HRogge Wrote:What I don't like about the Drunkard's Walk magic text is that you have to be born with the right genes to do magic... that will most likely kill the Wizard faction as soon as true magic is discovered.I think it would be just fine to need the genetic magegift to do magic unassisted. If you don't have the inborn gift, you need to involve Handwavium. And like every other time Handwavium is involved, that causes... inconsistent results, shall we say.
Resurrections are theoretically possible, but (in Fenspace, at least) they always involve directly bargaining with The Three and/or Death Herself. Precious few Celestials are as personable as the ones Doug met in Tomodachi, and so far no Fenspace mage has successfully argued for continuing a life.
On a meta level, I think a story involving a resurrection should only be admitted to Fenspace Canon if there is unanimous agreement that it serves the setting well, and that the resurrection is critical to the story.
On the subject of "Love Magic", to say whether or not such a thing exists, we would first have to define "love". Good luck with that. Instead, I propose that emotion-warping magic of any kind is very fragile and requires either continuous effort or frequent upkeep. Irrational hatred is just as difficult to artificially create and maintain as blind devotion. EDIT: unless you're a manipulative bastard without equal already, and wouldn't even need magic to inflict self-sustaining irrational emotions. In that case, you could use magic to achieve results faster.