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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 354119" data-attributes="member: 2020">There is an abundance of Matter everywhere.  That's what those Elementalists are all about, after all - earth, air, fire, and water.  If only they knew the full Einsteinian potential of what they were working with, elementalists might rule the world.  However, if you really want a mage with an almost limitless source of matter to convert into energy, how about those Sunmages from the Spelljammer Setting?  Our own sun, In Real Life, weighs around 7 octillion tons.  I think that's sufficient matter to satisfy even the most insanely greedy mage's desires.  The sun of Athas, from the Dark Sun Setting, is implied to be a blue star.  That is, it was MUCH more massive than our sun In Real Life is, when it was in it's stable blue radiance life.  Now, it's a red supergiant.  I don't know if a mage could pull bits of matter from that colossal mass in order to produce colossal (read:  game breaking - it breaks the game when the mage blows himself and the local continent up with his first miscast spell) effects, but I do know this ...  It is stated in Athian Lore that it is the mages who are DIRECTLY responsible for changing the sun from blue to yellow to red, and causing it to swell out.  This means one of three things:  1:  The mages of Athias have the power to modify a blue star (which makes the affair of converting matter into energy look pale in comparison.)  2:  The sun of Athas is innately magical, to the point that it reacts to the paltry use of magic on one paltry planet in the solar system (in which case magic most certainly has a mighty effect on matter! ), or:  3:  The Sages of Athas don't know what they are talking about.  By the way, since the Dark Sun Core Material states that there WAS at least one Athian mage who drew her power directly from the sun, perhaps #1 above is actually true ...</blockquote>

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