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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8618022" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Ooh, that's a bit complicated, isn't it? The wish was used to help someone else--admittedly, in a way that will also help the caster, but still!--so I think there's some wiggle room because of that.My recommendation is not to make it strictly punitive, but instead to push things into new directions. What consequences are there for a person very suddenly going from partial spells to max? Seems to me that this would make the EK friend EXTREMELY interesting to a lot of dangerous people! EK-friend is now a natural font of magic. Will their children be sorcerers? Does their blood have magical properties? Are there dangerous or annoying side-effects?What about the person who cast the spell--in a certain sense, they are now the EK's "patron," are there responsibilities that come with that? Has this spell essentially turned them into something like a demon, genie, or archfey? They're almost certainly going to attract interest from someone with powers of that kind, possibly multiple someones. Suddenly, this character who just wanted to grant power to a friend will be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and plots and pressure to conform or get squashed.Finally, were there any costs to the caster, other than this being the only wish spell they get to cast? Perhaps the reason you can't cast it more than once is that you lose a part of your soul. Does that make a special bond between the EK and the person who cast this spell? Or maybe it IS possible to cast another wish, but the caster has to track down exactly how that can be done....and there are others who would do anything to stop them (perhaps with good reason!)Another option: Perhaps a good deity will be upset by this short-circuiting of this character's personal development, or intrigued at the possibility that magic can "unlock" such powers within a person. This could put the character in a position where they have to choose between cooperating with a good-aligned force (even if they don't strictly like that force, or perhaps outright oppose that force!) or taking the huge risk of pissing off the armies of good and having to go into hiding or the like.IOW, you can do all sorts of things that don't cause direct, immediate problems for the person who cast wish, but which still heavily impact the character AND the player.</blockquote>

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