#skygarden

So the big ball of wibbly-wobbly stuff reservoir of vestigia, that has been accumulating the stuff for ages, went boom…

And here's the question: Where did all of that power go to?

Did it get dispersed in the ether?

Than why didn't we have an infestation of "new-born" Genii locorum? Why the intensity of magic didn't change? It's been a large amount of vestigia it should've changed the balance (at least locally)?

Or… It got absorbed by two bodies that happened to be at the epicenter?

In the Follyverse there is a concept of the Old Soldier. My handy-dandy go-to source — aka Follypedia — explains it like this:

An Old Soldier is a person who has been present at a place where a lot of people have been killed. The "life force" from all these dying people has to go somewhere. Once in a hundred thousand cases, this force enters a human, and changes him/her. The person becomes stronger, tougher, and more long-lived.

So… "a hundred thousand cases" aside… what's the difference between "life force" of the dying people and "life force" of the living ones? Especially if the latter has been accumulated for ages?

Yes, I know, "a hundred thousand cases", fine. I even understand why it could've been a bit redundant to make Peter "long-lived"… Although… It would've definitely scared the hell out of Nightingale and Beverley (just saying).

Ancora non ci credo che vivo a Londra 💖