On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 22:38, Toubib wrote: > > Two words on this, revivification is not strictly > Sorcery, but is a mix of sorcery and elder sorcery. Don't think so. Elder sorcery is outlawed, and revivification is somewhat common. It wouldn't be an easily purchased service on the street if it involved elder sorcery. > And apparently you don't need a link to the Orb to > preform it, since I don't think the Necromancer has a > link to the Orb(although you could have joined one of > the House after her arrival). The Necromancer is special. She is not a dragaeran, she has her own sources of power and doesn't need to use the Orb. I'm sure that when Aliera does revivification, she has to use the Orb. > But she was still quite > powerful with out a link. And teleportation worked > pre-Interregnum, it was just more difficult. Sethra > did teleport Khavreen and company as well as Aliera > and Mario. When Sethra performed a teleport in order to save the Orb, that was the *first* succesfull teleportation. It was rumored to have been done before then, but never proven. It took all that Sethra had (including drawing on the power of Dzur Mountain) to do it. Now Vlad, who admits he is a poor sorceror, can perform teleports. > Personally I think it's more likely that > wizards during the Interregnum got stronger from the > strain of preforming the most minimal task during the > Interregnum. I think I read that somewhere. I used to think the same, then I thought about it more, and read PotD. Only those that had branched into elder sorcery were able to do anything during the Interregnum, and there aren't many who had done that. Those few may have grown stronger due to their forced reliance on elder sorcery, but those who didn't switch to elder, had nothing. They didn't even try, they just did nothing. > > I don't remember it being said that the Orb draws > power from the Lesser Sea of Chaos. You mean Greater? > But in Issola it's > said that the Orb would know if the Jenoine were > taking power from the Great Sea of Chaos due to the > link between the Orb and the Great Sea, but that the > Orb wouldn't know about the drainage on the Lesser > Sea. Which to me points to there being no link between > the two, thus no extra power from the Lesser Sea. That's right, its implied in _Issola_ that there is no link between the Orb and the Lesser Sea of Chaos. Although I do wonder if there might be a linke between [ISSOLA Spoiler]GodSlayer and the Lesser Sea of Chaos. We don't know enough about GS to know if it would be needed, but it would be interesting if they were linked, like the Orb and the Greater Sea are linked and Pathfinder and Dzur Mountain are linked.