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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 428971" data-attributes="member: 6533">Light IssuesI wonder about how the people would relate to such 'artificial' light vs. how we react to abundant artificial light.When I first began camping, and keep in mind I live in a pretty treeless area, I was amazed at how useless flashlight are.  They simply blind you to the light of the moon and stars without giving you that much more awareness unless you need really fine detail.  After I while I decided that the huge amount of artificial light around modern dwellings must have been a result of overcompensating for the innate crappiness of the small scale artificial light that was available before.I wonder if a culture that had really early access to such good artificial light as a small area of sunlight might be a lot more cautious about how they used it.  People, plants, animals, and some random rocks need nightime, and when your artificial light doesn't so much moderate the darkness as destroy it you're going to view light and darkness much less callously than we view our own artificial light.Also, I don't know about turning this ability into laser weapons with lenses.  Supposedly Archimedes could do that, but noone has ever been able to duplicate the effect.Allright for ice world!!!  One of the first things I thought of was how that sun spell would make it a lot easier for people from warmer climates to migrate northward.  Think of the benefits to people with seasonal affective disorder or the need to take vitamin supplements.Think of the horrifically agravated levels of insomnia!!! Of course, for dwarfs who are already somehow cool with timing themselves for underground life, such things are not really a problem.</blockquote>

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