Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:12:29PM -0600, 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... > > You can't kill this because the text is inconsistent. > > Vlad in _Phoenix_ reports Verra as telling him sorcerers > got better with practices. I believe she actually denies any tampering with th Orb (and unfortunately, _Phoenix_ isn't part of the book search yet). > But in _Paths of the Dead_ Paarfi has the gods upgrading > the Orb. They discuss it; we're never told if they do or not. (And Paarfi practically admits to making up that entire chapter.) In LoCB we watch them receive the news that a healing took place that would have been impossible pre-Interregnum. I can't remember how they reacted. > Maybe that's why sorcery's more powerful -- the load went > down, literally... Cute, but there's too many people in Vlad's time using sorcery at levels equal to or greater than in LoCb. --KG