> I wonder if perhaps witchcraft can be used to create amorphia? But up > until Vlad, no witch had been knowledgeable of the possibility, and > desperate and stupid enough to try it (and Vlad just didn't realize > that it was witchcraft that he had done). Two arguments against: 1) Witchcraft doesn't work like that. Every witchcraft spell we've witnessed was one that took a great deal of preparation and had a substantial buildup to a climax wherein the spell was released and imposed its effects on the world. "Instant on" is a hallmark of sorcery. Besides, it seems highly unlikely that Vlad could do anything with Witchcraft and not realize how he was accomplishing it. 2) Dragaerans were derived from Easterners (Terrans) and they are able to learn and perform witchcraft just as Easterners can. If every Easterner can do it then by extension every Dragaeran can do it and Aliera is wrong about it being specific to the e'Kieron line. With his background, Morollan likely takes witchcraft more seriously than the average Dragearan but he's not the first Dragaeran to study it. If it could produce anything like Vlad's ability then it ought to be well known and, in fact, it would give Dragaeran sorcerous society a reason to give it serious study instead of look down on it for its limitations versus the mechanical style of Orb-based sorcery.