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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 399913" data-attributes="member: 4720">Wow, Seasong.&nbsp; Nice work!I'll have to see if I can brainstorm up an explanation for sorceror's that fits this concept (and doesn't sound more like a psion than a sorceror <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).&nbsp; I take it that you're attributing the return of magic to God removing &quot;his concealing hand&quot; and therefore I'll use that as the ultimate source of these, as well.Forgive me if I don't match your prose for the flavor bits...Seeing as the &quot;blood of dragons&quot; bit is missing from this world, what if we went with blood of the angels (fallen or otherwise).&nbsp; There was a thread recently that dealt with the race of &quot;giants&quot; in the Old Testament (Nephilim).&nbsp; This race is variously depicted as being descended from either Angels or Fallen Angels who took human women to wife (or were taken as wife by human men, I suppose, but I think the text referred to them as exclusively male, not that it matters here).&nbsp; I see no reason that this angelic blood could not carry with it certain powers, which were repressed along with the rest of the divinely-derived powers and only began to show itself in mortals at the time of the Flowering, like all the rest.Diluted over the centuries and unfed by God's Light, the blood of the Nephilim lingered still in the hearts of some few men.&nbsp; Basking in the return of the Light, their blood awakened, bringing with it the power of their forebears, though greatly reduced in scope.&nbsp; The distant children of the Fallen, be they king or peasant, merchant or soldier, Christian or heathen, felt the stirring in their blood at the Flowering.&nbsp; Over some years, they learned to focus their will, and bring ever greater manifestations of the power of Azael back into the world of men.As for Psions, I'm thinking that yogis and monks of the East, in their meditations and search for the divine spark of enlightenment, found themselves able to tap the power of the divine spark within themselves.Psionic flavor text coming soon...Edited to insert names.&nbsp; Psionic flavor below...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 399913, member: 4720"] Wow, Seasong. Nice work! I'll have to see if I can brainstorm up an explanation for sorceror's that fits this concept (and doesn't sound more like a psion than a sorceror :)). I take it that you're attributing the return of magic to God removing "his concealing hand" and therefore I'll use that as the ultimate source of these, as well. Forgive me if I don't match your prose for the flavor bits... Seeing as the "blood of dragons" bit is missing from this world, what if we went with blood of the angels (fallen or otherwise). There was a thread recently that dealt with the race of "giants" in the Old Testament (Nephilim). This race is variously depicted as being descended from either Angels or Fallen Angels who took human women to wife (or were taken as wife by human men, I suppose, but I think the text referred to them as exclusively male, not that it matters here). I see no reason that this angelic blood could not carry with it certain powers, which were repressed along with the rest of the divinely-derived powers and only began to show itself in mortals at the time of the Flowering, like all the rest. Diluted over the centuries and unfed by God's Light, the blood of the Nephilim lingered still in the hearts of some few men. Basking in the return of the Light, their blood awakened, bringing with it the power of their forebears, though greatly reduced in scope. The distant children of the Fallen, be they king or peasant, merchant or soldier, Christian or heathen, felt the stirring in their blood at the Flowering. Over some years, they learned to focus their will, and bring ever greater manifestations of the power of Azael back into the world of men. As for Psions, I'm thinking that yogis and monks of the East, in their meditations and search for the divine spark of enlightenment, found themselves able to tap the power of the divine spark within themselves. Psionic flavor text coming soon... [i]Edited to insert names. Psionic flavor below...[/i] [/QUOTE]

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