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Prompt #4: Weather

What kind of weather does your source have? Is it very different from Earth, similar, or completely alien? Do you or your fictomere have any special connection to the weather or climate? If not, what kind of weather-based power would you or they want to have?

By Silver of The Dragonheart Collective

Weather from my source (a DND AU) was about the same as it is here, mostly. Sure magic could do things, but on the plane I called home, it was about the same as on earth unless something particularly strange and magic-related was happening.

However as a Silver Dragon, I could indeed do some manipulation of weather, which is why its worth responding to this one.

See as a Silver Dragon, I could walk on clouds. It was a whole thing the species was known for. Its a bit simplified for what I was actually doing, but the effect was the same.

I solidified the water near the surface of the cloud I would stand on into ice and let it bear my weight with the aid of telekinesis and wind magic in such a way it appeared the cloud was solid.

It was a rather frivolous spell, but it was a ‘classic’ of Silver Dragons, and had a very impressive effect on the bystander.

It was not my most used spell, but I did use it on occasion.

With it and extending from the cloud trick, I could force hail or snow instead of rain if I so chose.

I could also create mist if the humidity was high enough and drop the temperature hard with it by chilling the water.

I mostly manipulated ice and wind based magic then, if there was an element that I could call ‘mine’, as that is what Silver Dragons were predisposed to being able to do- though manipulating the weather was not something I did routinely. It was a little more grandiose then necessary, really.

Most weather I could simulate mostly just was a spell causing an effect that then caused the weather, rather than causing it directly myself. It takes less magic and effort to let physics do the work for you, which is part of why wizards needed to study so much in my canon. Most morals without divine/divine creation blood simply did not have the magic to burn without a patron so every optimization counted. ''True Dragons'', and those dragon-blooded in my canon counted as this, as ''true dragons'' were those directly created by major deities as a species and why they were held apart from other dragons- we were not natural creatures.

I didn't have to be efficient as a dragon, but it made me better at magic that way. Its like optimizing your code- its good practice.

Math is a large part of magic casting if you want to be efficient about it, which is likely part of why I enjoy math so much now. Feels right to be doing it still.