Re: IG

From: morganconrad_at_...
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:04:19 -0000

Skipping from the peasants to the Western upper classes who actually fight the barbarians, there seems to be a belief that you've got the Abiding Book (just how official is this book?) with plenty of awesome spells to protect you from the brute pagan barbarians.

But in the Sartar books (currently on loan, hope I remember right) the Orlanthi tactic against western style knights and sorcerers explicitly emphasizes the use of lightning bolts to take out their magi. And this must work fairly well, since the western types are *not noted* as unusually tough enemies, unlike the Lunars.

If the powerful magi can't protect themselves, these arguments that their magic is so infinitely superior ring false.