cardistry: (⑨ flourisher)
Brilliance ([personal profile] cardistry) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia 2014-03-29 12:41 am (UTC)

"It's not huge, but it's not nothing. And I might just be thinking it's not huge because I'm kind of huge. I'm getting about - this is an estimate, also why does this language have a unit system for mana, I love this language - fifteen to twenty thaums from a bite of ice cream. A little spell like the one I floated my tray with is about ten thaums to cast, with negligible upkeep. A high-damage personal combat spell is maybe five or six thousand thaums. My base power level is about fifteen orders of magnitude bigger than that. It's hard to get the numbers very precise because I'm sensing it all directly, not measuring it, and I can't 'eyeball'" (of course there is a Draconic word for that concept applied specifically to his mana sense, he loves this language) "the big stuff that well."

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