Questionable Questing

To give a more complex explanation. Investment is limited by the Spirits liking someone can only bless them. Blessings without Costs don't have power behind them. A Invested is a hero of the spirits, given a greater role for their deeds. That doesn't equal the powers High Sorcery gives with greater costs

So with high sorcery what's the max sacrifice or cost you could give for a spell? I'm guessing there's plenty of suicide spells that are probably pretty powerful. But I'm guessing giving your ability to walk, slavery to something, or endless pain for a couple decades all would be pretty powerful too. So I guess I'm asking how all that's ranked and divided?

Investment doesn't have a high or low end. All Investment by its nature is either you got lucky and inherited it from a heroic bloodline or your marked as loved by the spirits for what you did and they want you to be heroic. It is all cheap power. Invested do not blow up city blocks. It makes you awesome, it does not give you great destructive power.

Korbin with his hammer could fuck up a street or monster. He cannot blow up a building. Currently we have and not limited to:
Hamish turning into a giant monster wolf to assault the forces of Isvan. I mean big wolf breaking down a castle gate.
Lyona summoning weaponized blizzards and other wintery magics. Weather manipulation on a grand scale with cold winds targeted at killing enemy soldiers.

Cursed blighted snow from Lyona
Lucan calling down starfire.
The Harrowings by Isvan melting the landscape and creating Unshaped Horrors from the mutated remains
Raising a fort from the very stones of a mountain.

You'll note for Magic the Cost is part of the fuel. Investments are inherent enchantments. That means no cost but by being a aspect of the person instead of a called upon power, the spirits are capped on how much they can give. Blessings aren't mighty sorcery.

Makes sense. I'm only asking because power scaling is very important, if incredibly tedious. You have to be able to show the readers why person X is stronger than person Y, if there both throwing out magic spells and anime bullshit like candy.

The logical need to have everything down to exacts is something I've started to push away from in stories. Its a modern trend that sometimes gets in the way of writing a fantasy tale

I agree. Not everything needs to be a math problem, but using the king of Fantasy himself Tolkien, Gandalf coming back to life didn't feel like an asspull because Tolkien very strongly hinted at him being more mythical than man from the very beginning even before Gandalf's full origins where revealed.

Just make sure to explain why certain powers works they way they do and the readers will be able to fill in the blanks from there.

Got ya.

High Magic is used often but is also rare. Because getting enough Costs and surviving them to learn it is a deadly road

I sleep. Thank you for the interest and questions and feedback. It helps me think about what to do with Jackal

Sleep well. I'm probably going to sleep soon too.

Heyo. How day. Mine good. Watching anime soon and chatting

My Aunt told me some funny stories from the court deposition she had to do. lol. But other than that and having dinner at a favorite diner nearby that I just got back from, pretty average friday.

What sort of funny and want to talk Dream of Chaos or more Warring Paths? Could do it in Discord for speed of communication or here

I'm cool with wherever. And the funny thing was that the opposing lawyer was very new. Firstly keep in mind it was all over zoom and while she was still at work in a private office her boss let her have it for a couple hours. But the whole time the Lawyer keep asking the same thing over and over again. Can you say what this form is? Don't know, wasn't there for when that occurred.

Yes, but can you in your professional opinion tell the court how you feel about it? You are under oath? I don't want to speculate or guess. Yes, but can you just give an estimate? lol. All that for several hours, to the point my Aunt had to butt in and tell them to move it along since she has a meeting at one o'clock.

To cord for Paths then