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<blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 9215071" data-attributes="member: 7030100"><p>Fantasy blackholes: </p><p></p><p>A <em>wish</em> is a restructuring of reality. For a <em>wish</em> to function "here", it must delete some reality "over there" somewhere else. These little spots where a bit of reality has been cancelled out manifests as a sprinkling of "void dust" - effectively the infinitesimal holes of nothingness that emerge in between bits of reality whenever reality is restructured.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays (and, sadly, much too late in the arc of history) it is understood that all magic is simply limited variations of <em>wish</em>, and therefore that all magic generates this void dust. </p><p></p><p>Generally, creating void dust doesn't really matter much in the immediate grand scheme of things, because it's very fine and very sparse. It just drifts on planar currents and along ley lines, more or less inertly. <em>More or less</em>. For every now and then, a mote of void dust bumps into a another such mote to merge into slightly bigger mote of void dust. Also (vexingly), if a mote of void dust bumps into a bit of reality just right, that bit of reality is annihilated and merges into a slightly bigger mote of void dust. </p><p></p><p>In other words: Magic begets void dust, and void dust begets more void dust, as well!</p><p></p><p>Obviously then, over many millennia as sorcerers and fey and divinities cast their spells and weave their magics, all these minute smatterings of void dust very gradually increase. The stuff drifts along until they stick in vortices, wrinkles and interstices in the Prime Material plane, to form denser accumulations. There the void dust coalesces into larger and larger void motes, eventually becoming visible to the naked eye, and even bigger still. (In fact, a <em>sphere of annihilation</em> is just a smallish one of these void motes that has been somehow bound by magic.) </p><p></p><p>The End occurs when enough of these void motes have become big enough that they pass some critical threshold and start growing out of control. Inky blots in the night sky form where celestial voidmotes eat the stars one by one. Immense maelstroms form in the oceans where seawater gets sucked into voidmotes lurking in the deep. Earthquakes happen over subterranean voidmotes that have swallowed the underlying ground. Faster and faster the voidmotes grow and consume reality, until the entire Prime plane is destroyed.</p><p></p><p>This fate is inevitable. The only way it can be avoided is for <em>no one</em> to use any magic <em>at all</em>, <em>forever</em>. But is such a perversity even imaginable for the fairies, wizards, dragons, and gods who define their very existence by magic? </p><p></p><p>And so the only solution is to escape, to find a new plane to drain of its reality in order to power magic, and begin the cycle anew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J.Quondam, post: 9215071, member: 7030100"] Fantasy blackholes: A [I]wish[/I] is a restructuring of reality. For a [I]wish[/I] to function "here", it must delete some reality "over there" somewhere else. These little spots where a bit of reality has been cancelled out manifests as a sprinkling of "void dust" - effectively the infinitesimal holes of nothingness that emerge in between bits of reality whenever reality is restructured. Nowadays (and, sadly, much too late in the arc of history) it is understood that all magic is simply limited variations of [I]wish[/I], and therefore that all magic generates this void dust. Generally, creating void dust doesn't really matter much in the immediate grand scheme of things, because it's very fine and very sparse. It just drifts on planar currents and along ley lines, more or less inertly. [I]More or less[/I]. For every now and then, a mote of void dust bumps into a another such mote to merge into slightly bigger mote of void dust. Also (vexingly), if a mote of void dust bumps into a bit of reality just right, that bit of reality is annihilated and merges into a slightly bigger mote of void dust. In other words: Magic begets void dust, and void dust begets more void dust, as well! Obviously then, over many millennia as sorcerers and fey and divinities cast their spells and weave their magics, all these minute smatterings of void dust very gradually increase. The stuff drifts along until they stick in vortices, wrinkles and interstices in the Prime Material plane, to form denser accumulations. There the void dust coalesces into larger and larger void motes, eventually becoming visible to the naked eye, and even bigger still. (In fact, a [I]sphere of annihilation[/I] is just a smallish one of these void motes that has been somehow bound by magic.) The End occurs when enough of these void motes have become big enough that they pass some critical threshold and start growing out of control. Inky blots in the night sky form where celestial voidmotes eat the stars one by one. Immense maelstroms form in the oceans where seawater gets sucked into voidmotes lurking in the deep. Earthquakes happen over subterranean voidmotes that have swallowed the underlying ground. Faster and faster the voidmotes grow and consume reality, until the entire Prime plane is destroyed. This fate is inevitable. The only way it can be avoided is for [I]no one[/I] to use any magic [I]at all[/I], [I]forever[/I]. But is such a perversity even imaginable for the fairies, wizards, dragons, and gods who define their very existence by magic? And so the only solution is to escape, to find a new plane to drain of its reality in order to power magic, and begin the cycle anew. [/QUOTE]
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