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Your application has been approved, with the following notes:

The nerfs you've proposed all sound good to us! We do need to add a few more guardrails, and confirm our understanding of a few things:

↠ We're not totally sure how powerful Wanda's energy blasts would be in Thedas terms, but for the avoidance of doubt, they will not be strong enough to single-handedly blast through things like castle walls.

↠ In addition to your proposed nerf to the upper end of her telekinetic abilities, her fine control will also need to be more limited than it's implied to be in canon—so she won't be able to manipulate things on a molecular level at all. She can move small objects as long as they're large enough to be seen, but handling them with precision, for example to pick the pins in a lock or stitch something up with a needle, will also be beyond her. And because the only canon example of her healing that we're aware of was her telekinetic molecular reassembly of Vision, she also will be unable to heal.

↠ Her ability to place someone into a hallucination/dream state or any other sort of psionic manipulation will last at most 15 minutes after she leaves them. The maximum duration will decrease from there as the complexity of the manipulation and the number of people it is used on increase. Similar limits apply to her telekinetic control over objects. For instance, having dinner cooking itself in the kitchen is ok if she's in the room paying attention to it, but once she walks away it will only continue on its own for a minute or two. A single object doing a simple motion (for instance, a single sponge circling on a single plate, or a rocking chair rocking) would continue for at most 15 minutes after she leaves the room.

↠ She'll only be able to sense people's specific current thoughts/plans/fears, etc. in brief fragments and won't be able to choose what she learns. She won't, for example, be able to go rooting around in someone's mind for old childhood nightmares or the particular details of their evil plan. Her ability to magically play on people's fears will be more vague and less deliberate, similar to Dragon Age Horror spells.

↠ Wanda's ability to manipulate weather and electricity will be limited to what we saw on screen in Wandavision, i.e., summoning a brief rain shower or gust of wind on a small indoor scale, small zaps of electricity (suitable for turning lights on and off), and occasional uncontrolled electrical surges similar to a native mage's instinctive chain lightning.

↠ We assume these things are already covered in your proposed nerfs, but just to be clear, in Thedas Wanda also cannot manipulate time, radiate energy that gives powers to others, teleport people or objects, astral project, or steal magic from another magic user (except for the rune/glyphs draining mana as you described in your nerfs).

↠ As you're aware, in Thedas mind control is viewed in an extremely negative light by natives, and use of this power publicly or irresponsibly could potentially result in serious IC consequences for your character and/or for the IC reputation of the organization. If you're up for RPing those consequences whatever they may be, then great! If you're not sure, then please be proactive and reach out to us in advance to discuss what the ramifications might be so we can work out something that works for everyone.

↠ We're basing our understanding of Wanda's abilities solely on what's described in your application, rather than the wiki or other sources. If there are any additional abilities (or significantly distinct or broader applications of her existing abilities) that exist but haven't been mentioned in your application or that are added to her character when new canon material is released, you'll need to talk to us about those separately and likely create a custom specialization to be able to use them in game.

↠ And a related footnote: we've found the MCU wiki tends to label characters masters of basically any skill they exhibit in the slightest—like saying Steve Rogers has "exceptionally perfect charisma"—so as a general rule of thumb (and especially with characters that have a lot of powers already) we ask people to be conservative about extrapolating or expanding skills and abilities like Wanda's level of spy training or hand-to-hand combat ability without her powers. We're not saying you should pretend she has none! Just please don't let her skills creep out into more than we've really seen on screen.

Welcome to Fade Rift! Before you start playing, please:

↠ Join the Log, "Network," OOC, and (optional) Meme comms.
↠ Reply to the Taken List.
↠ Reply to the Player Contact List.
↠ Add your character to the Activity Page.
↠ Read the Arrival FAQ
↠ Take a look at the most recent mod post concerning the state of the game and any plot sign-ups that may be ongoing.

You're then welcome to post an introduction to the OOC comm! Since your character is arriving via rift, you're welcome to post a rift arrival log or to begin RP in the Gallows and simply handwave that members of Riftwatch met your character on their arrival through the rift, helped them close it, and brought them to Kirkwall. If you have any questions, let us know.