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Smaug with OCD:
This is a strange question that occurred to me while I was planning out part of my own original work procrastinating:

1) Harry has said that magic comes from the energy of life.
2) There are exponentially more people than there were on earth a few hundred years ago(more life on earth?).
3) Conservation of energy has also been mentioned in regards to how magic works.

So, does the fact that there are more people mean that more magic energy is generated, or is this a major factor in why the powers that be have become diluted, their mojo spread out like Hades(?) and Santa Odin mentioned?

Snark Knight:
There's probably some kind of a trade-off, whereby there's more humans, but our spread has also driven many animal species to extinction, so the net amount of life hasn't changed as much as you'd think just from our numbers.

peregrine:
Depends.  Magic may come from the energy of life, but is it necessarily human life?  There's probably about the same amount of "life" all over the place, it's just that there's more human life than the past centuries/decades.

Or perhaps it's the energy is from life, but the magic is from the will to manipulate it.

Also, we probably have fewer of the supernatural beings on the planet now than we did.  So while there's more humans, we used to have the fae and whatnot doing magic things, but have since been supplanted.

Griffyn612:
It's an interesting line of thought.  Personally, I'd guess that the two aren't directly related, but that's because of my theories on what power is in the Dresdenverse. 

On the whole, I think the deities have elemental power, and receive worship power.  I attribute the wane in overall power and influence to a loss of worship power, which has transferred to Abrahamic pantheons. 

As for the population, that blew up after penicillin was discovered, which is a fairly recent event.  I imagine the old pantheons had waned long before 1928.

Mira:

--- Quote from: Smaug with OCD on July 04, 2017, 04:17:52 PM ---This is a strange question that occurred to me while I was planning out part of my own original work procrastinating:

1) Harry has said that magic comes from the energy of life.
2) There are exponentially more people than there were on earth a few hundred years ago(more life on earth?).
3) Conservation of energy has also been mentioned in regards to how magic works.

So, does the fact that there are more people mean that more magic energy is generated, or is this a major factor in why the powers that be have become diluted, their mojo spread out like Hades(?) and Santa Odin mentioned?

--- End quote ---

I think the possibility is what it ever was, only problem fewer teachers to take on apprentices these days... So with more people, more chances of children born with talent, and along with it more warlocks..

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