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Questions for Jim 2012 style 2
Quantus:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on September 26, 2012, 07:09:15 PM ---And no reason that I can see to think it didn't take over that post, say from a capital-D Dragon or an Old One..
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Very True. It all depends on whether you think "Creation" in that instance is a noun or a verb :)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Quantus on September 26, 2012, 07:50:08 PM ---Very True. It all depends on whether you think "Creation" in that instance is a noun or a verb :)
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Oh, very nice. I can see Uriel as a latecomer taking over a position in charge of a significant chunk of the process of Creation as easily as a latecomer taking over jurisdiction over a chunk of the universe, though. I mean, if we talk about Creation-as-verb in the DV, Harry is kind of doing it on a small scale much of the time he uses magic.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on September 26, 2012, 08:17:28 PM ---Oh, very nice. I can see Uriel as a latecomer taking over a position in charge of a significant chunk of the process of Creation as easily as a latecomer taking over jurisdiction over a chunk of the universe, though. I mean, if we talk about Creation-as-verb in the DV, Harry is kind of doing it on a small scale much of the time he uses magic.
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I could see that. Though Magic still has to do business with the Laws of Physics, and in theory somebody had to write those Laws.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Quantus on September 26, 2012, 08:29:10 PM ---I could see that. Though Magic still has to do business with the Laws of Physics, and in theory somebody had to write those Laws.
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Not that I can see. Magic and supernatural stuff of whatever form evolving with the constraints of physics, and physics logically constrained in that you have to have values of physical laws that support complex life or you don't get a story in the first place, works equally well to my mind at any rate.
Nicodemus Carpenter:
--- Quote from: Quantus on September 26, 2012, 08:29:10 PM ---I could see that. Though Magic still has to do business with the Laws of Physics, and in theory somebody had to write those Laws.
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There's another WoJ that says there is no upper limit on what magic can accomplish. If a practitioner has enough juice, and a strong enough will, they can literally do anything they can imagine.
The whole thing about how magic has to do business with 'the laws of physics' might well just be the way an individual practitioner's will interacts with all the other 'wills' currently at work upon the universe.
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