Magic Combo

[Ellion Eickman]

If you are a Leecher, could you still Morph the muscles in your arms (or wherever) to temporarily make them stronger in a pinch or something?

[Anchor]

I think most magic skills can be used together, including morphing and leeching. As for making your arms stronger, I think that would be Flux rather than Morphing - the latter just changes shape.

[Shesha]

But can't you use morphing to toughen skin etc etc. So if you used it to form perfectly healthy muscle you'd logicly have at least normal strength. With enough morphing skill of course.

This is speculation and deduction based on an experts described level of skill.

[Coren]

I doubt a leecher can morph his muscle into healthy muscle, at least not at the higher skill levels of leeching. their flesh isnt' diseased, but its their soul and djed itself that is poisoned from the external djed they pulled in. So if a leecher used morphing to morph into another person or animal I think they would still be sickely. At least, from my understanding.

[Shesha]

This is also true... maybe they only appear healthy then? A lot to consider, like what if they took a form such as certain flora that consume others djed. What if they leeched in only such a form? Would they not suffer djed poisoning?

Also the skill in morphing. Like I doubt a master couldn't improve his condition by at least a noticable amount.

[Anchor]

Morphing mostly changes the shape and size of a limb, not usually the durability or strength. Larger limbs are of course more powerful, but they're also slower. Wounds of any sort also carry over the forms, so physical injuries stay no matter what the morpher turns into, meaning you can't just morph over a wound to substitute healing. I'm not entirely sure what kind of disease leeching causes, but I doubt morphing would be able to fix any of the effects.

[Shesha]

Yeah but a master is considered to being able to perfectly replicate a creature, even it's special abilities. So an Isurian with their dense skin and bone or certain creatures that have unique gifts would be possible aids to their condition. It just seems to make more sense more sense to me. But again this is just conjecture.

[Ellion Eickman]

Thank you all very much for the replies! It is greatly appreciated

On a side note of leeching, is it possible for someone to become a leecher against their will? As it takes a leecher to make one, I would think if a PC had a bad incident with a leecher who was less than kind and sucked him almost dry, would that not make that PC a leecher himself?

[Coren]

leeching is leeching whatever you do it in. Just like that the soul in your body is still your own soul no matter what form your body is in. It isn't the muscle and the organic parts that make your own body weak in leeching, its the fact you have poisoned yourself with hostile djed and your own soul has taken damage because of it. (which aurists can see in the aura of the leecher.) Change your body as you want the damage will show up in everything you change in your body.

For example if you became an isur you would probably be still stronger and sturdier then your own human body, since isurs are sturdier. But it would be weakenend by the fact you are a leecher according to you skill level. (higher the leeching skill the weaker your body would be.)

And Ellion, yes that would be possible. THough being sucked dry to that extent usually is a choice in part of the 'teacher' to initiate the person he was sucking dry. THen again, desperation lets us do strange things.

[Anchor]

Morphing into an Isur as a master will probably get you their harder skin durability, but that won't help injuries that already exist. Expert morphers can I think gain some of their target's natural abilities like an Isur's stronger skin, but they only have the harder skin once it's morphed if you know what I mean. Any previous wounds will still be there, like I said this prevents morphers from just cutting out healing.