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Yes.
It sucks to be them. In particular: shadows, for example, just kind of hang out in the dark observing things, they really can’t touch much of anything.
Although, I don’t recommend getting to cozy with them, they often gang up and they can trap people “in the shadows” and steal the person’s life force.
I think you are missing some words.
Are you asking if history section will get filled out in more depth after Tom’s story?
If so, yes, and during.
It grew a little bit today in fact. There are a few related additions to the timeline, and some related cartography information updated.
As we get closer to Book II, there will most likely be more history released/posted to give background for various characters and events.
Yes, this is why he was feeling the heat from Jehenna in Chapter 2. They got lucky on a lot of different levels.
Well, I suppose if Exador can travel to Astlan and pretend to be a Wizard, Cleric etc for a few thousand years, then I suppose some other demon lord could travel to a high tech world with spacecraft and become captain/owner. Maybe a space pirate even.
However, I’m not aware of any being brought to the Abyss. For one thing there wouldn’t be any “space’ for it. So unless it can land, (out of luck Enterprise) it would have to be flying around in circles in the air. It can’t orbit the Abyss, so unless you want it to get really far away, you’d have to drive it in circles.
yes, I think it very important that people stop thinking about true names.
and in particular, transcribing true names to text/paper in a writing system.
There are clearly lots of problems with this that are too difficult and vexing to think about.
so do not think about this anymore. let’s forget true names ever existed or that anyone would ever write them down in some language that might be misinterpretable.
A given body is pretty much fixed, although one could in theory alternate given enough time and effort.
It’ really a question of the demon and their power/strength/ability.
Demons can grow in power over long periods of time, just like Astlanians. Most simply don’t, or not in ways that are measurable, at least not on mortal timescales.
And I should be clear, unless they are really stupid, and some are, demons do “grow in experience’ however some of that doesn’t directly translate in a significant rise in “power” as defined by the colors. i.e. measurable mana or animus levels.
For example, a type II demon might eventually become a much better servant, much more able to anticipate the needs of a master and avoid pain and suffering, and better please new masters sooner, etc. Does this change their power level? Not by a huge amount, except over very very long time periods.
Assume a Type II demon doing this for a thousand years, and then a brand new II. Technically in terms of sheer “power” (whatever that is in the mirror) they are both Fiends, but the thousand year old fiend is going to be much more experienced and this would translate into real world advantages in doing their duties serving their master. But would it make them better in combat? Perhaps/probably, but only due to experience and having been in more fights, and if the thousand year old demon had never fought before? Then no it probably wouldn’t help.
This comes back to what does “more powerful” mean.
There is sheer, measurable power: mana/animus and then there are less measurable quantities of experience, skill, willpower, determination, motivation etc.
I don’t think Tom is as crazy that. Heck, I’m not even that crazy…
You seem to be the only one around here crazy enough to even think about [u][i][b]killing[/b][/i][/u] a god.
I hope when the Blue Lightning strikes you, you are offline, because otherwise the Internet will probably be shorted out.
Hmm….
Interesting.
You are very much correct in that Astlanians (humans, elves, etc) all have very strong Elemental Affiliations based on their Astrological sign.
And in fact this actually plays a role in their ability to cast spells. For example someone born under the sign of [url=http://www.astlan.net/Home/AstrometryAstrology/AstrologyandTheElements.aspx]Hydros[/url] has a natural talent for Sorcery and would, all other things being equal, be a better Sorcerer than one born under Infernos. Although, obviously training/experience can overcome this, but the influences do hold throughout life.So therefore you’d expect other signs to matter as well.
The problem of course is that the demons are all from distant planes with different elemental signs and affiliations. And on many of those worlds, the elemental affiliations aren’t as strong.
I’m not sure that anyone has every sought to measure this or understand this. If demons had scientists, it would be a great thing to measure and test. However, we don’t have any.
Scientists who become demons seem to sort of go overboard in a world of magic and go with: “scientific principles be damned, I can do magic!”
A lot of the fire affinity is because fire represents energy, all the elements have energy, it’s just much more loosely bound with fire. It’s raw energy and you need that raw energy to open portals etc. Fire provides the gateway for summoning, and fire represents the rage that demons harbor.
So in that sense fire gets most associated with demons.
The second most associated element is Cold, and Ice. Cold of course is anti-fire, and Cold+Water=Ice. There are Ice Demons. A bunch of ice demons have been wreaking havoc in the northern part of this other plane I’ve visited. At the moment they are trapped north of a giant wall, but I hear they are coming south fast. Well, not that fast, apparently their author guy is even slower than my author guy….
And, I should add, there are rumors of parts of the Abyss that are icy cold in counter point to the hotness we are familiar with.
Note, for example, all the elements have positive and negative aspects, thus it would make sense for there to be a “Cold Abyss” and a “Hot Abyss”
However, I don’t know much about that, just what you hear on the street.
[quote]As for coincidence, that may be true in real life but this is a book, it thrives in it. And the atypical skill, or more appropriately ability, your talking about is the skill of regenerating back even if you cut Tizzy to millions of pieces. A thing which every demons is capable of.[/quote]
OK, that does it. This topic has now surpassed “Killing Demons” as my [u][i][b]least[/b][/i][/u] favorite topic on the forum.
I don’t know why you two want to kill me all of the sudden! Or chop me up into a million pieces, I am thinking that would hurt! i was once chopped up into a thousand and one pieces, and that hurt quite a bit. A million would be far worse, I am sure!
I don’t think so…at least not as a major character.
The author has another book he’s working on (still early) that happens on another plane with very similar magic rules.
Necromancers are running around in that book, all over the place.You shouldn’t listen to his lies.
No the story is being dictated by me.
It just isn’t over yet. I’m currently writing to you in book 3. I’m just not sure I’m going to tell the author the backstory on the necromancer to include in book 2.
So: spoiler alert: I live until book 3!
Actually, I plan to live through all the books! and then on for the rest of eternity.
Well, if it helps, The Author Guy promises the next book will be out before George RR Martin releases his next book!
Actually, see the fourm posts on Mana Pools.
Eventually, the author guy will post the stuff on mana pools, he’s pulled it off some old Zip drives where it had been stranded for the last decade plus.
There are definitely ways to store mana, wizards do it all the time to power magical devices. A good percentage of jewelry that wizards wear are actually simply mana pools rather than traditional “Zap!” magic items. They are reserves to hold mana beyond what they personally have, and they can tap it via their wizard links to the pools.
And there are mana wheels that can suck mana out of the environment. But yes, those do require animus infusions to work.
