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10:09am July 17, 2014
cunningmarksman asked: Um...Feel a bit daft asking this, but since you're provider of Word of God; /Is/ Tualha a wizard? AWA made it sound like she was just an unusual talent (like Carmela in some ways?) but there were a couple of lines in Wizards At War that seemed to imply she was a wizard of some stripe. -And if she is, she doesn't seem to have much in the way of actual /spells/. Is this like, another mode of wizardry? Wizards who don't /do/ stuff, just /see/ and /remember/?

dduane:

I think we’d probably consider her an affiliated talent (like early-stages Ponch, though in a different degree), but not a wizard as such. She may actually use the Speech in her work somewhat, but that by itself doesn’t make her wizardly. (checking the text) Ronan refers to her as “an oracular”, which covers a lot of ground: you can be a seer or prophet without having to be a wizard.

But yeah, there are definitely wizards whose daily business isn’t so much about doing spells but about the business of vision and perception. I think this got touched on somewhere in the online meta (someone searching the “Young Wizards meta” tag might find it: unfortunately I can’t take the time for that today).

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  1. cunningmarksman said: (part 2) I wonder what feline wizards like those on the Grand Central team would make of a fellow Person who seems to know more about ehhif stories than those of her own species…
  2. cunningmarksman said: Thanks! I thought she was more an adjunct talent, but what Ronan said about her being possibly put ‘on assignment’ confused me. She’s one of my favourite characters, anyway. Especially cause of her speciality; /human/ history and legend.
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