If tantric magic-users can kill people with their magic like in the attached pic, does that make tantric magic a better or worse element to include in a high-magic setting?
If tantric magic-users can kill people with their magic like in the attached pic...
Daniel Torres
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Luke Cruz
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Joseph Ortiz
Oh my sweet jesus, source?
Adam Kelly
I like the idea of having different magic systems in the same setting. Like different cultures figuring their own ways to use magic, leading to different results. So can have traditional robe and wizard hat magic, kung fu fighting magics, tantric magic, etc.
Liam Campbell
>Oh my sweet jesus, source?
If I had to guess (and this is a totally off-the-wall guess based ONLY on the filename) I would say OP's image is from issue #36 of Mystic.
Logan Sullivan
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Justin Turner
And you'd be right.
Juan Wilson
Save me a trip to /co/ and tell me, what's this comic about? Is it any good?
Isaac Moore
Okay, that gets a little complicated...
Crossgen was an ambitious new comics company that came out and subsequently died in the early 2000s. Their base-foundation was the Sigilverse, a multiverse (later retconned as different planets in a far-flung science-fantasy future) where a mysterious cosmic being begins granting different individuals on different worlds magical brands, or "Sigils", that grant them various magical powers.
Mystic was their first comic series. It's set on the world of Ciress, a planet that has mastered the use of magic above all else and where everything runs on magic. It's ruled by seven guilds that practice six distinctive types of magic; Dark Magic, Shamanism, Astral Magic, Enchantment, Tantric Magic, Djinn Magic, and Noveau Magic. These Guilds are granted authority because the spirit of the Guild's founding master is passed on as a living reservoir of wisdom and magical power to each successive guild master.
The heroine of the story is Giselle, the magically inept party-girl sister of Genevieve, the incumbent heir to the Noveau Guild. When Giselle is granted her Sigil at her sister's initiation ceremony, its power causes her to unwittingly rip the Guild Spirits away from the guild masters and bind them to herself. This grants her the ability to use all seven kinds of magic, and makes her the mightiest mage to have ever walked Ciress' surface.
Now the spoiled socialite has to do some hard growing up as she becomes caught up in an expanding web of conspiracy and treachery.
That explain it? I personally found it pretty good, and it definitely builds a very distinctive high fantasy world, with all kinds of unique quirks.
Blake Campbell
That actually sounds like a cool setup. Guess I've got a new series to read.
Julian Hughes
There's a bunch of related series as well.
I found Meridian, which is about a teenage girl whose Sigil grants her flight and healing abilities on a world where people live on floating islands, to be kind of dull.
Scion is a lot better, as it's a world with advanced technology that has deliberately downgraded itself to a neo-Medieval system, dependent on genetically engineered humanoids as a serf caste.
Then there's the actual Sigil series, which is epic space opera with a dash of space fantasy. Lots of mindless fun there.
Hunter Bell
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Alexander Cook
That's hot
Owen Nguyen
Fun fact; another spell in the Tantric Mage's arsenal is a perspective flip, which our protagonist actually uses to successfully mind-rape a succubus in one issue.
Tyler Peterson
Did she just eat him?
Hudson Williams
Yep.
Problem with this in the context of a game is it'd be the most ridiculous save-or-die spell.
Jason Perez
Basially. Preceding page is attached, link to the issue as a whole is below.
John Richardson
Unless the victim's soul is actually preserved inside the killer's body and they can be reconstituted if the killer wishes, because Tantric Magic in this setting is big on spiritual communion and merging. This is just a more lethal application of that philosophy.
Hunter Butler
Well there are other save or die spells, just have it be something like a refluffed disintegrate
>Unless the victim's soul is actually preserved inside the killer's body and they can be reconstituted if the killer wishes
And hello fetish
But yeah, that may make it a bit more than a disintegrate if it acts like trap the soul or something
Actually come to think of it would it be like the psionc power assimilate or so?
Lucas Diaz
What did we ever do to you to deserve this?
This a blatantly obvious fetish thread and should be no part of Veeky Forums. I'm not against sexual content. I just think this should be on /d/ or something similar instead of a blue board.
Just why?
Andrew Harris
try reading the thread. it's not as bad as you think.
Leo Wright
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Aiden Hill
But it's asking about whether or not tantric magic can be including in Veeky Forums settings. That makes it a Veeky Forums thread.
Nicholas Rivera
Fucking everything is Veeky Forums related though under this dumbass rule.
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Dylan Wright
What exactly is Tantrism? (Not sure if that's the correct term)
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Joshua Evans
Basically? Magic powered by or stemming from intimacy and sex.
Noah Allen
Sorta figured that from the context it tends to be used in, was just wondering if there was more to it than that
Thanks for the link though
Nathan Rivera
Ok but like, how is there no change in her figure after eating a man whole?
Luis Ross
Magic
Wyatt Cook
Maybe it's not a save or die but a swallow whole type effect?
He's not dead yet?
Brayden Baker
Never shows up in any other issue, so whilst he might be alive, his consciousness is presumably locked away inside of Vashua's body. After all, its shown in a later issue that tantric magic also includes body-swapping.
Michael Lewis
So, random question; do anons want me to post some of the more impressive magical feats from this comic series, or should I just let this thread die?
Noah Diaz
I'd be up for it if you want to
Liam Barnes
That'd be too hot