[Dragaera] follow up

[Rebecca Harbison via Dragaera]

Well, one thing that comes to mind is that raw chaos is generally presented
as dangerous enough that even people who can use it will use the Orb if
they can (beyond the legality).  Most of the uses of Elder Sorcery we've
seen (IIRC -- can't check my books) were at places/times when the Orb was
unavailable, or to do things that can't be done other ways (such as Adron's
attempt to hack the Orb itself).  Or by accident by the desperate (Vlad).

If you want to do something big, or something complex, you might want to
use something more than your own mind/minds, the same way most people
giving a speech would have an outline or notes to stay coherent, or a
painter would do a sketch.

-- Becca Stareyes

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Jonathan Carey, CHRL via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

> "Ah ha, that's what pre-Empire sorcery is, the sorcery of the Jenoine."
> "To be more precise, pre-Empire sorcery is direct manipulation of raw
> chaos..."
>
> That seems to require me to rework my theory, though perhaps only a little
> bit.  Perhaps the Jenoine sorcery only came about after they had limited
> success getting their subjects to be able to do what they wanted, but
> enough success that they started splicing it into themselves.  Such that
> the original wielders of Chaos Magic, the humans, entirely forgot that the
> sorcery wasn't originally the Jenoine's...just that the Jenoine were who
> put it into the humans in the first place.
>
> Because if the Jenoine could already manipulate raw chaos...why'd they need
> the trellanstone?  (either the one that makes up the orb, or the one that
> is later discovered on that other planet)...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon Carey, B.A.(Hon), CHRL, CHRP
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