Hmm…seems like the magic that’s keeping the castle together is fading…also, I thought you said it was a stasis bubble.
I mean, I do get how she’s actually an old hag who used her magic to appear young and all, but why is her face deteriorating while being in stasis, where biological functions like decay (or breathing) are being suspended?
I am going to go for the cheap answer here and say “because magic”
But really, what I am trying to illustrate is the fact that all of the witch’s magic is fading, the stuff she used on the castle, the stuff she used on herself, it’s separate from Sasha’s magic, which is what’s imprisoning her
I see…as I think you are aware by now, I’m a writer myself, specializing in Sci-Fi no less, so I search for ‘the rational (scientific) explanation’ in the things around me at all times.
That doesn’t mean that I cannot accept ‘magic’ as an explanation, it’s just that I try to look behind the scenes of this ‘magic’, cause you know what they say:
Every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 🙂
For example her youth spell:
Age is essentially the failure of our cells to keep up the regeneration of our prime state (around 16-20) .
So, her youth spell is essentially fueling the cell regeneration, which keeps her body working and her appearance young indefinitely.
Now, since the energy source is fading, the cells, which have been relying on this external power source for who knows how long are therefor no longer capable to maintain the prime state (or the state of ‘alive’ at all) and thus the cells die in droves, leading to accelerated aging.
But, as the core of my question implied, she is currently in (magically induced) stasis, which halts (or slows down tremendously) all body functions, including cellular decay, which is what brought about my question.
So yeah, sorry for dumping this on you, I do get what you were trying to show, just thought I’d tell you what I thought. 🙂
If it’s a world where magic works, there’s nothing saying the natural laws have to work exactly as they work in reality. Aging doesn’t have to work as you described. But also, since it’s a fantasy story, we don’t NEED to know how they work, as you might expect to be explained in a sci-fi.
I don’t think it’s fair to take a sci-fi approach to a fantasy story.
Hmm…seems like the magic that’s keeping the castle together is fading…also, I thought you said it was a stasis bubble.
I mean, I do get how she’s actually an old hag who used her magic to appear young and all, but why is her face deteriorating while being in stasis, where biological functions like decay (or breathing) are being suspended?
I am going to go for the cheap answer here and say “because magic”
But really, what I am trying to illustrate is the fact that all of the witch’s magic is fading, the stuff she used on the castle, the stuff she used on herself, it’s separate from Sasha’s magic, which is what’s imprisoning her
I see…as I think you are aware by now, I’m a writer myself, specializing in Sci-Fi no less, so I search for ‘the rational (scientific) explanation’ in the things around me at all times.
That doesn’t mean that I cannot accept ‘magic’ as an explanation, it’s just that I try to look behind the scenes of this ‘magic’, cause you know what they say:
Every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 🙂
For example her youth spell:
Age is essentially the failure of our cells to keep up the regeneration of our prime state (around 16-20) .
So, her youth spell is essentially fueling the cell regeneration, which keeps her body working and her appearance young indefinitely.
Now, since the energy source is fading, the cells, which have been relying on this external power source for who knows how long are therefor no longer capable to maintain the prime state (or the state of ‘alive’ at all) and thus the cells die in droves, leading to accelerated aging.
But, as the core of my question implied, she is currently in (magically induced) stasis, which halts (or slows down tremendously) all body functions, including cellular decay, which is what brought about my question.
So yeah, sorry for dumping this on you, I do get what you were trying to show, just thought I’d tell you what I thought. 🙂
If it’s a world where magic works, there’s nothing saying the natural laws have to work exactly as they work in reality. Aging doesn’t have to work as you described. But also, since it’s a fantasy story, we don’t NEED to know how they work, as you might expect to be explained in a sci-fi.
I don’t think it’s fair to take a sci-fi approach to a fantasy story.
Oh, that wasn’t a critique or anything, I was just explaining my thoughts.
I never said that she had to change anything.
‘Because magic’ is a perfectly fine explanation for a fantasy story. 😉
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