It's been a minute since I read that one bonus text about how magic works here: I know wielders can use starlight (Kaenamor, for example), but does the torch ring mean they need a source of light from somewhere in order to do magic, or is it more for their convenience?
I guess what I'm wondering is, if you put a wielder in a pitch-dark room on Palinor, are they SOL, or have they still got a shot?
If they’re in a totally dark room, they’re pretty much powered down in terms of magic. It is a sliding scale, though: some spells require less energy, some require more. A prisoner in a dark room might be able to do something slowly and carefully using the trickle of light peeking under the door, for example.
Doing something big and dramatic and complex, though, requires a more active light source, which means doing it in daylight or having a secure source of artificial light. That’s why portable light sources are something you’ll find on most wielders at night.
Using light from distant stars, or reflected from the moon, is also possible, but requires a bit more skill, or amplification.
Yeah, but sometimes you need the scene where the characters converse about things so we know who knows what, etc.
Flashback isn't inherently cheap. Like any literary trope it's all in how it's wielded. In this case it's pretty necessary, given the time jump. It's either that or watching Lola Story Time as she tells Clarke, et.al the tale.
It's been a minute since I read that one bonus text about how magic works here: I know wielders can use starlight (Kaenamor, for example), but does the torch ring mean they need a source of light from somewhere in order to do magic, or is it more for their convenience?
I guess what I'm wondering is, if you put a wielder in a pitch-dark room on Palinor, are they SOL, or have they still got a shot?
If they’re in a totally dark room, they’re pretty much powered down in terms of magic. It is a sliding scale, though: some spells require less energy, some require more. A prisoner in a dark room might be able to do something slowly and carefully using the trickle of light peeking under the door, for example.
Doing something big and dramatic and complex, though, requires a more active light source, which means doing it in daylight or having a secure source of artificial light. That’s why portable light sources are something you’ll find on most wielders at night.
Using light from distant stars, or reflected from the moon, is also possible, but requires a bit more skill, or amplification.
Don’t you love made up pretend science? :D
What a cliffhanger! The tension between these two is interesting.
Lola’s ideal fantasy of living in Palinor is constantly colliding with the more complicated reality, and that’s never more so than with Darya.
Thanks for reading! I’m off to record the audio version for this week’s follow-up…..
Yeah, but sometimes you need the scene where the characters converse about things so we know who knows what, etc.
Flashback isn't inherently cheap. Like any literary trope it's all in how it's wielded. In this case it's pretty necessary, given the time jump. It's either that or watching Lola Story Time as she tells Clarke, et.al the tale.