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As I recall, specifically some of the healing spells also give a chance of regeneration at level 3 (meaning they continue to heal you in subsequent rounds without casting again).

I like to think that the mages planned for there to be such a ritual, recorded the king, and then never quite got around to making the ritual.

Easier to buy a boat in Cotra (you'll have to eventually anyway) and sail around to Fort Dranlon. Several to be found there without having to steal as I recall.

Not the case. There are lots of both around the world, but not all in Silvar itself.

Then you need to

You should get a message on the screen then about finding it. You're sure you've checked your Special Items inventory to be certain you haven't picked it up already, right? (I know, silly question, but I only ask because I've done it myself so many times.)

Before you went down looking, did you learn the prayer for the Answering Stone?

Do you just want to start with new characters or are you trying to reset achievements or something? You can always make a new party just by selecting Start a New Game on the Main Menu screen. The other requires deleting preferences, I believe.

The password is in four parts, given to you by 4 different NPCs. One being Erika, and one being Patrick, and Erika points you toward the other two as well. You can check your special items inventory to see which part(s) you're actually missing.

Summons can also be helpful in situations where you know you're going to get caught between two groups of enemies. I'll summon some creatures to slow down groups that come up behind me. Did that once in the Kill the Emperor quest and made the mistake of sending a character into a room. The summon stepped into the doorway and just stood there. Would not move until it finally faded away.

Okay. I was just about to post a description of it to be sure you'd found the right place. Glad you've found it now.

You may well have picked it up at the earlier time. You can get the brooches all before Erika sends you on the quest, I believe. Check your Special Items Inventory.

To expand on Lilith's point. I like my car, but I'd like it more if it got 4 times the gas mileage. Telling me there are cars that get 1/4 the gas mileage is completely irrelevant to the equation.

 

To say to a woman that she should be happy being 70% equal because there are cultures still on Earth like the Taliban where women have about 5% equality (a step up from dogs, because if I recall correctly Muslim religion preaches against allowing dogs in the home) is both not useful and actually insulting.

 

I'm glad that you and your wife are happy in your current relationship and I hope that it remains so for whatever the length of both of your lives is. That doesn't mean it should be the goal relationship for all people any more than my liking steak extremely rare means that all people should be told to eat their steaks extremely rare.

 

Freedom and equality means that each individual can choose how they wish to be treated and the types of relationships they want and everyone else does their best to mutually respect the other's choices so long as they're not directly harmful (clearly we're not going to respect a homicidal maniac's wish to end every "relationship" with the death of the other person). It can be messy and complicated and we'll never be perfect at it, but I think that's the goal.

Actually, looking back to find links it appears my brain, many years ago, conflated a number of things together. I thought 1898 was the year that the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments to show the effects of the Ether on the speed of light were published--experiments which actually showed there was no such effect thus disproving the theory of ether dynamics. It was actually some years before that, but as nothing had yet replaced it, that's what was still being taught.

One of my favorite old book discoveries was an 1898 college physics text, the last third of which was on "ether dynamics". Physicist and historians of science will clearly know the irony of the date of publication.

If you go to change zones in Khemeria, you should see a new one (you may have to cross the next zone over first to get there, but I think it's available anytime after you've talked to Faiga and gotten what Jennell left in the trunk (directions, I believe)).

Say that to me when I'm wearing my kilt. ;-)

If you're being intentionally dense, it's really not a good look on you. Appropriate work attire is one thing, having to be concerned that your attire might attract unwanted advances and even potential sexual assault is something entirely different.

Different groups use the terms differently, largely dependent on an unspoken background agenda. Some speakers treat "racism" and "sexism" as only referring to an institutional and historical imbalance and its expression in active and passive repression. Others use it as you have defined it. It's a prime source of an inability to communicate between the two groups.

That said, while you may not feel that you are an active participant in the privilege of being a caucasian male in modern Western culture, you do in fact benefit from it in ways that you probably don't think about. Germany is better about forcing compliance with nondiscrimination, but there are many things that you don't have to think about on a daily basis. You don't have to think about how many buttons on your shirt to button, or how long or short your dress should be in order to get sufficient attention without getting excess negative attention.

Equally when discussing racial questions, I have lived in places (the Caribbean) where people's first reactions to me, as a white male, were negative. In those cases I understand fully that it's a rational reaction to past ill treatment at the hands of people who looked like me. And it is MY responsibility to prove through careful action that I deserve better treatment. That's a case of bias based on having been oppressed in the past. Invert that and it is not the responsibility of a black man in the modern United States to prove that he is not a danger, but authorities and individuals often treat them as if it is. This is a case of continuing oppression. The assumption of black men as being dangerous, lazy, and untrustworthy was placed upon them without reference to past action. It is a part of the oppression and the responsibility of the oppressor to correct his actions.

In general, decisions based solely on race or sex are wrong (I say in general because careful consideration can name situations where it is correct and we don't need to toss the baby out with the bathwater here), but for different reasons in different circumstances, and the ways to deal with the problem vary based on cultural, historical, and institutional norms.

To get back to Lilith's comment, forget divorce for a minute. In the case of one spouse working and the other taking care of the home, the balance of power is unequal because, if the homemaker spouse disappears (dies, walks off, whatever), the working spouse has to work out how to care for the children/home, which generally involves either assistance from the family or hiring someone. If the working spouse goes away, the homemaker spouse now not only has to work out how to continue to take care of the home, but has to find a way to financially support that home so that everything is not lost. It is fundamentally not an equal situation.

You can't join Miranda. The portal won't let you jump through. She tells you to go kill Redbeard, and you have the choice of doing that and taking over Avadon yourself as Keeper, or siding with Redbeard as Keeper.

No, they keep respawning there in the gremlin fort.

A WHOOOOOOLE lotta lumps. Oh, wait, that'd be a puma.

Are you thinking of the bunch of them on the west shore of the first river near a bunch of dead bodies? That's near the second Aranae lair.

It shouldn't come up in dialogue. When you have the quest in your quest log and the map in your special items inventory, clicking on Captain Scarlet should give you a notice that you've completed the quest and you'll get XP and a reward (don't recall the specific reward right now).

The captain in Fort Emerald.

The one thing I'd have liked to be able to do is help that woman in Fort Avernum to get to her sister.