Timeline for In Malloreon, Polgara suppresses a soap bar... how is that?
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| Oct 13, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | @MichaelRichardson: It's from a scene where she and Durnik are making soap, and Belgarath complains that she's squandering her talents. He creates a bar of soap with magic to try to show her how pointless it is doing it by hand. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 17:35 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | It has been many years since I have read those books. Was the quote from a flashback early in her training? The tone seems to put it later when she really just puts up with Belgarath rather than actively learning anything from him. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 17:33 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | @DanielB The actual word makes no difference to the magic. The puff of air and sound past her lips, coupled with a firm desire that the soap be elsewhere would result in the soap being elsewhere. If she had actually desired the "unmaking" of the soap, the universe wouldn't have cared if she was being subtle. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | akaioi | @DanielB I think Polgara is too classy to say "Bathe Not!" or the like... ;D I'm imagining she just atomized it in some way, so if you took a really close look there'd be soap particles floating about. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 16:06 | comment | added | Daniel B | Interestingly, she also doesn't use any sort of Word. When Chtuchik gets rekt, he says "Be not!". Perhaps it i possible, in some fashion, to 'uncreate' thing so long as you on't make it too obvious to the Universe that it's what you're doing. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 14:59 | vote | accept | Kheldar | ||
| Oct 13, 2017 at 14:38 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | @BinaryWorrier: Well, the charring will do that. :-D | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 13:57 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | than burning someone to turn them back into carbon that got dark fast! | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 13:41 | history | answered | FuzzyBoots | CC BY-SA 3.0 |