: Whenever I read up about the different magic systems I always get stuck
: wondering how a theist, say, explains, rightly or wrongly, what is going
: on when some, sorceror, say, performs a magic feat.
: Or, for another example, consider an Orlanthi who's riding around on an
: air elemental, being watched by his mostali friend. What the dwarf sees
: is a highly inexpert piece of meddling with the world machine in order
: to get the Orlanthi up in the air. This dwarf might decide to help out
: by fiddling with some little device he's carrying which stabilises the
: air elemental and makes it easier to control. What does the Orlanthi
: make of the dwarf's actions? How does he explain it?
: Adding dwarf "technology" to the HW list animism, theism, mysticism and
: sorcery I can see a 5x5 list of perceptions some of which are going to
: be easy (presumably dwarves see all non-dwarvish magical action as being
: inexpert meddling with the world machine) and some harder. Can anyone
: suggest some entries?
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A good topic, and one that I've done some thinking about. To a gamer who played a silver dwarf experimental model in a rather epic game of mine I explaned something like this...
When a silver class clay mostali is looking at the magical forces of the world he does not see shifting auras. He sees a frozen, static world of field strengths and potentials, with very neat transitions from one energy state to the next.
Or rather, this is what he sees when in the caverns of the mostali, where enthropy is slowly coming to a halt and reality conforms to the mostali vision.
The outside world is one where cyclic, enthropic and disorderly forces reign, and *gasp* growth and change run wild. The mostali "magic vision" still works as it does back home, but it's subject to mind jarring changes, fluctuations and distortions.
As the mostali (among other beings) had to deal with very strong chaotic forses of grouth he was not very happy, and didn't feel too good at all.
-A
I think I think... Therefore I think I am.
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