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| ??Twiceborn?? is an Enchantment 4 {{path>D2}} [[rituals|ritual]] that allows the caster a second life as [[undead]] if they die. If the mage dies it will return in the province where the ritual was cast as a Wight Mage chassis though the specific chassis depends on what it was when it died. So long as the mage returns, any [[global enchantment]]s they are holding are preserved. This spell also has the effect of forcefully relocating the caster's home province (where they receive their +1 morale bonus) to where the spell was cast. | ??Twiceborn?? is an Enchantment 4 {{path>D2}} [[rituals|ritual]] that allows the caster a second life as [[undead]] if they die. If the mage dies it will return in the province where the ritual was cast as a Wight Mage chassis though the specific chassis depends on what it was when it died. So long as the mage returns, any [[global enchantment]]s they are holding are preserved. This spell also has the effect of forcefully relocating the caster's home province (where they receive their +1 morale bonus) to where the spell was cast. |
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| Twiceborn costs {{gems>5D}} per point of the caster's [[size]]. It would cost {{gems>5D}} for a size 1 ??Svartalf#1010?? to be Twiceborn, whereas a size 4 ??Angakok#1618?? would pay {{gems>20D}}. [[Undead]], [[demon | demons]] and [[inanimate | inanimates]] cannot cast or be affected the ??Twiceborn?? spell. It is possible to Twiceborn a small chassis for 5 or {{gems>10D}}, [[transformation | Transform]] it into a larger chassis, and kill it for a correspondingly larger Wight Mage form. In particular, late age [[vaettiheim-la | Vaettiheim's]] ??Vaetti Gygja??s can undergo this process for a potential supercombatant chassis at (with luck) minimal cost, although there are too many Transformation results for this to be reliable. Twiceborn can be copied for the unique cost-as-a-function-of-(res)size effect but it also resets the caster's home province and that effect can not be separated out. | Twiceborn costs {{gems>5D}} per point of the caster's [[size]]. It would cost {{gems>5D}} for a size-1 ??Svartalf#1010?? to be Twiceborn, whereas a size-4 ??Angakok#1618?? would pay {{gems>20D}}. [[Undead]], [[demon | demons]], [[inanimate | inanimates]], and plants cannot cast or be affected the ??Twiceborn?? spell. It is possible to Twiceborn a small chassis for 5 or {{gems>10D}}, [[transformation | Transform]] it into a larger chassis, and kill it for a correspondingly larger Wight Mage form. In particular, late-age [[vaettiheim-la | Vaettiheim's]] ??Vaetti Gygja??s can undergo this process for a potential supercombatant chassis at (with luck) minimal cost, although there are too many Transformation results for this to be reliable. Twiceborn can be copied for the unique cost-as-a-function-of-(res)size effect, but it also resets the caster's home province, and that effect cannot be separated out. |
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| Twiceborn looks at the resource size (ressize), not the actual listed size (size). In the vast majority of cases, ressize is equal to size. However, if a unit has large wings on a humanoid body or is [[mounted]] they will usually have a ressize lower than their size. This means that the Larger [[blesses| bless effect]] will not increase the Twiceborn cost, as that only increases size and not ressize. However, this mechanic also applies when checking for the new target chassis: for example, a ??High Seraph?? has a size of 3 but a ressize of 2, and since a ressize-2 unit with natural flying becomes a Caelian ??Wight Mage#3180??, the High Seraph transforms as intended; on the other hand, a ??Faery Queen?? has a size of 3 //and// a ressize of 3, so she transforms into a standard ??Wight Mage#299?? despite having the same size and the same natural flying ability (including wings) as the High Seraph. This can also lead to strangeness in other situations, such as Asphodel: for this nation, ressize-2 units Twiceborn into ??Carrion Lady#711??s (female satyrs) while ressize-3 units Twiceborn into ??Carrion Centaur#714??s; //but//, because all of Asphodel's ??Centaur??s are size 3/ressize 2, they Twiceborn into Carrion Ladies (satyrs), whereas the nation's //??Minotaur??// units are size 3/ressize 3 and thus Twiceborn into Carrion //Centaurs//. | Twiceborn looks at the resource size (ressize), not the actual listed size (size). In the vast majority of cases, ressize is equal to size. However, if a unit has large wings on a humanoid body or is [[mounted]] they will usually have a ressize lower than their size. This means that the Larger [[blesses| bless effect]] will not increase the Twiceborn cost, as that only increases size and not ressize. However, this mechanic also applies when checking for the new target chassis: for example, a ??High Seraph?? has a size of 3 but a ressize of 2, and since a ressize-2 unit with natural flying becomes a Caelian ??Wight Mage#3180??, the High Seraph transforms as intended; on the other hand, a ??Faery Queen?? has a size of 3 //and// a ressize of 3, so she transforms into a standard ??Wight Mage#299?? despite having the same size and the same natural flying ability (including wings) as the High Seraph. This can also lead to strangeness in other situations, such as Asphodel: for this nation, ressize-2 units Twiceborn into ??Carrion Lady#711??s (female satyrs) while ressize-3 units Twiceborn into ??Carrion Centaur#714??s; //but//, because all of Asphodel's ??Centaur??s are size 3/ressize 2, they Twiceborn into Carrion Ladies (satyrs), whereas the nation's //??Minotaur??// units are size 3/ressize 3 and thus Twiceborn into Carrion //Centaurs//. |
