I was under the impression that the Code Duello was for issues between arane nations, not between individuals in the same nation.  Those are expected to be taken care of in house.

So, if The White Council represents all Mortal Practitioners in the accords then it is due a lot of respect, but it has to do everything in its power to stop those criminals who might otherwise compromise its position.

Back to the original question - I don't believe members of the White Council would duel one another, and if they did they would go as far as they could to stop their opponents - not kill them.

It's all of those things - depending on the situation and how the NPC is trying to bypass it.

I'm in two minds about this one. 

What I don't like about it is that it removes some of the 'Wizards need to think ahead' theme, and secondly without the 'sacrifice your next action' part it gives you an extra potentially lasting magical action (i.e. spend the next exchange maintaining the spell and you'd have acted twice in 3 exchanges).

On the other hand it does allow for the nail biting defence at the last second when the moster leaps out of the closet.

hmmm...

Maybe require it to be a rote?  That works from a sort of 'reflexive trained reaction' point of view.  It also means that if someone uses a shield bracelet or something similar and hasn't 'readied it', you could slap them with an 'unprepared spel/ wonky evocationl' tag.

It's generally more about conflict with someone you love or getting tortured - anything that messes up what you think of yourself rather than what others might think of you.

generally no.   

See the spell in YS to animate the zombie.  Remove the requirement for a heartbeat.  Make it a little harder to compensate for that and the lack of 4th law issues.

Summon spirit into statue.  Bind it to your your will.  At the end of the day you've just gotta look at the effect.  If it's basically the same as a zombie.  use that

I think you're onto a win 

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