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My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est:Lilith is stealing the pages containing the spell Niko’s Strict Order, which she’ll use later on her friends. The spell’s target has to carry out the order given to him to the best of his ability. He mustn’t only follow the letter of the order, but also its spirit. But the order can’t be overly generic. It must be about a specific topic and there must be a clearly defined and achievable end condition.
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To be able to specify the spirit of the order is good. You don’t run the risk of a “monkey”s paw” result. “Clearly defined and achievable end condition” is pretty interesting. This spell sounds powerful, but very limited. You cannot just indefinitely put someone under, you have to basically demand a short term goal that they work towards.
@ Chris:
It’s stated later in the story that, as far as red spells go, it’s not a very impressive one.
So she’s able to magically move the pages across a town, to what is presumable the teleporter tool shed of Viviana’s seen in early Gaia, and most ridiculously, through a gap over the unopenable mystery door to the Source.
@ Vicious Sand:
To be fair, very early in the story she was able to magic up a hole in a supposedly magic-immune material while under close supervision suppressing use of magic on detection.
@ Vicious Sand:
From the effect on the top of the door, I’m inclined to believe that she briefly opened a gap just wide enough for the pages to fly through.
My concern about the “achievable end condition” is: what happens if an outside influence causes the end condition to become unachievable somehow? (presumably if the caster is mistaken about the end condition being achievable from the start, the spell would fail)
@ MauveCloud:
If the “best of your ability” is not enough to achieve the end condition even partially, the spell probably stops compelling you to do anything. Magic on Gaia has a weird relationship to time and causality, so the spell probably “knows” whether you are able to fulfill the end condition or not and how to carry it out best.