Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170825174215/@comment-31808207-20170919181323

@ 89.177.8.235  - You, uh, may have misread my meaning when I invoked real-world physics. I was actually arguing that our real world understanding of those issues may be incomplete even before we decide to assume that the same laws of physics apply in a fictional world. Thus, I actually said the opposite of what you ascribe to me--that it's not safe to assume the underlying laws of physics are the same (but it is safe to assume OoCly applied rules are rules).

@ Leto - In some ways, maybe the root of our disagreement there comes in terms of how we suspend our disbelief. Since I can't necessarily suspend disbelief when internal consistency is violated, I take the approach (as demonstrated above) that lets the incosistencies potentially be explained by stuff outside the narrative scope. On the other hand, your approach to suspending it is more of just accepting that the rules may not be internally consistent. And I think both approaches are fine as long as they work for us, actually. I would, in a more general sense, actually kind of agree with your intuition that a world with even minor tweaks to basic physical parameters might well end up wildly different. And it's also a point in your favor that, as you say, fantasy isn't trying to be hard scifi. So in a broader sense, you're probably right, but I think there's room for both our approaches to work.

@ Animalia555 - I apologize for being unclear. Honestly, I was just trying to avoid saying "Mysterious Divine Being" since I don't like that term but it seemed silly to try to refer to her some other way, haha. Anyway, while I do agree that there's some foreshadowing of Simon taking up some degree of a divine role... I'm not necessarily so certain it's reasonable to tie that to whether or not he'd have a reason to go down the tower. As you say, it's arcane and sexual magics that can merge in superreal phenomena--but arcane magic is associated with demons. Arcane magic is what summons demons, and arcane magic is strongest inthe abstract while demons are mostly abstract in their existence. So if what we saw at the end of 0.29.4 is actually the tower... Who's to say one wouldn't have to go down instead of up on the path toward sexual godhood?