Livro (online?), Onde uma forma comum (e poderosa) de magia consiste em fazer votos

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eu estava lendo Costurar você quer ser um heróisegundo livro da Threadbare série, e há uma cena em que um personagem está comentando sobre como a classe Knight (é o LitRPG, onde as pessoas estão cientes de suas estatísticas do jogo) ganham poder fazendo uma promessa e mantendo-a, e isso me lembrou outra (não-LitRPG) obra de ficção em que havia várias formas de magia, mas a mais comum aceita envolve fazer votos abnegados de pobreza, castidade, etc., para obter proezas de combate (e não, não estou pensando em O Livro de Ações Exaltadas) com um guerreiro particularmente poderoso que deixou de comer e beber por algumas décadas (ele usava uma espécie de armadura que o impedia de desnutrir, mas não alivia a fome e a sede). Inicialmente, é descrito apenas como sendo guerreiros do sexo masculino, mas mais tarde acontece que um conjunto de irmãs religiosas tem um conjunto de poderes semelhante devido à privação. Um fator chave em ambas as formas é que você ganha mais poder quanto mais tempo mantém seu voto, mas no momento em que o quebra, volta à estaca zero.

Havia outras formas de mágica, sendo uma espécie de "mágica proibida" que ainda funciona no sacrifício, mas permite que você use o (possivelmente não desejável) sacrifício de outras pessoas, e uma arte perdida de objetos encantadores (que é onde os mencionados anteriormente armadura mágica vem).

Eu li isso na última década, mas não sei dizer onde.

por FuzzyBoots 07.08.2019 / 00:38

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Ah, eu encontrei. O Mago Negro de Donkerk por Alexander Wales (resumo de aqui, embora eu tenha escrito isso também)

The basic concept of the plot is that Omarr and Hirrush, two dark wizards in the medieval kingdom of Donkerk, have acquired an infant boy from a local orphanage and plan to sacrifice him for great power. And, well, neither one of them can go through with it. And so they christen the child Henry and begin raising him in their ways, with the help of a local witch, Adrianna. Complicating things, they decide on one last kidnapping (previously their way of raising money), this time of the royal princess (due to her sex and her older brother, they assume that she will be worth a large ransom, but not enough for a manhunt). The kidnapping is successful, but not only does Henry find himself infatuated with the unexpectedly human princess, but their crime also results in a massive manhunt for black magic (it was always illegal, but largely left alone as long as they restricted their harm to voluntary sacrifice). Further complicating things, it seems that there is a prophecy that the princess will fall prey to a dark wizard, and will be saved by an orphan, an orphan born in a destined place and at a destined time that match up with Henry...

A mágica em que eu estava pensando é a dos jurados (a capitalização é sempre minúscula para o nome):

“To raise him,” replied Omarr. “If he went back to the orphanage he would more likely than not spend ten years eating gruel and getting whatever feeble education the Sisters provide him with. When he’s ten years old, he’ll be taken to the monastery and told to swear some oaths. If he keeps them, he’ll be an oathkeeper, bound to a pitiable existence in return for awe inspiring powers. If he doesn’t keep the oaths, he’ll be sent out into the world on his own with nothing but the clothes on his back and whatever he can steal.” Omarr had run away the day before initiation, but he’d seen the path that was being laid out in front of him.

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One of the perks of being an oathkeeper was the fact that if anyone questioned whether you had broken your oath, you could simply make a twisting jump and land with perfect poise on the top of a two story building to answer them. The seven-pointed star on his chest signaled strongly to the people he met on the street, but not so strongly as the plainly visible power of his five oaths.

A armadura mágica é a armadura Strangheid.

Delland had kept drinking the wine, and even though it was likely watered, he’d become less coherent even since Ventor had entered the room. The Strangheid was one of a kind, a suit of full plate that kept the body strong without need for food or drink, but while it removed the need, it didn’t remove the desire. Though the wearer of the Strangheid would be as fit and healthy as if he were getting his daily meals, he always felt on the edge of starvation and dehydration. Delland had taken an Oath never to remove the armor, never to willingly imbibe even a drop of water, or snack on even a small morsel of food. He’d gone some sixty years without wine, and now he was trying to make up for the lost time all at once.

As Irmãs Predestinadas são a contrapartida da equipe de jurados.

“The Foresworn Sisters are one of the last lines of defense if the kingdom were ever truly in need,” said Sofia. “If there were ever a disaster, or an attack, the king would call in the sisters and they would finally make use of their gifts. In the old days they used to train more, but even now they know that’s part of their duty... ”

A magia proibida não é definida com precisão, mas os praticantes são chamados de "bruxos das trevas, ou bruxas negras" e é uma forma de magia do pacto, com a distinção basicamente se envolve sacrifício humano.

“Pacts are a fine line,” said Hirrush. “If I sold a passing merchant one of our chickens, the two of us haven’t made a pact, we’ve made a transaction. If I told you that I was going to give you a cookie, that wouldn’t be a pact either, only a promise that I’ve made to you that I can freely break. For a true pact, you need some trust, and either that trust comes from neither party being able to break the pact, or from the pact holding firm for a long time. A pact needs consequences, or retribution, or something solid to make it real.”

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“Not as such,” said Clarice. “Which is why I don’t credit it much. There are a handful of hedge witches within a day’s walk of here, but none that I know of that have done anything truly black. Animal sacrifice seems to be the worst of it. It’s not impossible that one of them has gone over the edge, I’ll grant that. And no dark wizards, to my knowledge.”

Outros ramos da magia incluem "os eloístas, os elementalistas, os negadores, os mentalistas, os chamadores de espíritos", sendo os chamadores de espíritos a forma perdida de magia em que eu estava pensando.

“They were supposed to be like dark wizards that didn’t need to sacrifice anything, or oathkeepers that didn’t need to keep any oaths. The spirit callers could just tap the power of the spiritual realm directly. If an oathkeeper is worth twenty men in battle, a spirit caller was worth a whole army, because they could just call up the spirit of the battlefield for them, and it would lay waste to all their enemies.”

08.08.2019 / 16:42