Magical Tattoos
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:56 pm
Playing on a Neverwinter Nights persistent world set in the setting of Thay gave me something that I considered a pretty neat idea. So, in Thay, the Red Wizards tend to tattoo themselves and place enchantments on said tattoos to allow them to cast a spell from them every day or so in addition to their prepared spells.
Now, the ability to evoke a spell onto a tattoo seems like it could lead to balancing issues, but I had another idea. I think it'd be pretty neat if we could create magical inks that could be used to create tattoos that could then be manaforged into talismans, sort of like characters from Fullmetal Alchemist having transmutation circles tattooed on their bodies (Think Kimblee's palms).
In essence, we could think of various symbols and materials to use - inked talismans of various moons would require different materials and each moon could have its own ink; it's likely that it could be an easily recognizable or universal symbol, or perhaps something less conspicuous - a silver or black crescent for Lunare, or a flame for Arien. On the other hand, maybe we want something more obvious - maybe requiring it to include a line of Eld text, for example; another one of my ideas was having the tattoo lose its powers over time as it is covered, only regaining them when in open view and exposed to the moons.
Now, the ability to evoke a spell onto a tattoo seems like it could lead to balancing issues, but I had another idea. I think it'd be pretty neat if we could create magical inks that could be used to create tattoos that could then be manaforged into talismans, sort of like characters from Fullmetal Alchemist having transmutation circles tattooed on their bodies (Think Kimblee's palms).
In essence, we could think of various symbols and materials to use - inked talismans of various moons would require different materials and each moon could have its own ink; it's likely that it could be an easily recognizable or universal symbol, or perhaps something less conspicuous - a silver or black crescent for Lunare, or a flame for Arien. On the other hand, maybe we want something more obvious - maybe requiring it to include a line of Eld text, for example; another one of my ideas was having the tattoo lose its powers over time as it is covered, only regaining them when in open view and exposed to the moons.