September 16th, 2013
A bunch of people were talking about witches in the comments last week so I dispense a bit of extra witch info in the extra doodle you can see if you Vote for Runewriters!
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Can puppet masters puppetify non-living things?
Aliveness isn't the issue for puppet-masters -- they cannot puppet non-thinking things. Their powers are over the mind, not the body; what they essentially do is force a signal from your brain that you didn't send.
Animating non-living things is a power that'd be more in line with a life mage or an elemental. I could see either of them developing a rune like that! (Jonan kinda already has some...)
Is there anything stopping any given witch from sitting down and studying all the different types of mind magic?
This applies to all runewriters - it's not just that they don't usually study it (though, due to runewriters not being super common, that is true), it's that studying isn't going to do them a whole lot of good. As Sev's implied before, you can't learn to use another person's runes. You have to develop your own, personal runes that work with your magic, which means depending on your magic (which may or may not even support those types of runes to begin with) and what sort of runes you've already developed, it might be hard to reach across the gap to another type. :")
posted at 1:59pm on September 16th, 2013
I'm sure others have arrived at this conclusion far sooner, but I finally got it: runewriters are sorcerers, not wizards. Right?
posted at 6:46am on September 18th, 2013
Comment by Obligatonym
Oh man! Just as always happens when there's an informative extra doodle, it tends to raise more questions than it answers.
For example... Can mind readers be all with the performing jedi mind tricks on people? Can vision makers cast true seeing and suchlike to enhance their own perceptive abilities instead o' just muddling such things for others? Can puppet masters puppetify non-living things?
Also, on a more general level, is there anything stopping any given witch from sitting down and studying all the different types of mind magic? Yes, I know runewriters don't generally study their majycks, but you get the point.
posted at 1:25pm on September 16th, 2013