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What Causes Endless Night? Anyone know?

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SlimMason:
If have a story idea and a title that only works if the plot is about an Endless Night. The cause of the darkness isn't as important as the darkness itself. So I need help deciding how the dark happens. It is a high fantasy, so there are wizards on the outside of this event, if there is an outside, tring to undue it.

So how do you put a city in the dark in such a way that even wizards would be stumped?

Moritz:

--- Quote from: SlimMason on June 15, 2008, 11:54:12 AM ---So how do you put a city in the dark in such a way that even wizards would be stumped?

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I guess that depends on the "power level" of the wizards. If it's some D&D style magic, then it has to be more powerful magic (a god?). In other cases it could be a power from a different area that the normal magicians cannot counter (e.g. extradimensional, from a forgotten or forbidden magic school).

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Shecky:
The whole planet's been shunted into the Plane of Night, and the cause and solution are found in a young child's dream. Perhaps s/he's the child of a trickster god, or maybe the child is the prophesied Alpha/Omega and this is the sign of the End Times, or possibly the child's parents are actually native to the Plane of Night and were exiled/chased out (or left of their own accord, either in protest or fleeing the evil they saw).

OZ:
Is it the whole planet that is affected or is only one city in eternal night while those some distance away go on with normal cycles?

Shecky:
That's a choice for the writer, but it's a lot more consistent (if requiring FAR more power) to pop the whole planet over than just to cherry-pick a city - where's the city going to go? What happens to the hole where it was? Who's going to notice and what can/will they do about it? Where's the cutoff - do the 'burbs come or not, and what about underground stuff? What about power, roads and the like? Tuck the whole planet into the Plane of Night, and the sh** hits the fan for everybody, nobody has to do the higher math on just what gets taken (and how/why/where/etc.), just BOOM!

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