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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2280805" data-attributes="member: 4937">The answer to your question is mitichlorians are a plot device.   The writer needed a way to show how and why the Jedi found the boy impressive and important.Beyond that, mitichlorians are technobabble, in that they sort of sound scientific and lead people to go off on all these implausible theories about how they work.  But there is actually nothing at all scientific about technobabble.  It's just a trick being played on the you in order to get you to accept something fantastic as plausible.   This becomes obvious when you consider that you know absolutely nothing about midichlorians, but you have done your best to fit them within the scientific knowledge you do have - even if it means doing a little stretching to make it all fit.   But its just as possible that mitichlorians are a form of microscopic blue faerie creature, and even if they aren't, what's the difference really?Let me explain how Evocation magic works in my world.  One of the central features of my campaign's cosmology is the idea of the Great Cascade.  The Great Cascade is a higher dimensional structure in which the lower dimensional universe is 'hanging'.  So where ever you are in the universe, you are standing in the great cascade and are continually being effected by it, even if you need magical sight in order to see it.  Now, everything in the universe is made of strands of thread.  In fact, the universe is hanging in the cascade by a really might strand of thread which is supposedly attached at the other end to the hand of the nameless Creator (though noone really knows for sure).  Wizards study the art of spell casting, one of the few surviving arcane arts.   Spell casters learn how to manipulate the threads of reality using the power of Important Numbers, Significant Runes, and True Names.   Each of these devices allows the user to grab hold of the threads of reality in some fashion, and create resonances in the strings using his thought, his voice, and the rhythmic motions of his hand and body.   Using these resonances to twist and warp the strings, the Evocation mage can temporarily enlarge one or more of the many microscopic gateways that allow the interchange of energy between the universe and the Great Cascade.   As a result of this open gateway, energy from one of the separate flows of the cascade which we in this universe see as 'elements' pours into thie universe.  In the case of a spell like 'fireball', all that is necessary is to briefly open a spherical gate to the flow we know as the Plane of Fire, and there is an immediate flash of fire in the area. This doesn't violate conservation of energy.   The ammount of energy required to open the gate is small compared to the ammount that flows in (though 'bad things' happen if you try to keep a gate open too long and don't arrange for the flow to have places to go).   The total ammount of energy in the local universe increases, but the total ammount of energy in the multiverse remains constant, and the concentration of energy locally will quickly be compensated for because it will tend to increase the flow of energy out of the universe as the cascade 'sucks' the power back out again.</blockquote>

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