knights and wizards and messes, oh my

[marycatelli]

There are wizard who can cast many different spells. And there are knights who have single power-sets but are immensely powerful.

Anyone who learns two different spells can't become a knight because the casting means that they can no longer have the single concentration that is needed. At least, they can't be made a knight.

And I'm poking at the ideas for a character, and it's dawning on me that the most plausible reason for her oddities is that she is one of the spontaneous, innate knights they are discovering occur now. But someone taught her spells that do not suit her powerset.

Hmmm. . . hmmm. . . can anything be done to help her? That would drive her mad or perhaps kill her. . . .

Meanwhile, I ponder why necromantic knights have stop using their powers even when they aren't death powers. They can, in fact, do wonderful and benevolent things. The necromancy just started them. . . except, perhaps, once started, you draw power from the ambient thing you were powered up with. Wind, stars, plants -- death.

Which, it occurs to me, spells a way to depower any knight, though you do have to figure out what the wizard did to make him. Spontaneous knights might be more tricky, or might just draw on the ambient power of their powerset. Or all from stars, which would reveal something to wizards. Hide someone from the source -- underground for wind or stars -- and come to think of it, that explains why one character didn't manifest his powers at need.

Hmmm. . . .