Talk To Glowfic Characters

[alicornucopia]

So we've started answering comments in "How To Read Effulgence" in character, and that's not really the ideal platform for those conversations. This is! You may address characters here and we may opt to answer in character. You will get a kind of loosely "backstage" out-of-continuity version of the character (in continuity proper, you cannot talk to them, since you aren't there) and if you want them at a specific (past relative to where we're writing) point in time, feel free to specify (e.g. "Addy in 1932", "Shell in her box", "the Joker while committed", "Minus right after he woke up from turning", "the alethiometer on the subject of 1207").

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Comments

[nonbird]

Ingots beating coins is not related to the strength of the coin. If I saw a coin that looked like it could beat an ingot, I would expect it to come from something very similar to minting that was not in fact the same thing as the minting I know about. Or at least to be different from existing coins in a way more fundamental than merely being another level up from the strongest one I've seen.

I'm sure you've noticed what happens when I try to explain what my power sees... the reason I'm so sure that ingots beat coins is because I've seen a lot of coins and mints and ingots and all of them that I've seen have had a characteristic that referred to that relationship, and it's always been referring to exactly the same thing exactly the same way.

[daniel_h]

That’s interesting. I knew the going theory was that minting was originally an ingot power with a way to spread (although that doesn’t make sense; hexes can’t instill ingot powers…), but every ingot references this relationship, even the ones that have nothing to do with coins or magic or pain? That seems to mean that the two forms of magic are more related than I thought. Do ingot powers sometimes reference each other like that (e.g., would you expect an ingot with the abiloty to cause physical injury to be reference some sort of relationship to Chris’s power)?