> Richard Crawley:
>
> IMO the dwarves do not learn magic like the humans do (ie no
> liturgists, wizards delving into scrolls etc). They learn
> their magic by going onto a Node (appropriate to their caste)
> and learning from the Diamondwarf there. The primal nodes
> are beyond most dwarves (being on the Malkioni equivalent
> of the Saint Plane). Instead they go to occupational nodes
> on the Spell Plane (such as musketer, tamestone controller,
> heretic deprogrammer etc).
It was implied to me that dwarf 'spells' are actually formatted body
parts -- thus, a dwarf's talisman-analog and grimoire is actually a
part of the mostali's body.
Jeff