> 3) Members of the wizardry/sorcery schools. True, such people are not
> (necessarily) trying to emulate their founders directly. But what they are
> trying to do is forge a closer link with the runes - because their magic is
> all about manipulating the power of the pure runes and using it in the
> world. How do you get better at understanding and manipulating the powers of
> a rune? By acting in accordance with it defining traits! You may not be
> emulating a god, but you *are* trying to shape your mind to the attributes
> of the rune itself. Clearly, IMO, the better you are at doing that, the
> better your magic is going to be.
>
This all makes a lot of sense to me!
If you consecrate, empower, and attune a talisman to assit your magic -
presumably you can consecrate, empower, and attune *yourself* too?
> I would be very surprised if the runes are not as important to wizards as
> they are to theists; I can see no obvious reason why this should be so.
> Heck, since many of them use the runes themselves to power their magic,
> rather than filtering it through the distorted lens provided by some limited
> and finite god, one might even argue that the runes are actually more
> important to them than they are to the pagans.
Now *this* is really sense! <Damn grubby pagan savages...> ;)
-- John Machin "Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All." - Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
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