TheOneKEA Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 I was thinking about the sorts of mechanistic, nuts-and-bolts science-type questions that I'd like to ask Brandon someday, and one that I came up with was this: "How disruptive would the introduction of coherent light technology (such as lasers or LEDs) be to the culture, society and magic system of Nalthis?" I'm interested because I'd love to know what would happen if you aimed a laser at a wall and then drew forth the color in that wall to perform Awakening while the laser was shining on it. Since Brandon is already going to explore the interaction of magic and technology on Scadrial, I'd love to know how this type of interaction would occur on Nalthis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurkistan Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Just off the top of my head, I'd guess nothing special in this particular case. You can't drain a white object, despite the fact that it's technically going to be whatever color is being reflected on it at the time, so I'd guess Awakening needs to work with the "inherent" color of an object under normal conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_here Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 (edited) I think Awakening is technically powered by pigmentation, not by the light. As noted, you can't drain white objects, and white is all colors for light but colorless for pigment. Now, what they could be useful for is figuring out exactly how much color can be drained from a given object by measuring exactly how much light of any given frequency is reflected. Culture might be a bit more interesting; for one thing lots of people may take to using colored light on white walls so they can look pretty without fueling Awakening. Edited October 30, 2013 by name_here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamma Fiend Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Oh jeez. I could just imagine a Nalthian rave.You'll have breakdancing flourescent pants and twirling glowsticks everywhere."Soooo many colors!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oudeis Posted November 18, 2013 Report Share Posted November 18, 2013 Random thought and the answer is probably no... Imagine a white wall. Imagine a normal lantern with a normal candle, but now hold up a piece of red glass between it and the wall. There's now a patch of red color on the wall. If an Awakener touched that square of red, is it possible she could drain the pigment from the colored glass to power her Awakening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurkistan Posted November 18, 2013 Report Share Posted November 18, 2013 I'd guess no. No pigment to drain the color out of. If you want to get more Realmatic, "red" is probably defined on a fundamental level as "red under normal viewing conditions." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardlet Posted November 18, 2013 Report Share Posted November 18, 2013 Oh, sure! Go and bring realmatics into it. I would simplify and concrete your cognitive statement by saying that, in such a case, the wall would not be generally considered to be red. Thus, the wall would not be cognitively considered to be 'red'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_here Posted November 18, 2013 Report Share Posted November 18, 2013 It's not draining the reflected color of an object but the capacity to absorb incoming light. And it doesn't seem especially likely you can remotely drain an object by contact with light that has passed through it or been reflected, because that's everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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