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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").

Any glowfic author may use this thread to receive questions.

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Since I didn’t get an answer to how to ask my backlog of questions, I figure I’ll make several posts and sort the questions into categories.

Ekador,
Now that you know stories of Welce using magic are actually true, do you think you may have heard any other true stories about countries using magic? It seems that other countries should at least have developed some sort of analogue of drawing blessings, even if the Primes are the only example of one person having more obvious magic.

Elias Frobisſher, at a Time ſuch that he had made the Book on magickal Powers and the Fourth-Coin encircling it, and placed them in their Location as of the Turn of the Millennium,

Firſt, I apologize if this Miſſive is difficult to read; I am familiar with a Dialect of Engliſh different from that in common Uſe during thy Time. I would like to make an Inquiry into thy Motives in certain Parts of the Creation the Book for thy Deſcendants, and the Encircling of ſaid Book with a Fourth-Coin. Due to the Nature of the Place where thou placeſt the Book, a deſcendant of thine, upon the Diſcovery of the Book, may poſſeſs ſome Injury, and may make a Wiſh concerning ſaid Injury inſtead of for the Power to produce Coins. Even if this Fact about the Location was not true at the time thou placeſt the Book there, and thou couldſt not have predicted the Change, the Diſcoverer of the Book may have a different Wiſh in Mind. It ſeems likely that the Diſcoverer of the Book might make this different Wiſh before reading about how it would inſtead be poſſible to make a Wiſh to be able to produce Coins.

Mayhap thou kneweſt of this Poſſibility, and placed a Reſtriction on the Uſe of the encircling Fourth-Coin ſuch that it could be uſed only in ſuch a Manner as to cause the Uſer to gain the Power to produce Coins. If that is the caſe, however, why didſt thou not include in the Book the Information that ſuch Reſtrictions are poſſible? If thou didſt not know that a Coin could be reſtricted by wiſhing, upon a Coin of equal Power, for the potential Uſes to be limited, why didſt thou not endeavor to hide the Fourth-Coin with which thou intendeſt thy Deſcendant to gain this Power in ſuch a Place as to be ſure thy Deſcendant would have read enough of the Book to learn of this Uſe? By Way of Example, thou couldſt have enſured that at leaſt one Fourth-Coin would be in the Place where thou hidſt the Remainder of thy Coins, as pointed to in the Book, or thou couldſt have uſed a Third-Coin to enſure that the Fourth-Coin would be hidden until the relevant Paſſage of the Book had been read.

Aspret,
How are you doing these days? Still enjoying being a duck?

Liselen, what would happen if wishing tried to increase the supply of elf magic, without giving it to anybody in particular? What if Lazarus and/or you helped?

Dear Harley Andrea’s biological mother, did you ever send that email asking for your son back? [Or, if not enough time has passed in that world] do you intend to send that email asking for your son back?

Dear Ranata Ekamma,
I was reading about Helen’s childhood, and I got curious: why do witches wear white silks when they separate? Are there other occasions where clothes other than black silks are supposed to be worn?

Edited (Formatting) 2015-07-06 01:35 (UTC)