>The
>Brithini dronar gets exactly nothing in the way of magic, except what the
>Zzaburi chose to cast on him.
That's not quite true. Although they don't get blessings and they don't learn spells, they do have some ability to interact with the higher planes and gain abilities from them. In Greg's Arkat Novel, the Brithini soldiers had magical fighting abilities while even the servants fetching their water had some superhuman toughness.
Admittedly these abilities might have required years to acquire...
--Peter Metcalfe
>The Malkioni peasant has direct access to magic
>of immediate relevance to him, and that magic is demonstrably related to
>religious activity.
> Of course, there are living saints, too, whose divine magic exceeds any
>parlour trick the pagan gods might provide their disciples, but they're
>obviously very few and far between (although becoming more common in the Hero
>Wars, one suspects). There are plenty of examples of this in future HW books
>on the West.
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>Forward the Golden Banner of Flame!
>Trotsky
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