Surraruthru and spellhoarding (Surraruthru)

[Iron Dragoon]

Surtarithru grunts at the mention of Balruk. "Indeed. I'll look into it, but first thing first. I've also got plans for two more big projects. I plan to turn my lair into a vault. The other..."

Surraruthru reaches into his haversack, pulling out the Dragonheart and placing it in front of Kascha.

"Though I am a dragon, I'm not a true dragon. Seira's ascention has... inspired me. This is the heart of a Red Dragon. I will rip the essence out and make it my own. It will be part of my hoard."

[Anastasia]

Kascha startles, a nearby wooden chair knocked over. In the quiet library it's a din and she turns bright red. 'Um...ah..." she looks around and bows her head, "Sorry!"

Once that's passed, "What are you planning, Surru?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"A ritual to use the connections from my own dragon nature, fire, and celestial power to use with what I've learned from weaving the Tapestry yo draw it into myself. Roughly. Far more complex than that, but that should give you an idea."

[Anastasia]

"I'm familiar with the ideas. You got inspired by Seira's stories, didn't you?" Kascha smiles.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Quite. Another reason I want to go to The Cauldron. To start the research to do the ritual. Interested in helping?"

Surrarthru gives Kascha a toothy grin.

[Anastasia]

"Of course I am," Kascha says, "When do you want to leave?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"Since I'm already here, I want to look into both the vault and ritual before going and get the boots finished. After that. Care to help me with the research? It would go faster with your help."

[Anastasia]

Sure thing. What research is next?

[Iron Dragoon]

Since Kascha is here, we'll do the ritual first, then the Vault.

[Anastasia]

Go ahead and clarify precisely what you're looking for with the ritual here. Make sure we're on the same page, you know?

[Iron Dragoon]

Okay, wall-o-text.

Research Proposal (This assumes that both Gold and Balruk agree to give Surraruthru a small amount of blood for the ritual):

Surraruthru intends to use the Red Dragon Heart as the template for the ritual to become a True Dragon. He plans to combine the heart with the blood of other True Dragons (Balruk's blood and Gold's blood ideally, or whoever he can convince to donate) and his own magic to draw the power and natures contained in the heart into himself and bind them with his life force through his abilities, skills, and experience as a Grand Weaver.

Using the Red Dragon Heart as a template for the creature he wants to become, he will use Balruk's blood as a catalyzing agent. He's depending on the nature of a Prismatic Dragon to act as a bridge and link the nature of a True Dragon contained in the heart with the similar nature of Dragon in himself and to be a power magnifier. Gold's blood will provide a second link to the heart by similarly forming a bridge, using the nature of Good that Gold Dragons embody with his nature as a Celestial (Good) and his alignment, which should sympathetic to each other.

Using these two bridges to the heart, Surraruthru will then thread in his magic and life force along those connecting links much in the same way he threads his magic and life force into the Eldritch Tapestry, which allows him to connect his magic with others. After Weaving his magic into the links, he will then draw the power into himself and his life force through the tapestry to complete the ritual.

If Balruk and/or Gold don't agree, he'll go to Cauldron and ask for guidance to find helpful dragons or a boon of blood for the ritual.

[Anastasia]

Okay, K:A with the library bonus applied and a +2 for Kascha aiding you.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+40+15+2 K:A Serith
<Serith> IronDragoon roll for Serith < 73 > [d20=16]

[Anastasia]

The ritual looks doable. It'll require some good Spellcraft and proper utilization of arcane knowledge, but it should work. The transformation will be easier than normal, since you're already a dragon.

Using Gold's blood will work well. The alignment mismatch will be countered by the shared connection to fire between the heart and blood. Baleruk's blood is a complete unknown. Moreover, as it is the blood of divinity, the effects will be magnified at least ten fold. There's no information on using a prismatic dragon's power in here, so you're going blind there.

That aside, the ritual should work. In theory, anyway, and you're fairly sure it's stable and correct theory.

I'll note this one more time OOC for clarity. If you do become a true dragon, one side of your gestalt will become pure racial hit dice. This will provide dragon powers as well as spellcasting (presumably wizard spellcasting due to what you're doing) as normal. The other side of the gestalt will be yours to do with what you will.

[Iron Dragoon]

Just to be clear that I understand I'd be Dragon 25 on one side and whatever on the other, and the Dragon casting will be equal to Wiz for the purposes of replacing my base Wizard levels? If so, how would that work with school specialization and Master Specialist?