In message (no message ID) Peter Metcalfe writes:
>At 01:22 a.m. 25/01/2009, you wrote:
>
>>Trolls didn't use Western-influenced grimoires until Arkat's time.
>
>On stylistic grounds, I really don't see Uz using grimoires. Speaking
>to the Darkness, immersion within it, building cursed artefacts and
>black temples, these are modes of magic better suited to the transmission
>of sorcerous knowledge among the Uz. Grimoires are silly little scraps
>of leather marked with stick figures that can only been seen with the
>aid of light.
They are also edible. Does the magic make them tastier? Perhaps
the magic becomes readable to darksense on the skin of the uz
that eats it.
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Donald Oddy
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