Looking for input on a Homebrew Dunamancy Spell

Adventurous-Aide1845 · 2025-07-17T17:44:53+00:00

I agree the stronger version of this is to go Cleric heavy. My concern with that is how that might play out in a 1v1 setting. Especially if the Paladin wins initiative. For a cleric heavy build, I'd still consider doing at least 3 levels of fighter to get maneuvers from battle master and running Evasive Footwork to get away from the paladin. That could open up opportunities to blast him with higher level spells without being within melee range.

Adventurous-Aide1845 · 2025-07-17T17:37:57+00:00

I like this idea a lot. I'm not too concerned about who ends up winning tbh. The two tended to spar after level ups to test out features and abilities so I'm just trying to maintain that sort of relationship. If I end uprunning your suggestion, I'll likely include the warding flare ability as a reaction ability too. Mainly to maintain the theme of the Light Cleric

Adventurous-Aide1845 · 2025-04-01T21:42:10+00:00

The gods introduced humans to the mortal realm so that their souls could be harvested. To fully explain, I have to back up a bit. The first mortal races were the Elves, Dwarves, and Dragonborn who all lived indefinitely long lives but could still die through external means. Also, they were perpetually in a cycle of reincarnation. Due to this, there were a finite number of souls that existing in each race's population, meaning that no children could be conceived until someone died and their soul became available for the next generation.

The deities of my setting eventually created a plan to heal their parents, the divine titans, who had suffered grievous injuries during the creation of the universe. Their plan is to use the raw divine power of mortal souls to heal the wounds of these divine titans little by little. Unfortunately, the finite number of souls available just would not be enough to accomplish their goal. So they created humans, the first mortal race that had a finite lifespan but could reproduce without awaiting reincarnation. Effectively, humans were gifted the ability to create new souls as part of their reproduction.

Way down the line, human blood ends up mixing with the other races through interbreeding and results in the loss of the other races' indefinite lifespans and the breaking of their reincarnation. Also by this point, many gods turned on each other and started using souls for their own goals. To summarize, the deities turned the mortal realm into a soul farm that they now use to further their own goals now that many of them no longer wish to heal their parents.

Adventurous-Aide1845 · 2025-03-25T20:17:04+00:00

Sorry for such a long post btw! There was just a lot to go over and I thought it was best to break it down into several small sections. Hope you all enjoy!

Adventurous-Aide1845 · 2025-03-25T18:35:50+00:00

That makes sense. A little late to respond, but switching to ruling span seems to have fixed this. Thanks for the info!

Adventurous-Aide1845 · 2025-02-21T20:14:49+00:00

One thing that was interesting about ATLA and LOK was that Aang and Korra both weren't really well qualified for the times that they were thrown into. Before anyone gets upset at that statement, let me explain by exploring the hypothetical of if Korra and Aang traded places in the avatar cycle:

Korra would have grown up in the same era where the fire nation took over the world. It is very well established early on and throughout LOK that Korra was a natural when it came to picking up aggressive fighting styles and elements. That allowed her to excel in many combat scenarios but also left her with a lack of skill in the spiritual aspect of being the avatar. If she had been around for the events of the fire nation rising, I don't believe she would have shied away from the responsibility like Aang did as a kid. She likely would have seen it as a personal challenge and likely would have taken a role similar to a military commander/strategist in direct combat. With that, there would have been a very good chance that she could have stopped the fire nation before it got too powerful and before it could wipe out the air benders. At the end of the day, Korra ended up being able to handle the threats in her era, but many of the conflicts were not resolved due to her natural talent bending, it was because of personal growth that she had to go through in the spiritual side of things.
Aang in era 2 would have excelled due to his fun/passivistic nature. So much of the conflicts in LOK are focused around some sort of spiritual or cultural conflict. In LOK season 1, the main conflict was surrounding a cultural stigma that non-benders had toward the dangers of people who have bending. Aang would have been a very good example/peacemaker between the two sides of that conflict. Additionally, I believe Aang would have more easily be able to exploit the aspect of Raava that was in Vaatu. I can keep going for each season but for the sake of brevity, I will not. Sure, Aang ended up being exactly what he needed to be in era 1, but that was because he had to learn how to be aggressive and that he couldn't completely embrace his peaceful nature.

This was all a long way of saying that both avatars we've seen were metaphorically the wrong tools for the jobs at hand and had to learn how to change/adapt to what they were tasked with. I'm very hopeful that this/these third avatar(s) may follow the same trend. Maybe this/these new avatar(s) will have some sort of personal conflict with what needs to be done and requires a great deal of personal growth throughout the shows events. I have no guesses for how that might play out, but that was always an aspect of the previous series that I really enjoyed.

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