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Questions/Question 403

Horrors or no horrors, Gale is continuing to poke and prod research the magic in this world.

His recent project is seeing if he can understand the magic at work in Karteria's barriers on a molecular level (or photonic, or whatever). He's trying to replicate the barriers as a spell.

He knows he's not going to be able to make city-sized barriers, he's aiming for something more the size of Globe of Invulnerability that a couple people could stand in for a little while. He's gonna test being able to do it just on his own powers compared to with an absorbing-katalyth boost.

His long term plan is to be able to understand the magic so he can work with the techy types to build barrier generators.

Doing this on his own energies is going to be challenging... It'll take some practice, but given his experience with wizarding (and an increased familiarity with Katalyth, and what it might take to defend against it), he could probably develop something capable of keeping out arcane radiation for a time. It would almost certainly be a development that is running along a different track than the Karterian barrier (maybe parallel, but the magic of the world is different from at home), but that's not to say that performing the feat in his own way is impossible. Or that studying the composition of the Karterian barrier wouldn't be a good avenue for inspiration/guidance on how that bubble filters out radiation.

It's bound to be pretty tiring even when he's got it working (and if he ever uses Katalyth to boost himself to repel Katalyth, it'll certainly strengthen things, but also carry its own very obvious drawbacks to his health), but it's certainly doable. Conveying what he learns to the technical crowd would be some great teamwork, and certainly a good use of resources. With arcane radiation ever present, and with the majority of Augmented not immune to it when exposed over long periods, being able to create and maintain their own protection from it could be valuable.