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<blockquote data-quote="taliesin15" data-source="post: 1904074" data-attributes="member: 22058">scion says:a silence illusion cannot stop sound for real. It can fool someone into thinking there is no sound, but it cannot offer protection.____________if this is the case, then it seems to me that Silence cannot really stop spellcasters casting spells with auditory components--surely the spellcaster in question doesn't need to actually hear the auditory component as s/he is thinking it as s/he is speaking it--and, depending on what sort of milieu is being run, it doesn't matter if the surrounding people can hear the auditory component at all, at the most, as long as the Gods or Energies that provide the umph behind the Magic know that it is spoken (surely they aren't hindered by a Silence spell), then I frankly don't see why there would be any sort of problemthat being the case, Silence is not as powerful a spell as people suggested early on</blockquote>

[QUOTE="taliesin15, post: 1904074, member: 22058"] scion says: a silence illusion cannot stop sound for real. It can fool someone into thinking there is no sound, but it cannot offer protection. ____________ if this is the case, then it seems to me that Silence cannot really stop spellcasters casting spells with auditory components--surely the spellcaster in question doesn't need to actually hear the auditory component as s/he is thinking it as s/he is speaking it--and, depending on what sort of milieu is being run, it doesn't matter if the surrounding people can hear the auditory component at all, at the most, as long as the Gods or Energies that provide the umph behind the Magic know that it is spoken (surely they aren't hindered by a Silence spell), then I frankly don't see why there would be any sort of problem that being the case, Silence is not as powerful a spell as people suggested early on [/QUOTE]

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