Re: Reverse Continual Flame Spell

Tetsubo wrote:
> Justisaur wrote:
> > Tetsubo wrote:
> > >
> > > With Dwarves in the world I don't think a container to
> > > hold steam would be hard to come up with. But a source
> > > of continual heat that doesn't produce pollution nor
> > > consume resources would be a miracle...
> >
> > I think you mean 'fire elemental'
>
> I've never liked the idea of binding an elemental spirit
> to an object like that. Smacks a bit too much of slavery
> to my mind...

You need to be playing Eberron!

For those who don't know: bound elementals are vital to the economy of
Khorvaire. They are necessary for House Lyrandar airships and even
their naval ships' superiority, and they are used in many different
kinds of items and vessels. The question of "this is awfullly close to
slavery, isn't it?" has been coming up with more and more frequency as
bound elementals becomes more ubiquitous in use.

There's even a faction of gnome elementalists (the Power of Purity) who
prefer to negotiate service contracts with the elementals, instead of
forcibly binding them, and they often encounter hostility from the
other gnomish binders. For more information on the Power of Purity and
a lot of the roleplaying aspects of elemental binding, see _Magic of
Eberron_.

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Nik (from Google)

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