Episode 56: With all laws of physics- how would shapeshifting work?
Worldbuilder's Anvil · Jeffery W. Ingram
April 27, 201514m 49s
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Show Notes
Today's Topic - Random Question: In this setting-with all laws of physics- how would shapeshifting work?
- Questions are the foundation of Worldbuilding
- Found on stack exchange from Molua Young
- Criteria
- magic is an inherited ability to manipulate energy and matter
- Answer
- Look to the universe for inspiration
- The butterfly effect
- Egg to Caterpillar
- Caterpillar to goo
- goo to butterfly
- Really everything starts in a different form from birth through life
- Additional questions
- Does the mass of the being change
- What happens to the conciseness of the altered being
- What limits the ability to shapeshift
- Can magic speed up or slow down the process
- Can living beings change into a rock...
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