Noam Izenberg wrote: > I kind of wonder why aerial combat or Chinese Cinema-esque wire > fighting (without the wires) is not a bigger deal in general where > magic is concerned. I'd think a levitating Athyra would be a major > advantage in a field combat A) Could be that it has been tried in the past and fallen out of favor because of the relative ease of countering. (See _Dragon_ for discussion of uses of sorcery in combat.) B) I'd think that self-levitation to the degree of acrobatic maneuvering you describe would require an inordinate degree of concentration. It might make it hard to _fight_ effectively. The only self-levitation we've seen has been fairly slow moving.