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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 333640" data-attributes="member: 6661">Epic levelsThe Lady clearly is an Epic-level wizard before her Naming, and even afterwards, when she tapped into Kina's power, she managed to build herself back up almost to those levels.In The White Rose, Lady pretty much comes out and says that she cast one spell in the past which made her immune to the effects of age, disease, etc. You have to read a *little* between the lines but it's there.Why does she age so rapidly after being taken out of the Ice Cave? I think it's because the stasis of the cave and the magic used to dispel it broke the lingering effects of the enchantment.At other times in the series, Lady points out that the Taken would not have survived as long as they had without preparing for just about every contingency. Take the Limper; even decapitated, he was still able to function fairly effectively in The Silver Spike. Take Soulcatcher; ditto, only more so. The difference? Soulcatcher was almost at Lady's level in terms of sheer power, and Soulcatcher had prepared more effectively.Ranking powers (in terms of demonstrated ability):Deities (effectively)The TreeKinaDemi-deitiesShivetyaThe thing the Tree was guardingThe DominatorHigh Epic-LevelLadyMid Epic-levelsLimperSoulcatcherShapeshifterthe rest of the Ten who were TakenLow Epic-levelsWhisperBomanzHigh normal levelsTobo (who has the potential to get much, much more powerful)Booboo (ditto)The Lady's TakenMuch of the rebel's Circleand it just goes down from there until you hit Raven who has a minor talent that could have been trained into something up to Goblin or One-Eye's level, and Sahra who has a minor and totally untrained talent for prophecy.The magic system works, it seems to me, as sort of a cross between D&D Sorcery and D&D Wizardry. It's clear that almost all spellcasters develop and learn spells like a wizard, with all of a wizard's versatility, but that the casting tends to be spontaneous, like a sorcerer's, and there is very little drawback to actually casting spells. However, there's also an innate limit to spellcasting ability; you can never become more powerful than that limit, whatever it may be. And at some undefined point, no matter how powerful you are, you become exhausted and incapable of casting more spells.Each wizard develops his own little specialties, possibly as a result of maximising the use of the power available, which may also have an effect on the wizard's ability to extend his potential. Only a few are capable of the kind of general prowess Lady, Tobo, and the Dominator have.Tarek</blockquote>

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