H'okay, guys, we had quite a bizarre game over the holiday break, and there are a lot of fragments leftover that ought to be swept up. Most of these involve BITs!
Whoever's got something they'd like to throw onto the carving block, toss it on up; my cleaver is ready.
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I have half a Belief that needs doing, but I fear Dave is a more pressing concern as far as BITs go. I'm not sure he has any left!
Oh man! We also need to come up with a Latin incantation for Turn Aside the Blade!
Are we going to get and feedback from Dave about his BITs, or should we just get started? Honestly, I don't know where to go, myself, since my conception of the Marquis and the incarnation of the Marquis continue to drift away from one another.
And, oh snap, we totally do! Hit me with what you want the phrase to be, and I'll take over from there.
Turn Aside the Blade is an 11 action spell, so make it beefy.
I'll get the ball rolling! See how you feel about this:
O iniquitous iron, I rebuke you! this flesh is not for your fangs, this blood not for your throat. See my brilliant spirit! It is the bulwark away from which you shudder and shrink; the sky you will never touch.
O ferrum iniquum, te reprendo! haec caro tuo denti non est, hic sanguis tuo gutturi non. aspice meum animum praeclarum! Propugnaculum ab tremis et abhorres est; caelum attingebas non.
It's 11 actions, so it should be longer than the incantation for Cat's Eye ("Aurora, regina diliculi, gerulus primae lucis: te obtestor!/Contra dissensiones horarum tuarum, ad oculi mei diluculum tuum duce!").
Oh man, yours is awesome. I'm using that, for sure.
Are you sure? That's just what I skimmed off the top of my head; I want just as much Brent invested into it as Paul.
Well, at least the first bit. I like a repetitious incantation so this is my version:
"Iniquitous iron, I challenge thee!
You would rend my flesh asunder,and slake your terrible thirst upon my blood.
Metal of Mars, I rebuke thee!
This flesh is not for your fangs, this blood not for your throat.
Ore of Bellona, I bind thee!
Never will I feel your bite, nor will a hand raised in anger land upon me."
I am out of gods associated with the metal, but just naming it as iron seems out of place in the first line. What do you think?
Virtus or Honos maybe? Neither seems quite bloodthirsty enough.
Heh! I dunno, man. Let's let the third god simmer for a bit - I'm takin' off.
We're close to needing this incantation - are there any good gods of brass or bronze we could use? I wouldn't say that iron needs to be a focus.
Brass is associated with the Sun, so Apollo Helios, Sol Invictus or Janus, depending on the era the spell was written.
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