"Most of them are geared towards preventing harmful things getting in and killing you, but the field covered by wards is wide. Anti-burglary wards, anti-lockpicking wards, privacy wards, charms to keep your food from spoiling, the wide range of wards against inhuman harm to inhabitants, anti-pest wards - though those are notoriously unreliable in the best of circumstances-"
Even a wardskeeper might have to resort to using a peanut-butter-baited electric fence to keep the deer out of her garden.
"-and more, besides. The global council-members may have wards around their persons that number in the thousands, and wardcrafters working around the clock to better protect them. Nobody else can really afford that kind of deal, but no one does without the standard wards at the very least, if they can help it."
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Date: 2010-01-29 07:26 am (UTC)"Most of them are geared towards preventing harmful things getting in and killing you, but the field covered by wards is wide. Anti-burglary wards, anti-lockpicking wards, privacy wards, charms to keep your food from spoiling, the wide range of wards against inhuman harm to inhabitants, anti-pest wards - though those are notoriously unreliable in the best of circumstances-"
Even a wardskeeper might have to resort to using a peanut-butter-baited electric fence to keep the deer out of her garden.
"-and more, besides. The global council-members may have wards around their persons that number in the thousands, and wardcrafters working around the clock to better protect them. Nobody else can really afford that kind of deal, but no one does without the standard wards at the very least, if they can help it."