I could go with the permanent creation of items and creatures as its own power – let’s call it Artificing.<\/p>\n
Point number 1:
\nI do not think of Julian as a mage.<\/p>\n
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<\/i>, and not a bit more.<\/p>\n
Learning sorcery would be overkill.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Artificing seems to fit the bill for Julian perfectly.<\/p>\n
Point number 2:
\nI don’t see Brand building items and creatures.<\/p>\n
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<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> way to end up with something you’ve spent points on isn’t reasonable either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I could go with the permanent creation of items and creatures as its own power – let’s call it Artificing.
\nPoint number 1:
\nI do not think of Julian as a mage.
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