Dragaera

[SKZB] Great Cycles [was Reborn Phoenix]

Fri Apr 29 22:34:54 PDT 2005


On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, James Griffin wrote:
> >From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
> >
> >On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Bryan Newell wrote:
> >
> > > "Everyone I've asked insists that this thing *is* the Cycle in every
> > > meaningful way, not merely its physical manifestation.  I can't make
> > > sense of that, but if you can, more power to you, so to speak."
> >
> >Here "more power to you" strikes me as odd.  I think the Translator seldom
> >renders Vlad's speech into what comes across to me as slang.

> What if it's not slang?
> Now THAT sends shivers down my spine. (so to speak.) What if that is one
> test of a wizard (witch/sorcerer/ElderSorcerer wrapping the arts together
> with your soul in one object) as described per Issola: to comprehend the
> physical manifestation of The (real/manifest) Cycle in the Paths.
> IOW, you gain some sort of mystical power by comprehending The
> (real/manifest) Cycle in the Paths.


This is an Amberesque idea, but I don't like it because it would make
a mockery of Aerich's conversations with Adron in _FHYA_.