| From: | "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Thanks Ed, I needed the help! |
| Date: | Wed, 14 Apr 1993 18:50:49 -0700 |
The binding ritual refers to the linking of the mage and the elemental. It
doesn't have to mean coercion. How is it that a mage can summon the elemental
from where ever it is during down time to himself with a one action? Because
the two have been bound together. That's also why a mage can only have a
limited number of bound elementals at once. You can only link yourself to so
many spirits, just like how magicians can only be linked to so many foci at
once.
Now Free Elemental pulling themselves all the way to the material plane is
pure speculation on your part. Remember that the True Name is gained at the
point of release. If this was not true than the mage would already know the
elementals True Name, because he would have to use it to enslave the Free
Spirit. Plus this doesn't explain why Allies and Nature spirits are so much
weaker than Free Spirits.
Ally is not a misnomer either. When the magician first gets the ally, they
are strangers to on another. But after being together for a while, and if the
magician treats the ally well and improves on its abilities, then the spirit
is not required to attempt to escape. In fact it might sacrifice its own force
to save its master/friend. In fact depending on how close the ally and master
are, the ally might go free and stay with him!
And another point. Isn't it awfully convient that Elementals have abilties
that are a perfect match to a hermetic mages needs? Makes you think the mage
made the elemental with is own needs in mind doesn't it? But that would mean
they didn't exist before they were conjured!
Gee, Ed, my conscious is even clearer now than when I made my last post.
Also, I find it ironic that you take relief in being a decker, the most
notorious thieves, robbers, and generally all-round troublemakers the world has
ever known, while we discuss the possibility that mages just might be slavers.
I think I will claim the moral high ground for now.
See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker
