(urth) The Wizard Knight Theology

Gerry Quinn gerryq at indigo.ie
Sat Jul 3 12:28:47 PDT 2010


I agree that the humans seem underpowered in some ways compared to the others.  The Aelf have more magic than the humans, and the Dragons have more magic than the Aelf.  But the Overcyn have more magic than the humans too!  (Wnen I say humans, I mean all on Mythgartr - the Angrborn and the Osterlanders do not have much magic power either.)

But maybe Mythgartr has something special. I know every world is supposed to be smaller than the world above... but I don't feel that about Mythgartr.  Maybe it's because the characters are human - but it feels like the largest world in some way.

Whatever the humans have, it ain't magic.  But they have something.  They are not at the bottom... in some way they are central.  And there's another world too, full of humans, this so called 'America'.

- Gerry Quinn

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jerry Friedman 
  It's certainly a key scene, and beautifully done, but I get the feeling other scenes show humanity at the bottom.  I can't imagine that humans could impress the Overcyns and trick them into worshiping us the way the Aelf have done to some humans, or even pester Overcyns the way Uri and Baki pester Able.  Or that any human could transform an Overcyn the way Disiri transforms Able. Both the Aelf and the Overcyns have supernatural powers, but humans don't seem to have any powers that the Aelf don't have (except summoning them).  Both the Overcyns and the Aelf have special leaders, such as the Valfather or Disiri, but humanity doesn't--who is the model for Aelf fathers or kings?  Able presumably has his priorities as straight as anyone, and his feelings toward the Valfather are very different from his feelings toward Arnthor, but he treats them the same way: respect, obedience, and a little civil disobedience.
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