Re: Arkat

> From: "Nick Brooke" <Nick_Brooke_at_tekzRpTfyO16E3cT8duLtJXKiVYKPl9s4DM6fdqqfHSWb6XMcmoAl7oW0aHSGF8E.yahoo.invalid>
>Dave writes:
>
>> Unless Trollish sorcery is to be retconned, [Arkat] was capable
>> enough as a sorcerer to found a sorcerous tradition while
>> simultaneously utilising trollish magics. Now, this could all be
>> explained as as misapplied worship, but I don't think so.
>
>OK, but trolls are weird, and troll magics are weird too, cf. HW-NB p.24.
>This has "special case" written all over it. Besides, I don't get the
>impression troll sorcerers are simultaneously theist worshippers to any
>noteworthy/powergaining extent. It's *possible* Arkat provided the
>resources, the teachers and the secrets, but couldn't use sorcery himself as
>a troll.

I'm leaning to the view that Arkat started as a sorceror, stayed as a sorceror, and just took the Otherworld and advancement penalties on the chin.

Thom             Received on Tue 06 Jun 2000 - 04:12:56 EEST