> 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.
Are the Sorcerers that that the Orlanthi face the massed wizardly might of the West? Or the part sorcerer/part-theists that seem to lurk around the 'edges' of the Theistic centre of Gnertela? I don't see Makkabeans being anything like as useful as the sorcerous magicians of the West since they lack the total magical support of their society. Perhaps I am underestimating the lore of the Makkabeans and the numbe rof them who can Tap the Moon.
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