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Bakoro:
Did Winter ever even stop in Chicago? Seems like winter just stayed a while longer. Sound like a magic bio-dome.
I don't think we should be getting to worked up about trying to make magic to real world power conversions. It's fun to see what the the effects of magic are in realistic energy units, but there's no way we could even begin to figure how much a magic unit is to the joule (or whatever). Harry talks a lot about his poor efficiency and how other, less metaphysically substantive wizards do a lot more with a lot less, so who knows how any one stacks up against each other beyond Harry:little Mab:Big.
As far as conservation of energy, that's almost meaningless as far as I can tell. All magic is in equilibrium all over the world and fills in gaps instantly barring circles. Maybe pure magic permeates the NN veil and the "closed system" is the entire multi-verse. Maybe a lot of things.
If magic can convert to heat or cold or whatever, even temporarily, that just throws everything totally out of whack. You change physical forms and borrow NN material to "make" mass, you use purer magic to "make" heat, and it all goes back to being NN material to magic.
There is just no accounting for this stuff because magic. Maybe Jim should write a Dresdenverse Meta-physics book. We can learn those power calculations Harry talked about re: Little Chicago.
Oh snap, I was kidding about that last part, but an illustrated Dresdenverse Cryptozoology book would be awesome. It wouldn't even take much of Jim's time. Maybe have Wayne Barlowe do it, or a bunch of artists.
wizard nelson:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on December 14, 2012, 09:25:43 AM ---The lake is still a massive stopper for spells, it's part of why Demonreach was built there according to Odin IIRC.
Though she's probably a good enough water magic user that running water doesn't really bother her.
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no running water is a purifying force, your getting it backwards. still water is located in mabs domain. running water would be worse
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: wizard nelson on December 14, 2012, 09:34:11 AM ---no running water is a purifying force, your getting it backwards. still water is located in mabs domain. running water would be worse
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Wasn't that fire? And what part do you think I'm getting backwards?
And why do you think she'll have problems with running water?
wizard nelson:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on December 14, 2012, 09:39:06 AM ---Wasn't that fire? And what part do you think I'm getting backwards?
And why do you think she'll have problems with running water?
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running water washes away magic, still water grounds it out. unless your a water mage
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: wizard nelson on December 14, 2012, 09:43:19 AM ---running water washes away magic, still water grounds it out. unless your a water mage
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Ah. All of this was because I referred to the lake as a stopper rather than a more general term to explain why it's a pain to cast spells over the lake?
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