When they already KNOW that their discussion is in a purely theoretical and/or philosophical context? AND just about everyone else also know perfectly well the reality?
Hardly. That just makes "mythic" into a complete mockery.
Fair point. :mrgreen:
Nope, that just means that part of the game happens in Faerie/Magic realms.
(In Chinese myth, that would be one heaven or another, I believe. There seem to be infinite amounts of them.)
Then its no longer earth so it becomes irrelevant.
The oceans will not fill up, everyone knows that the earth is flat and excess water will just fall off the sides.
I believe (but would have to check) that water dried up by the sun is not 'destroyed' (matter is never destroyed, just substances). Water is cold and moist; with the addition of the heat from the sun it recombines to form air (hot and moist).
There is a water cycle of sorts in that those moist atoms form airy weather phenomena which results in rain; but I don't think anyone really thought of it like this.
With respect to spontaneous appearance of springs, it is perfectly possible; there are supplies of water within the earth which can spring forth - so water can begin to flow from rocks. The CrAq ritual to create a spring (D:Mom) in my opinion does exactly that - opens up a pore to allow the water to flow. The spring is permanent, but that doesn't mean the flow of water is indefinite. Springs dry up all the time - if a magus created such a spring with a stonking flow rate, as SG I'd allow it to flow long enough to generate a few stories, and then have it gradually peter out. However, it might reoccur seasonally, or according to some astronomical cycle, or so forth.
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But that would be even easier then, because I could make a low level device to ReAq the water to where ever I wanted it.
And as for the ink spring... how about I define the ink to be water so full of impurities that I can use it as ink - the residue either covers the parchment and sticks (a classical ink) or stains the page (technically a dye).
It might take a requisite, certainly, but let's assume that's not a problem.
Sure, no problem. That was never a problem either.
You can define it like that certainly. But what you get still isnt ink, or anywhere near it. And using it as ink is mostly a waste of effort in writing and material to be written on, because it wont work WELL.
You MIGHT still be able to read it when it has dried, and you MIGHT still be able to read it the next day or the next week, but its quite possible you wont be able to either.
There´s extremely good reason noone sold discoloured water as ink, and why ink wasnt exactly cheap. To get ink that works properly takes quite a lot of effort.
Why won't it work well? I don't think I'm going out on a limb here when I say that when an Hermetic Magus invents a spell to create something usable as ink, he gets (experimentation fun aside) something which he can use as ink. Getting ink that works properly is, indeed, a task which requires specialist knowledge - in this case, the knowledge of the Form of Aquam.
Just for argument's sake, let's add a requisite (An or He or even Te) and +1 magnitude for complexity and then have decent ink, neh?
Getting ink isnt a problem, arguing that you can have a "natural" spring generate something that is useful and works as well AS ink, that is a BIG problem.
Easy. But dont try to claim it as something that would be naturally ocurring from a spring.