontiers so they can rake in some money when all this is over. Having success in the former, not so much the latter, but at least it seems to amuse Wyll.

[star--nymph]

Vivienne's fear being 'becoming irrelevant' isn't something that's linked explicitly to her pride, no matter what Solas says about her (and the irony of Mr.Pride himself saying that should not be lost on you), it reveals what and who Vivienne truly is.

She's a survivalist.

Because we don't spend as much time in the Free Marches or Orlesian circles, we don't get to experience what being a mage is in these cultures. In Ferelden and Kirkwall, a mage is a lesser being without freedom no matter what they do--but in the Free Marches and Orlais specifically, mages are commodities that are given freedom so long as they play an entertaining enough role. They can explore the world if they have a noble patron, if they catch the right person's eye. They are, in a way, two sides of the same coin--refusing mages agency and forcing them to relay on higher powers. Vivienne lucked out, as sad as it is, when Bastion fell in love with her; she found someone who was contrarian enough to recognize her as a full person and also someone with power that could help her rise through the ranks. This is not to say that Vivienne on her own wasn't an exceedingly talented and intelligent individual--by nineteen she was already the youngest full fledged mage in Circle history and she was skilled enough to make herself an enchanter. But, I can not emphasize this enough, none of that matters if she didn't also play the Game and impress enough people.

Vivienne could have been the most brilliant mage in the history of Thedas and it means nothing if she was overlooked by nobility.

So when Bastion made her his mistress, she gained not just a lover but also a means to an end. Now she can use her magic to protect herself. Now she can roam where she wants and not be question for it because she's Madame Vivienne. Now, she can walk into the Orlasian court and belong there.

And what happens? Celene notices her and makes her the Court Enchanter, a position that has always been the equivalent of a jester. Vivienne took that title, ignored that it was essentially a glorified insult to who she is, and made it a position of power. She made the Court Enchanter into an advisor, a political rank. She had done the impossible and made mages an actual political entity in the Orlasian Court, something that wasn't seen outside of Tervinter (not counting what players can do under very specific conditions if they made mages in DAO and DA2).

All that, however, only continues as long as the court recognizes her as something worth their attention. Vivienne needs to maintain her act as Madame De Fer, The Lady of Iron, the Court Enchanter, The Jewel of the High Court, because the second she just becomes Vivienne, it's over for her. The assassins coming raining in, her name gets devoured by rumors and gossip, and she'll be found dead at bottom of the stair case with a dagger in her back if she's lucky.

So of course when the Circles fall apart during the Rebellion, she clings to that Loyalist Mages to maintain that structure--of course she moves her pieces to the Inquisition, knowing that if the Circle DOES fall, she at least as another place for herself and mages latch onto--of course when she hears that Celene replaced her with a new Court Enchanter that appeared out of no where, she grows to resent Morrigan.

Like, Morrigan literally pops up out of thin air, makes herself invaluable to Celene, and then plants herself in the place Vivienne had to claw her way up to and create so she could survive. Would you not be resentful when your life's work is usurped by some random witch of the wilds because she happened to charm the Empress? Everything Vivienne strived for all whisked away because the court find a gem who glimmers ever so slightly more than Vivienne.

So yes, Vivienne fears becoming irrelevant because the world has made it so that irrelevance for an Orlesian mage means death.

[ohmyarda]

Wild Magic Sorcerer is honestly a cute run for a Gale Romance

Also, some of the dialogue with wild magic, I love it so much.. (see below)

[speed-demon-doodler]

act 1 fluff, Durge run - somewhere in the wilderness 2

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My partner in a comically wobbly voice: "are they gonna..? You know, are they..?"

yeah hug it out

[chaosbolted]

when you:

get yeeted into a silver dragon’s dreamscape that envisions basically everything you think of

have a kobold in your party that thinks in the third person and is obsessed with colorful lights

that kobold proceeds to think of herself, and each “herself” proceeds to think of herself again, creating a veritable army of colorful flashing kobolds

have a wild magic surge shroud you and a couple dozen aforementioned colorful flashing kobolds in a fog cloud

shenanigans tend to happen