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The Death Chill of the Necromancer in Titan Quest, the halo surrounding the protagonist, which hurts nearby enemies when they come into contact with it. Can current technology create something like this?
The Death Chill of the Necromancer in Titan Quest, the halo surrounding the protagonist, which hurts nearby enemies when they come into contact with it. Can current technology create something like this?
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Well, if you take the name literally, then all you'd need to do is somehow sustain a volume of gas at frostbite-inducing temperatures and then go stand in the middle of it wearing protective gear. The problem would most likely be figuring out how to keep it that cold, which would end up requiring you to also carry around some kind of very powerful energy source... and that's probably where current technology would limit you.
Yeah, I just recently had my local mage enchant my gauntlet to have a very similar effect.
Angus, your code is cooked.

I think it's funny though.
like a reverse radiation suit? radiation pockets
o 9 hours ago 
yes, it's a natural feature of the human body. many people are capable of creating localized endothermic currents that can gradually cause ill health in people around them via cold currents; it's a fairly obscure assassination technique for a yonin. as there's rarely any reason to have a yonin compromise their position using such a slow-acting technique.

if the currents are made correctly relative to the architecture of the dwelling they can become self-sustaining, altering cold currents to draw extra cold air in through flimsy casements or other pressure-vulnerable materials such as paper walling or stucco.

in England this technique was especially popular in castles or other perpetually-drafty masonry, before the inquisition made any kind of subtlety like this cause to have your entire family line executed on suspicion. entire styles and methods of walking, to disperse air currents and avoid air manipulation, were developed specifically for this purpose and folded into diplomatic norms and customs.

people who can do this tend to be selfish, and tend to starve themselves as this coaxes the body into taking in thermal radiation. one 'campfire inin' (someone who sneaks into a campfire and acts like a follower or low-class servant let in during the night) was famous for getting the main staff drunk and overheating the castle as much as possible first to create a pressure differential. then walking around opening windows (because it's hot and people are collapsing from it, sweaty,) and distributing his lines of cold with his body's trail that way. the people he drank with always died of cold and fever, unable to talk, tying up personnel with trying to keep watch over them as they slowly died. sometimes he'd pretend to be his own victim, because he overdrank a little, and take naps in the cold he'd created. he had some kind of rare virus that made him get colds extremely easily, but recover from them very well too. part of the reason he was so sensitive to air currents and how people moving around could cool or warm a room, though these are institutionalized techniques and a known complementary infectant.

as for like, an attachment that makes a cold beam, you'd have to be immune to it yourself somehow. otherwise we don't really have stuff that's light and precise enough to direct it away from you. it's more like a radial implosion of cold tbh, the tech version.
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