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What Causes Endless Night? Anyone know?
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Yarr on June 22, 2008, 03:41:00 AM ---Either a pissed off race of casters, or an irresponsible researcher, or if you're a Shyamalan fan, some angry <i>trees</i>, create a pathogen (magical, probably) that erodes a subject's ability to perceive light. The light is there, but the townfolk cannot perceive it, because they've each lost their optic nerve. This solves an obvious problem with the blotting out of the sun, wherein plant life cannot photosynthesize and the food chain dies from the grass up. It also gives you another layer, by which the protagonist and 5% of the population are immune to the pathogen, or if you like Reavers, have their visual acuity augmented tenfold. If you mean for magic to be a commodity in the world you're building, you can have someone selling an effective talisman for a king's ransom. Or perhaps the college of wizards is in for a powergrab; an environment with so much fear is just begging to be exploited.
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Hey, I like that one! It gets my vote!
Franziska:
There was something similar in "the day of the Triffyds": a pandemy of blindness, caused by green meteors...
LizW65:
A book of short fiction in my TBR pile, Banquet of the Lords of Night, posits a world plunged into eternal darkness by the aforementioned Lords, who have "conjured a great shell" above the world, blocking out all light and making it illegal.
blgarver:
Tequila normally causes eternal night for me.
;D
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Syntopicon:
Large scale volcanic activity, could be natural or magically created. Ash will make it like night for quite a while, and if the volcano were magically affected it could spew ash indefinitely. Of course here you have the problem of falling ash...
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