Breakthrough: Hermetic Teacher

[Berengar]

@Jonathan.Link

Reading the last sentence certainly suggests that it is, as of the publication of Apprentices, canonical to teach the Gentle Gift.

You will have read this post in the same thread as well, from another author: Apprentices: In my hands... - #75 by Timothy_Ferguson . Here's the relevant part for this discussion:

@Timothy Ferguson

@One Shot

@Timothy Ferguson

@One Shot

Dear Matt,

...So I have it handy, in case somebody tries to argue canon fron the book, which has already been attempted in this very thread, and will - given the subject of Apprentices, also come up in my group.
Concluding, let me stress that I consider your approach completely valid, and, in particular with supplements, saving a lot of hassle..

Canon's for -authors-.

An argument to canon at your table is always a failed argument.

I fear, that this is not a comment very helpful for groups playing Ars.

I feel you have misunderstood my meaning, and so I'll try to present it again, in a more verbose form.

The function of canon is for authors to create a seamless setting, and that setting's function is to act as the basic point from which negotiations of play contract in your group begin. As such, canon has no role at your table. A person who aregues from canon, as presented in your original quote, is misunderstanding what the canon is for.

This is not the way things work in games where the rules are designed to enforce fairness. D&D for example, uses the rules to blanace play. Ars doesn't do this: the rules are deliberately designed so that your group can do things which, to other groups, would appear obviously broken. So, in D&D if two players say,

"I'd like to play a demon-blooded character."
"I think they aren't any fun and would prefer you didn't."
then in that situation
"But it's in the book!"
acts as a sort of tiebreaker.

In Ars, the conversation should go something like this:

"I'd like to play a demon blooded knight."
"I think they aren't any fun at all and would prefer you didn't."
"It's in Realms of Power : Infernal!"
"And...?"

That something is in the book just means its in the basic state from which negotiation ensues, it doesn't make its presence in the setting better or righter, or give it any real weight compared to "I won't enjoy that. Let's talk some more."

Got it from Timothy Ferguson now? Do you still wish to argue canon from Apprentices?

Cheers