ShaperV
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Arkeus said:ShaperV, what do we know about various Goddesses? This might help us make a decision.
The ones you can think of off the top of your head?
Bast - Egyptian goddess of cats and sex, or something weird like that. No worshipers outside of Egypt that you know of, unless you believe those stories about sentient cats.
Inovia - A strange elven goddess from another world. Randomly endows teenage girls with great powers to fight evil, and has strange ideas about what qualifies. Has a few cults in Europe, but her worshipers tend to be nuts.
Ishtar - Egyptian goddess of magic and sex. Sometimes worshiped by female magic users even in Europe. Technically an ally of the Church of Khersis, but 'scandalous foreign temptresses' sums up the Borjerian view of her followers.
Graig said:Our flesh sorcery allows us to get a vague sense of a person's emotional state and physical condition by touching them. This might allow us to discover valuable information (though touching her might be dangerous if she is some kind of monster).
She looks exhausted, and not just from walking in through a blizzard. She's much thinner than the last time you saw her, and very pale.
All of which might be an act, but if she's a monster (or just a witch) she might very well notice you using magic to probe her real condition.
Graig said:What do we know about the monsters that look simmilar to humans? Are there any ways to reveal their true nature (no reflection in mirrors etc)?
Vampires exist, and can easily pass for human at night. But they don't have reflections, and holy symbols repel them.
There are stories about demons and faerie creatures cloaking themselves in illusion to look like just about anyone, but you don't know how reliable those are. Touching iron will break faerie magic, but revealing a demon would take a priest or paladin with real faith.
Disguises are a common use of witchcraft. Normally it's a witch looking like a younger, prettier version of herself, but stealing someone else's appearance is possible. You don't know a reliable way to detect that kind of magic.
You've heard that great wizards can make magical duplicates of people, but you have no idea if that's true or how to detect it.