Post by Valalerin on Jan 18, 2008 23:12:36 GMT
Cyromancy (or cyrokinesis) is the creation and manipulation of ice with the mind. Cyromancy is rather difficult, and is impossible without hydromancy skill. Therefore it could be said that cyromancy is the most difficult due to it requiring the most difficult, but magi agree that cyromancy is not the same as hydromancy and therefore not the most difficult.
Cyromancy is easily the most energy efficient form of magic as it uses the energy from the water to launch it. Cold is not a form of energy, it is a lack of energy; therefore the removal of energy to freeze ice is exactly how the ice is fired. This means that most fired ice freezes as kinetic energy is imparted into it, freezing as it goes along picking up speed since few magi are skilled enough to immediately impart large amounts of energy.
Many people think that a cyromancer can keep the ice frozen despite outside interference, this is not strictly true. A cyromancer can keep ice frozen by continuously removing any additional energy imparted into it, but this requires more concentration and is generally not practiced unless fighting a pyromancer.
However, even in those cases, the heat a pyromancer is capable of producing is too much to remove quickly enough to keep ice frozen.
A cyromancer’s power is limited to firing freshly frozen ice. Firing already frozen ice is considered by most magi as ‘not cyromancer, but simple telekinesis’. Telekinesis is the foundation of all forms of magic, therefore any mage can fire already frozen ice (including a pyromancer) but this is not to say they can stop it mid-flight and fire it back. Such an action would require lightning fast thinking that no being could ever hope to achieve.
Cyromancy is easily the most energy efficient form of magic as it uses the energy from the water to launch it. Cold is not a form of energy, it is a lack of energy; therefore the removal of energy to freeze ice is exactly how the ice is fired. This means that most fired ice freezes as kinetic energy is imparted into it, freezing as it goes along picking up speed since few magi are skilled enough to immediately impart large amounts of energy.
Many people think that a cyromancer can keep the ice frozen despite outside interference, this is not strictly true. A cyromancer can keep ice frozen by continuously removing any additional energy imparted into it, but this requires more concentration and is generally not practiced unless fighting a pyromancer.
However, even in those cases, the heat a pyromancer is capable of producing is too much to remove quickly enough to keep ice frozen.
A cyromancer’s power is limited to firing freshly frozen ice. Firing already frozen ice is considered by most magi as ‘not cyromancer, but simple telekinesis’. Telekinesis is the foundation of all forms of magic, therefore any mage can fire already frozen ice (including a pyromancer) but this is not to say they can stop it mid-flight and fire it back. Such an action would require lightning fast thinking that no being could ever hope to achieve.
