>>6074849Q: Do you possess Magic Arts.
>No.>All the Boons of the Lady have been withdrawn.Q: The fate of all borrowed power. How many are like you?
>Many.>All Clerics, all Shamen, all Priests, all Paladins, all Sorcerors that Compact with Familiars>Principled or not>Moral or notQ: Then your world is weak. The presence of indulgent "gods" leaves you weak. All that seek not self stay weak.
>It may be so said.Q: Are there no other kinds of magic.
>There are. >I know enough to identify between the Schools of Magic.>Their practitioners cast by containing spell-charges within themselves>Released with material and somatic components.Q: A crude method. It leaves no room to interpret and improvise. Are your people all incapable.
>Not all.>Only the Mortal races need learn through formulae.>Faerie, Elves, and the like, the First Races, need not.>The First Races have many Sorcerors.>Users of unbridled Magic, casting by intuition.>That may also be why the number of First Races dwindle near extinct.Q: Or maybe it is not the nature of Qilin to stall with sheep.
>...Q: Whence comes the power to work magic: Through refinement of the self, or by drawing on the land, or by the use of treasures.
>Mana as a measure of capacity is gained through life experience and personal growth (levels)>Persons without the requisite experience may not use the rarer Magic Items>or else with risk.>Drawing from the land is the province of Advanced or innate Sorcery>Necromancy that draws from Deadrealm may be called a kind of Sorcery>"Refinement" of self as you seem to mean I have never heard. 