Re: Wizardly HQing

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:37:14 -0400

On Fri, 2005-29-07 at 14:54 -0500, Mike Holmes wrote:
> I think that for wizards, per se, heroquesting is very different. The magic
> of adept wizardry comes not from worshiping anyone, but from study of the
> essences. Sorcerers (in the sense of an adept who doesn't belong to a school
> sponsored by a church) are proof of this. It seems to me that wizardry
> heroquests are all about doing the sort of things that Zzabur did, meaning
> going to the heroplane and tracking down certain essences, and learning
> about them, etc.

I think it will have to be something like that. And even that seems a bit of stretch from something that really looks like it should be modelled after straight up studying in books.

> Yeah, this may seem somehow "dry" as compared to the sorts of heroics that
> we think of associated with theism, etc, but that doesn't mean that such a
> quest would be without perils. The oddity of these quests, I think, probably
> tend to drive a lot of wizards mad, or at least make them the eccentrics
> that they tend to be.

I like that idea. It certainly gives us our wacky wizards.

LC