Sergeant Nessilka had been in the Goblin Army since she was old enough to lie about her age, and she had encountered a fair number of enemy wizards 6.Ħ Footnote: The Goblin Army employs wizards as well. While individuals with AMD often find work suited to their own particular talents, the only large institutions with a policy of employing wizards en masse are various armies. People have tried, but you get a lot of very unhappy wizards and they’re not a group you want to make unhappy. You just don’t know.īecause of this unpredictability, nobody much relies on magic. There’s a young woman in East Charring who can’t talk, but can heal just about anything that ails you. Some of them can, on a good day, turn mushrooms into hedgehogs, and some of them can shatter mountains. Some of them are battle machines, some of them are good in the garden, some of them do weather. It’s hard to say what magic can and can’t do, because it varies so wildly between wizards. The more unfortunate wizards generally require someone to dress them and can’t be allowed near any sharp objects.īy its very nature, magic is highly complex and highly individualized. High-functioning wizards can live on their own, and while they tend to be shy and awkward in social situations, meticulously neat, and easily startled, they’re not any worse off than the rest of us. There are basically two kinds of sufferers of AMD-the high-functioning, and the rather less so. Various parties have done intensive studies of Arcane Manifestation Disorder, or AMD, and the results often make for interesting reading, but they still don’t know what causes someone to have a sudden psychotic break and wake up able to throw fire from their fingertips. Unfortunately, magic doesn’t seem to be one of them. Nine times out of ten, it’s a scam, and the tenth time, they really can do magic, but it’s not something they can teach 5.ĥ Footnote: Some forms of insanity can indeed be taught. This is because magic is a form of psychosis.įorget the bearded men wearing robes covered in stars trying to sell you bargain spellbooks. They are genuinely, legitimately, around the bend. Not “you don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.” Wizards aren’t weird. Not the quaint, colloquial “crazy” where you have an offbeat sense of humor and wear brightly colored socks, not mild eccentricity coupled with a general lack of fashion sense.
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