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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drakhe" data-source="post: 502120" data-attributes="member: 4930">Point well taken, but even taking this difference in acount I still don't like them. OK, so you PREPARE spells. Which means a relative high level wizard (lets say a Wiz6 with 4/4/4/3 spells)when he's done repairing is a walking timebomb running arround with magical energies ready to burst out for 4 level 1, 4 level 2, 4 level 3 and 3 level 4 spells! (thats 15 spells!) And even if this energy is not stored in the wizard, it must be stored somewhere.The whole concept of somewhere having a store of all this pent up magical energy (even if it's not in or directly arround your person, like maybe in the void or the weave) makes me feel like there is something missing. How long can a spell remain prepared without the energies/void/weave/... dissipating? Or how long before a prepared spell backlashes? Or goes of on its own?A sorcerer uses magic on the spot: energies/weave/void/.. needed is "taken" on the spot. I do aggree that some form of studie or training is needed if a sorcerer is going to cast more than a few spells. I mean, the (lets call it) mental picture a sorcerer needs to draw does also get more complicated with the level of spell. A very nice illustration of this is the magic in Wheel of Time. (and I mean the novels, not shure I like the translation in the RPG)Anybody that can weave (=cast) has a sense for the flow of the different aspects of the Power. At some point in the books its even explained that that differs for each person. Some see the aspects of the Power as strands to be woven, others see the aspects of the Power in a totaly different way. When you weave a spell, you "combine" in one manner or another ammounts of energy from the different aspects of the Power (air, earth, fire, healing, ...) to achieve a certain effect. Training will allow you to weave faster or increase the effect, while study might actualy give you an easier weave (that uses less aspects) than the one you allready know. The limit of an Aes Sedai (or an A'shaman as the male magic-users are known) is defined by endurance. A weave costs "an ammount of effort" and wears a magic-user down physicaly.Another point: Clerics are even simpler: a spell cast by a Cleric is simply a prayer directed at the Clerics Deity, so why would they need to prepare? I can understand that occasionaly a Cleric will wan't to spend some time with his prayerbook to commit some not so often used prayer to memory, but take the basic spells: healing: one would guess a cleric uses these prayers so often they are branded in his mind.</blockquote>

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