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Leprechauns
whitelaughter:
trust you've seen xkcd's take on the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? https://m.xkcd.com/1944/
Gold isn't created by normal fusion in the Sun though, it needs a supernova.
In Dresden verse though, you'd follow a rainbow through the NeverNever, to the pot of gold. Unless you just want a pot of ectoplasm when you get home, you'd need to open a gate into the Sun - which is at least a quick and painless way to die. However, you could then (in the middle of the blasted wasteland in the Never Never) have cooling gold, which could be collected by someone else.
So a sneaky, evil Leprechaun could spread rumours of having a pot of gold, allow himself to be 'captured' by a Wizard with no Scholarship, and lead them to the appropriate point in the Never Never. One instantly fried Wizard later - massive riches! The joy of it is, they aren't lying - they *are* taking you to their pot of gold.
Leprechaun should have Mythic Immunity to Sunlight, and possibly have received a death curse or 3.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: whitelaughter on March 25, 2018, 09:06:35 AM ---trust you've seen xkcd's take on the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? https://m.xkcd.com/1944/
Gold isn't created by normal fusion in the Sun though, it needs a supernova.
In Dresden verse though, you'd follow a rainbow through the NeverNever, to the pot of gold. Unless you just want a pot of ectoplasm when you get home, you'd need to open a gate into the Sun - which is at least a quick and painless way to die. However, you could then (in the middle of the blasted wasteland in the Never Never) have cooling gold, which could be collected by someone else.
So a sneaky, evil Leprechaun could spread rumours of having a pot of gold, allow himself to be 'captured' by a Wizard with no Scholarship, and lead them to the appropriate point in the Never Never. One instantly fried Wizard later - massive riches! The joy of it is, they aren't lying - they *are* taking you to their pot of gold.
Leprechaun should have Mythic Immunity to Sunlight, and possibly have received a death curse or 3.
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Would the Gold necessarily all vanish? A certain bag of diamonds didnt in the recent book, and Id suspect the Leprochauns would value the gold a lot less if it were just cosmetically formed ectoplasm; I suspect their gold horde would be something they'd been collecting from Earth.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Quantus on April 04, 2018, 05:42:20 PM ---Would the Gold necessarily all vanish? A certain bag of diamonds didnt in the recent book, and Id suspect the Leprochauns would value the gold a lot less if it were just cosmetically formed ectoplasm; I suspect their gold horde would be something they'd been collecting from Earth.
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Yeah, this. NN-native gold goes to Ectoplasm as soon as it gets cut off from the NN, but Earthly gold stored in the NN stays golden when returned to Earth.
It's worth noting that if nobody puts NN-gold into an empowered Circle, it COULD (potentially) stay golden for quite a long time... so long as whatever spell or entity (the Leprechaun?) is giving it earthly form continues to do so.
I could imagine some sort of deep mystical tie between a leprechaun and gold, such that they might be VERY reluctant to disempower their gold; or maybe they keep it going just as a matter of course for a year-and-a-day or other faerie-tale timespan. I hear echoes of Mab's voice, when she had constrained the Leanansidhe and came (at Harry;s summons) in her place: "Bargains must be kept." Maybe Leprechauns MUST empower gold.
whitelaughter:
--- Quote from: Quantus on April 04, 2018, 05:42:20 PM ---Would the Gold necessarily all vanish?
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None of the gold would vanish, because it would be real gold taken from the core of the sun.
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