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Meglobob said:
Please share your wisdom great T'ien Ch'i, we are all ears and tentacles in some cases... 
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Ah, most excellent. It appears that the tentacled Atlanteans are coming to their senses - this is most excellent news! There is indeed hope for the land of Faerun!
Well, now since you have asked so politely, we will enlighten you, young man (or squid, or kraken, as the case may be). [you see Da-yu, an elderly but surprisingly spry man scrambling through the cluttered and shelves of his library, stacked with musty old books, and even older scrolls]
This is a subject that has been debated for many a year at the Imperial Academy in the city of Wei, and in fact at more than one time in the past young scholars (such as yourself) have lost their lives as debates over this very question became somewhat overheated and turned into duels. For example, we see in the year 1297 BE (or in the 400th year of the Wu dynasty), there was a debate that extended over 20 years during the lifetime of the famous (or infamous?) Scholar Pei Tu, who had declared that the Eyes of God spell was surely the most puissant spell which could be cast, and that any nation casting such should reviled by all the world. However, as you can well imagine such an absurd proposition generated such an uproar in academic circles that ...
What, you seem to be nodding off, eh? Oh, the impatience of youth!
Well, to come right to the point, we humbly suggest that the following spells are sure to get a substantial and negative reaction around the world:
Forge of the Ancients
Utterdark
Arcane Nexus
Astral Corruption
We do not suggest that this is the authoritative list which is certain beyond all question, but we do offer up the list above for discussion and debate. And in terms of immediate relevancy to our current point of dispute, would any nation (other than Atlantis) make the claim that Forge of the Ancients is a non-threatening spell which would be safe for any other nation to ignore? Or to put it differently, would any nation say that Forge of the Ancients is no more threatening than say Mother Oak, or some other similar gem generator?