There are two kinds of telepathic communication, to my knowledge. One is the kind that the Orb provides- the sorcery enabled one. This is what most Dragaerans use. This IS blocked by Phoenix Stone. The other kind is enabled by witchcraft, or is a natural talent, because Noish-pa uses telepathy with Vlad and he has not demonstrated any use of the ability of sorcery that I can recall. I'm pretty sure this is not blocked by Phoenix stone. On 6/16/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 6/16/06, Philip Hart wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > > At one point in /Athyra/, Vlad takes Savn out into the woods and > teaches > > > him to make psionic contact--and it's something he seems unfamiliar > with > > > (but, is obviously capable of, since Vlad teaches it to him). > > > > Will have to reread - thought this was a witchcraft-related thing, as > > Vlad wouldn't want to take off his phoenix stones for something minor. > > I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that the Phoenix stones block > most magic, including witchcraft. I think he does take them off for > his session with Savn, though. > > > > > > > My guess, then, is that while the ability is there, (confirming what > > > Aliera relates to Vlad in chapter 9 of /Jhereg/) Teckla don't > generally > > > get the training needed to use it. > > > > > > Odd - it must be such a huge advantage - consider cell phones vs no > snail > > mail. Maybe this is an instance of isolation/rural cultural inertia - > > perhaps that doesn't affect my argument about Easterners in or next to a > > metropolis. > > It occurs to me that psionic communication may not be encouraged > because the aristocracy fear that that good communications might allow > Teckla to co-ordinate a rebellion better. Just a thought. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20060616/88963af0/attachment.html