The Iron Wyrm Affair (Lilith Saintcrow) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. notes)

Notes

1

The ability to draw a simple charter-symbol in charming is available even to the non-sorcerous. Those of very faint talent may perform the simplest of charter-symbols as long as said symbols are “married” to a physical item. A charmer must be able to hold a charter-symbol in free air for at least a few moments in order to be apprenticed; it is legal to indenture charters but not charmers or above.

2

The last Skellewreyn, the famous and rebellious Agnes Nice, was hung in 1712 in Hardwitch. Afterward, Skellewreyn – too much talent to be a mancer and not enough to be a properly-Disciplined witch, driven mad and physically twisted by their sorcery – did not appear, or if they did, they kept to certain shadows. Some of the Morloks are rumored to be of their ilk.

3

Witches are held to be Common, since their Discipline fills their entire brain with no room left for the “splitting” of focus a Sorcerer or above must perform. A Sorcerer may perform a Greater Work without losing track of one’s whereabouts; a Master Sorcerer or Adeptus may move physically while performing a Greater Work, and of course a Prime may successfully assay more than one Greater Work at once.