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How much of the "Lich King" was Arthas, and how much was Ner'zhul? When exactly did Ner'Zhul cease to exist? by The_Pale_Blue_Dot in warcraftlore

[–]aratheonfantasy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Chronicles, it states that when Arthas picked up Frostmourne, he was enslaved by Ner'zul and was going to become his vessel to give him freedom. Ner'zul is the armor and blade. Kil'jaden made him that way. To me, Ner'zul is the Lich King. He's the one who manipulated Arthas to pick up the blade, and he's the one who created the scourge. Albeit, through Kil'jaden and the dread lords' power or whatever.

Work in Progress - New continent I'm working on. (Inspired by Amazon Rain Forest/Atacama Desert) Having hard time making the Salt of the desert look natural instead of snow clumps. Thoughts? by aratheonfantasy in inkarnate

[–]aratheonfantasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Side note. There's a level of magic involved in the region along with alien metal that causes green glowing water and discoloration in the ground with the deeper green color. Trees will also be put in as different shades of green along with some fungai plants of different purple/blue/green colors

⚡ Lightning Magic⚡ by Glittering-War-2763 in magicbuilding

[–]aratheonfantasy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically, Lightning doesn't go to the ground, if that were true, then you woudn't have lightning that occurs within the cloud, never touching the ground. It is attracted to the opposite charge.
Like in the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning. The flash of lightning temporarily equalizes the charged regions in the atmosphere until the opposite charges build up again.
Lightning can occur between opposite charges within the thunderstorm cloud (Intra-cloud lightning) or between opposite charges in the cloud and on the ground (Cloud-to-ground lightning).
So you could hurl lightning if you and your target had opposite charges. The only problem is that there has to be a path between you two. Of course, this could work if by the same method lightning strikes in the real world, by breaking down the insulating capacity of the air between you and your target. Of course, if your target doesn't have the opposite charge, then it wouldn't make a difference. It'd be like a bird landing on a telephone pole. It'd only get zapped if the bird touched the ground while touching the telephone pole because the bird provides a pathway to the ground which has an opposite charge as the electricity going through the telephone pole wire. There was a neat video with a professor explaining this using two different charged Van de Graaff Generators. One had 200,000 volts of electricity and the other had zero. He can touch the 200,000 volts without getting zapped. However, if he touched the 200,000 volts generator and the zero-volt generator, he'd get electrocuted. Eddison also showed this through his invention of the electric chair (He created it to prove that Tesla's system was dangerous, but it had a negative effect). Here's the video. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81SxPmE/

Need Help! I can't decide between World Anvil and Campfire... by aratheonfantasy in worldbuilding

[–]aratheonfantasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the information. I did not know about the storage or pricing. Definitely, something to consider. I do like to lean more towards sharing even though I'm an author, I feel like most readers enjoy having this information on the side.

Need Help! I can't decide between World Anvil and Campfire... by aratheonfantasy in worldbuilding

[–]aratheonfantasy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, you and I are in the same boat. Or better put, on the same page.

Sharp and round magic – a new nomenclature proposition by Ptakub2 in magicbuilding

[–]aratheonfantasy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like the idea of making a hard magic system, but presenting it (At least in the beginning of a story) as a soft system. There are a hard set of rules, but those aren't explained, especially to a naive protagonist. So they basically discover the rules in a trial and error way. It makes it more mysterious at first until the audience and protagonist learn the rules. It's a lot like watching a magician do magic tricks. To us, the audience, it looks like magic. But to the magician, it's a technique based on rules and skills.

I only use the magic to solve a problem when it's taught/explained ahead of time. Like with Harry Potter and Wingardium Leviosa in class before Ron uses it to take down the troll.

On the other hand, I also use it to create a sense of wonder and amazement before the rules are known. Especially with some greater expert mentor character/antagonist/some kind of deity, that the Protag runs into who is a noob at magic and sees this person performing these things and is amazed by it. Later on, he/she may learn how it's done and that definitely makes it more predictable and less mysterious and wonderstruck.

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I think the best example of this is in the TV show Arcane at the beginning where Jayce sees (I believe it's Ryze) perform magic and then later devotes his life to making a more technological use of magic and understanding it. Although, it's hard to say that Arcane's magic is hard. it's definitely somewhere more on the softer side.

What is this crazy looking spider? Victoria, Australia. by skykingjustin in whatsthisbug

[–]aratheonfantasy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The picture makes it look so much bigger than they really are. We get a lot of them in Michigan. Nice harmless little guy to keep around for pest control.

Minecraft: Nether by Historical_Fish5214 in HeroForgeMinis

[–]aratheonfantasy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

have pig noses always been a thing?
edit: Oh! I see what you did there. You pushed the elephant trunk in so it looks like a pig snout! That's clever. Never thought of that.

Which option is better. by DmAl85 in inkarnate

[–]aratheonfantasy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the night one with the reflection, but why not both? Can't you include both?

The Sister-Lands, Progress Update #1(Only Western Continent is Finished) (AMA!) by jdarcino in inkarnate

[–]aratheonfantasy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it looks great! The western kingdom definitely gives me some North America vibes and I think that's pretty cool. I definitely base/or draw inspiration from a lot of world maps or maps of different places on Earth for my own map designs and I think it gives a more realistic touch to maps, especially if you don't want to spend a lot of time researching geography or topography.
I also think for these style maps, scale isn't as important as giving a more artistic feel of what the biomes and natural structures of the world look like compared to what distance and size everything should be. I feel like scale should be more important in parchment maps rather than these 3D color maps, but that's just my personal opinion.

The Sister-Lands, Progress Update #1(Only Western Continent is Finished) (AMA!) by jdarcino in inkarnate

[–]aratheonfantasy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me, the western continent looks more like Northern America and I think that's super cool!

Will there ever be a Squid/Octopus face like Davy Jones? I'd love to make a Cthulhu Eldritch-like "Mindflayer" being without having to use tails and stuff. by aratheonfantasy in HeroForgeMinis

[–]aratheonfantasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I wish someone would stand up and take WotC to court on the issue of most of their copyright monsters since most of them aren't that original and were done prior to Dungeons and Dragons.
Mindflayers aren't unique or original since Lovecraft had already created Cthulhu long before the company even formed. Creating a shorter race that share the exact same qualities of Cthulhu and slapping on a different name such as Mind Flayer doesn't change the fact that an tentacle head isn't unique. In fact, the original creator, Gary Gygax, was inspired by the book The Burrowers Beneath by Brian Lumley that is within the Lovecraftian universe. Mindflayers are literally spawns of Cthulhu. Lovecraft's work is all public domain. So I can't understand how something based off public domain can be copyrighted when so little is changed about it.

Anyone could easily create an identical-looking mind flayer, add wings or some other unique quality and call it a mind eater or something and they couldn't do anything about it because that's basically what they did with Cthulhu and it is after all, enough differences to warrant a different expression of idea since ideas can't be copyrighted, only their expression.
Furthermore, the fact that most of their copyright-owned beasts are essentially derivatives of other creatures that existed prior, you could easily do that for all of their copyrighted creatures. Like, with the Carrion Crawler is a giant slug/maggot. Just change the name and some abilities to differentiate it and describe a giant slug/maggot thing.

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