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<blockquote data-quote="DMaple" data-source="post: 72406" data-attributes="member: 947">If you build a fortress based on magic, then one successful &quot;dispel magic&quot; or &quot;antimagic shell&quot; and the whole thing could come down like a pack of cards.I think&nbsp; &quot;ùìéè äîáåê&quot; made a good point about the need to be mobile. Magic could be used to provide near instant physical defenses, so there is no need to sit in one place waiting for them to find a flaw in your static defenses.Sure magic can assist in building defenses and improve on a lot of them but you can't depend on magic to work. Even a low level wizard if he is luckly can defeat a high level spell that is in effect.[edit]For example.One of the younger childern of this Vallorian dynasty of half-elven wizards is jealous of the attention her elder siblings recieve. She recognises she will never come to sit on the throne, never have the real power that one of her intelligence and magical gifts deserves.She quietly recruits other people (among them several apprentices) who are unhappy with the current rulers and royal dynasty. With her knowledge of magic and the defenses of the castle, it becomes a simple matter for her loyal apprentices to bring the flying castle crashing to the ground killing most of her enemies in one fell swoop. This much shortens the inevitable civil war and leads to her being pronounced Queen.The populance curse the arrogance of former rulers that use to fly above them. Wouldn't it have been safer to have the castle on the ground? Then none of this would have happened.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DMaple, post: 72406, member: 947"] If you build a fortress based on magic, then one successful "dispel magic" or "antimagic shell" and the whole thing could come down like a pack of cards. I think "ùìéè äîáåê" made a good point about the need to be mobile. Magic could be used to provide near instant physical defenses, so there is no need to sit in one place waiting for them to find a flaw in your static defenses. Sure magic can assist in building defenses and improve on a lot of them but you can't depend on magic to work. Even a low level wizard if he is luckly can defeat a high level spell that is in effect. [edit] For example. One of the younger childern of this Vallorian dynasty of half-elven wizards is jealous of the attention her elder siblings recieve. She recognises she will never come to sit on the throne, never have the real power that one of her intelligence and magical gifts deserves. She quietly recruits other people (among them several apprentices) who are unhappy with the current rulers and royal dynasty. With her knowledge of magic and the defenses of the castle, it becomes a simple matter for her loyal apprentices to bring the flying castle crashing to the ground killing most of her enemies in one fell swoop. This much shortens the inevitable civil war and leads to her being pronounced Queen. The populance curse the arrogance of former rulers that use to fly above them. Wouldn't it have been safer to have the castle on the ground? Then none of this would have happened. [/QUOTE]

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