11 réponses à ce sujet

[Lotion Soronarr]

Now I presonally love that part of hte game and the 3 choices offered...BUT, one of the choice did strike me as strange. Namely to sacrifice Isolde (or whatewher her name was) to power the ritual.

I get it that the ritual needs a lot of power - so either lyrium or lots of blood. But the question is - why one person? Blood magic is capable of "leeching" from multiple targets. You even have talents/skills that work on that principle.

So why sacrifice her when you can take a bit from several people?

[Zweijsters]

So we can all laugh at Eamon when he comes to. Priceless.

[Madlax27]

I imagine it takes more than just blood, in this case it takes the death of someone.



Kinda like when the Imperium entered the Golden City, they sacrificed hundreds of people instead of just cutting themselves all day.

[Lotion Soronarr]

Can't immagine why. It is said it needs power, and a lot of it, but there are many ways to gain power.

Why would in need death specificly? It can't be the ritual itself, because you can do the ritual with lyrium and no death.



Oh, if you cut yourself the whole day, you would die.

[Varenus Luckmann]

Blood isn't really about blood, as far as I understand it. It's lifeforce. One man sacrificing his life is likely more powerful than a thousand men cutting their thumbs.

[Lotion Soronarr]

How about coming near death? If life force has a quantity that you can take 50% of it form 2 individuals insted of 100% form one.

[morti84]

This wasn't some sort of combat spell that does moderate spirit damage or whatever, this spell involved a demon and a powerful one at that.

[Kyrellic]

Theory: Death creates more energy than simply "100% of someone's life".
Blood Magic math: 50% of someone's life + 50% of someone's live < 10% of someone's death?

Edit: Thinking flawed. Should be less than. Corrected.

Modifié par Kyrellic, 19 novembre 2009 - 02:40 .

[dannythefool]

Come on this is a CRPG. If 50% of one's health was really half of the job being done you wouldn't kill all the mobs as dead as you probably do, right? I mean an archdemon with 1% of its health should make a nice pet, right? Why kill it then? There must be something in death that lets you free up the entire life essence of the being you killed, going beyond mere hit points.

[Giygas Starman]

Meh, as I always love to think about the children. I say, KILL THE KID! And Dance. Itäs always good to dance after destroying a caring mother's life.

Modifié par Giygas Starman, 19 novembre 2009 - 04:36 .

[Lotion Soronarr]

Then just increase the number of people.



If 2 is not enough, then 3...or 5..or 10.. or 20...or 100.

[metatrans]

the blood substance is besides the point. its the sacrifice that matters. minor sacrifices (cutting yourself) only power minor spells (some silly AoE thing) whereas major sacrifices (giving up your life) power major spells (sending a mage into the fade).



its an order of magnitude thing. the major sacrifice is so many orders of magnitude above the minor sacrifices that you can't measure them on the same scale. you would need thousands or millions of minor sacrifices to make up for just a few major sacrifices.