Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Armour VS Magic - How Should Fantasy Armour Really Look?" video.

  1. It's a very difficult topic to discuss and speculate around. Mainly because it all bottles down to how magic works in the particular setting. Some settings offer very little explanation of how magic works. Other settings give more in-depth explanations. But there is also a huge variety in how it works. For instance, in one setting, fire based magic attacks might work on the principle that the warlock basically summons a gout of flames that emmanate from the warlock towards the target. In that setting, armour made of fire-retardant materials would make sense. But in another setting, inncineration of a target might be caused through getting the target to spontaneously combust (the source of heat and inevitable fire is caused inside the targets body), in such a setting, fire retardant materials worn on the body would be rendered useless. And in other settings, magic is sometimes basically a forced shared fantasy between the warlock and the intended target with the power of suggestion (like the matrix: "I thought It wasn't real?", "Your mind makes it real") which somehow manifests itself magically in real life. In that type of scenario, worn armour would be irrelevant, since the determining factor of whether the target gets burnt to a crisp or not is solely dependant on the targets ability to steel his mind and disbelieve the almost telepathic subliminal suggestion that the magic user tries to imbue his victim with in order to incinerate him.
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