[Dragaera] The Enclouding

[Maximilian Wilson]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
> On Thu, October 9, 2008 13:40, Jon Lincicum wrote:
>
> > As indicated, however, the
> > enclouding has been building up for 240,000 years or so. A brief period of
> > 240-odd years with minimal sorcery being used (by people like Tazendra,
> > Orlaan, and Sethra) is not going to make any significant dent in that.
>
> It depends on whether it's a physical thing in the atmosphere, produced by
> magic, or whether it is itself magic in some way.
>
> We know it doesn't extend thoroughly over the East, right?  Which means
> it's not something physically persistent in the atmosphere over long
> periods; otherwise it'd be evenly mixed throughout the entire atmosphere
> by now.
>
> Therefore, I think we have evidence that the enclouding is NOT something
> that's just a physical result in the atmosphere of the use of magic.

Well, it's evidence that it is not something that's a PERSISTENT
physical result. It could be a physical result continuously produced
by magic which decays rapidly, in which case it would manifest itself
only near its production source, i.e. the Empire.

-Max

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