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Under Lying Principals

Under Lying Principals The Basis of all Matt…er Ok, I can see the shape of the problem here, before you can do the jigsaw puzzle, you need to see the pieces. Complimentary pieces of tinfoil that you can assign some individual characteristics to. Shapes with Names. We need to understand shaping and naming, and so we need to understand magic. So you want to be arcanists? You want magic like you have heard about in bedtime stories. You’ve listened to stories of Taborlin the Great. Roaring sheets of fire, magic rings, invisible cloaks , swords that never go dull… This being a fantasy fiction novel, you can, if you so desire, choose simply to take it as read that magic exists. But these books are High fantasy, and if you want to learn things then you have come to the right place. It’s going to get a bit deep in here, but a heavy secret lies at the bottom of things. The pieces are there to see for those who desire to explore the basics of all magic and therefore the basis of all matter. You ...
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1 ~ The Rising Sun. On the wall in Pat's office I imagine there to be a nice map of the Waystone Inn in all it's glory. Apart from it's aesthetic it is a useful device used by the writer so that he doesn't get confused one day and accidently have someone go through a door that isn't there or look through a window which doesn't exist to see the sun rising in the West. The Sun in Temerant rises in the East, just like it does in our world, although even finding the proof of that small assumption in a very big book took a lot longer to finally track down than it really should have.(spoiler pp.135) But find it I did and that gives us what we need to start mapping out this pub crawl and see if we cannot recreate Pat's clever map for ourselves. All the details necessary details are buried among the Waystone 's storyline. All of the subtle asides regarding the inn's general layout do, of course, correlate perfectly with each other into one unique answer of w...
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