From: Joerg Baumgartner (rq4@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Tue 07 Sep 1993 - 23:40:24 EEST
In <3079A329EF@mkt46.wharton.upenn.edu>, you write:
> Do people who claim that RQ Sorcery is like the "Western magical tradition" of
> the Medieval period really understand what they're getting into?
> Medieval magic is NOTHING AT ALL LIKE ANY GAME ON THE MARKET.
> I may consult a few sources and post some summaries if folks have an interest,
> but there are no games at all on the market which have anything resembling
> magic as it claimed to be practiced in the Middle Ages of Europe (Ars Magica
> least of all).
Please do so, even though the information wouldn't necessarily apply to
Western Gloranthan magic.
I'm not even sure which part of medieval Europe is meant with "Western
Europe". I am somewhat familiar with Norse magics from the sagas, and
I might be able to get a copy of the witch hammer to read the church's
view on unholy magic. Do you mean renaissance-like practitioners like
Albertus Magnus, Lucretia Borghia or similar practitioners of the arcane?
Anyway, I think that our picture of medieval magic is dominated less by
historic reality than by fiction. I'm quite interested what Pendragon 5th
edition magic will bring...
-- Joerg Baumgartner rq4@sartar.toppoint.de 0,,
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