In a message dated Sun, 9 Jun 2002 1:18:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Lisa Grant Coffin" <lisa at spindot.com> writes: > Hello All Hi Lisa > Also....having finally secured 'Phoenix' after several > years of keeping my eyes peeled; more questions came to > light regarding the gods and magic. For instance, in > Brokedown Palace, Sandor had no sorcery once Verra was > "killed" (expelled?) and thus sunk into the River. Note the comments about Verra being the personification of sorcery (or the use made of sorcery). > In Phoenix, where there was no Orb; or sorcery, Verra > could not reach Vlad. There also seemed to be limited > psionic ability as well; and witchcraft wasn't working. > Note this never affected Loiosh and Vlad's psionic > communication. Comments? Analysis? Gold Phoenix Stone blocks Orb-sorcery; black stops witchcraft and psionics. That's about all we know. Speaking of _Phoenix_, when did Cawti start studying pre-Empire sorcery? Or did Aliera give her some pre-Empire plastic explosives or something? --KG