The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Shapeshifting and size-changing
RobReece:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on May 01, 2018, 01:54:04 AM ---So is it explained how someone gets smaller, like when LTW turned himself in to a bird when he was fighting the Naagloshii? I mean it's one thing to add mass by grabbing some ectoplasm from the nevernever and magically animating it as part of your chosen form, but how do they do it in reverse? That seems problematic to me.
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Actually, I think that would be much easier, since if don't need to conserve it for when you enlarge again, just convert it to energy and let it dissipate as heat.
Fcrate:
--- Quote from: RobReece on May 01, 2018, 02:39:29 AM ---Actually, I think that would be much easier, since if don't need to conserve it for when you enlarge again, just convert it to energy and let it dissipate as heat.
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Too wastefull. Besides, that would leave you without a good chunk of your energy reserves. I had thought it was like Ant-Man's shrinking while maintaining his mass, but that doesn't work. So... no clue.
jonas:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on May 01, 2018, 01:54:04 AM ---So is it explained how someone gets smaller, like when LTW turned himself in to a bird when he was fighting the Naagloshii? I mean it's one thing to add mass by grabbing some ectoplasm from the nevernever and magically animating it as part of your chosen form, but how do they do it in reverse? That seems problematic to me.
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No, but I hypothesize that it basically becomes part of the NN around the person's aura/ their personal sanctum on the other side to slough off parts of themselves without truly separating.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: jonas on May 01, 2018, 09:07:40 AM ---No, but I hypothesize that it basically becomes part of the NN around the person's aura/ their personal sanctum on the other side to slough off parts of themselves without truly separating.
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That was my image as well, but admittedly I defaulted there because that's how the Animorph books I read as a kid explained it (I think they called it Z-space or something).
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on May 01, 2018, 01:54:04 AM ---So is it explained how someone gets smaller, like when LTW turned himself in to a bird when he was fighting the Naagloshii? I mean it's one thing to add mass by grabbing some ectoplasm from the nevernever and magically animating it as part of your chosen form, but how do they do it in reverse? That seems problematic to me.
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The RPG goes into this a bit (one of the sample characters turns into a mouse), and the extra mass is shunted into the nevernever temporarily.
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