Lysistrata Wrote:Will someone say I am a nitpicker? in Demonsong it is said of Glaeken "He had never been one to believe in sorcerers and evil magic, considering them little more than tales designed to frighten children. The only magic he’d ever seen had been the work of charlatans".
And yet, in By the Sword, [SPOILER]Glaeken says to Jack that during the First Age, natural laws were different and people could perform what today would be considered magic.[/SPOILER]
Or maybe I've just been proof-reading contracts since too long
Not so inconsistent considering all the changes in Glaeken's life after Demonsong.
When I read that line in BTS, I naturally assumed that, since Demonsong was Glaeken's first experience with magic, he was simply uneducated with magic at that time...a situation which changed pretty quick, thereafter.
So, the first statement was made when he was innocent (relatively speaking) of the knowledge that real magic exists and the second was after an eon of intimate contact therewith.
If characters develop over time, which all of FPW's do, then the two statements are not inconsistent, at all.
-Wapitikev
Axioms Jack seems to live by (inadvertantly or not):
Why he does what he does: "I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either." Bruce Wayne, Identity Crisis
On Rasalom: "Water's wet, the sky is blue...and good old Satan Claus, Jimmy...he's out there...and he's just gettin' stronger." Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boyscout