A Flux of Flame and Ocean

Info post ahoy! I should have done this a while ago, but it's never too late to jump on the bandwagon. ;)

WARNING: This post is HEAVILY spoilery for events in two of the Young Wizards novels (A Wizard Abroad and Wizards at War), and mildly spoilery for some of the other novels, so read at your own risk.

NOTE: This got SERIOUSLY tl;dr as I was writing. Like, SERIOUSLY. So it's been edited down. A lot. (Because I have a tendency to make things FAR too complicated in cases like these. Alas.) If you saw the original version, this should be much easier to read.
Edited: 5/12/2007


The Wizard's Oath
In Life's name and for Life's sake,
I say that I will use the Art for nothing
but the service of that Life. I will guard
growth and ease pain. I will fight to
preserve what grows and lives well in its
own way; and I will change no object or
creature unless its growth and life, or
that of the system of which it is part, are
threatened. To these ends, in the practice
of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage,
and death for life, when it is right to do so
-- till Universe's end.

( Ronan Nolan )
( Wizardry and the Speech )
( The Manual and its functions )
( Theology in the YW universe: The Powers and the Lone Power )


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