Oh, Tosha. As if I care about passing your class. The one you enrolled me in against my wishes?
That 'stereotypical' definition, as you quaintly put it, is, it turns out, the only one worth using.
No doubt you would prefer to confine it narrowly, as 'one which can be applied empirically and solely to the property of the spell's effects upon the caster - that is, only those spells which the casting thereof may impact negatively upon the one who attempts to harness their power.'
Personally I don't much care what 'class' of spells you consider 'Dark' or 'Noble' so long as you abdicate any that don't adhere to our polite societal taboos. Swear never to cast with the intent to severely harm, kill or subjugate another living creature, and we can call an end.
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That 'stereotypical' definition, as you quaintly put it, is, it turns out, the only one worth using.
No doubt you would prefer to confine it narrowly, as 'one which can be applied empirically and solely to the property of the spell's effects upon the caster - that is, only those spells which the casting thereof may impact negatively upon the one who attempts to harness their power.'
Personally I don't much care what 'class' of spells you consider 'Dark' or 'Noble' so long as you abdicate any that don't adhere to our polite societal taboos. Swear never to cast with the intent to severely harm, kill or subjugate another living creature, and we can call an end.