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Old 05-07-2017, 03:54 PM   #8
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Default Re: Conjuring highly unstable compounds

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Originally Posted by Joseph Paul View Post
But there is no problem in conjuring up a haunch of complex biological molecules specific to one or more species including bone, tendons, blood and muscle? Or wheat finely ground and beaten with eggs, sugar and leavening agents added and served with a buttercream frosting? I don't have Magic or Thaumatology so I am really just curious about what the spell limitations are and where that breaks down.
No, why would there be? It's not about how objectively complex the task is in scientific terms; magic can do things vastly more complex than that, like turning a human being into a badger. It's about whether you have the concept of the thing you want to do. At least in Eurasia and North America, most people have the concept "badger," but even today, few people have the concept "chlorine trifluoride," and before 1800 no one did or could. If you don't know what to ask for no spell can give it to you.
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