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TXT_KEY_SPELL_SAND_LION (This is summon sand lion, right?)

Hidden deep within the deserts of the world live secretive creatures known as Sand Lions. Sand Lions are well adapted to the desert, being nearly impossible to see while in their natural habitat, and those that would hunt them can usually find no trace of them until it is too late. Although they try to avoid contact with the outside world, Sand Lions will temporarily serve those who are especially in tune with the deserts. Due to never leaving their homes normally, Sand Lions cannot heed the call of summoners who are not in the desert.


First thing I've ever written for something like this :crazyeye:
I was trying to get at their +80% (I think it's 80...) desert defense with the second sentence.
 
Yeas i really like thos spoiler tags. keeps threads much better organized and a lot easier to scorll.

About the translation. I have to check if i have the original (german) liing around somewhere. But it would be not much harder to translate it form latin to english than it is from german to engilsh.
Its a simple ritual i wrote for live action role playing games to create an protective circle. the fist part is spoken repeatingly while the circle is drawn.

Then there are parts for each rune that is added to the circle (actually the above features only half or a third of the runes.) each rune has an specific text as wells an generic introduction and finishing text. The last part completes the cirle and adds some runes that establish a conection to the caster so that he can feel whats going an and if someone wants to breach the circle.
 
Chalid said:
Yeas i really like thos spoiler tags. keeps threads much better organized and a lot easier to scorll.

About the translation. I have to check if i have the original (german) liing around somewhere. But it would be not much harder to translate it form latin to english than it is from german to engilsh.
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My german dictionary and grammer helper are next to my latin, and equally and unfortunately forgotten. If you talk greek next, you'll hit the trifecta of my languages that i studied but have long forgotten.

Its a simple ritual i wrote for live action role playing games to create an protective circle. the fist part is spoken repeatingly while the circle is drawn.

Then there are parts for each rune that is added to the circle (actually the above features only half or a third of the runes.) each rune has an specific text as wells an generic introduction and finishing text. The last part completes the cirle and adds some runes that establish a conection to the caster so that he can feel whats going an and if someone wants to breach the circle.
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Very interesting sounding, maybe actually put part of this explaination in the game? Like under "rituals" or something?

-Qes
 
Chalid said:
Unfortunteley no greek on my side. I can only offer ancient egypts language, but it is hard to write in forums :).
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Thats hellanistic enough, you win a cookie.
-Qes
 
A few more ideas/quotes.
Spoiler :

TXT_KEY_SPELL_DOMINATION
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde

TXT_KEY_SPELL_HOPE
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill

TXT_KEY_SPELL_MUTATION
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

TXT_KEY_SPELL_SANCTIFY
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

TXT_KEY_SPELL_BLOOM
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi

TXT_KEY_SPELL_CONSUME_SOUL
"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche


I'll have more when i can think of em.
-Qes
 
TXT_KEY_SPELL_ENTANGLE
"Root and branch, twig and vine,
By your masters bid, entwine!"
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(Free cookie to anyone who recognizes that...)
TXT_KEY_SPELL_HOPE
We gazed at the ruins of our city, and around it the slaughtered herds and salted fields. The crows circled overhead eagerly, and their stench of the scavengers feast reached insidiously to our noses.
"Well," the commander said at last, "things won't be getting any worse, boys."
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_FLAMING_ARROWS
"Yes it's POSSIBLE to do it without magic. It's also possible to ride a donkey and use a flowerpot for a helmet!"
--Dorian Fire-eyes, Amurite city guard captain
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_TREETOP_DEFENCE
"Fools don't know that the forest is a living, breathing being. They don't know its rhythms, can't sense its moods, can't feel its textures. There is no respect for the unending continuity of life. They don't--"
I interrupted the druid as I notched an arrow; "They don't look up."
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_RAGE
"The Confessor looked over at me condescendingly--I mean, kindly. He was always kind to me... and controlling. Him and the commander. Domineering holier-than-thou taskmaster, I'd like to... Why am I having these thoughts? Why do I long to thrust my blade between their shoulders? All of them... so much... hate..."
Last entry in the journal of the third missing recruit from the 105th recon unit.
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_TRAIN_WORG_RIDER
"In battle, the wild ones copy the tactics of civilization, though they could not hope to understand them. They march in rough companies, but break into a frenzy at the first sight of the enemy, thus negating the formations. They hail a leader, but follow their own plans when his back is turned. They divide a portion of their force for cavalry, despite being unable to mount a horse. Although... of the Warg Riders, I have gained a grudging respect, in their bravery at mounting such a fearsome beast--and at their aptitude for it."
Excerpt from Lilar Jaswin's "Interactions among the lesser races," chapter IV
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_REVERSAL_OF_FORTUNE

XXVI.

Any individuals of sorcerous talent found within or in the area immediately surrounding a tavern or other establishment of gambling, and who have been witnessed performing arcane rituals of any type will be subject to imprisonment and investigation as per laws IX and XXV.

Code of Junil, article seven.
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_RUST

"I'd rather lead my men into a legion of orcs than face another mage with that blasted spell!"

Dalrin, commander of the 81st legion, after a skirmish with an Amurite company.
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_WALL_OF_STONE

"You won't believe this one. So, I send a runner to Golden Leane for a mage to help us defend this worthless little town. A couple of days later, an adept shows up - scrawny little bugger - and you know what he did? Made a pile of stones, right in front of the city. I hear about entire enemy companies wiped out by our fireballs, but I just get a pile of stones. I guess we'll just have to defend against all odds again. Get back to your post, the orcs will be coming soon."

