----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: theft and magic <snip> > In Jhereg it turns > out someone (maybe even Kiera?) stole an important book from Morrolan - it > seems to me he ought to have been able to find it by sorcery or witchcraft > unless there's some set of counterspells for fences... > It seems to me that a book or another inanimate object is much less unique than say a person. I'd have to agree that it ought to be possible to track an item like that, but also I think you'd have to do something preemptively to that object. On the flip I'd think witchcraft could do this natively. Since Morrolan used the book his aura or presence is there at least a little and we know you can track a weapon to its owner with witchcraft, this is different but similar enough. Also Morrolan would have to think of doing that, and care enough to take the time to do so, IIRC that book was an illegal text (am I imagining that?) so confronting whomever now had the book about it having been his may cause 'other' problems.