"Mikko Rintasaari" <mikrin_at_...> wrote:
> < On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Norbert Franz wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Do you mean the "raw" sorcery independent of the recognized churches and orders (HeroQuest, pg. 155 right)?
> > I am sure you mean _wizardry_, which of course was termed
> > Sorcery in both RuneQuest and Hero Wars.
>
> No, I'm actually looking at sorcery. The game I'm going to run in the
> summer centers around a sorcery-academy in the city of Riverjoin (on the
> Janube). Of course I'll also have to figure out the more traditional
> liturgist and wizard professions.
>
Hello,
that's cool. I like that geographical area myself... At Tentacles in 2002, I ran a short Hero Wars scenario that was set in Junora, close to Loskalm. Maybe I still have my character write-ups from there.
Currently, _if_ my HeroQuest game group continues, there is one character among the heroes who I think is likely to try to acquire some sorcery.
However, I don't think I could set up an entire game around a sorcerous school... unless all the other people in my game - warriors, thieves and scholars - would create new characters from scratch.
> That doesn't sound bad. It's pretty close to my own
> preliminary ideas, except parhaps people could be sent
> to study even younger. I'm finding inspiration from
> archeological finds of old Assyria. The scribe
> school (with both religious and magical training,
> as well as cryptology and the like) is surprisingly
> well documented after some recent discoveries.
>
Brilliant. Keep it up.
I am glad my ideas were not widely off the scale you
imagined.
> Definitely, and also live that long. In ancient China,
> people became venerable elders when they reached the age
> of sixty. A sixty year old mage will be respected, and if > powerful enough, will be titled a magus by his peers.
>
Actually, I had similar ideas, too.
One of the things I had in mind in my last e-mail was
actually something that I learned from the recent
reports about the Conclave and the new Pope.
There is hardly anybody among the cardinals who is
younger than 60, and the majority of the cardinals
are clearly in their seventies.
If Benedict XVI. lives for another ten years, most of the men who voted for him will not be allowed to vote for the next Pope, since they'll be above the age limit of 80 by then.
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