If I understand what you've said, your argument works in exactly the opposite direction from what Joe has going on. LW's understudies are required to have learned 3 _more_ Disciplines to attain the same levels of Grand Mastery that LW did.
Ben On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Sam Seaver wrote:
I wonder if we can make a before/after distinction with regards to the Lodestones and/or the training from his wizardly companions, because, evidently, 'Silent' Wolf and his former mentors/companions did not have access to such knowledge/wisdom/training, so his understudies could become Kai Supreme Masters with less effort/discipline than LW did himself... Or does that not make sense? On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Benjamin I Krefetz <krefetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Simon Osborne wrote:And the footnotes and other non-errata. Some of those affect all 8 NO books. For example, how do we start the Levels of New Order Kai Grand Mastership at #4 instead of the usual #1?That's one that's really bugged me ever since the New Order books first came out. From an out-of-story perspective, Joe must've said something like, "I named 12 levels in the Grand Master series, but now I've added 4 Disciplines and still only have names for 12 levels. Guess I'll just shift them up by 3." This leads to other issues as well. E.g., improved Disciplines that Lone Wolf got when he had 5 Disciplines, the New Order Kai can't get until they've learned 8 Disciplines. And of course we have the ongoing debate about how one can be a Kai Supreme Master when one's only learned 15 of 16 Disciplines. My personal vote is to leave everything in this department as is, simply because the New Order series isn't complete, so we don't know how Joe's going to handle it in the remaining 4 books. Once 29tsoc is released, we can go back and change 21-28 to agree if Joe's made any changes to the table. Ben ~~~~~~ Manage your subscription at http://www.freelists.org/list/projectaon~~~~~~ Manage your subscription at http://www.freelists.org/list/projectaon