From:	Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Mana Cycles ? Merlin (the NBC movie)
Date:	Sun, 3 May 1998 00:09:10 -0500

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>> Here's the idea: what if the mana cycles were induced/fluctuated by
our
>> belief in magic? I think this is a neat idea and would mean that the
>> current mana spike wasn't caused by the Great Ghost Dance but rather
by
>> how quickly information spread about it... this will probably mean
that
>> it will be alot less unlikely that a mana downswing will occur (but
not
>> impossible) So what started the return of magic? The new agers with
>> there beliefs in power pyramids/crystals, the tarot, etcetera. Oh
well
>> tell me what ya think :)

On Sun, 3 May 1998 21:38:24 -0500 Nexx <nexx@********.NET> writes:
> Interesting theory... Personally, however, I don't think its
>plausible.
>If it was true, why would a magical world ever end? People would
believe
>in magic during the Fourth and at the end of the Sixth, so the magic
wouldn't >die.
> Before you point to Merlin as an example, I would remind you
that he >had powerful magic even at the end of movie (instantaneously
youthening 2
>people from senility to prime of life...), when no one believed but him.

However, remember his last words? something like "that's it, no more
magic. it's all gone"? As he and others had less and less ability to
demonstrate, people started to forget and disbelieve, and they lost more
power, etc ... It's a downward spiral ... So what started the drop? Good
question ... I would think it was non magic users who were doing more
without magic than those with magic (ie Queen Mab not saving the life of
Merlin's mom) I'm assuming (ack! no! I must delete that word from my
vocabulary) that magic users even in a peak mana cycle would still be
pretty rare... also, Merlin's time was in 5th world (in about the middle
of 1/2 of the cycle on the upswing side) so I think it was maybe a brief
period of high mana ... not an awakening per se, but very close ... (btw,
do you think the dragon in the movie was any of the SR dragons? <j/k> I
wouldn't say it was a great drake just a "normal one" ;) Ah well, even
if this theory has holes I kinda like it :)

D.Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum)
"Um ... J'sui l'american!" -- Kevin Matchstick

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