1) Yes, that's normally how I read that pattern -- and yes, that's how I would read that pattern of Coelbren letters. It's not a favorable reading.
2) That's certainly a plausible interpretation. The idea of "enduring wealth" is itself much more problematic than contemporary pop culture makes it sound, since any attempt to build a store of value depends on a galaxy of assumptions about what people in the future will value and what goods and services will be available in exchange for any given set of tokens of value -- and such assumptions are routinely dead wrong.
3) A simple natural magic working is considerably underpowered for an attempt to change the economic destiny of an entire family into the far future! If something that small could have effects on that scale, we would all be millionaires. You can certainly use candle magic and natural magic for prosperity on an ongoing basis with good effect, but with magic as with all other things, the effect you get is going to be proportional to the effort you apply to it.
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Re: Advice about a Coelbren reading and magical
Date: 2019-11-04 11:20 pm (UTC)2) That's certainly a plausible interpretation. The idea of "enduring wealth" is itself much more problematic than contemporary pop culture makes it sound, since any attempt to build a store of value depends on a galaxy of assumptions about what people in the future will value and what goods and services will be available in exchange for any given set of tokens of value -- and such assumptions are routinely dead wrong.
3) A simple natural magic working is considerably underpowered for an attempt to change the economic destiny of an entire family into the far future! If something that small could have effects on that scale, we would all be millionaires. You can certainly use candle magic and natural magic for prosperity on an ongoing basis with good effect, but with magic as with all other things, the effect you get is going to be proportional to the effort you apply to it.