I... guess you would have no reason to know what a geas is.
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I don't know if there's anything similar in Lagre magick.
Dia
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Not that I know of, at least.
K'Sarian
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In common use, it's a low-level spell that's meant to seal a contract, or a deal.
K'Sarian
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It's something you use to show you're serious about agreeing to something, because it helps see it through to the end.
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What?
Arntta
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Let's say you and I agreed to trade. If we both agreed to it, a geas could be put on the deal, and that would make us both want to see it through to completion.
Dia
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So, what, some kind of mind control thing?
Arntta
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Not really, at least not in its common form. It's more like taking a vow. You'll want to make sure it's completed.
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And it's something you have to agree to! It's used to show you're serious, because violating it can bring misfortune.
Dia
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Misfortune?
Arntta
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It's like saying "if I'm wrong, I'll eat my hat", and you have to eat your hat if you're wrong.
K'Sarian
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Whatever the penalty would be for violating the contract is... magically enforced to happen, I guess.
K'Sarian
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You can't really bend the rules of physics or chemistry with it. But you could enforce that someone who violates the agreement has to say, pay you in livestock, or something like that.
Dia
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So it's using magick to seal an agreement. Okay.
Arntta
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What's that have to do with what the Iahn told the paladin to do?
Arntta
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That's a little different. Once you get into anything more advanced than the most basic geas, you get into magick that's highly regulated.
K'Sarian
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High level Geas magick like what The Iahn talked about are magical compulsions.
Dia
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In their case, the enforcing thing was "del couldn't talk about what happened". The timestop, I'd guess.
Dia
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Or what, you have to pay livestock?
Arntta
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No, Geases of Beta and stronger actually force you to take actions.
K'Sarian
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An Omega-Level Geas, like the one The Iahn said to use, you can't not do them.
K'Sarian
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It's usually only reserved for enforcing the telling of truth in high level court cases. To ensure that someone is telling the truth.
K'Sarian
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So... mind control.
Arntta
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It can't force you to do something that would go against your very nature. It would break the Geas.
Dia
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But outside of its use in enforcing law, it could be considered mind control, yes. That's why it's so tightly regulated on its use.
Dia
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You heard Firefang, there's only a handful of del who can cast it. And all of them are likely extremely high power clerics.
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If The Iahn was willing to have it cast on so many Del, they had to have extremely good reason. Likely they felt knowledge of what happened leaving the room would endanger lives.
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So no one who was there can talk about how suddenly the show got messed up?