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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9596750" data-attributes="member: 6790260">To twist things in the other direction: What if the semanticore is a nonsapient beast, but its innate magic enforces semantic-ness onto others? A living embodiment of &quot;you are technically correct, the best kind of correct.&quot; In their presence, technicalities become magically-binding truths, and semantic arguments hold magical weight.They could be sought-after pets by lawyers, devils, wizards who deal with devils, and various other people who care about this sort of thing. Perhaps they came about as the result of Modron experimentation on regular manticores, which failed to produce the intended result, but instead accidentally spawned a creature that makes the world around it just a little more like Mechanus. The Modrons saw it as a failure because its magic has no effect on Mechanus, so they dumped the experiments elsewhere in their ignorance.Statted up, this could have various effects depending on exactly HOW &quot;semantic&quot; you want to get with things, but you could almost certainly think up various ways to make them both desirable and profoundly annoying--much as how correctness IRL is quite desirable but demanding correctness of others can be so terribly tedious.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9596750, member: 6790260"] To twist things in the other direction: What if the semanticore is a nonsapient beast, but its innate magic [I]enforces[/I] semantic-ness onto others? A living embodiment of "you are technically correct, the [I]best[/I] kind of correct." In their presence, technicalities become magically-binding truths, and semantic arguments hold magical weight. They could be sought-after pets by lawyers, devils, wizards who deal with devils, and various other people who care about this sort of thing. Perhaps they came about as the result of Modron experimentation on regular manticores, which failed to produce the intended result, but instead accidentally spawned a creature that makes the world around it just a little more like Mechanus. The Modrons saw it as a failure because its magic has no effect on Mechanus, so they dumped the experiments elsewhere in their ignorance. Statted up, this could have various effects depending on exactly HOW "semantic" you want to get with things, but you could almost certainly think up various ways to make them both desirable and profoundly annoying--much as how correctness IRL is quite desirable but [I]demanding[/I] correctness of others can be so terribly tedious. [/QUOTE]

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