In retrospect, it seems pretty obvious that they'd have to be illusions, huh? I suppose it just becomes a matter of degree - how good of an illusion it is, and if other things like sound and smell are part of it. Again, pointing to glamouring something like a chain shirt into a bikini top. It also is what leads me to wonder if what the Sylphs/Dravanians/beastkin/vilekin do really is a glamour at all - or more of a polymorph as I mention in my personal headcanon.
Right, which leads me to believe that glamours of a full body nature - if they can be done with any ease at all by the Sons of Man - are either a.) unstable, b.) flawed, c.) difficult to do/obtain, or a combination of the three to some varying degree. I wasn't sure if that's blatantly stated somewhere or just inferred... though, the latter isn't that bad of an alternative if true. After all, just touching someone's face and feeling something that isn't there would - in my opinion - likely allow for an automatic "roll to disbelieve" (to continue with my DnD comparisons) at the very least.
And I wouldn't dismiss the ease of the quest to unlock Glamours as reason to believe it's that readily available. Mechanically, it requires you to be level 50 before you can even think of doing it, which could feasibly mean a high skill requirement to perform. On top of that, unlocking the ability to use them doesn't automatically let you do it willy-nilly - you require an object that can only be crafted by a level 50 crafter, and a point of reference. And that's just for one article of clothing - whether it be a jacket or a pair of glasses. It stands to reason that a full body glamour - on the degree of making one race look like another (doubly so if it's an Au Ra masquerading as something quite off from their body type - like a Lalafell) would be magnitudes more difficult and costly to pull off.
(06-17-2015, 12:01 PM)K'nahli Wrote: Could people not glamour themselves into rats? Flies? Any animal really? Why pretend to be a garlean agent at all during the day and settle for talking to random grunts when you can just sneak into the main HQ and spy on the commanders every evening?
Could people not have glamoured into Gaius, Livia or Nero and given false commands to disrupt military procedures and cripple the enemy through farce orders and tactics?
Could a refugee or anyone not glamour themselves into a wealthy and influential individual, invade their home and make off with their fortune?
Could someone not just murder anyone and everyone they saw fit and quickly glamour themselves into a Brass Blade or Flame to immediately throw suspicion off of themselves when they are spotted walking in the opposite direction, seemingly oblivious?
Right, which leads me to believe that glamours of a full body nature - if they can be done with any ease at all by the Sons of Man - are either a.) unstable, b.) flawed, c.) difficult to do/obtain, or a combination of the three to some varying degree. I wasn't sure if that's blatantly stated somewhere or just inferred... though, the latter isn't that bad of an alternative if true. After all, just touching someone's face and feeling something that isn't there would - in my opinion - likely allow for an automatic "roll to disbelieve" (to continue with my DnD comparisons) at the very least.
And I wouldn't dismiss the ease of the quest to unlock Glamours as reason to believe it's that readily available. Mechanically, it requires you to be level 50 before you can even think of doing it, which could feasibly mean a high skill requirement to perform. On top of that, unlocking the ability to use them doesn't automatically let you do it willy-nilly - you require an object that can only be crafted by a level 50 crafter, and a point of reference. And that's just for one article of clothing - whether it be a jacket or a pair of glasses. It stands to reason that a full body glamour - on the degree of making one race look like another (doubly so if it's an Au Ra masquerading as something quite off from their body type - like a Lalafell) would be magnitudes more difficult and costly to pull off.