| From: | MENARD Steve <menars@***.UMONTREAL.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: Time travel and magic... |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:47:11 -0400 |
> tkerby wrote:
> >
> > Discussions on ShadowGm have turned to time travel, and I began to wonder
> > about something...what would happen to metahumans in the past when magic is
> > not present (or very weak)? Would they begin to revert back to human form
> > due to the fact that magic is no longer affecting the metagene?
>
> Damn good question...
>
> There are at least two viewpoints. One says yes (ouch... reverse
> goblinisation).
>
> Mine says, well look at the Horrors... they can survive long past the level
> of magic needed to get them here. Maybe metahumans can, as well.
>
> In practise, there are several beings who lived through the last cycle of
> magic (Ehran, Harley, etc), and they were elves before, and elves now. What
> they were in the middle? *shrug* There's lots of myths about elves and
> goblins and what not during the middle ages...
>
I do not think they'd be affected by the removal of magic. Do
metahumans turn back when they're sent into orbit? No, I didn't think so.
Plus there is the spike babies phenomenum(elves for the most part, born
before the return of magic), and as we all know that elves are born
elves, that they do not goblinize at all(neither do dwarves for that
matter). So my verdict would be that mana is needed to activate the
metagenes, but not to maintain the effect. Of course, mages would most
probably find he experience very disquieting as they'd find themselves
most probably unable to cast, summon or even astrally project(or at
least, the drain would be way up, even for run-of-the-mill preception).
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