Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >>There is more than one type of psychic communication. Vlad and Loiosh >>can communicate clearly despite the Phoenix Stones' disruption of >>psychic/sorcerous energy, due to the familiar/witch bond. Nobody can > >Yeah, well, I've always seen this as a case of plot convenience, more than >anything else, since Brust never explains how a witch/familiar bond is >different from normal psychic contact. > > We do know of some real differences. Witchcraft works in the Halls of Judgment. Psychic powers work where sorcery fails. The Serioli and certainly the Jenoine have other magics. What is unclear is how much of these differences are innate and how much of them are developed. We know that Orb based sorcery allows for a convenient way for Dragaerans to do a lot of magic - while greatly reducing the risks of repeating the disasters of the past. This doesn't mean that sorcery has lost the power that it once had - only that the convenient tool is designed for other goals. Can we have Einstein's theory of magic bringing everything together without destroying everything?