The Armor of Light by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Armor of Light by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett

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[ba_munronoe]

I'm also a little squicked by the notion that James's known enthusiasm for burning witches would have been perfectly justified in this world.

[(Anonymous)]

James Stuart that is...... and in England it was hanging.

But the setting seems to be that not all people with magic are enemy agents... or...??

[ba_munronoe]

I didn't think I needed to clarify which James! (Has our host been combating witches and nobody told me?) I meant witches in the contemporary sense of "servants of satan", even in our world rich white men (see, John Dee) were able to muck around in mystical matters without much risk of being hung or burned: I'd imagine in a world with working magic, there would be more fine-grained distinctions on which magic users to employ and which to throw away.