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Interlude: Profiles of Power IV
🕑 Added 2020-09-25 16:01:04 +0000 UTC
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- -Kelgarn, confirmed Beta-Account
Hey Guys and welcome back to the Profiles of Power
After we looked at the light side, whatever that means in this game, last time, today, we look at the dark side. I’ve heard they have cookies so it should be good.
Our subject of interest today is one that has garnered a lot of attention on herself, both in the past and present. From fairy-queen to scary-queen, today we are talking about Morgana. We have little confirmed, she has been rather quiet on her abilities but we have a lot of footage to watch and speculate. Let’s get to it.
Race: We don’t really know. Skin-tone and ear-form hint at elf but the size and geographic area seems to contradict that.
Class: started as Sorceress, who knows what it’s now
Titles: Good question, we have no idea but maybe she will enlighten us. There might be something related to being the disciple of a being called “Grandmother”
Relevant Skills and abilities: We know that Sorcerers seem to start with only a single active ability that allows them to create their own spells. That means we have no real indication what might be a specific ability and what is simply the outgrowth of a skill, thus they are lumped together.
We do know that she is able to use Ice-Magic in some form, either directly manipulating snow and ice or using runes for larger scale magic. The current theory is that her use of mist or fog comes from a similar vein.
In addition, she is able to create strange, silver tentacles, looking like ice but supple and obviously controlled. Those can be used to attack and grapple at close range, with deadly effect.
To complement Ice, she seems to be able to control wind, allowing her to create large-scale storms, making visibility low and difficult. No Traveller has yet been on the receiving end of those but it should be safe to assume that trying to fight within a magical blizzard is going to be difficult. If we combine what we have seen of her wind-magic with the deluge of icicles she has conjured on occasion, I really don’t want to imagine just what that would be like. No, thanks.
Furthermore, we have heard about a strange spell that lasted through respawn, but it was said to have been an error or bug, hopefully fixed by now. That spell was supposedly based on Blood Magic, which is also something she allegedly used to strike at people over vast distances, something that apparently was also considered bugged or too strong. It seems that Blood Magic has some issues, hopefully they will be fixed before release.
The Blood Magic seems to be complemented with some sort of Necromancy or Death-Magic, but other than raising zombies, we haven't seen it in use. Maybe some of the previously seen effects were the same but we just don’t know.
Other than her magic-abilities, there’s the raven, we don’t really know what’s that about. It seems that the raven is able to speak with her voice and that there is some connection between the two, at least to the point that she can order it to act in a quite un-bird-like manner. Oh, and it seems she can speak through it and even cast spells, to some extent.
And finally, as if the magic and bird were not enough, she is wearing what looks like light leather armour and a pair of short blades, which we have never seen in combat-use. They look like they are made from Ice, so there might be some significance or they might be used in her magic, we just don’t know.
All in all, it seems that her build is that of a rather classic spellcaster, focusing heavily on large-scale attacks while being able to inflict some pin-point damage using Icicles. Her raven allows her to stay back, out of danger, while using it to deliver punishment from well out of range.
What else have you noticed in her videos and the highlight-reels featuring her? Please, share with us, so far this series has focused on martial classes, which I hope will change today.
- Ghostblade, confirmed Beta-Account
Yeah, there’s something you should add, two things actually.
The first thing is that she can use her Death-Magic to do more, a lot more, than just raise zombies. When we fought in the night, she was able to stun us and kill us off one by one. We never were aware of what was happening, we simply died, in a serious amount of pain. Without being able to fight back. Not fun, not at all. Similarly, when she experimented, as she called it, one of us simply died, without her being anywhere near.
The other thing is that she is crazy. And I don’t mean the fun, quirky kind of crazy like some chick that ditches her clothes on a hot day to take a bath in the public fountain. No, I mean the certifiable kind of crazy, the kind of crazy that dissects small animales, trying to find out how they work. The kind of crazy that kills people with a wide smile on her face, that wipes out entire tribes, just cause she can. That kind of crazy. The dangerous kind.
- Dargira, confirmed Beta-Account
Regarding her Bird, there’s more to it. Not sure what more but I know that she is able to turn into that bird, allowing her to fly. I have no idea if it is some sort of special race that can be in two places at once or what is going on there but I’ve seen her turn into the bird and fly off.
Also, add massive blasts of cold to her abilities, strong enough to instantly freeze wide areas around her. I think what I’ve seen was some fifty meters of freezing and she pulled it off within a second or two.
- Rachant, confirmed Beta-Account
Dargira, that sounds quite nasty, especially if combined with the previously mentioned abilities. If you come at her with an army, you essentially gift her an army to use against you. Or something like that, who knows about the required resources and whatever else might be involved.
- Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account
Let’s start at the top, shall we?
I won’t explain my abilities, where would the fun be in that? No, that’s for me to know and you to find out, if you try to oppose me.
Ghostblade, I know that you dislike me for clashing with you and your friends ingame. I can even understand it, to some extent. What I cannot understand, tolerate or even accept is for you to attack me based on me being differently abled.
That’s like laughing at someone for needing a wheelchair, despicable and utterly disgusting. I have reported your post to the mod-team and if we ever meet again on Mundus, I will have to be very creative with what I can do to you.
And just so you know, I’ve never personally harmed any animals in the real world. It is sad that you seem to think behaviour in a virtual space is equivalent to behaviour in the real world. If it were, none of us should be allowed anywhere near other people.
Dargira, it seems you took my advice on loose lips and are trying to sink a ship. Maybe I should have explained all the reasons why I didn’t accept you into my group but that is a different question. I’m quite disappointed.
And finally, Rachant, see my statement above, that’s for me to know. If you want to give me an army of undead to play with, I would be game.
- Hammasce, confirmed Beta-Account
Just out of curiosity, did you happen to find a cursed blade? Maybe stuck in a stone, whispering to you to pull it out? Did things explode and the whispers turned clearer and made you want to kill your father, or maybe mother in your case? Asking for a friend.
- Heracles, Official Pantheon Moderator
Ghostblade will be taking a leave of absence from the forum.
That kind of behaviour is against the code of conduct and will result in a temporary ban, or even a permanent one, if the team feels it is necessary.
Be nice everyone, act like adults or you will be treated like children and sent to the quiet corner.
- Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account
I can confirm that there are different skills for general “magic” which is simple manipulation of whatever the magic is related to and there is rune mastery, which allows you to use runes that represent concepts regarding the topic your rune-mastery refers to.
Sounds confusing, so let’s give an example:
I have Fire Magic and Fire Rune Mastery.
Fire Magic allows me to use existing Fire, or even Heat to a lesser degree, and manipulate it, strengthening it or move it, throwing it towards an enemy.
Fire Rune Mastery gives me, for example, a rune representing a simple concept like Ignition. That, if used correctly, allows me to set something on fire, if I supply enough Astral Power even things that shouldn’t be able to burn. Hell, one of the Mages at the Guild where I learned some of it was able to literally burn water. Don’t ask me how it actually works, he didn’t tell and I’m not yet at that level.
What does that mean for Morgana? Well, we’ve seen her use different kinds of runes, one is almost certainly Ice, the other, I’m not so sure. Death could be a Rune Mastery but maybe a less defined concept like Necromancy also has a Rune Mastery. We don’t have any high-level player who started as necromancers, at least none that tell us about it, so I just don’t know.
In addition, she has Ice Magic, obviously and something regarding Blood. I want to say it’s another Rune Mastery but again, there are few people who admit to having blood magic let alone share the specifics.
About the Bird, no idea, shape shifting sounds incredibly complicated, let alone being able to fly.
