[projectaon] Re: 21votm errata
- From: "David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:10:29 +0100
My own rationale would be more 'holistic' -
the god Kai imbued the Sommlending with innate/latent special skills and powers.
But there were not a set fixed number of these:
when the Sommlending founded their Kai Monastry, the monastry's main role was
to
find promising children and hone and bring out their latent skills.
To do this most systematically, they artificially grouped the skills into
particular Disciplines
and Lore Circles, which tutors focussing on particular areas.
However this demarcation is an artificial construct of the Monastry.
When the Monastry was destroyed, Lone Wolf had to teach himself the rest of the
basic
Kai Disciplines from memory, and he was able to use the Book of Magnakai and
the Lorestones
to attain the Magnakai Disciplines that his tutors would otherwise have taught
him.
However he then basically made the Grandmaster Disciplines up himself ;)
(and as Timothy notes, added some Old Kingdom & Left-handed magic to his tool
box)
As he re-populated the monastry,
the next generation of Kai may have decided to re-jig these into a new set of
formal disciplines
that was found to me more applicable to the average Kai Lord's talents,
rather than what Lone Wolf had come up with.
----- Original Message -----
From: Timothy Pederick
To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:01 PM
Subject: [projectaon] Re: 21votm errata
I think we all know why the Discipline counts were different for New Order
Grand Masters: expediency. Joe Dever wanted to add some new Disciplines, so he
just rejigged the rank chart to account for them.
As for an in-universe explanation? That is a thornier problem, but IMO, it's
not our problem. We're each free to come up with whatever explanation satisfies
our own desire for internal consistency; I don't think it's PA's job to provide
that for readers. And I say this as someone who does like to search for the
internally-consistent explanation. :-)
If you want my in-universe explanation... the best I've come up with is to
consider Kai-alchemy and Magi-magic as "extra" Disciplines, on top of the
"core" ten Kai Disciplines. Part of becoming a Grand Master was branching out
into the lore of other traditions; Lone Wolf had Banedon and Rimoah around, so
Brotherhood and Old Kingdom magic were obvious choices. New Order Grand Masters
have these two to choose from, plus Astrology, Herbmastery, Elementalism and
Bardsmanship -- maybe they had a Sage, a Herbwarden, and a couple of others
come along to teach them. In any case, Lone Wolf decreed, with Kai's guidance,
that New Order Grand Masters should master five other paths rather than just
two.
Of course, this doesn't explain why it's possible to master all six and not
take one of the "core" Kai Disciplines. And it doesn't explain why a Kai Grand
Master Senior now starts with four Disciplines. You could say that they start
their training in the "extra" Disciplines while still Magnakai, but that would
suggest they should start with three "non-core" Disciplines -- I certainly
never did this!
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