sreservoir
2012-04-19, 11:50 PM
Genius Loci is a sor/wiz 9 spell in CMage. it creates an elder elemental spirit to stay at a specific "building, location, or discernible geographic area" with a specific purpose given at time of casting; but, more importantly, the spell isn't broken if the elemental is slain, except with a miracle, wish, or disjunction -- it just takes another 24 hours before it's able to manifest again.
this would make it quite useful to create, say, localized minions, if given a "purpose" which is sufficiently general and allows repurposing -- something like, "obey any command given by a person under [specific conditions]" -- except for the catch that "that purpose must in some manner involve protecting the building or region to which it is attached." (if they could be manipulated to allow themselves to be killed daily, for example, they would do quite nicely as sacrifices.)
I'm sure it shouldn't be difficult to create a set of conditions in which allowing themselves to be killed would help to protect their place, and only somewhat more difficult to create a set of conditions under which being ritually sacrificed would, but I'm at a bit of a loss. thus, help?
this would make it quite useful to create, say, localized minions, if given a "purpose" which is sufficiently general and allows repurposing -- something like, "obey any command given by a person under [specific conditions]" -- except for the catch that "that purpose must in some manner involve protecting the building or region to which it is attached." (if they could be manipulated to allow themselves to be killed daily, for example, they would do quite nicely as sacrifices.)
I'm sure it shouldn't be difficult to create a set of conditions in which allowing themselves to be killed would help to protect their place, and only somewhat more difficult to create a set of conditions under which being ritually sacrificed would, but I'm at a bit of a loss. thus, help?