Re: Personal Demon

Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>This is the eighth of Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series.
It 
>starts off a little slowly, bit has a bang-up last section, which varies 
>forward various plot points. Angsty half-demon/werewolf love affair stuff
can 
>be cut around fairly easily, leaving the vast majority of the text
intact.
>
>I have a question: when sorcerers and witches were first introduced, and
we 
>were told they were separate magical races, I expected that someone would

>point out that this was plainly baloney. Either I missed it, or this
hasn't 
>happened. It hardly seems possible everyone has swallowed this line of 
>malarkey.                                               

I've always thought it pretty clear that witches and socerers are
different
races in much the same sense that europeans and africans are different
races, i.e. they're all really  members of the same species.  This isn't
like Kim Harrison's books where they really are different species and
aren't even interfertile without a lot of magic and/or dna work.

Witches and Sorcerers seem to be defined by the type of magic they have
the
most natural proclivity for.  Witches have more natural ability to work
spells that draw on internal power while socerers have more natural
ability
to work spells that draw on external power.  It was made clear from the
beginning that both sides could work the other side's spells, they just
had
more natural ability at their own types of spells.

-- 
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.  I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.  Only I will remain.
(Bene Gesserit)