Re: Furies of Calderon (et seq)

David DeLaney wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 18:21:05 GMT, Wayne Throop <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> >
> >This remainds me: how many are are reading the Furies of Calderon
series?
> 
> >I will just comment that the magic system he's invented for the setting
> >seems quite interesting

I fell in love with the magic in _Furies of Calderon_.  It seemed like 
the perfect system for a tabletop RPG: all magic done by giving orders
to sentient elemental beings bound to your character, and gaining 
levels could increase the stats of your character's furies instead of
the character theirself (neatly avoiding that hitpoint nonsense).  And
having multiple furies would be like multi-classing.

Unfortunately, the second book revealed that "each person has one or 
two strong, named furies" only applied to folks on the frontier; most
everyone else had lots of unnamed furies of every type, and did the
usual "wi****ng makes it so" style magic.

>  (And no, I don't think the
> main guy Has No Fury At All; I think it's "just" one of a kind that
nobody
> else has ever seen and he's never learned how to command or communicate
with
> it. Yet. But see the Interesting Scene right near the end of book 3.
Caveat:
> I have not read book 4 at all yet, if it's out, and it may run roughshod
over
> my thinking.)

Actually, all the clues of what's going on are there in book three;
see final comments from Isana and Gaius for the rest of the story.

-- 
Konrad Gaertner - - - - - - - - - - - - email: kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface."
                          -- James Nicoll