Under a Blank White Sky: Discussion

I didn't want to put too much into there :P.

Well, that's the explaination in the first anime.

In the manga, Amestrian Alchemy comes from energy of the tectonic plates (or something under the earth) while Eastern Alchemy is based on Chi.

edited 7th Apr '12 7:18:07 PM by JustaUsername

No he's right. Its shown thats where Father gets his power, souls.

edited 7th Apr '12 7:19:20 PM by StephanReiken

Oh right, yeah that's totally what The Father does.

Only read parts of the manga, but I'm pretty sure in Brotherhood every single person from the East keeps mentioning "people under the ground" every single damn moment. Is that what you mean by the anime?

Why does it always have to be Chi?

edited 7th Apr '12 7:19:46 PM by Stratofarius

Chi? Chobits? :P

I 'think' it mentioned somewhere that Eastern Alchemy was based on Solar energy. Pulling energy from the sun to do transmutations.

edited 7th Apr '12 7:21:20 PM by StephanReiken

Chi is actually one of the most important parts to historical Chinese Alchemy. Chi, in this case, meaning life energy. Life has always been a focus of historical Alchemy.

edited 7th Apr '12 7:25:26 PM by GameGuruGG

Uh, given that there's no sun, the ground isn't developed enough to have tectonic plates, and souls are unavailable, we may have a problem here.

I LIVEEEEEEEEE... AGAINNNNNNN!!!

Resurrecting the dead. Like a boss like a boss.

Or we could have him find a way to be able to use alchemy again. Or just do... this.

Welcome backy back Ragna.

If there's no actual plausible explanation for someone to have their abilities, I don't think it's really right to handwave it. XD

That's why I gave two options.

The reason I had DH act blaise about the earthbending fight is because, while earth magic isn't common, monks and sorcerers on Sanctuary can pull some pretty ridiculous things.

She fights demons for a living. Kung fu sorcery is tuesday for her.

Oh man, that took a good while to write. Sorry for not posting sooner, but I had a lot of things to do.

This gave me a few laughs.

Nobody's taken notice to the armor plated guy with a large glowing hammer :P.

I have. Do I suddenly not count?

Also, I'm wondering, can Oswald have access to hammerspace, what with being a toon and all?

Also, with things advancing rapidly, I feel very lost. I assume that not THAT much has bappened, but it's hard sifting through all the posts.

Group mostly has just alternated between arguing and working together. More people have joined.

It's just two characters talking. Oh yeah, guys? I understand it's just you two talking, but don't post that much. Seriously.

@Bombadillo: all that's happened in terms of the main plot is that they discovered that there is a type of creature which, if you kill it, some of the grey area gets filled in instantly, and that there are guards inside the temple that won't let them use that door.

There's also a subplot brewing between Toph and Korra, who's from eighty years ahead of Toph on the timeline.

@Dezmo: sure, just try to limit it to stuff he actually has.

Little mini post for you.

Sorryto leave hanging those that went aroudn the temple, but showign what's on the other side of the building going to have to be a pretty long post that I'd rather write on my home computer.

Oswald wasn't a part of the group at the time. :P

Permission to Leeroy Jenkins, sir?