From: Steven E. Barnes (akuma@best.com)
Date: Sun 07 Apr 1996 - 07:31:31 EEST
> From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
> Because Spirit Magic is limited magic. Its usuage is almost mundane.
> IMO A spirit magician would understand his magic as working like this:
>
> _IF_ I chant A and gesticulate B _THEN_ My Sword will burst into Flames.
>
> He would know that if he alters A or B, then his spell will not work.
> For him to imagine changing the effect to 'So-and-so's Sword will burst
> into flames' would imply that either A or B would have to be changed.
> But that would mean that his spell won't work so he can't change the
> effect. As this is spirit magic, the forces involved are intuitive
> and personal and not subject to rational analysis.
However, man is an animal capable of learning. Since they
have been using Spirit Magic in some form for thousands of
years, I believe they have a pretty good idea of what their
spells can, and cannot do.
Maybe back in 100ST, people insisted that Fireblade only worked
on *your* sword, and that Firespear was a completely different
spell. By now, enough "crazy" people have learned through
experimentation what is written in the rules book. The possible
ways Gloranthans could re-interpret their myths to justify such
increases in knowledge are left an exercise for the pedagogues on
the digest...
- -steve
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