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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8314045" data-attributes="member: 58172">I understand arcane differently.In Dark Sun, acane magic destroys plants. Normally there is no benefit from this destruction.Defilers have learned a technique to harness and channel arcane energy from this destruction. However Defilers keep this technique secret, and very few mages know how to do defiling magic.Normal arcanists just do magic, and it destroys plants, and thats it.Perservers figured out a technique to avoid destroying plants. It is more difficult to spellcast in this cautious way. There is a temptation to cast normally and to allow plants to die.But destroying plants, isnt the same thing as defiling magic, because the defilers know how to heighten their spellcasting by means of this destruction.When plants die, it is actually the mystical element of water that gets destroyed. It compares to destruction of an atom by nuclear fission, and energy releases.The water in plants is the most sensitive to this magical destruction, but water in living creatures and in the environment can also be destroyed by high slot spells.On the planet Athas, it is actually the element of water − an aspect of lifeforce itself − that is vanishing. The planet is out of balance alchemically.Replenishing water requires artificially creating the element of water. Compare alchemists striving to transmute various elements into gold. In Dark Sun, the alchemical mysticism of the cosmic-force Clerics and the mindful naturalism of the primal Druids have each found ways to recreate water magically.</blockquote>

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