> Has this been changed for HQ?
No, but just what this means has been changed a little, so that in many ways it does not have a major impact - it is more that it prevents access to secrets and focusing on that particular magic. So for a run of the mill Aeolian, there would be no particular consequences.
> Does the difficulty of the magic mean that their knights are much
more
> mundanely attired than the Hendriki-thanes around them? Where the
> theists enchant lightning charged chainmail and flickering
windswords,
> the double effort could make it unprofitable for the Aeolian
> wizard-smiths.
No, they still have the usual advantages of wizardry, as well as the particular advantages of urbanised societies: greater discipline, organisation and an ability to focus effort. Also, remember that, given their faith, they have specific magics to control, contain and even co-opt pagan wind magics.
There will be more details in HQ, as well as a forthcoming UW book: 'Esvulari: the Word, the Sword and the Mountain' (which will also put paid to any ideas that Simon has a chauvinist take on Esvulari women!)
All the best
Mark
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