In a message dated 6/7/2002 1:55:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time, skzb at dreamcafe.com writes: > Well, you left out wizardry. Now you've gone and muddied the waters even more. I thought that the use of the word wizard was simply used as a term for those who are really, really, REALLY good at sorcery??? Can you give us some idea, then, of what wizardry is? > > But while I have no actual disagreement with you, you ought to know that, > in my own head, I do not *want* these things precisely defined. That > doesn't mean if I object if you do, it just means that I won't. While I > confess to being a closet Aristotelian, I am still aware that, in the real > world, things don't fall into the nice, neat, distinct categories we'd like > > them to. Magic, especially, cannot be precisely defined, or it stops being > > magic. > I've always liked the ambiguity of Dragaeran (the world, not the race) magic - it allows for the creativity of the practitioner. If it was all clear-cut and about memorizing spells, poor Morrolan would still be stuck in the Paths of the Dead. Which would have irritated me greatly, as he is my favorite character. Maybe I shouldn't say that. :) Stacy