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You had “ancient lost knowledge of how magic used to work in written form” all this time? And you wanted a way to keep Ember in the city? This is why you study your victims… Now Denrim is probably off informing the local inquisition and everything will be going wrong!
Oh hey it’s Ember’s backpack… I think. I wonder if Elane read through Ember’s journal/notes before returning everything to her. So magic are mostly connected to gods, are there “faithless” spell casters around where they do not rely on gods? How faithful do you have to be to have their god assist them in spellcasting? Does someone converting affects one’s magic ability?
Where does Bernin fall under this? He doesn’t seem to care for The Voice, but he did lightly participate in the ritual sacrifices Flint did back then so did that create his connection to the Voice? How does magic work if say you are acting against your patron? As Bernin is on the Tennin’s side, and wants to kill Flint, and probably now Veera which are all devout followers of The Voice.
So the god of preservation is still around even though just about everyone else deemed it to be a dead god/bloodline? So does that mean the god of death is still lingering around with a very small and secretive group of followers left? Perhaps just biding time until a good moment to resurface probably in a big wave of death as it’s a god of death after all.
Given the importance of bloodlines? I blame Divine nepotism. Bernin uses Fire magic, not Dark, so the sacrifices aren’t beneficial, and I am not convinced he even knows The Fire God exists… .
Bernin must have some good connection to a god. As he was always the most proficient with magic compared to Cole and Ember. Maybe The Voice is guiding him in his spell casting or maybe a different god perhaps on his mother’s side assuming she wasn’t a follower of The Voice. That or he is a prodigy in neutral fire magic if that is even such a thing. Who knows maybe if he decides to get some formal training to better combat Veera we might discover who is his patron, or perhaps he has been using neutral magic this entire time.
I might be crazy in this, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Flint (and steel), Bernin(burning), Cole(coal), and (glowing) Ember have a family affinity for Fire’s magic. Page 45 tells us that their mother was named Sela. Sela doesn’t ring any obvious bells to me, other than “seal”. I would assume that The Gods don’t pay much attention, and that Bernin’s genetics look good to Fire so he gets a pass to do whatever he wants unless something specific comes up to draw Fire’s attention. I imagine that becoming a demon would get you a magic ban from other gods. I don’t recall seeing demons using anything other than Dark and Death magic. That could be a once-off “you are off the list” deal though and possibly just an automatic process rather than a case-by-case basis.
I believe that the gods have physical forms, or at least can do so, as they seemed pretty physical when they were killed, but we haven’t really seen enough of them to know how they operate. It could be that they spend all their time huddled up in blankets yelling about stupid kids and their stupid prayers and all those idiots wasting good magic… or they could be largely ignorant of the whole divinity thing and it all runs in their subconscious. That said, the gods did seem to be making their own efforts to promote compatible bloodlines and forcing magic affinity by creating demons was a pretty huge deal apparently, so there do seem to be limits to who the gods can grant magic to. So I assume that just walking up to a god’s house and asking for magic won’t work, regardless of how charismatic you are.
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You had “ancient lost knowledge of how magic used to work in written form” all this time? And you wanted a way to keep Ember in the city? This is why you study your victims… Now Denrim is probably off informing the local inquisition and everything will be going wrong!
Oh hey it’s Ember’s backpack… I think. I wonder if Elane read through Ember’s journal/notes before returning everything to her. So magic are mostly connected to gods, are there “faithless” spell casters around where they do not rely on gods? How faithful do you have to be to have their god assist them in spellcasting? Does someone converting affects one’s magic ability?
Where does Bernin fall under this? He doesn’t seem to care for The Voice, but he did lightly participate in the ritual sacrifices Flint did back then so did that create his connection to the Voice? How does magic work if say you are acting against your patron? As Bernin is on the Tennin’s side, and wants to kill Flint, and probably now Veera which are all devout followers of The Voice.
So the god of preservation is still around even though just about everyone else deemed it to be a dead god/bloodline? So does that mean the god of death is still lingering around with a very small and secretive group of followers left? Perhaps just biding time until a good moment to resurface probably in a big wave of death as it’s a god of death after all.
Given the importance of bloodlines? I blame Divine nepotism. Bernin uses Fire magic, not Dark, so the sacrifices aren’t beneficial, and I am not convinced he even knows The Fire God exists… .
Bernin must have some good connection to a god. As he was always the most proficient with magic compared to Cole and Ember. Maybe The Voice is guiding him in his spell casting or maybe a different god perhaps on his mother’s side assuming she wasn’t a follower of The Voice. That or he is a prodigy in neutral fire magic if that is even such a thing. Who knows maybe if he decides to get some formal training to better combat Veera we might discover who is his patron, or perhaps he has been using neutral magic this entire time.
I might be crazy in this, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Flint (and steel), Bernin(burning), Cole(coal), and (glowing) Ember have a family affinity for Fire’s magic. Page 45 tells us that their mother was named Sela. Sela doesn’t ring any obvious bells to me, other than “seal”. I would assume that The Gods don’t pay much attention, and that Bernin’s genetics look good to Fire so he gets a pass to do whatever he wants unless something specific comes up to draw Fire’s attention. I imagine that becoming a demon would get you a magic ban from other gods. I don’t recall seeing demons using anything other than Dark and Death magic. That could be a once-off “you are off the list” deal though and possibly just an automatic process rather than a case-by-case basis.
I believe that the gods have physical forms, or at least can do so, as they seemed pretty physical when they were killed, but we haven’t really seen enough of them to know how they operate. It could be that they spend all their time huddled up in blankets yelling about stupid kids and their stupid prayers and all those idiots wasting good magic… or they could be largely ignorant of the whole divinity thing and it all runs in their subconscious. That said, the gods did seem to be making their own efforts to promote compatible bloodlines and forcing magic affinity by creating demons was a pretty huge deal apparently, so there do seem to be limits to who the gods can grant magic to. So I assume that just walking up to a god’s house and asking for magic won’t work, regardless of how charismatic you are.