Stefan Immel wrote:
> "~misfit~" <misfit61nz RemoveThis @yahooo.co.nz> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:4473b9fe@news2.actrix.gen.nz...
>> I look forward to them . 
> Here they come
>
> Lets get back to the 3 different types of magic and how they are
> performed and compare that to what Nakor does.
>
> First there is the basic, scholar type of magic. For that most people
> need to learn spells and "cast" them. As far as I remember greater
> and lesser path may be mutually exclusive to each other but both work
> basically the same way in that you habe to learn and cast spells.
>
> Nakor never learned a spell in his live, at last not that it was
> mentioned in the books, and he doesn't seemed to cast them as well.
>
> Druidic (now that I think of it, it should be better called elven
> magic) seems to me more based on the fact that the magic user
> cummunicates with natur and "asks" her to perform certain things for
> him. In the same way Priests pray to their gods for Intervention and
> this prayer is answerd.
>
> Nakor never really prays or "talks" to natur.
>
> All three kinds of magic could be different ways to look at the same
> thing. The human mind need references to basically shape reality, be
> it that it is the structur of a magic spell or the belive in a god
> that changes the things the "caster" wants to change. In essence you
> don't need spells, natur or good to do the change for you, you
> perform the change yourself, everything else just helps your mind to
> do that.
>
> This actually fits in nicely with the concept that the gods are
> created by the humans (at least partly) and their believe in them.
>
> Nakor has a totally different, much simpler reference to shape
> reality. He uses Tricks. Actually I think he hasn't quite figured out
> how all this really works, because that's not possible for the human
> mind, but he is much nearer to the truth then most others are.
So the three types of magic are in fact all the same, just implimenting
different focal points. Most human minds being unable to accept that it they
are in fact causing the effect, uses a focus. Except for "Higher path"
magicians maybe? Including magicians like Macros, Pug, Miranda and Magnus.
To my way of thinking, lesser path magicians need a focus outside of
themselves to perform magic. Higher path magicians find the focus within
themselves. Nakor doesn't seem to need a focus as such. Maybe just all
different ways of harnesing power that some people have? Nakor's being the
most "pure" as it doesn't seem to need a focus, whether internal or
external. His talent wasn't tainted by being a product of training. He
wasn't taught that there are constraints and limits, therefore he doesn't
have any. Virtually every other magician in Ray's universe are products of
training, even Pug. The only possible exception is Macros.
Pure speculation.
--
Shaun.
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