weak as a wizard

[marycatelli]

It's an insult from a knight. At least to a knight. No knight would use it on a wizard, who would be too curious about things and too interested in being able to do many, many, many things to be too insulted by it -- perhaps a little annoyed that you can't do things by spells as powerful as by powerset.

But knights, with their limited powers, can be sometimes powerhouses who can shape weather for a region or feed an army -- and sometimes weak as wizards, as if they knew spells but only two or three.

I think that sometimes they do it on purpose. If you need to deal with weather problems, a knight who can affect some breezes is of more use than a titan of fire who will burn up the land and solve weather problems only by default. (With the little threat that sometimes the knight will have the powerset that makes the knight powerful, even if it's a titan of fire when you need weather.)