It is possible for someone who has been Imperiused to place others under the curse as well.
whilst under the caster’s control, the curse may also endow the victim with whatever skills that are required in order to complete the task at hand, such as increased strength or allowing them to cast spells far above their level.
Resisting the Imperius Curse is possible, but requires great strength of will and character.
Some can resist, but they could be defeated by a combination of 1) the archwizard at the head of the network and 2) his army of slaves.
Actually, if the Imperius Curse grants the victim the abilities necessary to carry out tasks (which I had also forgotten about,) then it seems more likely to me that it would actually require some degree of micromanagement from the end user for every step in the chain. It makes it seem more like they’re actually investing some of their own mental power rather than just applying some suggestion, and there should only be so much of that to go around, which could make creating an army of imperiused slaves an impossibility.
Ah, good point, I’d forgotten you could push people into things they can’t normally do (i.e. backflips.) Yeah, this does sound workable, although I doubt it would work on that sort of scale, unless you found some handy combo.
As for the rebels overthrowing you, well, “this only works on the weak of will” is usually applied to mean “this doesn’t work on PCs/important characters.” Can’t you just picture the great story based around Our Heroes encountering the nascent Collective and defeating their nefarious agents (they could be anyone! Anyone!)
After all, you don’t start with the world under control, do you?
From the wiki page I linked:
Some can resist, but they could be defeated by a combination of 1) the archwizard at the head of the network and 2) his army of slaves.
Actually, if the Imperius Curse grants the victim the abilities necessary to carry out tasks (which I had also forgotten about,) then it seems more likely to me that it would actually require some degree of micromanagement from the end user for every step in the chain. It makes it seem more like they’re actually investing some of their own mental power rather than just applying some suggestion, and there should only be so much of that to go around, which could make creating an army of imperiused slaves an impossibility.
Ah, good point, I’d forgotten you could push people into things they can’t normally do (i.e. backflips.) Yeah, this does sound workable, although I doubt it would work on that sort of scale, unless you found some handy combo.
As for the rebels overthrowing you, well, “this only works on the weak of will” is usually applied to mean “this doesn’t work on PCs/important characters.” Can’t you just picture the great story based around Our Heroes encountering the nascent Collective and defeating their nefarious agents (they could be anyone! Anyone!)
After all, you don’t start with the world under control, do you?