EderynsDoorFindingsThis Door, he perceives, was formed to connect a cold wet realm, and a warm, tropical one. The imprints of both places resonate on the Door, proving it as a connection. Its full of sorcerous energy, and something else, as well, brimming with the primal power that powered it as a Gate. Even more interestingly, the weight of the metal is wrong. A given unit of metal should have an exact weight, always and forever. The metal in this Door is not of this world, his experience. The individual components of the metal weigh just a little bit too much, each. In fact, Ederyn gets the feeling that they don't really belong in this universe. Intrigued by this, Ederyn starts trying to separate some of its elemental pieces, as he's most used to thinking of them - pulling loose some of its component molecules so he can examine their structure, and even - given no interruptions - their atomic structure. This is accompanied by a slight, half-conscious pinch-and-pull gesture with his free hand. He's looking for some weakness or at least hook he can use to attack or undermine Doors from his own unique perspective. How much strain does being part of this thing put on its physical component? Does that vary when something passes through the Door? As Fiona speaks, and talks to Priya, Ederyn has a few more moments to analyze the pieces, unmolested. The analysis at the atomic structure, it being metal, comes easily to him. The atomic structure is definitely bad/wrong, with the individual molecules way too heavy. The Primal Power, and sorcery, keep them from devolving. Clearly, to Ederyn, undoing the sorcerous ties to the Doors will cause the Doors to implode, and violently. The molecules will rearrange themselves to something that will suit this universe, and this is an exothermic reaction Undoing a piece here and now...would be consequential. Finally (I think), does it appear that this Primal Power is capable of functioning in this universe without being connected to the other one like this? And how would it interact with Pattern? (This last, I suspect, may require asking someone in the room to invoke the Pattern.) Ederyn doesn't know how this Primal Power would work with Pattern, not having it and not being overly familiar with it. This Primal Power does look like it works just fine in this universe. It's a power of transportation, of sorcerous binding...and it appears that it can applied here just as well as its home plane. Would the Pattern be able to undo a Door? Or affect it? Hard to tell. Bah - I forgot to use this thread to ask for info on what Ederyn could perceive while Kieran was beating up on the shard. I have a feeling this will actually tell him a lot about how the material is put together, although this is a technique he's never thought of before. This is, again, so I'll know what to put in my response on-list. Thanks and good morning! Ederyn can tell a few things during Kieran's destructive test. --Priya only got a few bits of the stuff --The Primal Power goes down to the level of the atoms, keeping the piece of the Door stable --Kieran did this the "hard" way. As far as Ederyn can tell, he used raw power to smash the bits of the door together, to destabilize them out of that power matrix. Ederyn is pretty sure he could change/modify the atoms with HIS powers and accomplish the same thing--although deconstructing a door, and keeping himself from being hit by the force of that destruction is a problem. Ederyn would need to get up close and personal (touching the door). Kieran's power seems to to be able to work at a distance. It would also occur to Ederyn that the "soft" way to destroy a Door without causing an explosion would be to manipulate the sorcery and primal power in the matrix, rather than the atoms itself. The follow-up is, During Kieran's experiment, what was Ederyn able to perceive about the interaction between the Omphalos primal power and the physical substance of the Door? Anything that helps with understanding how the Power works? What Ederyn was able to perceive is pretty straightforward. The Primal Power of the Omphalos creates the Bridge between worlds, as embodied by the unnatural material of the Door. The sorcery component of this equation seems to be as a regulatory element to the power and the door itself. So, for Ederyn, if the Primal power is the fire in the forge and what it is burning, the sorcery embedded in the creation is the bellows that regulates air flow. T So the Door is one of a piece with the space-time corridor that connects it. A Door, Ederyn would see, is bigger on the inside even if its bridging two points, since its covering a whole bit of spacetime, and it is that Primal Power that is making that skeleton.
Yeah, he doesn't share Priya's enthusiasm for large explosions on our side of the connection. Plus, if *all* the energy is concentrated on the other side, the effect should be that much larger and hopefully do serious damage to their infrastructure. The question is whether anybody else could be taught to make such things, though the concept can probably be adapted to more than one magic system. The concept as outlined could indeed be adapted to several possible magic system paradigms. Continuing the colloquy ... :) Ederyn is looking at the sorcery anew, trying to work out whether the idea of taking it over seems workable, but also more or less listening to what the others are saying. So Kieran's musings on whether the Doors can changes size deliberately (as opposed to with the intention of damaging or destroying them) get that added to his consideration. Ederyn's sorcery, to his eye, looks supremely capable of destroying and undoing the Doors. Taking control of it looks to be a case of needing some fine sorcerous control over the sorcery that binds the door. His magic isn't as suited to that as to destroying them. It'd take some experimentation, preferably on a whole live subject. Backlinks |
