@Bishop
@Ellion
As I said, don't worry. I wont be creating black holes around or using time shift to stop time or things like that.
Think of the time magic as "fast forward" or "slow motion". The worse thing that Time magic can do to someone (Shai's Time shift can only affect living beings to a certain degree due to the fact that a living being is "anchored" on the current time line. If somehow this anchor is removed, time shit would create paradoxes, and in response, the reality itself would fight to correct these paradoxes, leading to some... pretty ridiculous scenery happening...) is severely slowing their perception of time and their "personal time" (if that makes any sense...) or she can make the exact opposite, making them faster. (think of it as a buff/debuff)
The biggest thing that the gravity magic can do is pin someone on the ground with their own weight. Powerful enough to inflict pain and pressure at their bodies, but not as powerful to break bones or severely hurt anyone.
(very demanding magic, creating a gravity field with this effect would certainly count to Shai's daily limit of magics.)
Creating a gravity field is an action that takes some preparation time. Although is difficult (because you can only "feel" the air getting heavier once the enchantation is almost complete), it can be avoided if someone is fast enough or if something interrupts Shai's casting.
Again, my plan to shai is to be an important support to one of the groups. Her skills can be highly beneficial to both hunters and witches. She currently doesnt trust any of them. Its a race to see who can get them to their side (once they discover her powers). And that can be done by good means or bad means.
Basically every spell she uses is a high tier spell.
The only things she can use that aren't that demanding to her body and mind is mild time / gravity magic. Gravity / time shifts with a moderate intensity (nothing that completely stops someone or makes them unable to move), using her Tarot deck to both gather information / make a protective barrier and using the dices as projectiles / active barrier. EVERY other spell she has is highly demanding to her body, making her tired and if she uses more than 4-5 of these high-magnitude spells in a short period of time, she will suffer an Arcane Outburn, being potentially dangerous to her life if someone (hunter OR witch) doesnt help her in time.
@Ellion
Actually... I planned for magic overloads / outburns to happen some times to her. You can say that her body IS resistant to magic, but the magnitude of the magic she uses is also higher than usual, so she is prone to magic outburns if she doesnt mind her own magic usage.
As for the mana thing, she doesnt have any control about it. She doesnt "control" an arcane node, she simply IS a node. Limiting the magic is a conscious action, of course. As for her, limiting other witches' magic is indeed very tiring for her. Shai is currently breathing heavily, knelt down on the forest floor. For the time being, she is too tired to get up (Running, casting a powerful time shift and a ward to limit its effective range, placing a limiter on the magic flow around the area... Although it would still take, at least 2 big scale magics to an Arcane Outburn to happen, her body IS physically tired due to everything that happened.)
@13org
I would say...that for the tarot cards, if the information is semi-instant, the information needs to be very vague and simple. Such as "Danger" or "Run" and it doesn't alway come in time to be useful. AKA, I assume that if she did get the word 'poison' it would be only be a minute or so before someone without the power could have worked it out on their own. AKA "So thats why I can't feel my legs". I would also see the tarot cards not being able to say "Hey that snake lady is the cause of the poison" So unless Hissy gave another sign about who was causing it, Shai would just know that somehow someone was using poison.
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@Ellion
That works well for me.
Especially the seer thing. About Shai's divination though, quietness and time would be necessary to more detailed and long term divinations, but for the tarot one (basically functioning as a "sixth sense") would it be ok? Its not terribly overpowered... it can reveal only small parcels of information (contained on someone's post).
About Shai, she is a rather... unique witch. Due to her affinity with the arcane, the reactions she has to lavender, silver & etc would be far worse than normal witches (I'm assuming that these substances interfere with the flow of magic around them.).
Due to the fact that she is basically an unending fountain of mana, she wont get tired by casting multiple magics (bigger magics will still take time to be performed. That is a no brainer. At least one post "preparing" to cast a bigger magic.). Her body is highly resistant to "magic overloads / outburns" (due to not being human at all) but it can still happen, and in her case, when it happens its more severe than normal, often leading to her hands / body being burned by raw mana, forming big, purplish blue wounds and very often rendering her unconscious. She has access to healing magic, but in order to the flow of mana passing through her body be normalized again, it would take some time (while she is still unconscious) and healing these magical wounds can only be done with magical power. If she doesn't receive "first aid" and basic medical care while unconscious after an Arcane Outburn, she will probably die. A normal witch can use magic to heal her, but it would be very consuming to the witch.
Oh, and about her being an Arcane Node, I think that it would be very interesting, making Shai a strategic "possession" to each one of the parties.
Witches would have an unlimited access to Arcane Energy, drawing directly from a Node. That would allow them to cast bigger magics without exhausting themselves.
Hunters would greatly benefit from Shai's ability to make the witches less powerfull.
Well, I'm not saying anything, but if someone captures Shai, using her as an "amulet" to boost nearby witches powers....
Or maybe a hunter who earns her trust and admiration (or perhaps the good and old torture) to make her use her ability...
Well.. Those are only thoughts too :-D
I don't play to Shai to be a "predator" by any means. All of her abilities will be used mostly defensively. The dices and the star fall are the only exclusively offensive abilities she has.
My idea was to her fulfill a strategic role on the rp.
Both witches and hunters want her for her powers. How they will get her is up to them.
