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The trick is to not press either button, or to have a phylacery and push the blue button.

Alchemists will spend a lifetime trying to transmute base metals into gold only to scoff at lab grown diamonds.

Carry on my wayward son

A conflagration any wizard would be proud of. Superb colouration.

i love poison omelette

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got some kick to it i tell you what

It's actually quite lovely with the appropriate antidote.

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Wizards, witches, and other magic users. What is the absolute smallest length a wand can be? I’m trying to prove a point.

I mostly agree. If you can't hold it in your hand fully, and have it extend at least half your hand's width past your hand, that's not a wand, thats a charm. If you can rest your elbow on a table, with your forearm vertical, set your wand next to it, and have the wand be taller than your closed fist, that's not a wand, its a rod. If you can stand your rod on the ground, yourself stand next to it, and it reaches your ribs, I'd say that's staff terretory, though I could be amicable to discussion if you wish to call that a rod still. If your staff if more than half again as tall as you, that's not a staff, you're casting spells with a gods damned pike, you lunatic.

Certianly, staffage is always relative to a certain extent, though having once tried a sky-giants wand as a staff, I will say there are certain problems of dimensions, magical conducitivity, and etheric design that do emerge as one attempts such a thing. However I have always found that relative size is a rather usefull classification. Compared to, say, certain models of applicative distinction, it holds a much wider applicability, with far fewer edge cases, exceptions and unintutive conclusions. (I once knew a sage that insisted on the model of "Scrolls are single purpose, single use. Wands are single purpose, multi-use, pre-charged. Rods are multi-purpose, multi-use, pre-charged. Staffs are multi purpose, non-pre-charged.", which I have seen others before and after adhere to, and I could never find it anything but bizzare to call a a short flexible casting instrument a staff, and truly rediculous to call a staff-shaped wooden object imbued with a single cast of a powerfull spell a scroll) But perhaps you are right, and we should move towards a more unified classification, though I suspect it would be difficult to make anything stick (heh), the current nomenclature is well established, and finding a new term that could compate with and encompass both wand and staff would be a challange indeed.

If do you admire the aestethics of the dry old parchement scroll, and you're going for one of the more authentic options (or indeed, you have old parchment scrolls you wish to use), one rather elegant option is to enchant your gloves and carrying case with water-repelling. A moderatly skilled enchanter should be able to make the enchantment on the gloves cover whatever scroll you're holding, and unless your scrolls are truly unstable, a minor active enchantment like that is unlikely to influence your cast, though do consider spell interaction if your scroll is for any form of water magic.

Dragon taxonomy is a path best not thread, I fear. All attempts at establishing a solid taxonomy has failed. Grand Sage Wickerstaff (the elder)'s work 'The Sage's Taxonomy of Dragons, Drakes and Dregs' is an oft referanced tome on the subject, and while it is a usefull starting point, as you dive into it, you'll find a rather startling number of contradictions and missclasifications. Once I learned that the North Sea Lesser Wyrm, classified in the Sage's Taxonomy as a member of the legg-less sub-clade of the north-western wyvern grouping, was, in truth, a monotereme, I decided to cease my study of the feild. The natural world oft eludes our desires to classify it, but the addition of magic to the mix has not simplified the matter of dragon taxonomy, to say the least. My best advice is to use the common descriptors and common names for dragons of all variation, and give up on any taxominal rigidity. A North Sea Lesser Wyrm is a wyrm in the same way a tomato is a vegetable and a strawberry is a berry. Unless you have a deep fascination for the finer details of taxonomy, do not delve any deeper into it than that. To answer your original questions, pardon my slight deviation, there are dragons in mamalia, reptilia, arthropoda, and other groups, as well as unique groups with nothing but magical creatures. There are dragons smarter than any living mortal, dragons as unthinking as coral, and the full spectrum between them. The firebreathing kinds use all manner of means to do so, direct magic, chemistry, alchemy, and other means. Some have special organs, others inate magical abilites, other re-use other organs. My favorite are the 'storage' dragons, in particular the the Nyiragongo Minutre Drake is fascinating. It's a small drake, about the size of a rat, and it does not so much breathe fire, as regurgitate magma. It's an amazingly efficent hunter, bringing down prey far far larger than it, since, well, few things can survive a glob of magma to the face. If you are further interested in the taxonomy of dragons, I recommend applying to view the taxonomy section of the Library of Alexandira over in the fire-realm. They've been quite dilligent in keeping their records on dragons up to date, as far as I can tell.

Wizards, witches, and other magic users. What is the absolute smallest length a wand can be? I’m trying to prove a point.

I mostly agree. If you can't hold it in your hand fully, and have it extend at least half your hand's width past your hand, that's not a wand, thats a charm. If you can rest your elbow on a table, with your forearm vertical, set your wand next to it, and have the wand be taller than your closed fist, that's not a wand, its a rod. If you can stand your rod on the ground, yourself stand next to it, and it reaches your ribs, I'd say that's staff terretory, though I could be amicable to discussion if you wish to call that a rod still. If your staff if more than half again as tall as you, that's not a staff, you're casting spells with a gods damned pike, you lunatic.