The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Candidates for future Nemfection?
Bad Alias:
--- 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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The theory that all mortal practitioners are descended from faeries would answer that question. Though I'd imagine if mortals first became supernatural by being scions, it wouldn't be limited to faeries.
The counter to this is that the beliefs of mortals, most of whom are not practitioners, shape reality. Practitioners are just better at it than non-practitioners.
kbrizzle:
As mentioned before, I believe there is an obscure WoJ that most wizards are descendants of Changelings. So at some level in order to be able to do magic, you have to have the blood of the NeverNever in you.
This makes sense since magic in the DV relies a lot on the NN to power it (shapeshifters using it to store/ borrow mass etc).
@morriswalters
Completely agree, I like your point about shaping reality.
morriswalters:
@kbrizzle
attribute that to Bad Alias. More later.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 31, 2019, 06:19:52 PM ---Also dogs and coyotes. Either I've never found/been given the proper scientific definition of species, or it's a wrong/incomplete concept.
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I believe that most modern biologists agree that "species" is an out-dated idea; still useful in some ways, the way Newtonian Physics is useful when launching satellites/spacecraft, even though it is known to be wrong (Einsteinian Physics is much closer to correct; but for most purposes the difference is negligible).
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 01, 2019, 07:11:42 PM --- 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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Then Mira we agree, at least broadly.
@g33k
If you must drag Ebeneezer into this discussion use Newtonian Mechanics rather than physics.
@Bad Alias
I wish more people understood that concept better, when applied to ephemeral events. Putting that aside though, I tend to think that Molly carried the gene and that her siblings didn't or that her siblings do and that if exposed to magic for any long span of time that they would come into magic themselves.
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