Re: Common Magic and religion

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:06:35 -0700


Light Castle wrote:
>
> Mind you, there is the whole question of determining what the line is
> between common magic and specialized magic, other than arbitrarily
> saying one is one or the other.

My understanding is, common magic is magic that originates in the Middle World; specialized magic is magic that originates in an Otherworld.

If you find a spirit that lives in a local tree and bind it into a charm, that's common magic. If you cross into the Spirit World and bind the spirit, that's specialized.

If you learn a spell that draws on some middle-world source of power (like the Creek, or is it the Stream?) that's common magic; if the source of power is a node in the Essence Plane, that's specialized.

If you learn a feat from a godling that lives in the middle world (like the River, or the local hill god), that's common; if you have to enter the Godworld to learn the feat, that's specialized.

And talents draw on the caster's innate power, so they're all common.

Is this understanding valid, or am I off-base here? I think I offered it once before and was not immediately corrected.

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