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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZombieRoboNinja" data-source="post: 5996004" data-attributes="member: 54843">If a wizard is the nerdy bookworm kid in high school, a warlock is the kid smart enough to be valedictorian who gets expelled junior year for hacking the school's computer network and posting teacher salaries on Facebook.Wizards like to think of warlocks as slackers looking for an easy route to arcane knowledge; warlocks see wizards as hidebound and deluded about the nature of things.To a warlock, the universe is essentially flawed, broken, stitched together into something resembling a coherent whole; they draw their power from their ability to see the gaps in reality and exploit them, a task that constantly drives them to the edge of madness. Wizards hate warlocks because THEIR arcane power comes from the exact opposite side of the equation: they try to see the world as logical and complete, and build their magic on universal laws. That warlocks can't even hold their power without descending into madness or depending on some supernatural patron as a bastion against the abyss is yet more evidence to wizards that warlocks are sadly mistaken.Meanwhile, a sorcerer is that kid who breezes through high school with good grades and a varsity letter. He's good without trying, and that easy success gives him confidence that only makes him more compelling. Sorcerers make me think of the Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series: they have such immense innate power that in any given society, they generally end up either as the ruling class or as constantly hunted. (An exception might be a world where magical creatures are so common that a dude who can shoot fireballs doesn't stand out.)Personally, when I read the draconic sorcerer, my first thought was of an Arabian-themed "traveling foreign noble" of a clan descended from a bronze dragon.</blockquote>

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