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Rasins:
Didn't Harry mention that he thought he'd figured out how to make the enchantments on his duster last a year?

Lost Merlin:
I think I remember a year as well.  But I think that was just the etching or tattooing or what ever it was that laid the initial working.  I still think that he had to do upkeep on them as well. 

Rasins:

--- Quote from: Lost Merlin on March 20, 2018, 02:04:39 PM ---I think I remember a year as well.  But I think that was just the etching or tattooing or what ever it was that laid the initial working.  I still think that he had to do upkeep on them as well.

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The way he said it, I don't have the quote, it seemed like it was that the enchantment would last the whole year, not needing upkeep for a year.  But you might be right.

Quantus:

--- Quote from: Rasins on March 20, 2018, 02:25:08 PM ---The way he said it, I don't have the quote, it seemed like it was that the enchantment would last the whole year, not needing upkeep for a year.  But you might be right.

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He said he had to do regular upkeep (by reapplying the enchantments with a tattoo needle), but he is continuously improving that process such that each time he does it the enchantment lasts longer before needing reapplication.  As of Changes he said the next time might last a little over a year.  Not sure if that still holds after he lost his lab and tools though. 


--- Quote from: Changes Ch. 38 ---I shook my head, stunned. It had tak­en me years to de­sign, cre­ate, and im­prove my leather duster’s de­fen­sive spells, and even then, the pro­tec­tion ex­tend­ed on­ly as far as the ac­tu­al leather. Lea had whipped up a whole-​body pro­tec­tive en­chant­ment in min­utes.

I sud­den­ly felt a bit more hum­ble. It was prob­ably good for me.

But then I tilt­ed my head, frown­ing. The pow­er in­volved in my god­moth­er’s gifts was in­cred­ible—but the uni­verse just doesn’t seem to be will­ing to give you some­thing for noth­ing. That was as true in mag­ic as it was in physics. I could, with years of ef­fort, prob­ably du­pli­cate what Lea’s gifts could do. The Sid­he worked with the same mag­ic I did, though ad­mit­ted­ly they seemed to have a very dif­fer­ent sort of re­la­tion­ship. Still, that much pow­er all in one spot meant that the en­er­gy cost for it was be­ing paid else­where.

Like maybe in longevi­ty.

“God­moth­er,” I asked, “how long will these gifts en­dure?”

Her smile turned a lit­tle sad. “Ah, child. I am a faerie god­moth­er, am I not? Such things are not meant to last.”

“Don’t tell me mid­night,” I said.

“Of course not. I am not part of Sum­mer.” She sniffed, rather scorn­ful­ly. “Noon.”

And that made more sense. My duster’s spells last­ed for months, and I thought I’d worked out how to make them run for more than a year the next time I laid them down. Lea’s gifts in­volved the same kind of pow­er out­put, cre­at­ed seem­ing­ly with­out toil—but they wouldn’t last like the things I cre­at­ed would. My self-​im­age re­cov­ered a lit­tle.
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Lost Merlin:
I don't know that its the tools that make the enchantments better.  I think its the actual magical formula that he is able to improve. Better tools may just mean faster results. 

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