Or Winter Solstice on the other side.

Still gastrointestinal, bah. I do have to eat and drink to sustain life, but nothing seems much like food or beverage.

Marith has returned from the fjords, un-be-whale-eaten.

Read (novel): Beneath the Rising (Premee Mohamed): He’s a normal teenager, she’s an incredible prodigy who is revolutionizing the world and may have just destroyed it. Together, they have a globe-trotting monster-fighting adventure where he mostly has no idea what’s going on but doesn’t like the SAN loss (along with many other extremely reasonable feelings given the Cthulhoid circumstances). It’s hard being a sidekick.

Written (game design): 254:

I listed academic magic and divine magic separately, but I think that’s
actually something that started with D&D. John Dee, pretty much the RL
archetype of “wizard”, used his ancient Aztec scrying mirror to talk to
angels. Paracelsus and Hermes Trismegistes weren’t secular either. In
fiction, Merlin was half-demon; Gandalf and Saruman were maiar, angelic
creatures. Even in swords-and-sorcery stories, the sorcerers have
ancient tomes of forbidden lore, but they get power from worshiping
extraplanar prehuman abominations.

In original D&D, clerics were lightly reskinned Christian priests, and
certainly there’s precedent for Christian paraphernalia warding off
magic, but that’s usually faeries and pagans, and there isn’t really any
of that in D&D, just a generic protection theme to clerical magic
(except against the undead and literal demons). I’m good with discarding
Christianity entirely from any game that’s not explicitly historical
anyway.

Not sure where this is going. Before, I had divided the spellcasters
into wizard-type and cleric-type, but maybe it’s actually warlock-type
and sorcerer-type, depending on whether the greater power teaches you
spells or modifies you to have innate powers.

Then we have to figure out what spells are and how they work. Ritual
magic, enchanting or creating tools that can be used fast enough to be
helpful in combat? Vancian casting, which is kind of the same thing?
Summon spirits and keep them in cages until you need them to eat your
foes? Of course not all spell usage is combat, but usually out of combat
you have time to do the whole ritual.