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> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Bryce Glover <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Fan Shoar > Date: November 26, 2017 at 7:35:18 PM EST > To: Indagare <[email protected]> > Cc: MKGuild <[email protected]> > > One last thing, Indagare: > >> On Nov 24, 2017, at 8:30 PM, [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ⋮ >> >> Shamanistic magic is highly developed in Fan Shoar, though it is different >> from that of Galendor. It includes much more alchemy and the use of familiar >> spirits (generally small, elemental beings that take on the shape of an >> animal) is common. Shamans in Fan Shoar can produce a wider variety of >> effects than most in Galendor can accomplish because they can also detect >> raw magic and regularly treat with elemental spirits who are sometimes >> considered members of a given empire or tribe and who often align themselves >> in defense. Extreme care is taken when dealing with any extrapljnar being, >> however, particularly those from the Heavens and Hells. >> >> ⋮ > > You know, now that I think about it, a set of magic techniques like this > bears a certain partial resemblance to the ‘furycrafting’ > <http://codexalera.wikia.com/wiki/Furies>system used in Jim Butcher > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Butcher>’s Codex Alera series > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera>, which I just started reading > while eating for the next book in that same author’s The Cinder Spires series > <http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/cinder-spires>, though odds are that other > franchises could have implemented something similar even though I don’t know > about it/them personally. In any case, have you thought about letting > Tigmest magicians involve some of the totems, personal or otherwise, that are > part of their culture when they cast spells? I imagine they might be able to > use them as mystical focal points and energy stores, similarly to how other > settings might contain magical artifacts usable in one or both of those ways. > > > Intrigued and curious, > WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly/RandomDSdevel
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