Kenneth Gorelick <pulmon at mac.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/11/06 07:07 AM To Jon_Lincicum at stream.com cc dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info, SKZB List <dragaera at dragaera.info> Subject Re: the honing of Vlad On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >> <snip> >> >> Now, these were Left-Hand sorceresses, so they've had some training in >> magic, and it's not impossible that one or more of them *might* <snip> >What self-respecting Dragaeron sorcerer(ess) would lower him/herself >to learning witchcraft (which is what I believe you intend by the use >of the word "magic", jon. I am unfamiliar with the latter concept in >the Brustian universe--there are sorcery, elder sorcery, necromancy, >wizardry (which combines the first 3) and witchcraft. Sorry, I used the word "magic" there just to be a synonym for "sorcery". I had already used the word "sorcereress" in that sentance, and I didn't want to sound redundant by saying "sorcery" later in the same statement. (As an aside, we don't really know if those particular left-hand sorceresses were necromancers, regular sorcerers, wizards, or maybe had studied witchcraft, but I didn't mean to imply that witchcraft was what they had specifically studied.) It is worth remembering, however, that with the Interregnum having ended only 240 years before this event, most sorceresses of the Left Hand at that point had likely lived during the Interregnum, and many may have studied witchcraft as an alternative form of magic while the Orb was gone. I suppose this idea applies equally to Elder Sorcery, as well. Majikjon