On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, S Lumley / s piotto wrote: #Ok, there's Loiosh... and Rocza.... # #And that's about it. # #Why don't we ever see any of the other Easterners in the books with #familiars? Is witchcraft that uncommon? Or is Vlad a particularly #skilled witch? Or did the whole thing fall out of practive with #Easterners in general and Vlad just did it to annoy people? # #Or did he simply feel so isolated and lonely in dragaeren culture that #he honestly felt that this would be his closest shot to finding a true #friend he could trust with his life? # #I don't think that witchcraft is all that common, I agree with you. I don't think most Easterners are witches. Witchcraft seems to be Noish-pa's source of income in the Easterner ghetto of Adrilankha, which strongly suggests that it's not something available in most households, at least at his level of ability. # despite what we see in the books. Eh? What suggestions do we see that it's common? #I don't think Vlad is considered average, not by any means, but I #don't think of him as an Uber Witch either. Heck, Noish pa gave him #the anti vomit charm and Vlad never even thought of it. I believe that #Morrolan might be a more powerful witch (warlock?), but then again Definitely "witch". That's the word used of Morrolan. We don't have a lot of basis of comparison. Do we see any other witches than Vlad & Noish-pa, except maybe Cawti and apart from POTD? Noish-pa seems extraordinarily competent: witch, swordsman, surrogate parent. Vlad had his guidance in becoming a witch. -- Mark A. Mandel