Alrighty. We've seen a bunch of the powers come and go throughtout all the books. Now we've got the peredexis to deal with too. Is it another power? Or an extension of the One? Or is it something else entirely, like the Pig? A blip in the universe?

Im rather confuzzled.

Hmm. I can't say what that is, just try to reason it out in my own way.
The Powers are the outside controls of the universe. Outside - because they are constrained by rules regarding the objects (people and all) in the universes, but do act, and therefore involved. As are outside controls in a machine - they are involved not in action, but involved in the process. This is a key word - process.
The way I see it, peridexis is a sentient process. Not an outside control, but not an action or an initiator of one.

Sorry if it is confusing - if you want to make sense of it, ask, I will try to clear it up. I tend to think - and reason - compactly. And then I usually have to explain myself...

what i got from the explanation of the peridexis in the book was that it was always there in their heads but they couldnt hear it until the powers that be gave them more power because of the senior wizards losing theirs.

But they couldn't hear it, only Nita could. It's still a mystery as to why only she could. It's not as simple as the increased power.

I don't know what it is, but I expect it'll be explained eventually.

Could it be an extension of Neet's very odd ever-increasing power levels? Like, since she's going counter to the normal trend of wizardry, she's got skills that all the rest of them (even Ronan, with his One-ness) don't?

Peridexis describes it self in a way that sounds like it is in the same class as the transcendent Pig, just a guess


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Any possible way that the Peridexis effect could be a power who's hidden itself in Nita? Kind of what happened with either Ponch or Memeki, right?

ChibiFerretGod, I was thinking something along the same lines, too. It seemed to me that the Peridexis never really explained itself. That leaves many options and ideas open to what it REALLY is. It knows so many things, it can't just be something weak or ordinary. It might be some sort of Power growing inside of her, along with his increasing power levels. Other wizards are very strong and powerful, or experienced, but there's been no mention of anything like the Peridexis up until now, making me presume that Nita is the "one and only" to develop such power. I hope we find out what the Peridexis really is, and why Neets's powers are going up rather than decreasing, in the next book and soon, because I'm really really curious.

i think of the peridexis as..well, my name, first of all. but besides that, it IS wizardry. the very being of it. you know how everything has a spirit, an essence? the peridexis is that. nothing is predominently "inamminate", as we put it, because wizardry has a place in EVERYTHING. do you kinda get it? oh yeah; i know i sound philosiphical, but books like this really make me think, and i love that. bnormally however, i'm not this serious.

ChibiFerretGod, I love your avatar! But could you scale it down a little, I would hate for it to get banned or anything . . .

How long do you people think the peridexis has been with Nita? If you think it is the wizardry that is present everywhere then obviously you think it has always been with her. But if it is something else, if it is something unique to Nita, then when did it arrive? During W@W? When she started having prophetic dreams? When she had her Ordeal? Some random point in time between?

Personally i think that the peridexis was there all along it just took the increased power boost for it to be able to communicate,
the Peridexis says why it talked to nita because she could handle wizardry being a real living thing, and perhaps noone else could.

though maybe u are right Caitlin maybe it is just nita not going along with normal wirzardness. *shrugs* who knows, maybe there is no explanation

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Originally posted by Space Cadet:
But if it is something else, if it is something unique to Nita, then when did it arrive? During W@W? When she started having prophetic dreams? When she had her Ordeal? Some random point in time between?

There wasn't much time in between - her first prophetic dream is in SYWTBAW before she even meets Kit.
It's probably connected with her increasing power levels. The peridexis is curious about them, and since it can't join the forums to speculate, it's hanging round her instead.

PM: I actually meant W@W to be one of the points between which a 'random point' could be located, so I was actually specifying a whole lotta time.

Do you think the peridexis is connected with her prophetic dreams? It seems like it would be too much of a coincidence to have more than one amazingly amazing thing happening to Nita at once. There are enough characters in the series that the amazingness could be spread around somewhat.
(Sorry, that didn't make much sense, did it?)

Well, you know how every universe, planet, etc has a soul, which is portrayed as a kernel. Maybe she is somehow communicating with the kernel of Wizardry itself. Then again, none of the other kernels that she has manipulated seemed to have personalities, but this is Wizardry itself, so who knows?

It might also be a power, maybe the one responsible for the manual, hiding inside her like with Ronan, where she lives with it but doesn't discover it until her power levels increase to the point that she can sense it. Maybe the power itself is the cause of her mysteriously increasing power levels throughout the books. It would also explain the shift in specialties as the power begins to affect her, giving her the ability to have prophetic dreams, and also why she is able to handle the notion that Wizardry is "alive" when most others cannot. If it is a part of her, whether or not she consciously knows, she will subconsciously understand that it is there. It could also explain why so many spectacular things have happened to her. She started with a bang, and was immediately involved in pretty much every major intervention since then. One could argue that Kit was too, but he was just there because of her in Deep Wizardry, High Wizardry, A Wizard Abroad, and A Wizard's Dilemma.

...wow...that was a whole lot deeper than I intended. This really makes you think!

EDIT: Sorry about the giant avatar. My computer made it like 20 times bigger for some reason, so I've just got a generic one until I get around to making my own.

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Quick, shrink it down, shrink it down!

After re-reading the AWoM teaser on the yw.com, I'm wondering if we'll be seeing the peridexis again much sooner than we had originally thought.

...Nita becoming something less than human or much more than? That sounds a lot like the peridexis to me.

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Originally posted by Peter Murray:
It's probably connected with her increasing power levels. The peridexis is curious about them, and since it can't join the forums to speculate, it's hanging round her instead.

heh, PM

I think this is one of those things we're meant to wonder about. there's something going on with nita, i think, but I also think we're not supposed to figure it out yet.

Still, I think we'll find out something, at least, when A Wizard of Mars comes out. I mean, after reading the teaser, it sounds like some of the mysteries surrounding Nita will be revealed.

The way I see it is like this: Imagine a cat. Think about a cat. It's cute and fuzzy, right? Right. Now draw the cat on a piece of paper. Nice cat. Now go out and buy a cat, and take him home and play with him and feed him.

This is how I see the difference between the Wizardry's forms. The idea of the cat is like the idea of wizardry, thinking about it. The drawing of the cat is like casting spells. You're describing it, and changing it. The cat you can talk to and pet is like the peridexis. It's there more that the drawing was or the thought was. For lack of a better word, I'd say it's the soul, and the physical embodiment. Nita didn't go buy a cat, a cat followed her home and now she can't get rid of it.

Or maybe I'm totally wrong. Who knows. That's just how I think about it.

That is a GREAT metaphor.

Can you post another one in the 'ponch' topic? Some people over there seem confused still.