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Date Posted: 05:30:15 10/31/05 Mon
Author: Celebaelin
Subject: Emphasis
In reply to: MarkM 's message, "Re: Dancing lights and Faerie fire" on 03:33:57 10/31/05 Mon

Strangely I think the 'always' of magic always has consequences is of the upmost importance. Not only because it is the major point of debate in this sub-thread (and I'm nothing if not needlessly argumentative) but also because I genuinely do think that Spike means ALWAYS and that he is correct. My interpretation, and it can be no more than that given the nature of my assessment, is that the extent of the consequences is dependent on the power of the magic used. Spells of little direct effect have minor consequences, so minor as to make them unattributable to magical backlash.

One could argue that Tara, despite being an experienced and cautious practitioner of magic, was storing up a weight of unpaid consequences for herself which eventually resulted in her seemingly meaningless and random death. Since the processes which control the 'balance of whatever it is' that mediates the exchange in our fantasy world of preference are unfathomable to the observer this is conjecture even from an internal POV but it is not outside the scope of the imagination to suggest that a similar fate has been avoided by other magical practitioners by taking their consequences in small doses or deferring the negative consequences onto others. I won't quote examples as example and counter-example are probably best limited to certainties rather this kind of speculation but hopefully you can see from this suggestion how easily the Dark Path could become a great temptation. Any further comment I could make, tempting as it is definitely comes from my own fantasy leanings and/or other source material so I'll be good and stop there.

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