Re: Re: Common magic

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:31:23 +1300


At 04:55 PM 2/4/05 -0600, you wrote:

>Me>But Nils's argument was that it was either/or. And that was in
> >response to the question how one can distinguish a common
> >magic feat from a common magic spell etc.

>No, I believe that his argument was that you got X magic from Y sort of
>being.

>Spirits - charms
>Essences - spells
>Daimones - feats

>If somthing is more than one of these, then it seems to stand to reason that
>they could give more than one type.

But he didn't say that something could be more than one of these and I find the concept of labelling something as a spirit/essence, frex, to be hideously unelegant and catergorically pointless.

>And Nils is right,
>it explicitly says the above about where these sorts of magic originate.

In the context of _common_ magic, where does it say these magics originate?

--Peter Metcalfe

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