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Cinderella - 34 - HD
🕑 Added 2025-04-24 03:00:09 +0000 UTCStandard inconvenient time limit
The trick is getting whoever or whatever is setting the time limit to think you need four times as much time as you actually do. Then, when they cut that in half, you can do whatever you need to at a leisurely pace.
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Will of Magic cameo! (clap clap clap)
I basically like two separate approaches to magic rules.
One is the mysterious nature of the universe. In that case, it might be a bit weird for something to arbitrarily end at "midnight". What does nature care of what we call midnight? Perhaps magic is affected by the position of the moon, or the dawn of the sun, but it shouldn't care where we set our clocks.
Second is there are one or more intelligences behind all the mechanics, in which case midnight could be significant for no other reason than humans place significance on it, and higher powers care about that sort of thing. Things being a result of higher powers wanting to be entertained honestly makes more sense to me than many other explanations when it comes to quirky restrictions on magic.
In canon EGS, there is effectively an intelligence behind the mechanics of magic, though its true nature is meant to be incomprehensible. For all we know, however, once all those layers of incomprehensibility are set out of the way, what's underneath could well be a desire to be entertained.
That, or EVEN MORE incomprehensible-to-humanity nonsense. The day I remove all doubt about how the Will of Magic canonically works is the day I'll have made a terrible mistake.
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Comments
Alexis Darbon
Bah, the midichlorians were not a bad idea. Having them be sort-of conscous was the bad idea. Something that could be used to identify force-users was not absurd when it is said that some people are more naturally powerful than others (the Skywalkers). But those particles/microbes should not have produced a messiah by themselves. (on this, the retcon about Darth Plaguis, to me, made sense, as a Sith Lord manipulating the midichlorians to create a powerful Force-user ex-nihilo seems plausible)
IvyReed
The will of magic is just a meta-narrative way for self-insert authorship... Then again we've seen your squirrel self interact with the cast on multiple occasions
Jake Tober
Midichlorians. Sometimes it's better not knowing.
