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Candidates for future Nemfection?
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 31, 2019, 09:21:28 PM ---@Mira
Jim plays fast and loose with biology. On one hand he ascribes magic to a genetic combination. On the other hand he he states to pass on magic you have to practice magic. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
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It's magic.
it doesn't have to make sense.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 31, 2019, 09:21:28 PM ---I don't think the biologists understand it all that well.
@Mira
Jim plays fast and loose with biology. On one hand he ascribes magic to a genetic combination. On the other hand he he states to pass on magic you have to practice magic. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Think of wizards like Labrador Retrievers, species wise they are dogs , however genetically the Labrador loves water and has the drive to retrieve... However not all Labs do, most are born sweet and happy, but won't retrieve a ball or duck, some are so obsessed with retrieving that they are considered hyper.. Some have the right combo of drive and intelligence, but to become a great hunting dog they have to be trained..
morriswalters:
@g33k
This is a deeper dive than I anticipated for an offhand remark. The obvious problem is, if magic is required to produce baby wizards, how did you get the first wizard? ???
@Mira
I understand what you mean, it's just that my head canon differs.
Regenbogen:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 01, 2019, 01:11:32 PM ---The obvious problem is, if magic is required to produce baby wizards, how did you get the first wizard? ???
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LOL
I just imagined talking to my bosses about wizard genetics. Either they would laugh and hope I made a joke. Or they would instantly fire me. Or they would keep me on probation but I would definitely loose lots of competence points. ;D
Maybe the magic was in humans (and animals) from the beginning. There was a time when magic was everywhere. But the talent for feeling and using it manifests only in few individuals nowadays. Recessive inheritance.
That's why some children have it and some not even if the parents are non-magical. That way magic can be inherited over several generations without a wizard in the family. And when two recessive magic genes are combined, then the possibility of a baby wizard is not so high as with a wizard or two in the family but it exists.
And maybe by using magic, the magic genes can be made stronger so that the possibility of making a baby wizard is higher than with a wizard parent who doesn't use his or her magic.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 01, 2019, 01:11:32 PM ---@g33k
This is a deeper dive than I anticipated for an offhand remark. The obvious problem is, if magic is required to produce baby wizards, how did you get the first wizard? ???
@Mira
I understand what you mean, it's just that my head canon differs.
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Dogs are a good example because there is such a wide variety of them from the tiny tea cup poodle to a giant Irish Wolfhound and everything in between, long hair, short hair, hairless, all were bred for different things, look and act totally different from one another, but in the end, they are all dogs descended from a common animal. That is the point..
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