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Author: intastiel

Sep 7th 2017 at 3:09:04 PM

[[AC:Literature]]
* In the ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad Belgariad]]'' prequel ''Polgara the Sorceress'', Duke Kathandrion is killed when his new siege engine design explodes in a field test.  Polgara realizes that his engineering calculations didn't account for the strength of its wooden beams, right in time to watch a chunk of one [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice go through him]].
* In ''Discworld/RaisingSteam'', Dick Simnel follows in his father's footsteps of engineering the first steam locomotive ''very carefully'' after seeing what a boiler explosion [[NotEnoughToBury left of his father]].  When some people try to copy his design and end up as a cloud of superheated PinkMist, he starts taking apprentices to head off any further incidents.

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', Tarhiel the wizard abruptly falls out of the sky in front of the player character at one location in the wilderness, having developed a NotQuiteFlight spell that lets him cover vast distances InASingleBound... but that wears off right before landing.
** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', Ancotar is an antisocial wizard who found a remote MageTower to use as a lab, to the repeated dismay of the nearby village.  The latest of his experiments to afflict the village is a permanent invisibility spell that happened to target every living creature in the region.