Are influence-empowered denizens worth more experience?

I think a little bit, but they take longer to influence than monks. It's been a while since I've been influencing. You should bug Jozan until he gives you an answer. He should know, he spent most of his youth on Celestia influencing and what not.

What happens when a nexus hits 0 power?

Nothing. Nexii have had negative power before.

Awh. That's boring. Something should happen.

I think the system has enough instances to allow for terribad things, we don't need more.

New question: can enchantment runes be attached to tinkering goods and not just jewelry?

Well, you can't spend or draw power when it's negative, and it bottoms out at something like -2000. That's something, isn't it?

Fairly certain you'll also lose all your guards, probably all your constructs (does prepowerment protect from this? We didn't have constructs when we were at negative power), anything else that draws power passively.

How many elements are there in Lusternia?

1. Is it just four? (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)?
2. Is it five? (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit)?
3. Is it seven? (Wind, Water, Fire, Wood, Metal, Heart, Spirit)?

Or is it both 2 and 3 or both 1 and 3, or 1, 2, and 3?

Heart and spirit are not elements.

Earth, water, air and fire are clearly elements because there are elemental planes composed entirely of them.

The Shofangi theory is that metal is like a refined, untainted version of earth magic, and that wood is related to the Ethereal plane in some way, but that's all inferred and there's no canon on it.

Four are embodied with their own elemental planes. I think there's a book in the IG libraries with the theory that there are possibly as many elemental planes as there are elements (including ones not currently known). If you take it at a stretch, it might even be possible that there are para-elemental planes.

The elements that the Harmony mantras refer to (spirit and heart) don't seem to be elemental "elements", but more like elements of the person/being.

EDIT: And going off what Shiri said, there's an inference that Wood is some subset or essence related to the Ethereal plane and that Metal is related in a similar way to Earth.

I was actually going to write a book on harmony theory, I'm just lazy.

HELP ILLITHOID:

ILLITHOID STATISTICS:
Strength : 11 Dexterity : 17 Constitution: 16
Intelligence: 14 Charisma : 7 Size : 10

ADVANTAGES:
o Can psychically understand any spoken language.
o Regeneration while underground, level 2
o Have a level 2 resistance to psychic damage.
o Have a level 1 resistance to poison damage.
o Advanced intimidation influencing, level 3.
o Advanced paranoia influencing, level 3.
o Advanced village influencing, level 3.
o MINDSENSE: Can sense others in the immediate area (level 50).
o Native Weapon: Illithoid monks who choose the Ninjakari or Nekotai
specializations can use those martial arts weapons more effectively
than other races.
o Inner Worm: A unique racial ability. All illithoid contain an
inner worm. Upon reaching level 50, they may use this to drain the
psychic residue from corpses, artificially inflating their maximum
ego. They may ILLDRAIN corpses to inflate their ego, which
deteriorates to its original levels over time at a rate of 1 max
ego per minute. Their ego may be inflated 50 ego per level of the
illithoid player.

DISADVANTAGES:
o Are susceptible to magic, level 2.


What is intimidation influencing, exactly? I'm aware that we have empower, weaken, seduction, charity, and paranoia (plus village influencing and amnesty). Is intimidation another form or just a synonym of another one?

I'm pretty sure intimidation = weakening.

survey
You discern:
You are standing in the Web of Darkness.
Your environment conforms to that of tainted forest.
You are in the Realm of the Lady of the Thorns.

I thought tainting a forest made it into wasteland?

No Captain Planet combination?

Never has since I've played.

Do inherent abilities on beasts still take up the appropriate trains...?

Also, is there a source of information about breeding mounts somewhere? A book in game maybe?

Also, I was sleeping in-game for the first time in months, and saw this dream. Is it referring to some event?

They take no beast trains if they're inherent. You still get 600 trains to allocate (assuming no pet/arti bonuses).

Not aware of a resource, but there are plenty of people to ask in-game. Basically you feed a reagent once every couple days and fill the feedbag with the appropriate feed and it gains a beast train based on the feed.