Thanks for the information. I am not sure I understand well enough what sorts of things are available from merchants in these lands but Scrolls, Potions, and Alchemy are often useful. I would also be interested in purchasing a full spell book or at the very least a full celestial spell book. Do items in this world exist that provide magical force fields, on Tyrra they were called Arcane Armor, I would be interested in finding something like that if they exist. What about items that enhance a persons abilities. Say for example I like to cast Flame bolt spells a lot, do items exist that would make my flame bolt burn hotter? What about if I want to focus on being a Fire mage, or a stone mage, instead of doing all 4 elements, is it possible to learn how to do that and morph spells of the other elements into a chosen one. So instead of stone bolt it would become a fire bolt or something like that?
What about Familiars. Do the mages of this land have familiars or homonculi? Perhaps I should elaborate. A familiar is a companion or a friend who is oftentimes a small animal, but in some cases could be a more magical/mystical creature. A homonculi is most often created or summoned by a crafter and the homonculi is a sort of research or crafting assistant who helps them in making scrolls, potions, alchemies, weapons, so I guess kinda like a lab assistant. OH, and speaking of labs...does the town have any that are available for crafters to use? I dont know how to craft yet, but I am considering learning eventually.
Do artificers exist in this world? Artificers from what I know are folks who specialize in crafting all sorts of things but through the mastery of all those different skills learn a whole new way to craft things that sort of combines them together. Like an Alchesmith might be able to forge a weapon that has veins in the blade and small compartments in the handle that hold weapon coatings and then with an activation the liquid from the compartment goes down the vein and coats the blade very quickly.
With regards to the Golem army, do you know any more about the Golems themselves or where they come from or who controls them. Can they be reasoned with? Could we try and negotiate to get the item from them, or perhaps trade them something for it? If that fails what about strengths & weaknesses? They are golems, so I would guess they are immune to toxins, death affects, charms, and things of that nature, but what about shatter spells? As another idea, what is the possibility of infiltrating them through the use of Golem bodies and trying to "acquire" the item that way?
In terms of magic/Libraries I was most interested in places where new or rare spells might be found or discovered? For example in my world the star mages have a spell that allows them to refit a suit of armor, it is of the third circle and can be very useful if you have lots of armored warriors that your trying to support. I was unable to produce that magical effect this last gather, so either its just not possible or I need to re-learn how to perform such a spell.
I could go on and on and on with questions I am sure, but I think that is a nice range of things to start with.
-Sticks
