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mechanics of faith in urban fantasy: a notion for a project
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--- Quote from: neurovore on April 28, 2009, 01:28:06 AM ---Not a tree, no. Which means that people wanting to stay safe from magic want to stay in heavily urban areas where everything around them is tech heavy and hard to affect.
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Coolness, I hadn't thought of the statistical possibilities of this. You get to think of both the average density of believers, their mean free path between interactions, and the, ahem, 'energy' of their belief. Heck, you might even devise a Cooper-pair analogy, where believers pair up to travel through the lattice of unbelief.
<edit: gigglesnorts at the thought of explaining Gaussian and power curves in SF>
The Corvidian:
There is a novel by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens where a good guy vampire holds off a bad guy vampire with a cross. The bad guy believed that the cross could hurt him.
Dandalf the Grey:
Also, read I Am Legend - a good deal better than the movie, in my opinion. The vampires there were repelled by crosses only when they were Christians in life; whereas Jewish vampires were repelled by Stars of David, and if they had no faith you were stuck with staking them to death and other such violent things. Kind of an interesting 50's-era rendition of vampires, and the author got into some science-type reasons for vampire behavior and traits. Short but sweet.
Dandalf the Grey:
Also, "The Vampire Lestat" includes Armand and his group of flunkies being held at bay when Lestat enters a church. Armand knows that he can enter with no ill effects, but the others don't come inside for fear of their (un)lives. Not quite the same as magic affecting them, but still a similar concept.
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