Re: communion fatigue
 

no

communion fatigue
 

Is my understanding of fatigue for communion spells correct?

Fatigue for master and slaves is calculated the same way.

x communion slaves and 1 master. Pseudocode for calculating the fatigue the slave bob gets when the master casts a spell:

fat = spell fatigue / (x+1)
fat = fat + enc -- Bob's encumberance.

For the purpose of calculating fatigue, even the communion slave bob gets this boost, even if he has no magic skill:
2 slaves: +1 to all paths
4 slaves: +2 to all paths
8 slaves: +3 to all paths

if bob's magic skill is 1 more than needed, fat = fat/2
if bob's magic skill is 2 more than needed, fat = fat/3
etc
....
if bob's magic skill is 1 *less* than needed, fat = fat*2
if bob's magic skill is 2 *less* than needed, fat = fat*3
etc

A bit suprising to me that the slave's encumberance is modified by the slave's magic skill.

Re: communion fatigue
 

Right. Also spell effect buffs get transferred across the whole dominion. This means that if you have a high encumberance slave and a bunch of theurges, you will tire your slaves out and kill them. On the other hand, if your communion matrix is made up of Agarthan Revenants carryig Slave Matrices and benefitting from Summon Earth Power, you can keep them going pretty much forever.

-Frank

Re: communion fatigue
 

follow up question: Does blindness / paralyze / soul slay on a master transfer as well to the communion slaves? (or even other masters?).