Bob Schroeck Wrote:If you disagree, then you have to ignore the Catalog in its entirety. Because it is based on the package of technologies gifted to Sylia Stingray by Legion in Drunkard's Walk II, brought to Fenspace by Lisa "Sailor Loon" Vanette and her companions, who are following Doug and who arrived in Fenspace because Doug was in Fenspace and helped get Stellvia up and running. As documented in Legend of Galactic Girls. If the Catalog exists, Fenspace is part of the same metacontinuity as DW. In fact, as that linked diagram indicates, Fenspace has been considered part of that metacontinuity for the last five years. Quod erat demonstrandum, baby.I would call your chain of arguments a slippery slope...
Fenspace primary rule is "the rules are what we need for OUR plot"...
it might be good to have a look at what DW's did with its magic, but we are not bound to it. If we decide one of the rules doesn't fit Fenspace, we can just say "oh, our catalog came from a universe very similar to the DW's one, with just some changes"... or that it came from a parallel dimension of it... or even that the rules of magic are not quite the same for each dimension and the visitors just had a "bubble of known mana" with them when they came to Fenspace.
Maybe we will even decide "hey yes, we take what DW made up", but thats up to us.
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About Resurrection... I must admit I am not worried about a Resurrection spell at all. It will be a very complicated spell and it will take decades to get right (I don't want even to imagine how botched resurrection spells look like)... at that time Fenspace has the technology to backup and restore people anyways (if they want to be backuped).