Sublime

What kind of magician do you want to be?

He was the powerful, all-but-immortal Incarnation standing tall after a harsh battle. He was the menace, looming over a weary swordsman who kept his blade raised in futile defiance. He was the uncaring master, carelessly discarding minions by the score, their bodies strewn all over the street. He was the traitor who had beaten Simon bloody for tryi

An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster figur

Makiel stood in the center, surrounded by eyes. Manifestations of his Presence. His white-gauntleted hands were a blur of motion as he tapped one eye and another, transmitting messages to one sector or another. When he tapped an eye, it flashed blue and disappeared, transferred through the Way to its destination. For every eye that disappeared, a c

Is that what we want, a mindful Wundersmith who could use her very mindful mind to mindfully send us all to an early grave?”

understanding of magic’s blueprint is what I admired most about my new gang of friends. They were an outlier on the artistic spectrum; instead of clay or paint or dance, they worked in the medium of the human mind, knowing full well that they could reach in, twist some hidden knob, and alter a person’s concept of reality.