BandMan2K wrote:
Oh...and would someone change the topic date - It's Jan 19, not Jan 14. It's bad enough I'm 5 days away from my 25th B-Day, thusly I'm having to sort of be on the prowl to make sure nothing is done on that day...the last thing I want is to think I have to wait any more days to get it over with.
Sorry, done.
Also, thank you No One. I wanted to slap everyone who was talking about the resistance to magic that some half-elves have as if it were DnD resistance. Mostly because they were also bitching out someone who made a relevent point.
Speaking of, that is a very curious idea. If a Half-Elf's body reverts back to its normal state, what will happen if Leah's body tries to do the same, and what exactly did Ian do to fix that? We don't know specifically how magic in this world works, so it is hard to say, but did he permanently change the part of her that makes her body revert, or did he just change that part of her for the specific area he was fixing? Or, did he just write in an override? If it is only an override, will her body react to it at all? Meaning, when she goes to sleep (or whatever time her body "checks itself") will her body constantly be struggling with Ian's magic to try and revert her? And if he just changed her, same question. Will her body struggle against his magic, and what, if any, would be the effect on her?
I understand that his magic is very powerful at this point, but let's not go jumping to conclusions saying that it is "Godlike". Or, it may very well be "Godlike", but not in the same sense that most of us identify the concept of "God". This kind of magic obviously has some limitations and drawbacks, at least at present.
And, even if his magic *is* unstoppable, that could very well be
worse for Leah, if the changes are something that her body feels it has to fight against.
Then again, of course, it has also been mention that since Ian knew of this he could have dealt with it on the fly, so he could have just re-written her body to the point where it thought that was how she had always been. If this is the case, would that also keep her from getting sick, like at Elf, at least for whatever region he changed? And, if he were to change the rest of the Half-Elves, could he change that as well? Sure, the process would be slow, but he might be able to do it. An even more interesting question is whether or not he would be able to fix the gene inside the Half-Elves that caused some Half-Elves to be true Errants.
I think that might be the saddest ending to this story I could see. Because, honestly, we all know the elves most likely would not believe that he could do that, or accept that Anilis would choose to reside in an Errant. So, it would turn into the remaining elves destroying, and I do believe that enough elves could easily overwhelm Ian, the permanently cured Half-Elves, just when they could have truly come into play as their own race, with their own future and destiny.
Anyways, random rambling, but thanks to Sorceror and DarkLight140 for seeing something I probably wouldn't have thought about, and provoking my random musings on the subject.
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onion wrote:
Yup, round here we call this 'fishing for whores'...