complicatedliar: (being a motherfucking sorcerer 3)
Loki ([personal profile] complicatedliar) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-08-09 11:57 pm

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Who: Loki
Broadcast: Video to everyone
Action: Iskaulit
When: Now!

As I have said I would, I shall speak of magics. Or rather the basics of one particular form of magic. Attend well.

[Loki has set up the video in his gym, since it has sufficient space and mirrors.]

What mortals oft times call magic is but science of a higher sort than they have capacity to comprehend. All is but working change upon the ordered laws of the universe with strength of will and an understanding of how and what to manipulate.

Light shall be our example. [Because everyone already knows he can do illusions. This is giving nothing away, really, because knowing the mechanics of what he does won't make it less impressive.]

Light is a substance in constant flux of state. It exists simultaneously in many forms until it is directed one way or another.

[He begins to write equations in the air with light, his handwriting precise and very angular, explaining as he goes. People who are very up in their mathematics and quantum physics will be able to recognize portions describing the wave-particle duality of light, though Loki seems to be describing a great many quantum states beyond that.]

Understanding this, one might manipulate the light that exists in this room to reflect far differently, or refract in new ways.

[He goes through a series of demonstrations, first building a delicate model of a horse from light that runs, then revealing an invisible object and describing mathematically the illusion that allows light to seem to pass through something solid. Then step by step, he builds the room into a section of forest in Alfheim, which seems to stretch on into the misty distance despite the apparent dimensions of the former room.

It's quite a show, but perhaps more interesting is his expression as he works through all of this. He's genuinely enjoying himself, perhaps the most relaxed most people have ever seen him.]


And the mechanism of all of this?

[He smiles remembering the day he had been taught this by Frigga.] We are made of the same stuff as light. We must only remember and become part of it once more.

[And with that, he seems to disintegrate into green and gold miss. The video ends.

But he's around his place in the Iskaulit if anyone wishes to seek him out, or can be called upon for questions. And later? Buy him a drink at Crowley's bar.]
bythewaves: (hm?)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-09-14 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Strange indeed - but I am glad that you have survived your death, in that case! Nine Realms? Nine worlds, do you mean, in your... er, I think the term I want here is universe?
bythewaves: (hm?)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-09-18 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Almost as neighbours, relatively speaking then? How interesting! I wonder if it is so throughout all universes, that some worlds lie closer together.
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-09-19 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
An actual bridge, or a title for some other form of transport? It seems a slightly impractical method, if we are speaking of actual rainbows!

It seems that your earth has much to be grateful to it's neighbours for!
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-09-27 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
A functional bridge then, rather than a physical one. [ Maglor nods and he laughs softly ]

They can be - they are swift to forget, are the Children of Men. But they are wise and brave and when loyalty is won, it is long indeed before they will yield it.
bythewaves: (alone)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-10-11 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Theirs is a different wisdom, I think, one learnt in oftentimes hard experience. But I have met those with eyes that see to the heart of a truth, and those who have had wisdom beyond their years, although sometimes they are few and far between.

But valor has it's place, I think, and I had good reason to honor the courage of Men, that did not falter in the face of the Dark.
bythewaves: (will you look back)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-10-17 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps ! But courage is sometimes found in unlikely places, and the hands of the small may work while the great sit in debate. You may just not have seen it, yet.
bythewaves: (Arnold grin)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-10-19 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
Both have their place, and their uses!
bythewaves: (emblem)

Yep!

[personal profile] bythewaves 2016-10-23 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Even so.