Re: Harry Potter ... Dark vision and the fight against magick

I suspect the Holy Church no longer used the word "dark"
to describe vision that sees things normal people don't
see.

Buddism, Taoism (China), Shinto (Japan) have their own
dictionaries for this kind of things.

On 8/13/2026 1:29 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> 
> Now that we have established the basics of /dark vision/ we can start to
> measure ourselves up to this standard, and figure out that we wouldn't
> be able to see any magick with this either, we'd merely be able to sense
> our surroundings in a fashion somewhat alien to people with eyes.  And
> while this is common among magickal creatures -- at least as far as I'm
> able to gather on my own; it would be kind of ridiculous if this was an
> uncommon feat among them -- we humans would have no use for this in our
> daily lives, and shouldn't be jealous of these magickal creatures.  We
> simply use our magickal displays of liquid crystals, and type in our re-
> plies on Usenet.  That's all I wanted to say on the subject, but

> the > 19th century run-on paragraph hit me, and now it seems I can't 
> stop typing.  And as for as I'm aware, nobody has explicitly put 
> /dark vision/  down as forbidden and illegal in law books. Magickal 
> and otherwise. I guess the priests who tried to fight magick thought 
> it could be neat to /see in the dark/ so to speak, or they simply 
> never thought of it.  But
> then I have not gone through all documents related to the prior church's
> fight against magick, and don't know off-hand what they were after.  All
> I can say is that /dark vision/, at first glance, seems utterly useless
> to /see magick/, and therefore we shouldn't expect the /magickal creatu-
> res/ to see it either, even when they do have /dark vision/.



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