[Dragaera] Is Kelly foolish?

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Fri, September 24, 2010 10:52, Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:
>> There's another factor here, in regards to lifting up Easterners -
>> spending 100 years to train to be a competent sorcerer is nothing at all
>> to a Dragaeran, but it's more than a lifetime for most Easterners. It
>> may be that Easterners simply don't have the lifespan required to train
>> in anything more than the simplest schools of sorcery. Hence, you'll
>> never see an Eastern Wizard. (Though Laszlo appears to have figured out
>> a way around that problem.)
>
> Teldra notes this as one of the reasons for Dragaeran attitudes toward
> Easterners: all Easterners are young and callow. Partially mitigating
> this is that Easterners mature faster (physically and mentally) than
> Dragaerans do.

We're probably just up against the basic problem of Dragaeran lifespan in
these books, again.  There's no indication they're especially slow
learners, and there's no indication that they actually become tremendously
more competent than humans in the things they study.

We don't actually know that much about sorcery, though; that might be a
special case.

How long has Morollan been studying witchcraft again?  And he's got some
great chops, but is he off the charts?  (Vlad is a young and somewhat
unfocused practitioner of witchcraft, remember.)  Of course he's fairly
young, and he's a first-rate sorcerer too.
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