> Mikko asks:
>
> > 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 it mean that they have more difficulties creating new spells? If their sorcerous spells are actually sorcerously channeled theistic feats...?
> > 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.
Indeed? A rather impressive bunch.
> 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!)
Marvelous. Thank you Mark for the ansvers.
-Adept
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