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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2280953" data-attributes="member: 4937">Why not?  It doesn't matter though, because the ammount of energy produce by these fields is too small to explain the observed effects.  Actually, its an interesting theological question as far of the inhabitants of my campaign world are concerned whether the ammount of energy in the universe is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same.   My point was only to show that magic could be made to work in a very mechanical fashion, and there really is no particular reason why I couldn't put such a system in a 'real world' setting.  In doing so though, I wouldn't be making it any less magical.Considering the ammount of energy in the cascade, such a minor draw on it has no noticable effect on the plane of fire, but yes in some immeasurably small degree the plane of fire gets colder whenever you force more energy out of it.  A local on the other side in the vicinity of a fireball when it went off would suffer something like the effects of an implosion' as things in the vicinity were sucked out of the sudden hole in the universe, so yeah, it probably would tick them off.   Also, its possible to suck elementals out of thier home plane with magic like this.  I don't really need a lever.  The effect is more similar to glass shattering when a sound at its resonate frequency is emitted over some duration.  The momentary energy of the sound is insufficient to break the glass, but the cumulative energy of the sound accumulates because its at the resonate frequency of the object.   In the same way, the momentary energy of the wizards voice is unable to 'break' the gate, but the cumulative effects of six seconds of carefully controlled modulation is.Again, this is not intended to show that my hypothetical universe isn't fantastic, only that in theory it would be plausible to come up with a plausible explanation for anything.   All I've got to do is start throwing around nano-technology, quantum mechanics, and so forth and eventually you'll believe in wizards casting fireballs - even if (and especially if) I don't actually explain how it works but leave it up to your imagination to figure it out.</blockquote>

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