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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 306926" data-attributes="member: 149">I'm not so sure about the supernatural abilites. Sure they have some, but on the handful of occasions when you got to see the Taken exhibiting powers like at the Stair of Tear ( When they made the rocks glow red hot and then Stormbringer brought in the rains and steam cooked the rebel army. Seems more like epic spell class stuff to me. Or when they first headed north and encountered huge blackened circles of dead rebels that the Limper had left. Also some of the stuff you saw in the assault on the Black Castle in the second book (though again most of that seemed to be items of some sort).Supernatural abilities stuff would be more things like Soulcatcher's eating the souls of the two soldiers after she and Shifter got that one Rebel leader (I think it was Harden). Granted though that this sort of thing was far more often exhibited in the books. I don't think any specialized feats would be necessary to disrupt spell casting. I can't recall off hand any case in which any of the Taken manifested any significant powers when in HTH. The battle at the tower of Charm in the first book, specifically mentioned that several of the Taken were too hard pressed to be able to use their powers. Limper certainly didn't use any in the ambush in the second book when Croaker and friends chopped him up. The defining characteristic of the Taken as a whole seems to be in fact, their incredible resilancy and resistance to damage. Which kind of turns the D&D mage stereotype on it's head. They all pretty much also seem to be extremely deadly in hand to hand combat.The last observation that I would probably want to make was that Mages seem to be able to largely neutralize each other's magics simply by their presence. It's describe in more dramatic terms than that in the books, but that seems to pretty much be the outcome when ever you have two mages of any significant stature on either side. It also seems to be one of the reasons why the Black Company was so lethal, since they had two (minor) wizards while their opponents typically had none.</blockquote>

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