Melissa Fitzgerald <meersan at mn.astound.net> writes: > At 11:29 PM 6/17/02 EDT, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: -snip- > >And does this really tell us what the heck a "wizard" really is, or what > >exactly the branch of magic called "wizardry" entails? > > Vlad famously says that wizards are "like sorcerors, only more so". Issola has a whole bunch of stuff on wizardry. ** p154-155 ** "Your [Vlad's] education # is sadly lacking." [primer Orb-sorcery, Greater Sea, necrophia, resonance, correspondence] [primer on Elder sorcery, amorphia] [primer on necromancy, necrophia, amorphia, energy levels of life-states] [primer on witchcraft, understanding] (Gee, this would have been more helpful if my notes had included summaries of the primers. Maybe later....) > Morollan is a wizard--according to _Issola_ he is the Court Wizard (an > imperial office). Apparently, wizards have staffs, which are occasionally > invisible. I vaguely recall something that stated wizards store their > souls in their staves. At any rate, Morollan says he never goes anywhere > without his stave. In Athyra, Savn has all sorts of ideas about what a wizard is, and Vlad isn't entirely helpful. p35: [Savn on wizards] "they live forever", "[invulnerable] because they keep their souls in magic boxes without any way inside {oh, really?}", "they can make you do things you don't want to do" [Vlad laughs] "Well, then I'm certainly not a wizard." {yet! rather than, "that's crap but I'm too polite to say so"} p38: [Vlad lectures Savn] "Dark Water", "necromancy", "stagnant and contained # weaken and repel the undead", "flowing free # prolong their life" pp54-56: [Savn reads from "The Book of the Seven Wizards"] {not gods?} "She Who Is Small", "Truth in Mystery" [past --> present] "She Who Is Tall", "Truth in Silence" [after song] "She Whose Hair Is Red", [power of words] "He Whose Eyes Are Green", [re-buried secrets] "He Whose Hair is Dark", "pleasure # in the search" "the Gentle One", "it is said" {!}, "order and method" "The Master Of Rhyme", "searches for the Way of the Wizards", "Secret", "Truths", "Men" p84: [Vlad lectures on necromancy] {accurate? how much does he really know?} p85: ["undead" != "vampire"; Vlad assert Loraan is undead, but] "perhaps he is not a vampire. # Sethra is # but # eats and drinks, and requires very little blood" p85: [Savn] "What other sorts of undead are there?" {yeah, what!?} p145: [Wag] "thick and grey solution {pus} # of death" {right color?} "Necromancers are known to use it for evil purposes" - tky