>Peter Metcalfe:
>>Flintnail was a rock mostali (and true mostali cannot by definition be
>>apostate IMO)
>
>A non-apostate mostali associating with a half-elf?!?
Yup. Mostali associated with Elves during the Broken Council and were not apostate for it no matter what the Decamony thought.
Steve Martin:
>I would retain the Divine Magic, but would also add some alchemy stuff in
>as well. Because ...
>
>Peter Metcalfe>If the mostali use spirit magic then they are apostate.
>>However since Flintnail was a rock mostali
>Actually, all indications have Flintnail being the same as Isidilian the
>Wise, the famous Dwarf of Dwarf Run, who is a Quicksilver Mostali.
Look at the spells of the Flintnail Cult. It's solely concerned with masonry and cutting stone. How does a Quicksilver come to teach these magics? I think the identification of Flintnail with Isidilian to be spurious on these grounds alone.
>>(and true mostali cannot by definition be
>>apostate IMO), then the cult must be sorcery-using.
>
>Although true Mostali by definition cannot be apostate, that doesn't mean
>that a cult founded by a half-human son could not be apostate -- I see no
>reason to convert the Flintnail cult to sorcery, and lots of reasons not
>to -- they are more fun as parodies of humans, but better at many things
>than humans themselves. Their spells would be difficult to convert to
>sorcery spells, but work fine as Divine spells. The very
>closely-connected Pavis cult does not use sorcery, and I would think that
>if the Flintnail cultists did, the Pavis cultists would as well, since
>Pavis was a sorcery-using EWFer, by all accounts.
Given these arguments, I think it would be best to have a two-tiered cult system in which the humans ignorantly use magic in a theistic sense (ie the cult founded by his half-human son) with the rock dwarves mindlessly carrying out their original tasks with a few open handists managing relations between the two. Despite what you say, there are ample sorcery analogues for the flintnail cult magic (Mould Rock = Form/set Rock, Shape Metal = Form/set metal, Support = Stablize Masonry, and Warrior of Stone = Animate Stone). So why would the mostali need to apostatize to learn divine magic? Furthermore, if the Flintnail mostali were apostate, most of them would be dead over the six-hundred plus years and there are apparently no other dwarves other than the masons.
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