Daevinity Worldbuilding Info

[Alicorn]

That's a good idea. There's probably some of that but it's poorly systematized and on a long delay.

Oh, he's not a verifiably-to-summoners-qualified medical demon. He just finished his course.

[Timepoof]

Demons have to specify, angels imagine -- is there a fairy equivalent?
Can fairies compress something? Like crumbling a tin can, etc?
Can fairies bullet-shield humans?
How many objects can they do at one time?

Just to check, which daeva would be the most effective at doing the following:
- finding a lost object (just in one room, not on a big scale, I know big scale is demon)
- someone being cold and wanting their room to be warmer
- removing a carpet stain, wet and dry if those are different

[Alicorn]

Fairies... visualize? If i understand the question?

Yes.

Not passively; they'd have to catch all the individual bullets and generally reaction time would be an obstacle.

Depends on attentional capacity and what they're doing with them (picking up a bunch of stuff and holding it still is easier than making it dance).

Fairy (probably, unless it's more hidden than like "under the couch", in which case demon); angel; angel.

[DanielH]

If you summon a daeva with a binding preventing them from leaving the circle or doing magic, and then drive a bus through the circle, what happens? Do you end up with a daeva outside the circle, a smashed bus, or somehow neither?

[Alicorn]

Bindings only restrict a daeva's activity, not what can happen to them. You wind up with a daeva outside the circle. If you worded the binding well they might still not be able to wander off.

[DanielH]

That makes sense. I was visualizing it more like the ward on an Elcenian summoning spell, and therefore surprised when Cam said he wasn’t sure which way to bet on binding vs mind control

[futurevision]

Can a demon make things using relative measurements? Like for drugging a person is "X% of this person's mass in Y sedative" a valid way of specifying?

[DanielH]

What about units that they don’t know but can find, like “a Hubble-barn of solid gold”? Would they need to know that this is a unit of volume (as opposed to mass), or that it was a Hubble distance times the unit of area “barn”, or how big each of those approximately were, or what?

(A Hubble distance is huge, about 14.4 light-years. A barn is tiny, about the cross-section of a uranium nucleus. Multiplying together, a Hubble-barn is about a dozen liters, or 3½ gallons)

Both a Hubble distance and a barn are serious units of measurement in physics. Would they be create a pico-light-angle (about a yard, slightly less than a meter) of wire without having heard of Elcenia? (EDIT: ignoring that the conversion factors are inconsistent, which would make about a 3¾-centimeter or 1½ inch difference)

[Alicorn]

No; yes; no.

[Kappa]

I'm having a hard time figuring out where the no and the yes and the no are meant to attach.