wellsprings of power
Jun. 7th, 2023 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliIt occurred to me: a magical knight can, if of strong enough character, influence how his powers manifest. A sufficiently hot-tempered and impulsive candidate may manifest fire powers even if the wizard tried to make him a water wizard.
Does that apply to the source, too? The wizard gives them a power source, with which they must have contact to power up. A water-powered fire knight is certainly possible. Though there might be some -- influence on the precise set of fire powers.
Could a knight influence the wellspring, too?
This has, of course, the most effect on knights made by necromancers. If such a knight could even shift so much as to draw from, say, the death of plants in harvest, it would have a big effect. As in, the knight might not just be banned from ever using his powers.
And does it happen at the knighting, only? Or might another wizard influence it later?
(Meanwhile, while contemplating evil powers for evil people, it occurs to me there are few such powersets in my world. There are knights of death, whose power manifests in necromantic effects. But since I have, for instance, heroic fire knights and heroic shadow knight, neither fire nor shadow can be evil. It might just be in the details that they are evil.
(And as soon as I think of that, another thought pops up: disease. A little bit later, poison. So, yeah, there may be three intrinsically evil powersets, but most are going to turn on using powersets evilly.)
Does that apply to the source, too? The wizard gives them a power source, with which they must have contact to power up. A water-powered fire knight is certainly possible. Though there might be some -- influence on the precise set of fire powers.
Could a knight influence the wellspring, too?
This has, of course, the most effect on knights made by necromancers. If such a knight could even shift so much as to draw from, say, the death of plants in harvest, it would have a big effect. As in, the knight might not just be banned from ever using his powers.
And does it happen at the knighting, only? Or might another wizard influence it later?
(Meanwhile, while contemplating evil powers for evil people, it occurs to me there are few such powersets in my world. There are knights of death, whose power manifests in necromantic effects. But since I have, for instance, heroic fire knights and heroic shadow knight, neither fire nor shadow can be evil. It might just be in the details that they are evil.
(And as soon as I think of that, another thought pops up: disease. A little bit later, poison. So, yeah, there may be three intrinsically evil powersets, but most are going to turn on using powersets evilly.)