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This is something I've been juggling with for a little while, out of a desire to make more pages for The Witcher.
The problem I'm facing comes from this scene. After juggling with it for a while, I've decided it would be best to ask and get some opinions on it.
Now, let me explain what I mean. At around 2:05 in the scene, the character Yennefer gets struck by lightning while trying to capture it in a bottle. At around 2:39 in the scene, she ends up reflecting the energy back at another character, Tissaia, and Tissaia manages to successfuly deflect it away from close range. My question is; does this count as a reaction to lightning?
Now, the arguments against this are pretty straight forward, so much so I barely considered it when I first watched this scene. It seems as though it is supernatural in nature, and it's enough of a one-off occurrence that we can't properly evaluate if it meets many of the normal conditions for lightning. So it'd be pretty easy to toss out.
However, after thinking it over (and getting context from the rest of the show) I'm not so certain. Yennefer has demonstrated at several points throughout the show that she's capable of "absorbing" the energy of something and then dishing it out precisely herself. As one example in the show, she was shown to be capable of absorbing the fire burning down a fort and then unleashing it all at once on a nearby forest.
What's actually shown in the show doesn't seem to be simply "gaining energy and using it to source her powers". This is an example that the show depicts as essentially attack reflection; she's capable of taking in the attack and essentially "moving" it somewhere else.
As such, with what's shown in the show, it's very heavily implied that the lightning she shot at Tissaia would be almost exactly the same as the lightning that she was struck by in the sky, since she just reflected it at Tissaia rather than making the lightning herself.
My question is whether this would be enough to justify considering it to be the speed of lightning. That is, if she was struck by real lightning, and essentially reflected that lightning back at Tissaia, would this count as a lightning feat? And would Tissaia reacting to the lightning in time be enough to justify calcing a speed feat?
The problem I'm facing comes from this scene. After juggling with it for a while, I've decided it would be best to ask and get some opinions on it.
Now, let me explain what I mean. At around 2:05 in the scene, the character Yennefer gets struck by lightning while trying to capture it in a bottle. At around 2:39 in the scene, she ends up reflecting the energy back at another character, Tissaia, and Tissaia manages to successfuly deflect it away from close range. My question is; does this count as a reaction to lightning?
Now, the arguments against this are pretty straight forward, so much so I barely considered it when I first watched this scene. It seems as though it is supernatural in nature, and it's enough of a one-off occurrence that we can't properly evaluate if it meets many of the normal conditions for lightning. So it'd be pretty easy to toss out.
However, after thinking it over (and getting context from the rest of the show) I'm not so certain. Yennefer has demonstrated at several points throughout the show that she's capable of "absorbing" the energy of something and then dishing it out precisely herself. As one example in the show, she was shown to be capable of absorbing the fire burning down a fort and then unleashing it all at once on a nearby forest.
What's actually shown in the show doesn't seem to be simply "gaining energy and using it to source her powers". This is an example that the show depicts as essentially attack reflection; she's capable of taking in the attack and essentially "moving" it somewhere else.
As such, with what's shown in the show, it's very heavily implied that the lightning she shot at Tissaia would be almost exactly the same as the lightning that she was struck by in the sky, since she just reflected it at Tissaia rather than making the lightning herself.
My question is whether this would be enough to justify considering it to be the speed of lightning. That is, if she was struck by real lightning, and essentially reflected that lightning back at Tissaia, would this count as a lightning feat? And would Tissaia reacting to the lightning in time be enough to justify calcing a speed feat?
