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Breaking All Barriers 054
└ posted on Sunday, 25 February 2024, by Novil
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So she knows it only works with glass? Did she write up a list of building materials? Did she leave some building riddled with holes trying to see if the holes would form, as well as if they would close? A window with a hole cut in it is the same as a broken window. Given some of Viviana’s thief adventures, Viv might want a wand that does that. There must be no end to the amount of vandalism spells available…
“Is your house made of oak, birch, or maple?” “Wood. Some stone.” “Oh, I’ll just take it apart and see!”
@ Vicious Sand:
Maybe the reason why the spell works in some materials but not in others depends on the materials’ physical, chemical or magical properties. In that case, it would be easy to know beforehand if a material meets the needed conditions. Perhaps glass is the only one commonly used in the exterior of buildings that works. This theory is consistent with the use of lumium as a magic-resistant metal, much in the same way as lead stops most forms of radioactivity in our primary world, thanks to its metallic structure and its high atomic weight.
@ Antonio Rodríguez:
Maybe the transparency just makes the loophole spell enormously easier to pull off, for some magical reason. For opaque materials the spell has to be much more complex.
As she created this particular spell herself, she undoubtedly understands its operation well enough to know the simplified version would only work on glass, without having to run tests. Might need tests if confronted with some other transparent material, or something that was only sort of transparent.
My guess on that is that glass is really “simple”, it’s roughly one type of coherent material. It’s probably easier to make magical holes (that close up by itself) on such simple materials. Through the wall it would require to know what kind of stone is used, or maybe bricks, maybe mixed… probably more complicated. That’s why it would cost more magic energy.
Maybe she could make up an easy version that works, on pure emerald, because it’s a “simple” crystal, but there are few applications of this. 😉
Btw I love how we can discuss such useless details… that are totally irrelevant for the rest of the story. But it’s fun 🙂