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Magic of Nature
Topic Started: Mar 14 2018, 04:05 PM (208 Views)
CaledonianWarrior96
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So Dragon thought of this idea for a Elder Scroll project that involved the plant life of the series (I also thought about TES SE project but never brought it up). For those unaware, in games like Skyrim you have ingredients (lots which are plants) that you can use in alchemy and make potions that can let you do various things like increase health regen, make you better at using swords, even make you invisible or become immune to fire. Basically he suggested that plants gain these properties due to, to put it simply, magic being emitted from the sun (like UV radiation) which hits the world and causes the plants to absorb the magic.

Now I myself am working on a fantasy world where magic functions more like an actual science with some explainable phenomenon or properties, with magic coming from these extradimensional fissures and acting as subatomic particles that produce various effects on matter and forces like gravity, electromagnetism and strong and weak covalent forces. I've thought about how these particles would affect the surrounding environment and organic life but not into a great level of detail.

This brings me to this thread; I thought it'd be a decent idea to make a thread discussing what life would be like if magic was real and affected the evolution of plants, animals, bacteria etc. Based on what Dragon said and what I was going for with my fantasy world let's assume magic is a type of radiation that can affect matter on the molecular level and comes from the sun, like how UV radiation and general sunlight has had a great effect on life on earth. Hopefully this will help other people doing similar projects or even incite some people to make alternate universe projects with magic being a fundamental force of nature.

So yeah, let's make some magic
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And now, for something completely different
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Archeoraptor
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wellby butterfly effect lfie would be pretty alien
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us
I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way
I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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