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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 2317898" data-attributes="member: 1125">Actually since most Eastern traditions don't have a Divine/Arcane split the Chinese wizard may be better represented by the 'Cleric' ie consumate swordsmen/warriors who deal with spirits and use prayer-spells.Anyway this pretty much covers eastern magic traditions - generally they are about rituals (burning written spells, dancing, intoning prayer-spells) for invoking and/or binding spirits in order to secure a particular result eg if I need to summon a Storm of Vegeance it probably requires a ritual to invoke the Storm spirit, things like Invisibility involve calling on ancestor spirits to conceal the spellcaster from view. Offensive spells mean sending spirits to attack (directly or indorectly) or otherwise affect a target on a spiritual level (ie curse).That being said certain heroes also manifest supernatural powers such as Flight or Shapechanging or the ability to shoot lightning from their hands. These powers and are however physical manifestations of the supernatural power of the indiviudal not spells per se often they are pretty unique although in some traditions these things can be learned such as when Kng Monkey learnt the secrets of Cloud Jumping (probably requires a spell system based on feats and skills rather than the Vancian system)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 2317898, member: 1125"] Actually since most Eastern traditions don't have a Divine/Arcane split the Chinese wizard may be better represented by the 'Cleric' ie consumate swordsmen/warriors who deal with spirits and use prayer-spells. Anyway this pretty much covers eastern magic traditions - generally they are about rituals (burning written spells, dancing, intoning prayer-spells) for invoking and/or binding spirits in order to secure a particular result eg if I need to summon a [I]Storm of Vegeance [/I] it probably requires a ritual to invoke the Storm spirit, things like Invisibility involve calling on ancestor spirits to conceal the spellcaster from view. Offensive spells mean sending spirits to attack (directly or indorectly) or otherwise affect a target on a spiritual level (ie curse). That being said certain heroes also manifest supernatural powers such as Flight or Shapechanging or the ability to shoot lightning from their hands. These powers and are however physical manifestations of the supernatural power of the indiviudal not spells per se often they are pretty unique although in some traditions these things can be learned such as when Kng Monkey learnt the secrets of Cloud Jumping (probably requires a spell system based on feats and skills rather than the Vancian system) [/QUOTE]

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