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From:=20 Horky, Roger=20

To: 'glencook-fans@lists.xmission.co= m'=20

Sent: Monday, November 06, = 2000 10:24=20 PM

Subject: RE: (glencook-fans) = Wizards=20 in the Black Company saga

In=20 re BC wizards' ass-kicking skills:

The=20 Lady by a good bit: she was always able to maintain control over the = Taken,=20 implying she was more puissant than they (look, ma, I just used = "puissant" in=20 a sentence!).

Her=20 best talent was her ability to "think outside the box" (look, ma, I = just a=20 horribly stupid and meaningless business clich=E9 in a sentence!) and = NOT to=20 rely on magic. Consider the example given earlier; her battle against = Darling=20 on the Plain of Fear. The carpets and missile weapons she devised, = although=20 magically powered, were designed to operate even without magic--or, if = you=20 prefer, designed to operate specifically in a non-magic (the null)=20 environment.

There was an issue of Cerebus the Aardvark = in which a=20 mighty wizard, Necross the ha hah ha Mad is killed by a crossbow bolt = fired by=20 a frightened peasant. His last words, spoken in sincere amazement, = were, "what=20 a time to start operating on the mundane level."

Few of the other wizards in the BC = saga would=20 even consider a non-magical solution to a problem (indeed, knowing = this really=20 helps the mundanes--consider

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the=20 wizards from Khatovar who destroy their shadow gate because they = immediately=20 go to the magical solution rather than develop a non-magical = response to=20 the loss of their broomsticks (does anybody else see a resemblance = between=20 their broomsticks and the transports crosses from Darkwar? or are they = just=20 another carpet?).

Also, success is a useful measure of = skill--the=20 Limper was bad-ass magically but he kept screwing up. His major = talents were=20 perseverance and insanity. He was prone to plan poorly and to react = without=20 thinking, and to allow his personal issues to interfere with business. =

You=20 know what I think? If I have to chose a wizard NOT using magic = solutions I'll=20 say the best of them is......(drums) Croker;)))) He kept staying alive = even=20 more than Limper, and got himself a pretty good deal wih Shivetya- = it's an=20 immortality....of a sort.

Martin Mocker = Welnicki

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