Dumbarton Oaks’ Magic Tome — On the value of self-knowledge
22 January 2011
In my brief years flying this world I have noticed that most people do not think of themselves as flammable — and I must view that attitude as tactically untenable and unwise.
Anyone who has roasted a piece of fatty meat over an open flame and lowered that morsel too closely to the fire has discovered that a stray finger of combustion can cause that chunk of food to catch alight in a most convincing way.
We tend to divide the world into two categories. One includes the obviously and easily ignited — paper, wood, coal, oil, silk, hair. The other category contains such items as ice and stone which will never burn, even with magic. We just tend to think of ourselves as the latter….
Kobolds, in this assumption, are demonstrably wrong.
