Gotta get that magic sugar daddy.
Gotta get that magic sugar daddy.
The basic options for magic are:
Pretty much every fantasy has the magical aristocracy but the latter two are available to regular people in a lot of fantasies too, though wizardry is often gatekept and magical pacts tend to be for villains only.
I swear DPS players are just jerks:
Me: Applies continuous healing and damage resistance to DPS
DPS: Walks right through multiple DoT inflicting AOEs and into the middle of a huge group of enemies immediately dying.
DPS: How dare you not keep me alive!
This plastic surgery has two parts. First we we hit you with this sledgehammer…
I dunno underworld gods can be kinda chill sometimes, or maybe he’s just tryna avoid paperwork later.
Good dream pillow, basically doubling my percieved livespan, potentially more depending on how dream time relates to real life time.
To be fair most people who live to the average life expectancy do live past it, the average gets skewed down by people dying in car accidents in their 20s and such like.
But that IS still better than voting for the greater evil.
I believe at least one attempt to put a serious definition to sapience defined it as a process in which a creature reacts not only to external input but also to internally generated input. Granted you can meet that definition by tacking a random number generator to the inner workings of any LLM.
Alternatively it can just be any 3D shape depending on how thick the ‘slice’ of 4D space intersected by our 3D world is and wether the 4D thing is undergoing translation or rotation.