"Maximilian Wilson" <wilson.max at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 07/10/06 08:08 AM To "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: What are the obvious hanging plot hooks? >On 7/10/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: >> I do not doubt that Wag likely has some limited sorcerous abilities (as >> you say, he can read, and does have books on the subject, so it seems >> likely) but he's probably not even as skilled as Paresh was. He seems to >> use the chanting/herbs remedy, primarily, when healing patients. > >I can't remember--does the book ever hint that the chanting/herbs is a >form of witchcraft? Because it sounds like it could be, now that I >think of it. To the right: Vlad does, indeed, imply to Savn that the chanting/herbs technique is very similar to witchcraft. To the left: The treatments given to Vlad by Wag, Savn, and Polyi to combat his fever is done while he is wearing his Black Phoenix Stone, which would presumably block witchcraft performed to his person. (A fact that Vlad conveniently forgets to mention...) So, really, who can say? Majikjon