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META: Magic in Fenspace
 
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Quote:robkelk wrote:

M Fnord Wrote:On Fenspace and Amber: No, non, nein, nyet, nix, nuh-uh, not happening.
Thank you.
I think you'd have to be a bit mad to think Drunkard's Walk and Fenspace fit into a 'classic' Amber setting.  About the only way it might be workable would be to say an Amber-Shadows-Chaos set isn't the only thing that can exist, and that there can be multiple of these sets, and in fact whole multiverses that don't work that way.  Fenspace would be a universe in a multiverse that wasn't 'Amberite'.
If an author wanted an Amberite to appear in Fenspace they would have had to have left their native Amber-Shadows-Chaos set behind, which is theoretically possible.  They wouldn't be anything like as powerful in Fenspace as in some sort of Shadow.  If they were lucky they might be able to bend reality in their immediate area, but the odds are that would be a temporary effect, and might just look like some strange magic to a lot of people.  So, a sort of 'reality mage', or 'really lucky'.
An Amberite in Fenspace would likely still have the superhuman physical abilities, an indefinite lifespan, and a certain 'personal energy' or charisma.  Not to mention all sorts of skills.  They wouldn't be bullet or vacuum proof.  They'd probably find it difficult to enter Fenspace or leave it except in some formal, ritual, way; no turning a corner and changing your current universe.  Amberites are more used to the idea of travelling between different worlds, which are in different universes, than most characters in most settings.  But, using an Amberite character who claimed that Fenpace was "just another shadow" would be a recipe for one who is due to find that reality is much. much, stranger than they thought.
I'd also suggest avoiding direct mixing of "Callahan's" with Fenspace:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...han%27s_Crosstime_Saloon
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
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META: Magic in Fenspace - by Ace Dreamer - 09-29-2012, 12:10 AM
[No subject] - by robkelk - 09-29-2012, 12:27 AM
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