What an excellent show (although very weird and crazy too). The books showed what to me is one of the more interesting ways for an author to come up with a syst

What an excellent show (although very weird and crazy too). The books showed what to me is one of the more interesting ways for an author to come up with a systematic system of magic. It isn't just saying a spell or anything like that. In the book (spoilers), only the most intelligent people can begin to take all the variables into account in doing a spell (hand signs, words, positions of the planetary bodies, temperature, humidity, constellations, phase of the moon, mood of the caster, and a ton of other things are all factored in and tables are cross-referenced. The author did a better job of explaining it. In relation to your above comment I felt they did a good job throughout the series showing the difficulties in communicating amongst lowly people and entities and creatures that are higher up in the pecking order.