[Dragaera] Is Kelly foolish?

[Philip Hart]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Howard Brazee wrote:

> On 9/24/2010 10:06 AM, Philip Hart wrote:
>> 
>> Floating castles were fairly commonplace before the interregnum.
>> M must have his own reasons for not using sorcery.  Perhaps it's a
>> good excuse to maintain a large force of witches, or a good way to train
>> one.
> And maybe it's just because that was what was available when he started - 
> especially with the common knowledge that witchcraft was scalable.   He would 
> keep it even as sorcery could duplicate it - for belts and suspenders, and 
> remembering how all of those other castles failed.

We're talking 200 years times 10k hours/y times how many witches for some 
magic number?  Those are some costly suspenders.  If the orb fails then M 
has bigger things to worry about, the J with sorcery to start with.