Examples, or lack thereof, don't proof rules. Just because you don't know a counterexample to something that doesn't mean that you can assume its a rule that holds for everyone. That would make it a self-fulfilling prophecy, where you never find counterexamples because you just assume it's the case...
It's what is called an
argument from ignorance, which should categorically eliminate it.
However, I can also just give you a counterexample. Shinjou from Owari no Chronicle can channel her willpower into her weapon to make it more powerful, allowing it to shoot High 7-A blasts. She herself is a normal human regardless, as she can't use that power for her own physical enhancement.
I believe this example would fall under the semi-universal energy sources as mentioned by DDM.
Eh, both?
If you want more examples I can also add Skulduggery Pleasant verse to the list, where getting your magic attacked directly can kill you, yet most Sorcerers can't enhance their physicals in any way.
Or ToAru for that matter, where most magic works by refining lifeforce into mana. I shouldn't have to explain how losing lifeforce is rather problematic. Yet many magicians are glasscannons.
I guess this would be a sort of semi-universal energy source then, but DDM can explain that part better than me.
Then the entire blog needs to be rewritten, because the mandatory criteria isn't suited to determine whether ice magic scales to fire magic in the slightest. That is entirely about physical scaling.
I changed the wording a bit so that it doesn't sound like you have to enhance physicals first and foremost. The point was, one could use the energy source to amplify all their attributes and maintain power level parity between all of them (AKA keep the power level between all capabilities the exact same).
Although, even then the point would still need to be rewritten as how common it is isn't the supporting evidence here. Multiple different spells showing potency relative to the amount of power invested into them would be the evidence for that being a common pattern.
But a power source being a common one in terms of availability and versatility is not mandatory, heck, it isn't even supplementary.
Wait, so how should it be put now?
It's already put like this:
"In the case of characters using the energy of an external source, as long as the character shows feats in proportion with a certain amount of energy used out of an external source like magical weapon/artefact, the feat will be attributed mainly for the weapon, but can be considered as a universal energy system for a Character + Weapon pair (Basically what this means is that if a character can tap into said weapon’s power source/system and then is able to use that energy to perform their own feats, then it should be fine to scale their physical strength to the weapon, and it can be considered a character + weapon combo). This may need to be determined on a case-by-case basis. One should also consider the aspects of power-scaling as make-or-break factors."
But why would scaling to physicals be a mandatory requirement for scaling magic to each other?
Except, it's not mandatory? What is mandatory is for you to be able to channel the energy into all your capabilities, whether it be physicals, magic, other supernatural powers and then scale them to the same power level, etc.
The page is laid out to be about scaling magic to physicals. That's ok. Better not throw in the other as a sidenote and keep it to just scaling to physicals for now, even if it's a more specific case from the big general.
That's why I added "and other powers and capabilities". Though I would be more than willing to
That's... the point. It demonstrates how using the style of invalid implication used in the argument one can make nonsensical connections.
But emotion is being used here to try and justify having a power ability. It's not the same as having a power source be a fuel to your body and then making you crap out if you lose it all.
So you're saying that you are only applying the argument that vital energy source are universal, to energy sources from which you already know that they are universal? What?
Vital energy sources that are universal and are specifically stated to be tied to life-force.
For it to serve as an enhancer it would first need to support the premise in some way. Which it doesn't.
Like, name me one scenario where adding that point makes a difference.
A scenario where the character loses the energy source but still retains their insane strength. I believe Zelda was brought up as an example.
Again, tho, how can it support something if there is no connection between it and the premise it is supposed to support? Imagine I tried to say "Having Fire Manipulation" as supportive evidence for "Having Water Manipulation", as I have the impression that many characters have both. That's what that argument sounds like to me.
But that's not what the argument is to begin with. Having different abilities =/= tapping into the same mana pool to collectively enhance them to the same power level.
And if you want an example of the opposite look no further than
Noah and her Low Multiversal concepts.
This isn't an issue of whether it is possible for underlying principles of the universe to be used for physical enhancement, but whether it is something that necessarily, or at least in an overwhelming majority of all cases, would be the case.
