Necromancers don’t want you to know this, but if you want to cast a spell that needs blood, you can use orange juice instead. It works the same.
Similarly if you need to sacrifice a virgin, you can smash a potato and it’ll count.
I imagine that, because you can substitute blood for egg in baking, you could substitute egg for blood in casting.
That technically works but you can’t use chicken eggs. Not sapient. You’d need a corvid, human, or a dog.
a corvid, human or dog egg?
right, that’s what I meant. You can’t just use a dog for a spell that needs blood, but a dog’s egg will work fine.
Do the eggs have to be isolated or otherwise extracted from the dog? Can I just have an unspayed dog with me and disappear the eggs inside it while casting? Is this considered unethical? What if I’m an evil necromancer about it? (affects union and insurance fees mostly)
you gotta wait for the dog to lay the eggs, yeah. if you try to use a whole dog, it’ll fuck the spell right up as you’re adding all kinds of unintended elements to the mix.
it’s not unethical or evil, it just wouldn’t work. a dog with eggs in it is still a dog, and the spell would react like you’re using a dog.
What about dog blood?
That works, yeah. As blood for a spell, I mean. It doesn’t work as eggs.
They generally don’t use human blood in baking and pudding and the such; the go to is pig, and I think cow is sometimes used, dog blood should be fine for baking.
I meant for magic, not for baking.
(The rules are similar in many ways, but they’re not the same.)
coconut water is usable as an emergency blood infusion, would it work for spellcasting in a pinch?
of course. But don’t mix it up with coconut milk, which is a different thing.
Okay so wait, are we saying the ONLY animals that are sapient are humans, dogs, and corvids? Not dolphins? Not anything else? At all?
no, I was saying which sapient creatures you can use eggs from. Dolphins don’t lay eggs.
jayce enduring a symbolic rendition of viktor’s trauma is so painful and so, so clever.
being stricken down and immobilized through sheer accident or, in viktor’s case, a cruelly random quirk that caused his disability.
then physically dragging himself from the lowest level of zaun to piltover, much like how viktor spent his youth reaching toward the promise piltover offered, but only if he could “pull himself up by the boot straps” and get there on his own. socioeconomic forces working against him be damned.
i appreciate arcane reminding us of viktor’s origins - the reason he is so called to help people and, eventually, save himself - and putting jayce through the ringer - the contrast between he and viktor’s lived experiences is front and center throughout season 1. the writers send jayce, and the audience, on a grueling journey to contemplate those experiences and how they’ve manifested in these intertwined characters.
