[Trailblazer]

At the beginning of GotM, Tattersail and Calot have actual physical reactions to the presence of sorcery. Tat´s is a migraine headache, while Calot gets watery eyes (tears). Alright. I am now on Midnight Tides, and I don´t recall any of characters having similar physical reactions to the presence of sorcery. Why is that? Usually a character either acknowledges the presence or not. Is this a thread that SE decided to not pursue out of convenience (which I totally understand)?

[champ]

Trailblazer, on 03 December 2010 - 03:28 PM, said:

At the beginning of GotM, Tattersail and Calot have actual physical reactions to the presence of sorcery. Tat´s is a migraine headache, while Calot gets watery eyes (tears). Alright. I am now on Midnight Tides, and I don´t recall any of characters having similar physical reactions to the presence of sorcery. Why is that? Usually a character either acknowledges the presence or not. Is this a thread that SE decided to not pursue out of convenience (which I totally understand)?

I cant really discuss it in detail without revealing spoilers in the GotM forum but up to GotM, iirc in Darujhistan, when Rake arrives to a meeting with Baruk it's explained that his arrival is like a huge pressure welling up... causing mages to reel from the power, it's more a reaction to the sheer power involved than just the presence of sorcery...

[Kanubis]

Spoiler below contains MoI stuff...

To answer.. maybe. Could be shear amount of power there,

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could be early symptoms of the warren poisoning that caused much woe in MoI.

Really not sure to be honest!

[HiddenOne]

I always thought of it like this:

A wizard could sense magic activity by seeking it out with his/her senses. At times, certain powerful casters would either use so much power or perform an act of a magnitude that would announce its existence without need for "questing" and in fact overwhelm any defenses against detection that caster might possess.

For example, you might listen carefully to hear a child moving about in the next room, and (14) 3-year olds in your face are undeniable and annoying.

Now I wonder if Anomander Rake was a difficult child to discipline...

[Abyss]

Iirc at one point early on T'sail mentions that Tays' Thyr warren is anathema to her Tennes or something like that.

There might be an element of deliberate power-playing to this. when Rake strolls around the fete at the end of GotM people aren't dropping with headaches, tho later when he draws Dragnipur i think it's Crokus who is nearbye and starts bleeding out his ears or something.

[ansible]

I'm going from memory here, but:

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When Kiska is waiting with Tays in Mock's Hold, I think they both can feel Kellanved's arrival upstairs, in a painful, physical sense. These instance have always struck me as odd, since they are rare, but who knows.

[Abyss]

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[Trailblazer]

I know that there are other instances in which characters can "sense" the presence of power. But it seems odd that Tattersail and Calot have individual, specific and different reactions to it. In later books, it seems that it's more of a generic 'feeling', as opposed to an individual symptom that varies from character to character.

[HiddenOne]

Perhaps it's more noteworthy on these occasions, or needed to give us an idea of the atmosphere. It would get tiresome to read this same description every time someone unveiled a warren. I'm sure the relationship between the warrens of the user and the one who senses its use has bearing on the perception of the response.