You might actually want Five Star Daydream instead, because, hmm...

Having a lot of money means you can buy things that are for sale, unless they stop being for sale. That's pretty useful.

Having ways of creating value means that you have easy access to valuable things, and sometimes those things are valuable because they're something no one else has, or almost no one else. I think sometimes that's even more useful than having a lot of money.

(As for the names, I'm not sure. Some of them come out pretty weird and I usually don't have an explanation for them.)

What's the downside of Five Star versus Four Star Daydream? No way one of them is just better when they're the same price. It looks like Four Star is creating money out of nowhere, like Motherlode, and Five Star is getting the money from somewhere instead, but what else is different? Other than the part you just said, about value not always being the same thing as money. 

Different things can be more or less suited to different people and situations without being better or worse for everyone all the time. Some people want the simplicity of not having to worry about where their money is coming from, and some people want the certainty of knowing exactly where their money is coming from, and some people want to live a kind of life where the difference between having a lot of money and having access to a lot of value isn't important, and I think you are planning to live a kind of life where that difference can matter a lot.

You're not wrong. I guess my concern is, with Five Star Daydream, how likely am I to end up in a situation where the answer to "can I afford that" is "no"? 

It generally won't be "no", but sometimes it will be "not yet". I think mostly in the same kinds of situations that slow down Four Star, though - times when the thing that's hard to find isn't resources to trade, but people to trade them with.

So, if a thing I want is available to buy in the first place, I'll generally be able to afford it, just like if I had Four Star? Except I'm getting the sense that sometimes I might need to go and "generate value" first rather than having the silver on hand, or just straight-out barter for it. 

Yes, exactly. And how you generate value will depend on circumstances and your other powers, but if you end up in a situation where none of the ways you have work for the situation you're in, you'll find a new way that does.

Sounds good to me. 

Five Star Daydream and its prerequisites can have...stars, actually, it would be really useful to not have to worry about money. 

She's immediately tempted to give Omniglot another star, but reconsiders. She already gets help learning languages from Learn, which also helps with other forms of book-learning to boot. It can have a squiggle, because it sounds like it would be even better than Learn, but it's not something she needs. 

Next...

Oh, this one has my name written all over it. 

Anything You Can Do is something she needs. Checkmark! 

It's pretty useful!

Would this cover things like languages, actually? If I know someone who speaks the language I want to learn.

She wants to ask whether already having Learn will make it work even better for her, or whether it'll just make less of a difference. Her aspects are strategically relevant information, though, and she agreed with Hakram that they weren't going to share that kind of thing with the notebook. That was before Masego confirmed it was otherworldly, though...she'll have to ask Hakram in the morning. 

Yes. It also synergizes with Omniglot if you have that.

Or with other magic that makes you better at learning something, presumably?

There, that's probably indirect enough. 

Yes. Powers generally try to synergize rather than be redundant, when those are the options.

In that case, she'll definitely be taking this one. 

(Wait. When did she start thinking as though she's actually going through with this...?) 

Good to know! 

Now, is this the first in a series...? 

Yep, it sure is. And this one gets weird fast. 

Does "discovering heritage" from something actually change who my parents were? Although I suppose I don't know who my parents were to begin with, so it's not like I'd notice. 

It varies depending on what you're going for, but generally the heritage is more metaphorical than that and doesn't affect your family tree.

So I could change who my parents or grandparents were if I wanted to, but I could also use this power without doing that?

Her mind flashes back to a few months ago when she first met Black, before she even became his Squire. 

You wouldn't happen to be my long-lost father, would you? she'd asked him, and he'd laughed in genuine amusement before denying it. At the time, she'd been deeply relieved, but ...it would've been tidier, if he'd said yes. The kind of thing that happens in stories. It would've tied up two mysteries in one neat bow: her parents' identity, and the question of why Black was so interested in a random orphan girl.

Also, would anything happen if I used it on another human? Could I make myself the true heir to the throne of Callow by "discovering" royal heritage, for instance, or does it not work on that kind of thing? 

Changing your magical heritage is more straightforward than changing your social heritage because changing your social heritage isn't very useful without also getting other people to acknowledge the change. It certainly can still work, but you might need to put effort into setting it up.

I'll bear that in mind if I ever decide to magic myself Fairfax heritage.

Dragon Fairy Elf Witch can have a...star or squiggle...star. 

Moving on...Snowglobe isn't fantastically useful unless she takes the offer to go to another world, since she already has the local kind of individual personality-based magic. But it's a prerequisite for Unleash the Magic, which is. 

Could I use Unleash the Magic to copy other people's individual special powers, rather than just getting my own like with Snowglobe? 

Yes, but depending on the nature of the powers, you might be limited to copying ones that have particular personal or thematic resonance with you.

Well, that's less of a complete board-flipper than it could be without that limitation, but I bet I can get a lot of use out of it anyway. 

Her guess is that it can't copy Names outright but can steal aspects. Maybe only the kind of aspects she could potentially get herself, but if it works at all she can almost certainly stack up an unlimited number of those, and won't be limited to the usual three. 

Unleash the Magic gets a checkmark, which means Snowglobe and DFEW also need upgrading to checkmarks. (Anything You Can Do already had one.)

Yes, I expect you can.