Psion said:AFAIAC (and repeating myself modestly), an intelligent person should realize that stirring in all real world belief systems into a fantasy milieu and assuming that they are all somehow true will result in a cosmology and theory of magic that is at the very least convoluted, and without care and filtering, fundamentally inconsistent as well.
Does anyone else read the above text and immediately think it would make a ridiculously awesome character (or even campaign) concept?
The old wizard looks around with his mighty intellect at all the varied magical theories, proofs, prayers, insignia, etc of the varied 'disciplines' of magic.
Then he immediately sets out (or hires adventurers) to discover the GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF MAGIC. Proving once and for all the simple, correct method to access magical power.