[UA] Old groups and power

[John C]

>So your basically saying that there's some point in time that divides the 
>'old' magic from the new? So a modern Jew studying the lore of his 
>tradition has no chance of doing what his teachers could do? There's a 
>fault in logic there. If a modern person, no matter how modern is studying 
>a tradition that has existed unbroken for centuries then why would it be 
>expected that it wouldn't work for him anymore?
>Is it that the stratosphere is now modern and rejects all older magics? So 
>that means at some point all of those tribes we know nothing about in South 
>America have just up and lost their magic even though they have no 
>connection at all to the 'modern world'.
>It just lacks something in my opinion.

The way I intend to play it is that each time the Clergy reboots the 
universe, the laws of Magick (being tied so intimately with human thought 
and belief) change too.  The old ways just don't work any more.

I belong to the non-canon school of thought that believes that the universe 
isn't physically destroyed and started over when the full Clergy is 
assembled, just that the laws of existence are redefined and recreated.  
John Crowley's _Aegypt_ is an excellent take upon this.

It's occurred to me that a really neat campaign could be based around the 
idea that the Naked Goddess was the last member of the Clergy to ascend 
(barring the Comte, of course), and that the world ended and restarted about 
five years ago.  Make *all* of the schools of magic new, no more than five 
years old....

John Crimmins
john1x at hotmail.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim



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