22-12-2025, 05:49 PM
I would like to share my impressions about the videos.
I liked it a lot but still I am a bit dissapointed about the experts.
Well, hmmm, it looks a bit like a kind of charm...
Well, hmmm, it looks a bit like a kind of German...
They were generally very cautious and didn't deliver much new info. I don't blame Katherine as I understand she specialises in English charms and doesn't have to know German stuff well. But the German expert could do better.
One thing I personally learnt in that "n" symbol means "nomen" which is "name" and is a placeholder for a proper name used in the charm.
I would like to make a subtle distinction here - it looks like we don't have a cast spell here but a "spell template"
You know, there are cases when someone writes at the end of an old book: "Let the wrath of God reaches anyone who steals this book". In such case the curse was "used" and is already "working".
But if our charm contains "n" then it wasn't used for or against anyone. It is not working, not protecting the book or bringing good luck to the scribe. Only if someone says it loud putting a proper name instead of "n" it will start "working".
Currently such a disstinction seems totally useless but maybe one day it will help with understanding VM better.
I liked it a lot but still I am a bit dissapointed about the experts.
Well, hmmm, it looks a bit like a kind of charm...
Well, hmmm, it looks a bit like a kind of German...
They were generally very cautious and didn't deliver much new info. I don't blame Katherine as I understand she specialises in English charms and doesn't have to know German stuff well. But the German expert could do better.
One thing I personally learnt in that "n" symbol means "nomen" which is "name" and is a placeholder for a proper name used in the charm.
I would like to make a subtle distinction here - it looks like we don't have a cast spell here but a "spell template"
You know, there are cases when someone writes at the end of an old book: "Let the wrath of God reaches anyone who steals this book". In such case the curse was "used" and is already "working".
But if our charm contains "n" then it wasn't used for or against anyone. It is not working, not protecting the book or bringing good luck to the scribe. Only if someone says it loud putting a proper name instead of "n" it will start "working".
Currently such a disstinction seems totally useless but maybe one day it will help with understanding VM better.