Re: Where Does One Get the *Good* Common Magic?

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:38:58 -0700


DaveCamo_at_... wrote:
>
> It has more to do with (for lack of a better term) power level. For
> instance, Oakfed as compared to a local fire spirit. Weaker entities
> are generally tied to a specific location so that small fire spirit
> may be tied to that really warm rock on your clan's tula. [...]
>
> Oakfed, however, isn't bound to some small rock. He's not some piddly
> little fire spirit. He's Oakfed, *The* Wildfire.

Of course, if people stop worshipping/propitiating Oakfed, he might dwindle. In a thousand years, he might seem to be just a minor spirit, tied to that one gorge north of the Block (the gorge where, as it happens, Jaldon led a huge ceremony to him way back when). But if people start telling the old stories again, he'll grow.

Similarly, that little warm rock on your tula may be the home of a petty spirit. But it may also be the home of a majestic spirit who's diwndled here in these strange, theistic lands (perhaps he accompanied the Golden Horde, then was stranded by the Dragonkill). If your hero honors him, he may grow--who knows? If your hero makes him famous, he'll grow faster. Just the fact that a player-hero has his charm (and takes him on great quests, maybe even into the hero plane) may bump him up from the "local, gets weaker if you leave home" kind of charm to the "applies everywhere" kind of charm--or even further!

Just random maunderings...

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