> The stuff about there being only four possible ways of doing magic, each
> of which is pure and distinct, is a GL scheme. And clearly bovine excrement,
> to boot. What this implies about the nature of the worlds and the entities
> that live in them, is another matter though. The GLs weren't entirely dense,
> and did have *some* idea of what they were talking about ;-)
Hmm. So the Kralori are basicly mystics "tainted" with dragonic elements, but this is doesn't matter because what they really are is a unique culture with many elements that could be identified as a part of something else, which they aren't. Oh, yeah and the lowly are tainted by the gods as well. ;) Whereas the Vithelans would be more mystical in nature, althought the dream world is also there... The GL saw their connections to the "worlds" as they called them and reduced the cultures they encountered into their basic components, althought the sum is greater than the parts.
> Greg has occasionally mentioned the 'chaos world' to me, but I don't
> think that's a world in the same sense as the Spirit World, God World,
> Underworld, etc.
That confirms some of my suspicions. Now, I know. You are right BTW, it isn't a world in the same sense...
Olli Kantola
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