I could go with the permanent creation of items and creatures as its own power – let’s call it Artificing.

Point number 1:
I do not think of Julian as a mage.

I don’t think of Julian as a lot of things, granted, and – as I noted to myself with amusement at a recent discussion on someone’s Livejoural – I’ll cast Viggo as Julian in a heartbeat without it ever even entering my mind that he should be an Aragorn-style scruffy ranger type. But to my mind, Julian’s the type that gets his hands exactly as dirty as they need to be to get the job done right, and not a bit more.

Learning sorcery would be overkill.

Conjuration implies a temporariness to my mind. Temporary isn’t Julian’s style either, IMO – I mean, we are talking about someone who commands fortifications along mountain passes and is not particularly bothered by nephews magically digging graves in Arden. Morganstern wasn’t created to just last a few days, either.

Artificing seems to fit the bill for Julian perfectly.

Point number 2:
I don’t see Brand building items and creatures.

Brand is a mage and, possibly, a power-collector. But I don’t see that he would have any reason to know how to make items and creatures. Break them, sure, but make them? Brand seems like someone who depends a lot more on things he carries within himself – Pattern, sorcery, maybe Logrus, maybe Living Trump – than he does someone that depends on things.

Of course, I’ve also been known to say, “Hey, there had to be something special about Brand’s horse,” so using the idea of Artificing as the only way to end up with something you’ve spent points on isn’t reasonable either.

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