> Although, perhaps you are > merely implying that the Dragaeran sorcerer would do it by taking up > witchcraft? > Yes, that's it exactly. The theory being proposed was that Witchcraft could be used to create amorphia, and that this was a reason to supress the knowledge because South Adrilankha (not to mention the East) would be full of walking time bombs. My point was that any sorceror can learn Witchcraft. The fact that they don't is indicative of the fact that they find nothing useful about doing so. Summoning amorphia would be, if not useful, at least something significant enough to learn the ability. In other words, the people you'd need to guard against wouldn't be the ignorant oppressed Easterners living in your slums or the supersitious Easterners halfway 'round the world who had never even heard of amorphia. It'd be your local sorcerors who might have the ability (or the temerity at least) to try and use an amorphia summoning spell to further their own agendas. If it can be done with Witchcraft then, by definition, it is NOT an Easterner only ability. Dragaerans can perform Witchcraft just as effectively as an Easterner, assuming that our hypothetical Dragaeran has had the proper training. Since we know that only Dragaerans of a certain lineage are able to do this trick, we know by inference that it is NOT a witchcraft-based ability. Therefore, there's no reason to supress the information in order to prevent Easterners from hearing about it. In fact, it sounds rare enough in Dragaerans that I'd imagine that your average Dragaeran sorcer doesn't even know about it except as possibly a theoretical concept.