Talk:Wild Magic/@comment-90.59.50.4-20170428120250/@comment-34985584-20180609074123

Well, that's true. It's not even clear if the system of sacrifice in extracting the necessary activation elements of magic/summoning for both Wild Magic and Ia Shub-Niggurath is the same. For the latter, does it absorb XP to form the Dark Young? Maybe it directly counts the casualties dealt by the first instant-death magic. Or perhaps a mix where it counts the XP attained from the casualties, but instead of absorbing them, it simply lets them go and serves as some form of a counter for the number of Dark Young to form. Similarly, for Wild Magic, does it need the raw soul, the life force, anything?

But using the populace as a source of Wild Magic power isn't too unfounded. A single average Beastman should be equal a few to more than a dozen trained soldiers. In that case, there would be no need for the demi-humans to really attack in very large numbers. I doubt that's even the way they even proceed with the battle. In Volume 12, it was said that they just attacked in groups of 20 or so, but it was only under the command of Jaldabaoth that they were able to muster themselves into a fearsome packed army. In that case, I think a sacrifice whose movements and numbers are more manipulable than the sacrificeable enemy.

And as for PDL having the ability to store and later use souls would quite buff his abilities, but thinking about it, that's practically WI-level skills.