Forget everything about enchanting

provide an in depth system for warrior mages that was promised years ago
provide a more guild-specific method for warrior mages to satisfy their lore reqiurements
to add more depth to DR through the intro of player-crafted magic weapons

• Not going to use a lot of alchemy
• alchemy version relies too heavily on skills that are tertiary to the WM G.
• current version is a lot better
• Barbarians and non-magic users will be able to use them, but only passive enchantments.
• Active enchantments will be restricted to magic using guilds.
• Will use new lores with the mech split
• Elemental arcana will be a new WM specific lore skill
• will require two new spells which will have uses outside enchanting
• Mend repairs physical damage
• siphon (to be renamed) siphons elemental essences from creatures, players or items

• will have uses outside of enchanting weapons
• will be required in order to enchant weapons

Theories and Premises

• Finally let's get on with how the new shit is going to work.
• What's it based on?
• Magic 2.1 theory and elemental theory foreshadows to in the ethereal fissure spell.
• consistency in theory is stressed on in the proposal
• all magic is based of patterns.

Para-elements

• mixing two or more base elements; some are more difficult than others to mix, with polar opposites being the hardest.
• mixing polar opposites require addition of aether

Difficulty stratification

• para are more difficult than base to work with
• multiple enchantments make it harder; each successful enchant makes it more difficult

sigil - gives the magical energy an identity
nexus runes - pattern in the sigil, describes behavior of enchantment

Process

sigils and runes are learned oin a temporary basis by meditating on a source of elemental power
given time the enchanter will learn a sigil varying complexity based on the power of the elemental base
to learn a nexus rune will use the pattern sight ability wich is one of the abilities in the elemental attunement list
the enchanter must study a spell pattern and given time the nexus rune will manifest itself

supplies and ingredients
forged or store-bought, it makes no difference.
etching supplies. sigils and runes are etched onto the weapon during the process
proper elemental essences that have been gathered using siphon spell
extra ingredients that may be required by the specific enchantment

Etching

• Etching system
• some forms of etching are better than others. better to use - more difficult
• can use impromptu device or specific tool(s) or could use acid etching
• etching damages your weaponn and could have a bad effect on your weapon

Gathering elemental essences

• the power of that essence will determine the complexity of the sigiil you harvest. A complex sigil is better to use that a simple sigil.

It's important that the enchanter starts etching as soon as he or she has memorized all the sigils and runs needed.
Need a damage free weapon
once the enchanter is ready can pre-mark pattern on the weapon
after the patter in etched onto the weapon is cleaned, metal shavings can contaminate the end product.

Two ways to add various ingredients to the pattern
essences lose potency over time
miscellaneous

embedding or infusing the pattern into the weapon
the last step
Mend spell
the more complex the sigil and the manner in which the igil is etched into the weapon all determine how much the weapon is damaged.
the mend spell is better cast once to mend as much as possible rather than repeat.

Powering
permanent enchants will be rare
will have charges or require powering of some sort
option to to add ground up cambrinth or gaethzen to the pattern
siphon some of the enchanter's attunement
using enchanted weapons

the pattern will slowly fade and eventually disappear
this strips all enchantment info from it leaving you with a normal ordinary weapon that can be reenchanted

Miscellaneous other beans to spill
size does matter.
armor enchanting is not included
Cambrinth weapons are already functioning in DR2

elemental arcana will be learnable before final release.

first release will likely be two new spells. This will allow time to get the spell slots necessary.
Then follows elemental attunement stuff so you can learn EA

Runesmithing is a separate thing altogether.

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