Scott Schultz wrote: >Wild speculation follows. > >The interesting thing about this is not neccesarily that he might become a >powerful sorceror overnight. It's that it offers him a vehicle to "see" >sorcery through the filter of his witchcraft training. He might not >understand "structured programming techniques" used by a master sorceror. He >could, however, understand how to use Witchcraft to put "flowchart elements" >together in certain ways "because it feels right". > >Rather than becoming the world's greatest sorceror as someone like Loraan >might become, he will become the first and only person to practice a new >kind of "wizardry" that melds the science of Sorcery and the art of >Witchcraft together into a new and unprecedented kind of magical effect. > > > > The difficulty will be in convincing us that he can slowly learn to wield the power we saw without turning Vlad into a Superman before Steve's ready. He can simply say that Steve can't do all of that, attributing it to not being in those extraordinary circumstances. Eventually though, similar circumstances can occur again for some type of desired climax. On the other hand, such an enlightening weapon can allow personal growth and temptations Steve has to be more interested in how to use GodSlayer to make his cycle of stories work than to make it a deus ex machina.