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The Trouble with Spells (Of Witches and Warlocks, #1). Other editions . I got about 1/4 through the book and just couldn't do this any more. Why oh why do YA . Editorial Reviews. Review. Reviews from Amazon Customers: "Probably the most amazing book I've read on Amazon!" "Great read! Very well written, easy to.
Is this product missing categories? Add more categories. Warlocks protect the witch variant of some of the above The universe itself doesn't like magic and actively seeks to punish witches for using magic. For some reason warlocks are immune to this and confer that immunity onto the witch.
Warlocks unlock the witch's full potential Although she gives gives some of her magic power to the warlock, the bond allows the witch access to some greater knowledge or power. Maybe witches can only cast Yin magic unless they have a warlock, then they get access to Yang type magic. Alternatively, only Warlocks can cast Yang magic, so if the witch's ritual needs Yang type magic to function she needs a warlock.
Magic affinities Variant on the above. Maybe a given magic user can only access a certain number of magic forms.
Saraphina the witch is skilled in water magic and necromancy, and that's it. If she wants to use flame magic she needs to find a guy who has an affinity for fire.
Not all guys do, so she has to search, bargain, bribe, seduce, and outcompete her rivals. Maybe some rarely occurring affinities lead to high status guys. If you're the only guy in the kingdom with access to earth magic, the ladies will literally be fighting over you. Combine with palace intrigue above. Men without a connection become monsters variant on some the above After a certain amount of time, men not connected to a witch become malevolent and powerful monsters. Maybe they're scheming and cunning, or maybe they just rage out and start indiscriminately destroying things.
Either way, they are a major threat.
Now society has to decide whether to wait for them to transform and fight them, or encourage warlocks to be created via bribery, threats, etc. Magic as a drug Having magic flow through your body is addictive and messes with people the same as drugs hallucinogens, stimulants, depressants, or effect varies with the person.
Men pay women to transfer power to them for a period of time which gives them a magic high. Maybe women need to dump some magic energy onto men in order to reduce the psychological effects of having that much magic power within themselves. Lots of questions about how this society holds itself together.
Maybe the drug effects only affect a subset of the population. Maybe warlock creation is mandated to occur when women are young and the drug effects haven't kicked in. Maybe there is some kind of twisted 2 child rule where each family has to have a boy and a girl. Or all births are twins one male and one female.
When the witch casts the ritual, she can make a magically enforced contract that both memebers would have to acknolledge and willingly agree to. However, they would not have to understand, so once the items on the contract are agreed to, either party can lie to each other. The contract requires both parties to do their part, as it is magically enforced.
Lure a powerful figure from the town into your witch hut, and show them your manipulation magic, and offer that they can gain power by using it on other important figures in the town. Then say that you don't want the magic used against you, so how and when the magic is used must not be against you. Then a assure the person you are tricking that these terms do not allow for manipulation of him. If the person is nervous still, offer them a way out, you can get out of the contract if you return the magic within a month.
They will ask how, and just tell them that they should come back to your hut. Teach them the spell that they use to manipulate. For the first month, show them how advantageous your power is to them, then after that, force them to do magic to get the t nearby town to do what you want. How: you must use your magic in this way, or may plan is ruined. Use as scrying ball to see the response of the people that were manipulated so you know how to manipulate them more out of their doubt if necessary. If, you can increase your magic power by training, then having a warlock, who is also increasing his power borrowed from you , then your magic improves faster.
Even if the warlock won't improve as fast as you, every little bit helps. Although the author never mentioned if the base amount of mana can be increased Everything else has been said A witch can have only one warlock, but a warlock can have more witches form which to draw power. Let's assume a group of four witches want to cast a very powerful spell to break a ancient magical barrier that can only be cast with mana and kills the caster.
But they only have mana each. The warlock is forced to cast the spell, consuming all his mana and killing him. The barrier is removed and there are no lose ends. I like to add that the warlock might bring other abilities to the table, an 80 year old witch might be a powerfull spellcaster but when you need a spellcaster on a battlefield properly the young knight with half of the magic power is properly the better choiche.
Especially when the witch still can work at another place, maybe as tactical advisor in a far away castle or as a medic close to the battlefield. And as mentioned if the 'war Warlock' dies, which shouldn't be that unlikely the magic power can be transfered to another person.
I believe you can made up thousand of others scenarios, where the skills or physicality of another person are necessary that a spell is usefull. For example opening a door with magic won't help you much at home. Another reason to transfer magic, is that you ain't expect a man to have magic powers so that this might be helpful to infiltrate some places with a spellcaster.
They can become useful servants, plus they would retain their individuality. A warlock, in your tale, could travel to other places and take actions in the witch's place.
Or maybe she would be physically incapacitated and the warlock could do lesser magic works untill she is fully healed. It sure has lots of drawbacks but sometimes two heads think better than just one. Maybe a Warlock would have access to more practical knowledge and it could help the witch in more ways we could imagine. What if the witches can stack the mana given to a single Warlock. Like 5 witches on the same Warlock. Could he become a super weapon. Or even a bomb because he is overwhelmed with mana Thank you for your interest in this question.
Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site the association bonus does not count. Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead? Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. Why would witches create warlocks when it makes them weaker? Ask Question. Asked 1 year, 1 month ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed 12k times.
When a witch dies, the warlock loses access to their mana and can no longer use magic. When a warlock dies, the amount of mana that was siphoned off by him returns to the witch. Advanced spells that require a certain amount of mana become harder or impossible for a witch when a warlock is siphoning mana from them. A witch can revoke the connection between her and the warlock with an equally advanced, complex spell without him being present. Incognito Incognito Also, you should be careful when copy-pasting. You accidentally added "5 down vote favorite 2" to the start of your quote, which looks quite awkward.
And thanks for doing that. It should definitely be clarified by the OP. I've just seen quite a few questions from users with similar behaviour that were focused on "magic only to the women", so I jumped to the conclusion as it's the only thing that makes the second sentence logical. Witch is also defined as a woman, so it's not completely unreasonable for the OP to jump to the conclusion that witch craft must be reserved for females, too.
The warlocks could take care of the routine stuff, like colds, plague, and gout, while the witch can come in for the big stuff, like cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis. The OP doesn't explain a time frame, so any of these could be plausible. Maybe cancer, etc. I made the all too common "modern life only" assumption. I guess I should change my comment above to read "Maybe cures for cancer, etc. Sure, the split mana means you run out of mana twice as fast, but killing your enemy twice as fast means they have less time to damage you which reduces the mana required for healing afterward.
Why not create another thread of control that can do work in parallel while sharing the same address space. MetalJimmor MetalJimmor 1, 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. The fact that the death of a warlock would not cause the witch to lose her power in fact, it would return to her would be a driver to use warlocks for risk mitigation.