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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3101486" data-attributes="member: 7883">That's the author of Gardens of the Moon, right?&nbsp; I was asking about that book in another threat.&nbsp; Sounds like something I should check out.That's sort of like what the sorcerers in Robert Bakker's &quot;Prince of Nothing&quot; series are like also....in those books, there is some kind of stone (Chorae?) that is like an heirloom.&nbsp; It's very rare, but when held against the skin, it makes the person 100% magic resistant.&nbsp; When touched to a sorcerer, it kills the sorcerer, basically casting &quot;Flesh to Salt&quot; on him.So, armies all had mages, but they spent a whole bunch of money on outfitting the nobles with Chorae, and having archers with Chorae-tipped arrows ready and waiting for the opposing sorcerers to reveal themselves, to then decimate them with a flight of arrows.&nbsp; The sorcerers were almost a deterent against each other.&nbsp; In one battle, the enemy's army had their knights ambush and slaughter the opposing side's archers...without the Chorae arrows in play, the defenders were able to get their sorcerers onto the field, and they basically annihilated the other army.&nbsp; But in most cases, the sorcerers stood around, without much to do, because they had to be protected.Banshee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Banshee16, post: 3101486, member: 7883"] That's the author of Gardens of the Moon, right? I was asking about that book in another threat. Sounds like something I should check out. That's sort of like what the sorcerers in Robert Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" series are like also....in those books, there is some kind of stone (Chorae?) that is like an heirloom. It's very rare, but when held against the skin, it makes the person 100% magic resistant. When touched to a sorcerer, it kills the sorcerer, basically casting "Flesh to Salt" on him. So, armies all had mages, but they spent a whole bunch of money on outfitting the nobles with Chorae, and having archers with Chorae-tipped arrows ready and waiting for the opposing sorcerers to reveal themselves, to then decimate them with a flight of arrows. The sorcerers were almost a deterent against each other. In one battle, the enemy's army had their knights ambush and slaughter the opposing side's archers...without the Chorae arrows in play, the defenders were able to get their sorcerers onto the field, and they basically annihilated the other army. But in most cases, the sorcerers stood around, without much to do, because they had to be protected. Banshee [/QUOTE]

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