On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:12, bonham15 wrote: > must kill this one... the reason sorcery got so advanced was simply this... > people had essentially been lifting sorcerous weights during the > interregnum, trying to do fractions of what they could before... the people > themselves had more knowledge due to the intense period of study etc etc... Unfortunately, that doesn't make sense. You're saying that when the Orb went away it was like lifting boulders without using a lever and fulcrum and instead lifting by hand. So when the level/fulcrum were usable again, they were able to lift much bigger boulders with them. But that's not what it was like. It's like going from lifting boulders with your arms to suddenly not having any arms. No matter how much you try to adjust, you're not going to do anything except hurt yourself as you uselessly throw your body against the boulder.[1] [1] The exception of course being those who switched to Elder sorcery, but based on what we saw in the books, I'm counting that as a negligable population. Jag