Do you still have a link to that podcast? It sounds like it might be relevant to my interests.
I think the idea, with Tortall, is that there are very few mages so powerful as to be more effective than forty men-at-arms. But because most of the mages we actually see are extremely powerful (Alanna, Jonathan, Numair, Ozorne, etc.), it feels like there are more than enough super-powerful battle mages to go around.
Do you remember if Daine goes to the front during the Scanran war? It seems really silly for Tortall not to use her: she could destroy the Scanran's ability to fight so easily by asking the local animals to wreck their supplies and their horses not to fight.
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Date: 2012-06-23 11:20 pm (UTC)I think the idea, with Tortall, is that there are very few mages so powerful as to be more effective than forty men-at-arms. But because most of the mages we actually see are extremely powerful (Alanna, Jonathan, Numair, Ozorne, etc.), it feels like there are more than enough super-powerful battle mages to go around.
Do you remember if Daine goes to the front during the Scanran war? It seems really silly for Tortall not to use her: she could destroy the Scanran's ability to fight so easily by asking the local animals to wreck their supplies and their horses not to fight.