On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 Starshadw at aol.com wrote: #Is this perhaps a reference to wizardry at work? Interesting! Vlad said something like "'Wizard' can mean a very good sorcerer, or it can mean someone who's good at his job." I don't remember anything about "wizardry" being a kind of magic (or other power), the way sorcery, witchcraft, pre-Empire sorcery, and psionics are. When I read this passage I wondered if Morrolan was using Serioli magic. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website