[Dragaera] Cycle Surpresses Technology

[Jonathan Carey, CHRL via Dragaera]

Hmm let me clarify my response:

1) Elder Sorcery is crazy dangerous.  Sorcery is used for basically
everything these days.  But using Elder Sorcery to, say, open a wine bottle
without a feather and tongs is like powering your toddler's toy with
uranium-235.  Sure it's effective, and you can tell yourself that it's
PERFECTLY SAFE all you want, no one will EVER be comfortable letting their
kid play with it.  Because sooner or later, someone's going to work out how
to open the lead battery housing...case in point: Adron.

2) Regular Sorcery isn't amazingly effective at killing Jenoine -- but it
can be done.  Tazendra Lavode did it.  Furthermore, Sorcery is not terrible
defensively either.  Chaos Magic...it's just too risky.  If, instead of
refining their ability to handle Chaos, with the inevitable results
outlined in 1) they used the Chaos to power their advancements in other
sorcery/necromancy etc, that could be a reasonable alternative to Elder
Sorcery.

3) The Empire isn't the Cycle; it's entirely possible that the Imperial
Edict banning the use of Elder Sorcery was just some guy who happened to be
Emperor making a strategic mistake because he wasn't privy to the whole
"ultimate reason for everything" thing.  And the Cycle either chose to, or
wasn't able to, correct the error.  I mean, banning the potential
destruction of the world.  Kind of hard to mind control someone away from
that.


Regards,

Jon Carey, B.A.(Hon), CHRL, CHRP

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Jonathan Carey, CHRL <
carey.jonathan at gmail.com> wrote:

> because 1) Elder Sorcery is crazy dangerous, 2) regular sorcery is a
> reasonable compromise between being effective against Jenoine while not
> being a threat to yourself, and 3) the Empire isn't the Cycle; the Cycle is
> the Empire.  The Empire's bound to make mistakes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon Carey, B.A.(Hon), CHRL, CHRP
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Alexx Kay <alexx at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> > Very interesting.  Maybe I can flesh it out some more.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > So they need more allies.  More allies who are incredibly skilled magic
>> > users, who haven't really wasted any of their efforts along
>> technological
>> > lines.
>> >
>> > The Gods turn to the only other players who could possibly become useful
>> > allies; the test subjects themselves.  Exposed to amorphia, genetically
>> > manipulated by the Jenoine, it is not hard to turn them against the
>> > Jenoine, nor is it hard to turn some of them into "shamans" who can
>> start
>> > to control Amorphia directly.
>>
>> If this is the case, why does the Empire have a ban on Elder Sorcery?
>>
>> Alexx
>>
>> If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
>>    [Seen on a Nancy Button, www.nancybuttons.com]
>>
>>
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