Grant
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Garon Whited:
Did Eric become a wizard when was made a vampire or did he have the ability all along and simply lacked the knowledge and belief needed to do anything with it. I ask because no other vampire in the series gains magic by becoming a vampire unless you count Mary but I am not sure she counts. She did get her powers from Erick's blood and she already had weird psychic voodoo powers of her own right?
Garon Whited
Eric hasn't obtained a definitive answer on this, but here goes: He started out as a talented human being. Sadly, in a world with little to no magic, he never had the opportunity to find out! Becoming a vampire put him in breakthrough, temporarily magnifying his mortal abilities, then leveled out into a more regular level of wizard strength. Over time, he's grown in power--as wizards do, and as vampires do.
Mary also had decades of being her own kind of vampire, but no training as a wizard. Many parts of her ability list were magnified by Eric's blood, but she--and all Thessaloniki--have the *capacity* to be wizards. They simply don't have either the training or--as is common with most people--the drive to pursue it. Anyone can be a rocket scientist... but how many people are willing to work that hard to be one?
Mary also had decades of being her own kind of vampire, but no training as a wizard. Many parts of her ability list were magnified by Eric's blood, but she--and all Thessaloniki--have the *capacity* to be wizards. They simply don't have either the training or--as is common with most people--the drive to pursue it. Anyone can be a rocket scientist... but how many people are willing to work that hard to be one?
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Jelle
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Garon Whited:
Will Luna be a stand alone book or is it part of a new serie? I ask this because I prefer series over stand alone books. I always hate reading really good books and than knowing that the book I am reading will be the end of the story. This will be most likely the case because I loved your Nightlord serie.
Grant
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Garon Whited:
Do you have any idea when the sequel to void will come out and is there a way for Halar to ever overcome his religion allergy? With all the quasi deific stuff going on with him it doesn't seem to unreasonable. Also, will you ever cross genres? I really would like to see how the wizard vampire mad scientist would do in an world with comic book heroes and villains?
Grant
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Garon Whited:
While he doesn't have much practice at it I was just wondering, is Erick actually bad at necromancy? I just finished reading dragon hunters and Erick just whipped up four soulstones on the spot that a highly trained wizard with years of study on the subject says are so advanced they break the laws of magic. Is it just another case of his skewed self image of himself?
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