If one feels threatened, the fight or flight mechanism kicks in.
What Eric wrote, in the grand scheme of things is just the beginning. His works aren’t everything, and they sure as hell don’t govern the entirety of black magick.
It’s a community, korgon, and communities are bound to form teams. That’s where the group nature comes in.
I do not feel particularly threatened, but then again just read some of my posts. Getting attacked is a daily thing because that is the path I’ve chosen, I’m a warmonger and I appeared after necromaster left the show.
I don’t even think he knows I exist, and if he did, he hasn’t done anything against I.
Fear, doubt, and uncertainty are human nature when it comes to fighting and no matter how proficient you are, while your heart still beats you will have those responses unless your apathetic because they are part of the natural human.
I understand it all, and that is because I have been into the fire and come out with a few heads at my belt. I don’t have legions for offense, I have hardly any servitors for defense- the only truly sentient entity that oversees my defense and offense is me.
I do what I do mostly alone.
Just because they are magi, does not mean they do not have normal human responses to being attacked. That’s why the group is formed and a plan of action carried out- if in the Neolithic, let’s say, a group attacked a group and then fled, the attacked group would be afraid, and most likely attempt to form a group to counterattack.
But what the hell would I know, I’m no time traveler.
What I am is a warrior by trade, and I can tell you, korgon, that this is only natural. That’s how I felt when I was starting out, before I was attacked every day.
Being under metaphysical siege really changes the way you view astral combat.
If it really is troubling everyone this much, I’ll move in on the woman and apprentice korgon mentioned. Fire and air? Interesting, because those are also what incense is.
Korgon, PM me. Let’s chat about those two.