If the sun were to die, wouldn't the surface have become almost immediately uninhabitable due to the dramatic temperature drop?
go away, we don't want your mumbo-jumbo science logic
Unless the sun didn't die but was instead blocked out, or perhaps magical means keep habitation possible. But just because of how it is interpreted doesn't make it the truth. Also, being cut open with a sword multiple times with a sword would take months to heal if it ever did fully and would most of the time kill you >.> Pure Realism >< fun in most fantasy games.
There are a lot of impossibilities with a fantasy setting, the Underdark being a pretty substantial example even before the darkening.
If there really were that many short people, wouldn't there be more wrestling leagues?
Wizards.
You know, snakes can unhinge their jaws remarkably wide, but exactly how big does Dendar have to be in order to devour the entire sun? (http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-spergin.png)
A little irrelevant tbh, because MAGIC etc, but FWIW:
Quote from: " If The Sun Went Out, How Long Would Life On Earth Survive? /
PopSci provides chilling answers to your burning questions / By Holly Otterbein"If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator, it wouldn’t immediately turn cold. Likewise, if the sun simply “turned off†(which is actually physically impossible), the Earth would stay warmâ€"at least compared with the space surrounding itâ€"for a few million years. But we surface dwellers would feel the chill much sooner than that.
Within a week, the average global surface temperature would drop below 0°F. In a year, it would dip to â€"100°. The top layers of the oceans would freeze over, but in an apocalyptic irony, that ice would insulate the deep water below and prevent the oceans from freezing solid for hundreds of thousands of years. Millions of years after that, our planet would reach a stable â€"400°, the temperature at which the heat radiating from the planet’s core would equal the heat that the Earth radiates into space, explains David Stevenson, a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology.
Although some microorganisms living in the Earth’s crust would survive, the majority of life would enjoy only a brief post-sun existence. Photosynthesis would halt immediately, and most plants would die in a few weeks. Large trees, however, could survive for several decades, thanks to slow metabolism and substantial sugar stores. With the food chain’s bottom tier knocked out, most animals would die off quickly, but scavengers picking over the dead remains could last until the cold killed them.
Humans could live in submarines in the deepest and warmest parts of the ocean, but a more attractive option might be nuclear- or geothermal-powered habitats. One good place to camp out: Iceland. The island nation already heats 87 percent of its homes using geothermal energy, and, says astronomy professor Eric Blackman of the University of Rochester, people could continue harnessing volcanic heat for hundreds of years.
Of course, the sun doesn’t merely heat the Earth; it also keeps the planet in orbit. If its mass suddenly disappeared (this is equally impossible, by the way), the planet would fly off, like a ball swung on a string and suddenly let go.
And Toril is flying uncontrollably through space. Great!
Lathander's just hiding under the covers. He'll come back out once the big scary snake monster goes away.
Sun's rise and Sun's Set. How can you be sure its the same one everyday?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWf5BLUOhNM
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k thx explained everything. can close now
http://what-if.xkcd.com/49/