[projectaon] Re: Footnotes Redux--Revenge of the Deathlord

  • From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:24:23 +0100

On Thursday 09 February 2012, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Simon Osborne 
<outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [27] (Section 162) It is impossible to reconcile the statement that
> > Old Kingdom magic is ‘older…than the Deathlord’s vile necromancy’
> > with the timeline presented in The Magnamund Companion, ‘Magnamund
> > Then and Now’ and the statements about the origin of magical power
> > in ‘The Realms of Northern Magnamund: The Birth of Magnamund’ and
> > ‘The Realms of Southern Magnamund: Man, Magic, and the Moonstone’
> > in that same book. According to The Magnamund Companion, magic
> > entered Magnamund with the Elder Magi long after Agarash and his
> > minion, the Deathlord.
> > 
> > SO: "propelled by Old Kingdom magic, an arcane art" -> "propelled
> > by Ixian Witchcraft, an arcane art"
> 
> Interesting choice. Better than the confusion in the original.

Hmm. I wonder whether this shouldn't be "Ixian witchcraft", i.e. with 
lower-case witchcraft (just as the lower-case magic).


Regards,
Ingo

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