>> As I understand it, if you concentrate your magic, you aren't
limiting
>> yourself to just that one *god*--you're limiting yourself to just
that one
>> *world*. If you concentrate on Theistic magic, you can use feats
and
>> affinities from any god, including common magic feats--but you
can't use
>> spirits, spells, etc. from any school. Mind you, your *god* may
object if
>> you mix feats from different gods (if, say, a Chalana Arroy
initiate starts
>> learning "Sword" or "Headhunter" feats), but the rules won't.
>>
>> There are exceptions--e.g. a Lunar can "concentrate" in the Lunar
pantheon,
>> and thus use any Lunar spells/feats/spirits, but no non-Lunar
magic from any
>> world. (I suspect Trolls do something similar, concentrating in
just
>> Underworld or just Circle-of-Eight, but this hasn't been worked
out.) But by
>> and large, concentrating your magic doesn't limit you to a
specific god or
>> even a specific pantheon.
>>
>> As I understand it, anyway...
>>
>> --AMS
>
>That makes sense. So a Heortling can keep his 'Flesh Man' magic and
>still concentrate on Theism?
No, since Flesh Man provides talents, not feats.
>I guess then I find it odd that any
>sample characters that I have seen that have concentrated their
>magic do not keep any common magic (the Heortling healer, grazer
>cavalry soldier, esrolian sailor on Glorantha.com are good
>examples). Is it just a coincedence?
Yes and no. As Andrew stated, even though people are *capable* of retaining common magic feats when they concentrate their magic, most deities frown on this (especially when the person is a devotee).
Camo
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