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<blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 7597945" data-attributes="member: 67296"><p>That's how I like to interpret it. Clerics have magical powers of their own, but unlike wizards who focus the magical constructs in their mind with formulaic quatrains, gestures and the quintessence of physical materials, clerics focus this magical energy through prayers and devotion.</p><p></p><p>If they lose their faith, they lose their ability to focus the magical energies (or whatever) into spells, but the gods themselves, as powerful as they are, have little to do with their cleric's ability to cast spells. At best, they can guide the cleric spiritually, display actual powers (divine intervention feature), or "block" their magic if they think the cleric is out of line.</p><p></p><p>I also like to see druids as proto-wizards; an ancient art predating divine and arcane magic, harking from the days where neither magic nor gods where really understood. Many druids probably called themselves wizards, enchanters or sorcerers back then. The origins of somatic and verbal components is lost to most cultures, including many words in ancient sylvan languages no longer spoken, and components rich in quintessence mostly discovered by trial and error throughout the millennia. Their magic is much more freeform than that of cleric, but not quite as versatile as modern wizards, and will ever remain "tainted" and restricted by the natural themes from which it is drawn and by which it is "filtered".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Laurefindel, post: 7597945, member: 67296"] That's how I like to interpret it. Clerics have magical powers of their own, but unlike wizards who focus the magical constructs in their mind with formulaic quatrains, gestures and the quintessence of physical materials, clerics focus this magical energy through prayers and devotion. If they lose their faith, they lose their ability to focus the magical energies (or whatever) into spells, but the gods themselves, as powerful as they are, have little to do with their cleric's ability to cast spells. At best, they can guide the cleric spiritually, display actual powers (divine intervention feature), or "block" their magic if they think the cleric is out of line. I also like to see druids as proto-wizards; an ancient art predating divine and arcane magic, harking from the days where neither magic nor gods where really understood. Many druids probably called themselves wizards, enchanters or sorcerers back then. The origins of somatic and verbal components is lost to most cultures, including many words in ancient sylvan languages no longer spoken, and components rich in quintessence mostly discovered by trial and error throughout the millennia. Their magic is much more freeform than that of cleric, but not quite as versatile as modern wizards, and will ever remain "tainted" and restricted by the natural themes from which it is drawn and by which it is "filtered". [/QUOTE]
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