Dragaera

Some thoughts on the Orb

Sun Nov 2 20:42:58 PST 2003


On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote:

> Aliera, explaining sorcery & elder sorcery: "Sorcery is the art of

snip

>
> Aliera, explaining necromancy:  "The art of using necrophia, and

snip

> Presumably, legal revivification (and other legal necromancy) is
> done only by using necrophia to control the energy levels of
> different life-states.
>
> But it is presumably also possible to use direct amorphia-manipulation
> to do so.
>
> I suspect that just as Daymar is personally able to use psionics to do
> things directly without using the Orb, perhaps the Necromancer is able
> to directly control the energy levels of different life-states, using
> only her mind and will.


This is an excellent summary of our Vlad-hobbled scholarship on the magic
in question.  I would have phrased the last time differently - the
Necromancer may [must] have access to magical technology that Aliera
doesn't know about.