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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
There is still no indication in Banestorm that sanctity based spell casting exists on Yrth although advantages like True Faith and Healing do exist and are not included in the 2%..
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Actually, Banestorm clearly states that Power Investiture "is unknown on Yrth. Priests who can cast spells are almost always born with Magery. Those with specifically “god-granted” powers usually
don’t cast spells as such, having other supernatural abilities; see p. 26." (pg 183) So sanctity is basically DOA as far as Yrth goes.
But it is actually page 84 that interests us: "This setting includes some new talents. (...) Close to Heaven: Exorcism, Meditation, Religious Ritual,
Ritual Magic,
Symbol Drawing, and Theology. Reaction bonus: “religious professionals.” 5 points/level."
This means that Ritual Magic, in some form, does exist on Yrth; and with all the changes and options
GURPS Thaumatology who knows what form it takes. The Fractional Magery option (-5 to skill if you don't know magery in normal and low mana but magery can be learned) really messes things up.
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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Pray allow me to mess up your calculation by pointing out that while Banestorm does explicitly say that you have to have inborn potential to be a mage, it doesn't explicitly say that people who are mageborn can't train up their level of magery. (Although it does indicate that 90% of mageborn are left at 0) I would say levels of one college magery are probably the product of personality and training and not purely genetic.
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With ritual magic out and about perhaps the mageborn are actually Fractional Magery 1 [1] and they have to improve up to Magery 0.