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Griffyn612:

--- Quote from: Mira on June 25, 2021, 03:46:58 PM ---Agreed, I also think if there are so many of them, what is so special about them?  However here is another way to look at it, many babies are born every day with genius level I.Q.s, but very few for fill that promise or potential, and even fewer still are really remembered... As in there are many mathematicians and physicists with genius level intelligence, but very few of genius,as in Einstein,Newton, or Hawking..  Maybe it works the same way for star born?

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Pretty much. I think being born at a certain time is one component, but it's only one. I think there are others as well. Perhaps they have to be exposed to certain magics by a certain age. It's been speculated before that maybe they have to be exposed to outsider energy. That would reduce to the potentials significantly.


--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on June 25, 2021, 09:38:50 PM ---Number I dug up was 250 babies/hour. And this would have been in 1975, with a lower population- 4 billion vs. 7.8. So the rate was lower then.

I go around on what Elaine really is. Could a starborn have been put on ice since the last cycle? Tinfoil hats want to know!

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Hmm, I'm not sure. This site
says there were right around 120 million born in 1975. That seems to be around 14k per hour. So four hours, maybe more if at night during a hours with lower averages, should cover the 40-60k.

Arjan:
Time is only one component. Place can be another. In the Southern Hemisphere things are different

Mira:

--- Quote from: Arjan on June 26, 2021, 06:21:34 AM ---Time is only one component. Place can be another. In the Southern Hemisphere things are different

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Somehow I don't think where you were born has that much to do with it.. However I do think events or circumstances can trigger full starborness..  That could be a matter, depending on how you look at it, as being in the right place at the right time kind of thing.

Arjan:

--- Quote from: Mira on June 26, 2021, 04:58:18 PM ---Somehow I don't think where you were born has that much to do with it.. However I do think events or circumstances can trigger full starborness..  That could be a matter, depending on how you look at it, as being in the right place at the right time kind of thing.

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Location and local culture seems to be of great importance how the supernatural expresses itself. The closest analogy is how to kill an immortal. Sure Halloween is a good bet but it was not the only point in space and time. The stone table worked as well and Harry did kill the red king and that was on a time and place especially important for the maya, not in a Celtic Holliday.

groinkick:
Jim said that you need to be born at the right place (and time)...  So I'm wondering where this place was.  He also said that of the 40,000 Starborn, there aren't many left.  That's a lot of people to die in 40 or so years.  I wonder if Earth isn't the only place they can come from?  Perhaps some Starborn from the past weren't even humans, NeverNever Being's maybe...  This time around though was Earth.  This could be the first time mortal wizards have had access to the Starborn ability, or at least the first time in a while.

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