Alex Ferguson wrote:
> This seems to assume that Devotee is a "profession" unto itself
(as opposed to a personal initiatory status).
No not my point. My point is that being a devotee is an attribute possessed by a specialists, not that it is a profession.
>The ultimate logic of this reasoning is that (frex) devotees of
Humakt couldn't possibly be weaponthanes, but have to be "magical
specialists", which I think no-one would seriously propose.
No, this is not 'the ulitmate logic of this reasoning'. A Humakti weaponthane is a specialist (he requires support by the clan) so he can be a devotee. IMO a Humakti weaponthane is a magical specialist. Remember that full time warriors are only a small percentage of the clana about 1% for weaponthanes, backed by some full-time warriors, so this is not going to impact the 1-5% range much.
Ian Cooper
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