Daevinity Worldbuilding Info

[Alicorn]

I don't see why this would be a particularly useful weapon.

[DanielH]

Because it would actually be debilitating, and because it would be a useful enough weapon that other demons might be willing to let one be used in the middle of the battle. The main point would be the filling the train with packages and letters.

[Alicorn]

I don't see why it would be debilitating, is the thing.

[DanielH]

It doesn’t stop them from doing anything after it passes, unlike a Nexus stunner, but it is debilitating in the sense that it’s still difficult to act while being run over by a train or your target is on the other side of the tracks from you. It probably would give an advantage to demons, because they can act more quickly around the unpredictable barrier (although I suppose if it were a mail train the driver would need to be an angel to get the train into Heaven, so using it as a weapon means running over demons more than angels).

EDIT: I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good weapon in such a battle, but one could certainly sell it as such; this would be all that’s needed to get mail through.

[Alicorn]

I'm really, really not seeing it. Any kind of daeva can trivially derail a train. An angel can disintegrate it entirely.

[DanielH]

I thought that, since the train was moving quickly, concordances were small, and angels work somewhat, they wouldn’t be able to affect the train. They could affect tracks, but there’s no reason for it to be a conventional train with conventional train tracks.

How tall are concordances? Are they spheres, or cylinders, or blobs, or what?

[Alicorn]

Concordances are round-edged, slightly irregular in cross-section but flat on the top and bottom, wider than they are tall by a factor of about five, and sized approximately like my brain's benchmark of "that one convention center's main room".

[Marri]

I also recall that daeva cannot create objects already in motion?

[Alicorn]

They cannot, it's true.

[Bluelantern]

I also recall that daeva cannot create objects already in motion?

Acelerating one train sounds trivial, still doesn't sound like good mail service and it would piss off many Daeva.

Anyway, why insect wings dont work and feathery or leathery do?

Does Heaven has wars like hell does?

How Mind magic, Witchcraft and Runecasting interact with Daevas? Could you actually cause permanent damage to one?