I'm with you so far
>
> A talent is an inherent magical gift; a feat requires sacrifice and
> emulation.
This too, makes sense, and just as we might detail the physical form of our charms and the words or actions of our spells, we might note down what sacrifices we are required to make to maintain the favour of our Gods
> A "See in the Dark" talent might mean you have a Puma
> Person ancestor and you've got the mythic "gene" that lets you do
> that, it just works.
Except you can learn Talents - Flesh Man, for instance teaches them, so they can't *just* be innate abilities. (Again, this is part of my confusion. Why isn't Flesh man one of the "folk heroes" that provides Common Magic feats rather than talents?)
> A "See in the Dark" feat means that you have to
> offer some worship to, say, Owl-Woman and dedicate all the mice
caught
> in your mousetraps to her, and act like her when you want to use
this
> power.
>
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