02-12-2018, 04:03 PM | #11 |
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Re: How Do You Imprison TFT Wizards?
I always assumed it was because molten iron wouldn't have the same effect on magic ("barring" it or interfering with it), since molten iron is an a highly excited state, molecularly speaking...
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02-12-2018, 06:43 PM | #12 |
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Re: How Do You Imprison TFT Wizards?
A popular debate. Really, it's just a poetic phrase, much like "cold steel".
Whether or not it has any actual meaning in a game is one of those things best left to the setting, IMO. It might mean any sort of iron. It might refer to technique. (Perhaps the weapon or object can only be hammered into shape while cold, which is going to be a LOT of work. So perhaps there's an upper limit to temperature, even that's not "cold".) It could be a reference to some temperature in the process, like a Curie point for magic to make the iron become non- or anti-magical. Or it might refer to some special metal, like meteoric iron or iron that's never been heated in a forge (thus getting contaminated with carbon from the coal and becoming crude steel, which for some magical reason is "not iron"). So what does "cold iron" mean in Cidri? |
02-12-2018, 10:09 PM | #13 |
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02-13-2018, 09:06 AM | #14 |
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Re: How Do You Imprison TFT Wizards?
I always ignored the 'cold iron' rule.
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02-13-2018, 10:26 AM | #15 | |
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Re: How Do You Imprison TFT Wizards?
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"Rangers of Connaught! It is not my intention to expend any powder this evening. We'll do this business with Cold Steel." -- General Sir Thomas Picton, 6 April 1812 to the 88th Foot before the assault on Badajoz. "I beg leave to remind the Cavalry Board that very few people have ever been killed with the bayonet or sabre, but the fear of having their guts explored with Cold Steel in the hands of battle maddened men has won many a fight." -Gen. George Patton And of course, the Poet Laureate of the British Empire: Gold is for the mistress - silver for the maid Copper for the craftsman cunning in his trade. "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall But steel - cold steel is master of them all. I think that the adjective "cold" connotes a lack of pity and harshness - appropriate for bayonets. |
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02-13-2018, 12:19 PM | #16 | |
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Now the question becomes; "why is that?" |
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02-13-2018, 03:56 PM | #17 | |
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02-13-2018, 04:03 PM | #18 | |
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Re: How Do You Imprison TFT Wizards?
According to Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811)
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02-13-2018, 04:40 PM | #19 |
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Certainly that was Conan's approach.
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02-13-2018, 04:50 PM | #20 |
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