> From: "Andrew Solovay" <asolovay_at_...>
seeks clarification on
> Subject: Re: Heroquest/Spiritquest/Essence Plane
>> I believe the rules are pretty explicit that learning a spell
>> requires going to the Essence Plane to interact with this essence.
>
> Except, of course, when you're learning a common magic spell.
None of what I explained was about Common Magic. The question was a about the Planes, not CM.
> Though
> I gather in that case, you're still interacting with an essence--
> it's just an essence that lives in the mundane world, like the Creek
> (or is it the Stream? I can never keep that straight).
Yes, you can go and learn the spell on the Everythign World from an esence.
> And so, isn't it possible that you could learn *that* spell through
> the kind of "practice quest" Mike describes?
YEs.
> You're following the
> steps of a saint,
Probably not a real saint. Even the "little saints" of Seshnela ae not really saints int he same sense. They are caled saints. Much as in the same way that the little church I once visited in Brittany had a stained glass window to Saint Arthur, the king. Not a real saint.
> but doing it in the mundane world. So you get an
> echo of the spell the saint had,
No saint.
> but you get it from a mundane-world
> essence (which is somehow an echo of the true essence in the
> Essential World),
If it is in the mundane world it is not in the essence world. Hmm, I
may have to
check on that. What does the book (which is not immediately handy here) say
about the spirits and entities living in the mundane world and heir connection
to their Otherworlds?
> and as a result, it's weaker magic--just a CM
> spell. Is that a reasonable possibility?
With my caveats, Yes.
> And also along those lines: You can learn a spell by interacting
> with an essence in the Essence Plane. You can learn a spell without
> leaving home, by interacting with an essence in the Mundane World.
> Can you split the difference, and learn a spell by interacting with
> an essence you find in the God's War?
Only if it is not an entity on the Essence Plane. If it was the
equivalent of a
CM essence in the world during that period of the Gods War.
> (As distinct from Mike's
> speculation, in which you go to the God's War and follow the steps
> of a saint or hero who himself contacted the Essence Plane.)
i.e.- the "normal" way.
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