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Richard Raley
Sorry I took so long! Been so focused on writing I haven't logged into Goodreads in forever!
1. They all have their little tricks, but I try to keep them from overlapping, so nothing exactly like the iron fist conjuration that I can think of. Though a number of the other disciplines are able to manipulate their own bodies as well. Floromancers are very difficult to intoxicate or poison for example.
2. I think Conan Sapa qualifies for that. Also ESLEDs strike teams are completely adept with firearms. However, I try to focus on magic and not on real world weaponry when it comes to combat since I'm much more interested in the Fantasy than the Urban when it comes to this series.
3. In addition to just generally being stronger/faster/etc, Faunamancer Ultras are able to enhance animals in certain ways I haven't got into yet, while Intras can only communicate and befriend animals. Ultra floromancers can do the same and also the speed at which they can force growth on a plant is extremely higher than an Intra.
4. They focus on using anima on preparing their companion (animal or a Construct) mostly prior to any sort of action. Forming necro-strings with a Construct or opening up communication with your animal does take some anima however, but it lasts for a long while after the connection is made.
5. Check out some of the shorts or King Henry and the Three Little Trips. Some of that in there, the Eva Reti story Shadow Running talks about sciomancer and how she uses it for example.
1. They all have their little tricks, but I try to keep them from overlapping, so nothing exactly like the iron fist conjuration that I can think of. Though a number of the other disciplines are able to manipulate their own bodies as well. Floromancers are very difficult to intoxicate or poison for example.
2. I think Conan Sapa qualifies for that. Also ESLEDs strike teams are completely adept with firearms. However, I try to focus on magic and not on real world weaponry when it comes to combat since I'm much more interested in the Fantasy than the Urban when it comes to this series.
3. In addition to just generally being stronger/faster/etc, Faunamancer Ultras are able to enhance animals in certain ways I haven't got into yet, while Intras can only communicate and befriend animals. Ultra floromancers can do the same and also the speed at which they can force growth on a plant is extremely higher than an Intra.
4. They focus on using anima on preparing their companion (animal or a Construct) mostly prior to any sort of action. Forming necro-strings with a Construct or opening up communication with your animal does take some anima however, but it lasts for a long while after the connection is made.
5. Check out some of the shorts or King Henry and the Three Little Trips. Some of that in there, the Eva Reti story Shadow Running talks about sciomancer and how she uses it for example.
Richard Raley
12 in the KHT, plus 3-5 in a wrap up series tentatively called "Worlds War Mancy". This being said I just completely a shorter side novel in the series called "King Henry and the Three Little Trips" that is about 200 pages long and might write a few more of them if I get the urge.
But mostly, 12 main books.
But mostly, 12 main books.
Richard Raley
You're also not typically seeing the average corpusmancer in the series. Conan was augmented, Jason is something of a prodigy, and Isabel...is Isabel. Still, yes, that is a key advantage that corpusmancers have over other mancers. Assuming they can dodge said lightning bolts, fireballs, and zappy artifacts!
Richard Raley
FM5 (The Foul Mouth and the Mancy Martial Artist) is being published on May 22nd, 2015.
Richard Raley
Yes! It's kind of a Canadian SNL/Monty Python named after the sketch group themselves. My only real memories of specifically watching it is being something weird and strange that was on HBO (when my parents would let me click through HBO or were otherwise occupied). But I thought it was a semi-decent reference and could just imagine some poor Canadian transfer student in the late 80s making the joke and it somehow sticking despite no one knowing what he/she was talking about.
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