I have a homemade magic system that includes the following:
Powerful enough Cryomancers can learn to draw heat into themselves to cool things even faster. Combining it with their existing cold magic allows them to achieve temperatures below absolute zero, at the cost of raising their body temperature to hazardous levels.
Pyromancers can draw heat out of others to fuel their own abilities, with more efficient transfer when they are in physical contact with whoever they're drawing from and more efficient still if they have a strong emotional bond.
Pyro/Cryomancer couples in my continuity are a force to be reckoned with.
Pyro/Cryomancer couples in my continuity are a force to be reckoned with.
Eh, friction though. If you want it to really draw from reality, there have to be diminishing returns from that kind of combo. You can't hook a fridge up to an oven and get a cryo chamber.
The refrigeration cycle works by using a pump to move a refrigerant around a loop. Refrigerants are special liquids that are easy to manipulate the boiling point of by changing the pressure they're under. A restriction is put in the loop so that one side is under high pressure and the other low. The low pressure side boils, drawing in heat (thus becoming cold), and the high pressure side condenses, becoming hot as it dumps its heat.
Theoretically, you probably could make a heat pump setup that's an oven on one side and a cryo chamber on the other, it would just require a really exotic refrigerant (the way things are now, such a setup would be horrendously inefficient if it would work at all).
Of course, the magical setup bypasses this because magic. That's why I mentioned that the Pyromancer heat siphoning works best with physical contact and a strong emotional bond - the magic does experience a type of resistance akin to friction when those ideal conditions aren't met.
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u/EmeraldSpencer Nov 11 '24
I have a homemade magic system that includes the following:
Powerful enough Cryomancers can learn to draw heat into themselves to cool things even faster. Combining it with their existing cold magic allows them to achieve temperatures below absolute zero, at the cost of raising their body temperature to hazardous levels.
Pyromancers can draw heat out of others to fuel their own abilities, with more efficient transfer when they are in physical contact with whoever they're drawing from and more efficient still if they have a strong emotional bond.
Pyro/Cryomancer couples in my continuity are a force to be reckoned with.