Nine Worlds Feast in your basement

Specifically constructed as a wine cellar

Sublime liquors from across the nine realms

sublime wine cellar...

the basement infuses them with cantae over time, so they get more powerful as they age

They specifically mention that sublime foods gradually lose potency even in your soulhome, but alcohol is incredibly shelf stable

Some kinds get BETTER with age

It would be a potent cantae source

I bet Tythes would do this

Ruval already has a still in his soulhome for breaking down poisons

So he might add this to his blueprint at later ascensions

I think it was established as impractical to do basement before Stronghold

But Ruval has a strong plant theme already, and it was implied that sublime plants help prepare your foundation for a basement

God now that I’m in the midst of a main series reread I kinda want to redesign Ruval’s soulhome from the ground up

This is the genius of soulcrafting as a magic system

The core concepts are incredibly simple and intuitive but there’s also infinite room for details and creativity

It’s just so fun to play with!

it is actually genuinely the best magic system of all time

Anyway when I originally designed Ruval’s soulhome I wasn’t taking into account that Deuxans fucking love dueling

And the deuxan elements of his current design is more aimed around assassination and survivability

Because the Deuxan courts also love poison and skullduggery

So I think he needs an armament chamber

Plus I think our party was like

A weird illusionist, an artillery piece, and a weird caster type

So having a frontline fighter would be useful

ain is basically a counter tank who pisses people off and then reversals them into next week so having a more straightforward frontliner is good

I couldn’t remember what Ain’s blueprint specialized in

Just that it was like a moebius strip or something

redirection and manipulation of cantae flow

Nice

Catching enemy techniques and flinging them back in their faces

Ymal is unlikely to win any duels but a very potent ally to have 200 meters away from your fight

By later tiers Ymal is shooting at guys over the horizon

....they could benefit from a powerful sensory chamber, Ichili style

Something with extreme range

ooh, good call. could be in the upper tiers with the clocktower

you're having an epic elegant martial arts sword battle, then suddenly the party scatters and half a second later the enemy force is hit by a 250 kiloton warhead

god ymal is so fucking good

I think Ruval might be a spear fighter

Swords feel more deuxan but most notably, spear shafts could be wood and Ruval is our plant guy

Picture a spear that can grow

Shooting out to attack at range or create branches to attack from multiple angles

Combined with the razorwire technique he had before and a bunch of enhancement chambers

He could be a very dangerous fighter in a 1v1 situation

yesssss

There’s nowhere safe to stand

Traps and pokes from every direction

He wears you down with zoning

quinn2win: an armament Ymal can give to an ally that lets them see around it regardless of where they are

alternately

an observation chamber that sends out periodic pulses of faint cantae, then measures the time it takes them to return

sublime radar

Interesting

You’d want some way to see over things, for full artillery targeting

in that case, maybe an armament that just, launches way up into the atmosphere, and acts as a floating camera

Spy sat

Ymal’s world is advanced enough to have that concept

It amuses Ymal to call it that even if it doesn’t technically get high enough

For reasons none of the others can follow