Dalrin, commander of the 81st legion, three hours before repelling a barbarian attack on Timberling.
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TXT_KEY_SPELL_HASTE

"You can't be serious. It's just impossible. There's no way we can make it happen. We'd need more time. Do we look like warhorses to you?"

Dalrin, commander of the 81st legion, upon recieving orders to move from a border town to the front line within a week.
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Just a few ideas I've had for pedia entries. Feel free to use any that you think might fit, or edit those that you think might benefit from it.
 
TXT_KEY_SPELL_SPELLSTAFF or TXT_KEY_SPELL_ENCHANT_SPELLSTAFF

A wizard's staff has a knob on the end, knob on the end...
- Folk song, usually attributed to the bard Pratchett, allegedly written while watching an Amurite archmage prepare for battle. The mage claimed he could fight for twice as long once he had completed the correct rituals, but Pratchett didn't stay to observe for himself - such battles are notoriously messy...
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could use some work, but i figured this mod needs more discworld
 
I like your ideas chandracekhar. They've a SMAC feel to them. And i absolutely LOVED SMAC quotes.
-Qes
 
QES said:
TXT_KEY_SPELL_RING_OF_FLAMES

Much poetry is song - JRRT would prolly agree. I'd use some or any of it.

"Love is a burnin’ thing,
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire --
I fell into a ring of fire.

I fell into a burnin’ ring of fire --
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher,
And it burns, burn, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.

The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet.
I fell for you like a child --
Oh, but the fire ran wild.

I fell into a burnin’ ring of fire --
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher,
And it burns, burn, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.

I fell into a burnin’ ring of fire --
I went down, down, down,
And the flames went higher,
And it burns, burn, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
-Johnny Cash, Burnin' ring of fire."

-Qes
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Who would have guessed we could use a Johnny Cash song. Checking in just:

I fell into a burnin’ ring of fire --
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher,
And it burns, burn, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
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Nikis-Knight said:
TXT_KEY_SPELL_ENTANGLE
(Free cookie to anyone who recognizes that...)
TXT_KEY_SPELL_HOPE
TXT_KEY_SPELL_FLAMING_ARROWS

TXT_KEY_SPELL_TREETOP_DEFENCE

TXT_KEY_SPELL_RAGE

TXT_KEY_SPELL_TRAIN_WORG_RIDER
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All checked in, thanks Nikis-Knight (btw, check your PM's).
 
Chandrasekhar said:
TXT_KEY_SPELL_REVERSAL_OF_FORTUNE



TXT_KEY_SPELL_RUST



TXT_KEY_SPELL_WALL_OF_STONE



TXT_KEY_SPELL_HASTE



Just a few ideas I've had for pedia entries. Feel free to use any that you think might fit, or edit those that you think might benefit from it.
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Im checking in the Wall of Stone quote.

To everyone: the entries dont all have to be quotes by the way. They can be extremly short stories. Some instance where the spell is used.
 
Kael said:
Who would have guessed we could use a Johnny Cash song. Checking in just:
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Awesome....How about the Jabberwock for Nightmare? I'd like to see a little alegorical poetry (with a dark and brooding theme naturally) included in your Opus.
-Qes

EDIT: Maybe again just a cutting of the entire poem. I only offered the whole as to get a glimpse of what might be prefered.
 
TXT_KEY_SPELL_TRANSMUTATION

"And it turns one object into a completely other object"
"It says 'transmogrifier' on the side."
"Right it'll 'transmogrify' you into a dragon, then you can quit the mage's guild and go rampaging our enemies."
"It's written in ink..and...the ink's not even dry..."
"Just get under the box."
-Professor Jorsem Quafsdale's last known statement before he was eaten by a ravenous student.
 
More Ideas:

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TXT_KEY_SPELL_HIDEOUS_THOUGHTS
"The Joy comes in the silence. The Joy comes in the end of the struggle. When the last of the lifeblood has crept out of it's coporeal imprisonment, one captures the moment of satisfaction. Struggle and challange are ill-enjoyed. When the suffocation that life manifests ceases, that relenquishment to oblivion is Joy."
- Jack

TXT_KEY_SPELL_DEFILE
"They threw themselves upon the ground, rolling in their own filth. They spilt the blood of the enemies they had slain upon the ground, and deficated on it. They bathed in the stench of the dead and dying, and all the while they called out in hideous tounges to foreign gods, praying for blessings and endowment. If i had not gotten sick then, I beleive I would have lost my soul."
- Seargent at Arms Jondar Mosley, on watching a ritual of defilement as a prisoner of war.

TXT_KEY_SPELL_RECRUIT
"Whose life is inexpendable? Who's family is unimportant? Who amung us would allow our brethren to die if we would only save our own skins? We are the best! We are the chosen! It is for us to fight! Look at your families, do you think you could tell them you cared not enough for them not to fight? Victory does not come from the soldier who is eager to fight, it comes from he who fights only that his children may live."
- Captin Svorlen Majj, a recruitment speach on the eve of the 4th Lord's Crusade.

TXT_KEY_SPELL_BANISH
"I will feed on your flesh and dine on your souls! I will bathe in your comrades blood, and revel in the defilement of your flesh. You will watch as i feed on your brethren, and consume your souls and spirit. I am the doombringer."
-Doombringer Althos, introduction to new arrivals from a Banish spell.


I'll have more as i can think of em.
-Qes
 
Kael, did you not like my Unyielding Order flavor or did you just not see it?

(quoted so you don't have to search it down again)

Zurai said:
TXT_KEY_SPELL_UNYIELDING_ORDER

"Order - Perfect, pristine, untouched and unquestioned. Every individual a part of the whole, performing like gears in a Heavenly machine. What could be more beautiful?" - Archmagess Sivayn ar Falas-Fana
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