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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8416058" data-attributes="member: 20564">Taltos is an interesting take.  I don't claim to be any more familiar with it than wikipedia, but the power does not seem to be inherent in their bloodline like a sorcerer.  It seems they are chosen by an external source (gods or spirits as you said), and lose their power if they don't follow specific rituals such as keeping that physical sign until they are 7, and potentially also being breastfed until then. In some ways in D&D terms that might actually be closest to a warlock, where they are granted power after attention of a powerful being but after that the power is theirs and they do not need to continue an oath or such to keep it.  And not like a warlock - they aren't making a pact for the power.  On the other hand wikipedia did mention having specific duties: "The táltos was chosen by gods or spirits for a specific calling in life and had the duty to communicate with the entire Hungarian nation in a time of danger, to warn against invading armies or an impending cultural collapse. ", so perhaps it is closer to a paladin's oath or what a diety would expect from a cleric.All in all, the Taltos still seems closer to other D&D classes then the sorcerer to me.  The picking at birth does have echoes of sorcerer's being born with the power, but it there is nothign to indicate it is because of their bloodline instead of being by external forces, and the fact that it can be lost before manifesting while not definitive does also seem to indicate other classes as well - a potential wizard who doesn't study, a potential cleric or paladin who does not have faith - these can be lost.</blockquote>

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