Aethyreal wrote:I have a bunch of questions I seem to have been saving up, one of them having to do with changing the elements of water.
When you change the element of something, how long can it stay like that? I've heard it naturally reverts after a certain time, but are there ways to change something permanently?
Could you accomplish the same affect "adding" an element to the object, like imbuing with extra element?
How much of a leap is it from changing an element and thus taste, to changing something to create physically observable effects? The whole water to wine thing leaps to mind, but I would think there would be less dramatic demonstrations as well.
On just a related note, I recall reading in Autobiography of a Yogi how he visited a yogi who was able to change the scent of a flower to any other. He said it took him 10 years
Apologies for how late it is taking me to chip in.
To your first set of questions, yes things revert back, the amount of time it takes depends on what you changed, how you changed it, and how strongly you did it, there are ways of making a more permanent change but at that point you are making something into an elemental oddity which isn't always a good thing, I only suggest it for making talismans and the like.
As for adding an element, your basically adding a property to something. Usually this physically translates as a taste, smell, or minute temperature change, but in the example of bending a spoon you can make things more pliable, more rigid, or turn solid into liquid (at least, in theory.)
I would suggest taking an inexpensive set of spoons, two should be enough, bend one to see how pliable the spoons are, then apply fire element to the point where the spoons are most likely to bend, making sure you are imbuing the element and not just summoning it in the object, then after five minutes bend the spoon again. If you are good enough, in theory you can get that point on the spoon into such a pliable state the cup of the spoon literally falls right off without even you touching it. That will answer another of your questions
Perhaps you could try the spoon bending and get back to me, there are other things we could try and/or discuss.
