i need more stories of fire mage human dave
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Isn't all magic just fire magic boiling water?
Teleportation, just tell me how you're doing it.
First, I tear a hole into the fire dimension...
And inside, a portal to the water dimension.
Finally, another portal from the fire dimension to the mortal realm.
Water turns to steam inside the fire dimension creating an insulation layer of steam and a layer of water between the two fire dimension X mortal realm portals. Sandwich of chicago-portal->water->latvia-portal. Boom, cheaper than air travel.
Water gets hotquickly still, so you only keep it all together for a small period of time, but jump through and you're a steaming wizard coming out of a portal wherever you want
You just use fire to boil water that will produce steam used on a turbine to generate electricity that then powers the machine that teleports you.
Ooh, high fantasy version of "the human found the screwdriver."
Elemental magic gets broken down into actual atomic science (albeit with mithryl and latinum and so on), and despite having all their mysterious koans reduced to chemistry equations, the elves are happy for the humans' contribution to their understanding.
But then the hairy little bastards pull out some bullshit like quantum chromodynamics, and they're not even sure what matter is anymore. They just found out light has a speed, and now those fuckers are playing with round-trip direction to make their arcane blasts land first. The elves lost the plot when one human tried lining up peasants with intent to launch a scrying orb out of the sky (as if the sky just ends) and their obvious failure accidentally proved that aethyr is a fluid. Now he's asking for animated quills to do math, but he wants a whole bird's worth, and honestly, how complicated could viscosity be?
If you only take the first 4 sentences it's just a fire bender in avatar.
Anyone got the meme this is referencing?
Think your looking for this one
My guess would be it’s a play on how every time humans develop some new method for generating electricity, it always comes back to boiling water and turning a turbine with steam.