Uh oh...what do I do now?
 

Trying to get a meger blood slave pool, I mixed and matched items till I could finally create the Robe of the Magi. Read the description, everything looked fine.

Been using it for both my Pretender and my one Blood mage for blood hunting, when I noticed my Bloodhunter had a cool new icon. Well that Icon was horror marked. WTF...I checked my Pretender, and sure enough he had it too.

So somehow, without it saying (or I have selective blindness and choose not to see it), my pretender is horror marked. From what I can gather this is a very bad thing.

What can I do now?

Re: Uh oh...what do I do now?
 

Looking at it again, there is another item both of them used. The Ring of Sorcery...but that doesn't say anything about horrors either.

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Its the Robe of the Magi. There are a few items with properties that aren't advertised, and the Robe is one of them. There isn't anything you can do about the horror mark, they are permanent. What you will need to do is prepare to face a visit from an occasional horror...

Re: Uh oh...what do I do now?
 

they're quite rare, and usually not so tough (for your pretender, at least). except for very valuable mages, I wouldn't worry too much.

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My pretender is just an average Archmage (Wizard on a regualr horse). Think a stiff wind could knock him out.

I haven't ever seen horrors before, but from what I read they sounded pretty nasty. But if theres nothing to be done....

Wish they mentioned that somewhere.

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they ARE nasty but can i give you some advice? if you have acces to blood mages the only item you should give them is a sanguine dousing rod and they should be cheap mages aswell, put 3 lvl 1-2 blood mages in a 0% tax province

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Suprise! But yeah, horrors are rather rare. I think it may depend on your luck and/or magic scales.

I suggest keeping a few bodyguards on your archmage to slow down any horrors until you can get off some good spells.

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If he has Astral, and you don't want him to fight any fights any way, consider scripting him to cast Returning. That is the most exploited way of getting out of Void Gate.

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what paths does your archmage have?

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I didn't have access to any. My only blood mage (out of about 40 randome picks) is a sage 1 blood. I thought increasing his blood would help, as he was getting 0 slaves. I got his blood up to 3 (while he was at 2 I had to switch the robe of the magi between him and my pretender). Now he has a rod, Ring of Socery, and the thorn armor that raises blood/Nature.

I didn't realize that the rod would help more than the extra blood. Thanks for the advice. Hopefully I'll get aother blood random here shortly and I'll just stick a Rod on him.