| From: | dartheggbert@****.com dartheggbert@****.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Magical SOTA? |
| Date: | Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:35:41 +0000 |
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Aristotle" <antithesis@**********.com>
> >
> > >
> > > SR1: The Mana rises and magic is possible.
> > > GR1: Advances in magical SOTA
> > > SR2: Some advances in magic, and the rules for it. SOTA still
> > going up.
> > > GR2: GR1 NOW obsolete, things found within are NOW updated.
> hence
> > SOTA.
> > > Awakenings: SOTA going up even further.
> > > SR3: Some minor SOTA advancements. GR2 and Awakenings not
> > obsolete.
> > > MItS: Both Awakenings and GR2 now obsolete. Things found in
> those
> > books
> > > have NOW been affected by SOTA.
> >
> > However, by that logic, the Carib League (formed in part due to
> the
> > power of
> > houngans) didn't exist until 2057, because Awakenings was the
> first
> > place to
> > deal with Voodoo. Given that most of the magical traditions of
> the
> > world
> > are assumed to suddenly start working once the Awakening happens,
> > they all
> > of a sudden radically changed form in 2057. And that doesn't even
>
> > begin to
> > cover beings like Dragons and IEs, who would have the 4th Age's
> > knowledge of
> > magic to work from, placing them far above the SOTA curve, since
> > they
> > already know how to operate more effectively at the higher mana
> > levels.
Okay, here's the way I see it...
Voudun and all the other spiffy new traditions existed before the
soucebooks came out, but at that time nothing much was known about them.
Think about it this way, Voudun and WuXun(sp) were known, and even talked
about but the Hermetics and maybe even the Shamen but as far as they knew
there was no real difference between them. They thought that Voudon was a
Shamanic path where they called their totems "Loa" and WuXun (for the
most part) was a Hermetic path that called their Elementals "Spirits of
the Elements) and unless you lived where they were practiced you never
saw them and never would know any different. Then came the articals in
MitS and Awakenings where it was shown that they are very different,
summon different classes of spirits... etc, etc. Now if a UCAS mage runs
into someone who is being ridden by a Loa he won't automaticaly think it
is a free spirit posession, or treat the Spirit of the Elements like an
Elemental. (if he has enough magical backgrouns that is) Sota also works
with wards and metamagic in the normal way, new metamagica will be
comming around everyso often and Ward theory must be changing almost as
fast as Guns and armor. ("Hey I just found a weakness in the
Finstine-Fuller Ward paragim all you do is inverse the streams and cross
you fingers") And I do believe that this works with shamen as well, they
still would have to take time (karma) to learn about the changes from
thier totems.
just my 4=Y
Czar Eggbert
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