Re: Sliver Legion [MtG/???]
FurikoMaru said:
What significance does the Slivers' place of origin have on their behaviour and perception of the world? Is it ordinarily just 'everyone else is food' or what? Do they have a culture (the art and music kind, before anyone makes the obvious joke)? Do they have formalize magic or are they classified purely as 'magical beasts'? Are they only technically alive? What can kill them, if anything?
... I may or may not have come in here for the NGE. ^_^;
I can actually answer to one part of this.
Sliver magic:
Slivers are quite curious creatures with their ability to adapt, neutralize and then co-opt anything they have ever faced. Once slivers were dropped in a middle of an active volcano.
Most of them died.
A couple survived.
Ever since then, all slivers laughed at high temperatures. I guess their natural abilities/magic makes them survivors extraordinaire.
Of course, this is not propably what you meant. You wanted to know if they (for instance) throw around lighting bolts, right?
Well, the answer would depend on this: has anyone thrown lighting bolts
at the slivers?
Once in the fluff, slivers were experimented on by mages that accidentally underestimated the power of slivers and had them do a jailbreak.
The first wave of slivers died under the barrage of spells the mages shot forth.
The second wave managed to get closer, having gained some resistance against the spells when the other slivers died.
The third wave was completely immune to the spells and
could cast the same spells the mages were using right back to their faces. Those spells were at least as strong, if not stronger, as the mages spells.
In conclusion? The slivers learn anything you use against them. (Of course not
everything, otherwise slivers could suddenly pull out guns after someone shoots them with a rifle) The moment the slivers face the angels, the only possible way to stop the slivers from copycatting their realityhax would be to manage to kill all of the attacking slivers in one strike, in order of not giving them time to adapt. You think tyranids were bad? A sliver hive controlled by a competent queen, time to snatch evolutions and make new sliver types out of them is all new beast.