Ah, but then there's the question of whether the characters know what the author does. It's one great weakness of world building that if your characters don't know it, it's a trick and a half to tell it to the readers. But one of the ways to add thickness to the world is know things they don't. . . perhaps someone could observe that something didn't work.
There's a good scene in the midst of Xanth where Dor is commenting on how their neat models of magic have broken from collision with reality.
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Date: 2013-02-09 03:38 pm (UTC)There's a good scene in the midst of Xanth where Dor is commenting on how their neat models of magic have broken from collision with reality.