[TORG] Philosophy of Polymorphism

[Jerry S Fisk]

At 12:16 AM 12/22/2008, Dominick wrote:
>It's worse than that. Both spells were "alteration/entity" and the
>witch is clearly a folk, not an entity. But the problem for me (as
>creator of the Cosmversal Grimoire for Compleat Magick) is that there
>are three fundamental questions that need to be answered. The first is
>one of whether there should be spells that are fundamentally the same
>built for more than one of the greater kindred (Polymorphism for
>entities, polymorphism for enchanted, polymorphism for folk,
>polymorphism for elementals) or if the fact that multiple greater
>kindred can use the same spells means that they should fundamentally
>be living forces spells so as to apply to them all. The second is one
>of definition - "turn me into a creature with which I have affinity"
>seems to be a bit more dodgy than "turn me into a cat" or "turn me
>into a wolf". Is the first definition simple enough to seem like one
>effect? If not, the Magic Axiom can allow for it, but not at Aysle's
>ratings.

But in the TKSB pg 47 under the heading of spells.  There is a list 
of spells from the other Torg books that would be similar in 
TK.  When it come to demons casting spells with the Folk AK you would use the