MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2222 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Adepts, ... by josh gillie 2) Re: Adepts, ... by PsionicElf-+AT+-aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:57:31 -0800 (PST) From: josh gillie To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Adepts, ... Message-ID: <20000223185731.27379.qmail-+AT+-web303.mail.yahoo.com> There would be know way for ma'ar to have the energy that he would need to much in the way of the magick he did with out using nodes. --- troll-+AT+-netcomuk.co.uk wrote: > On 02/19/00 19:38:13 Aryn Silvertree wrote: > > > >Well, it seems to me as if everyone but the White > >Winds and Blue Mountain School mages used nodes as > >Adepts. Note that even Falconsbane used nodes, and > he > >was nothing like the others. > > Agreed, we don't know whether the mages of Ma'ar's > original homeland > or magical school/tradition used nodes. Bear in mind > though that in > his Falconsbane incarnation, he was > possessing/inhabiting the body > of An'desha - ie a Shin'a'in. Which begs the > question, is the ability > to use node-magic purely training-based, or genetic? > ie keyed to the > mind or the body? > > Trollhugs and chocolate sheep, > Muranog > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:18:23 EST From: PsionicElf-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Adepts, ... Message-ID: <7d.1808232.25e59a8f-+AT+-aol.com> Actually, I think it may have been discussed in the Mage Storm series that in Ma'ar and Uthro's day, there was more ambient mage energy than now, and the lessening of the ambient mage energy was accredited to the cataclysm caused by the two mages. He may not have had to access nodes. And nodes can be accessed by most mages Master classand higher, but can only be controlled by Adept class mages, regardless of race, ethnic group, gender, religion, etc. ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2222 **********************************