[Dragaera] Is Kelly foolish?

[Philip Hart]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Scott Schultz wrote:

>
>> One apparent change is increased literacy, which leads to the ability to do
> sorcery, which fixes many of the social problems
> [...]
>> Mark

Hmm, I seem to be not getting a fair number of posts in this thread.


> Sorcery isn't simple. Vlad knows a few handy spells, but his study has never
> gone beyond that and it may be that his skill is just that limited. If it
> was so dead simple that anyone could learn it and be proficient, then
> everyone would already be proficient.

He's been pretty busy in his short life.

> As an example of an Easterner who learned sorcery, Vlad doesn't really lend
> a lot of weight to an argument that sorcery, in and of itself, improves
> one's quality of life.

Vlad would be dead many times over without the sorcery he learned as a 
kid.