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Id you contribute PPE to an astral domain, do you gain immortality as long as you stay within the domain? Also who can contribute other than spell casters, and astral junkies? can psychics, supernatural or superhuman?
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Do contributors gain immortality like an astral lord, if they remain in the domain? can psychics contribute?
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Octus wrote:Id you contribute PPE to an astral domain, do you gain immortality as long as you stay within the domain? Also who can contribute other than spell casters, and astral junkies? can psychics, supernatural or superhuman?


If two questions are related, put them in the same thread.

Octus wrote:Do contributors gain immortality like an astral lord, if they remain in the domain? can psychics contribute?


and the answer is, any mage or psychic with astral powers can contribute, and gain the benifits. IIRC, one of the nightlord avatars favored tactics is to make friends with some astral lord or mage, get them to let them contribute a little PPE to the domain while they do the bulk work, then, kill the mage so they inherit the domain, because even the little donation they fed into it counts.
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One thing I never particularly understood about that: why would the Avatars choose Astral Lords/Mages in particular, if ANY mage or psychic (or supernatural being) could contribute PPE to a domain. It's not as if they require their actual domain-shaping skills since the Astral Avatars can themselves form a domain.

Also, considering there's no functional limit actually placed on how many Avatars a Nightlord can make (just higher risk to the Lord upon their simultaneous destructions) I'm sincerely disturbed about what actual limits exist on how many Astral Avatars could be made and how many realms they could make.
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Your forgetting that avatars they create are not innately loyal to the nightlord that created them and can conspire aginst them. This alone is reason to not make too many lest you loose track of what they're schemeing.
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True, especially with the Astral ones who apparently are more independent and scheming since they can't be as easily monitored.

This makes me wonder, if the creator is harmed by the death of the Avatar, if Avatars are hurt by the death of the creator. Presumably Avatars aren't harmed by the deaths of other Avatars.
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Perhaps if one avatar kills another it gets more powerful.
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I like the idea of this being possible but killing alone shouldn't be enough. Perhaps if the avatar knows magic there could be a spell invented for constructs where they can ritually sacrifice another construct and gain the creation points used to make them to boost their own stats?
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