Friday, October 26, 2018

Weather Feats and Dimension Feats

In vs characters manipulating the weather (often getting energy values from the kiloton to gigaton range) or manipulating a dimension of a certain size seem to be somewhat controversial as to their usage. This is just my opinion on when they are applicable.

Weather Feats:
Weather Feats in general are feats like causing rain,, snow and sunshine though can also be seen as related to natural disasters and the same logic can even be used about celestial bodies like moving the celestial bodies. A more general understanding might be causing natural events through supernatural events. Weather Feats seem to me to come in four varieties and levels of applicability elsewhere: Specific Techniques, Weather Creation, Weather Maintaining and General Display of Power.

Specific Techniques: A Specific Technique is when a character has a particular ability to cause a natural event. These it's fair to say are never really applicable in terms of raw energy. This is why the Magicka Wizards are not island level from the Blizzard Magicka, as the creation of the blizzard does not come strictly from the potency of their mana but is a specific magical combination of mana to create a unique effect.

Weather Creation: A Character causes a natural event to occur. These are theoretically applicable to the character's power but this should be taken with caution due to the nature of potency and area of effect. Let's say a water manipulator was able to create a kiloton level rainfall. This would technically be a kiloton level feat. However it would be a kiloton level feat spread over an area much larger then most characters and so if used on them would not normally inflict the full energy potency over them. Generally to apply this I would want a showing of them concentrating their water manipulation in this case, their power in general, onto a small area of effect. If a weather creation feat is very casual, like say a water manipulator making a kiloton level rainfall with a wave of their hand, you could argue that anything that requires a greater level of effort is likely putting a greater potency in to whatever area is effected though this is not wholly settled. Personally I would accept it.

Weather Maintaining: A similar type of feat, though it is made clear a persistent weather feat is maintained by the will of the character, making it essentially an extremely casual feat as they were simply performing the casual creation feat continuously without effort. These are treated akin to a casual weather creation feat, and likewise I personally would accept it as a legitimate showing of power.

General Display of Power: Pretty much universally accepted, a reality-warper warps the surroundings to create a hurricane. This is clearly the most applicable as it is the least specific and tied to circumstances. Imagine an Evil God creating an eclipse with their appearing, this would be almost universally accepted to scaling to their power as it is a general display of power rather then anything specific.

Dimension Feats:
Similarly to Weather Feats, there seems 4 varieties of dimension feats, dimension warping, dimension creating, dimension destroying and dimension maintaining. There are some parallels. For reference this is "dimension" as in an isolated area of spacetime of X size. X is generally considered the level of the feat for dimensions.

Dimension Warping: Dimension Warping could be the weakest or the strongest of the four depending on specifics. It involves some kind of alteration to a dimension though the level of the warping determines how important or good a feat it is. Taking a pocket size dimension and making it the size of a planet would be an example of a very good warping feat since it gives a useable level and is specific enough. A feat of shifting the space inside a dimension of unknown size however only tells us the character has some level of spatial manipulation.

Dimension Creation: Dimension Creation is usually the weakest of the dimension feats in terms of applicability. In some way it's theoretically very impressive since anything since anything that is inside the dimension must either have been created, or the illusion of it must have been created, or brought in. However by itself it only suggests the character has X level of spatial manipulation.

Dimension Destruction: Dimension Destruction seems very direct and applicable. It's an X level where again X is the size of the dimension. It also seems to grant one some level of spatial destruction ability since it requires the destruction of a unit of spacetime.

Dimension Maintaining: Similar to Dimension Destruction, maintaining a dimension seems applicable and fairly non-controversial. Hades the Saint Seiya character is nigh-universally agreed to be a low multiversal character for maintaining the existence of several universe-sized dimensions at once.

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