"Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/30/06 02:41 PM To "'Dragaera List'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject RE: the honing of Vlad (was Re: How much does Vlad *really*knowabout Kragar?) >> 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. 3) If witchcraft were capable of creating amorphia, it would have probably been banned many cycles ago, as chaos stones were. Majikjon