I've been quite curious as to the nature of an illusion's casting, as relative to the imagination and experiences of the caster.
[ It's not a lie, it's just not the whole truth. He really would rather like to know. Moran is only a mutton-chopped bonus. ]
In my world's past, illustrations of creatures from far climes have often been inaccurate; many artists relied upon descriptions from second-hand sources to construct images of rarer beasts.
It follows, I should think, that believable creations of illusion must act upon the caster's own, intimate experience with the image being shown. However, magic and the imaginative conscious being tightly bound across worlds, I wonder whether some universal, true image might at all influence such a construction. Much as certain names and concepts hold true between this Asgard, and that which some travelers have hailed from.
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Date: 2014-06-10 08:39 am (UTC)[ It's not a lie, it's just not the whole truth. He really would rather like to know. Moran is only a mutton-chopped bonus. ]
In my world's past, illustrations of creatures from far climes have often been inaccurate; many artists relied upon descriptions from second-hand sources to construct images of rarer beasts.
It follows, I should think, that believable creations of illusion must act upon the caster's own, intimate experience with the image being shown. However, magic and the imaginative conscious being tightly bound across worlds, I wonder whether some universal, true image might at all influence such a construction. Much as certain names and concepts hold true between this Asgard, and that which some travelers have hailed from.
Do they have tigers in your world, Maglor?