It's interesting that flight is air manipulation. Harry does gravity manipulation regularly. Yet there's no gravity manipulation flight. I'm guessing that not many (if any) wizards are aware of general relativity and how gravity works. Maybe also look at ion propulsion. Basically, I think wizards could achieve flight, but they are brute forcing it, instead of doing something more elegant.
The problem with trying to fly with anti-gravity is that wizard magic works on an action reaction system (like tossing up a pillar of fire to frezee a lake). You need to make something heavier proportional to what you are lightening. While you could pick say the nearest streetlamp for the purpose that means you are tethered to it now which does not make for very useful flight. The ideal would be to use the whole planet, but no mortal mind can contain the whole planet as a magic sink.
Wind/air manipulation flight is far from the only option in Dresden Files.
We see Mab levitate in Battlegrounds IIRC. Nicodemus has his shadow turn into wings. Rashid has a flying carpet.
Ebenezar literally ripped a boulder out of the ground and flew around on it like a flying saucer.
Hell, Wyldfae pixies like Too-Toot arent keeping themselves aloft by windbeats.
Bob is an immensely well-informed spirit of knowledge with hundreds of years of working with wizards.
But he doesnt know everything.
Especially after who knows how much he lost after exorcising Evil Bob.
No, that would fall under Academics since it is a matter of physics, even if rather out there as theoretical models go
- It works on the principle of 'I am my own frame of reference'/I am vast, I contain multitudes.
- I do not think Solars get flight at all
Solars get flight.
Bonfire Anima Wings is a 5 dot Night charm that costs 3 Essence(free if Supernal) to fly with glowing wings made of your anima banner at 2x her normal movement rate for the scene. Added to the 3 dot charm Lightning Speed, which permanently triples movement speed(5x if Supernal).
So Solar flight either 6x or 10x base movement speed.
Thats slower than an Infernal can get. Potentially slower than a Lunar can get if they invest in flight and speed.
But Solars also get free reflexive combat-time flashstep if they take Lightning Speed as a Supernal.
"There's this entire other world out here huh?" At your cautious nod she continues. "So is it like Harry Potter, do they have wizard banks and wizard cops, wizard schools and wizard hospitals? Could you... could I just vanish into it? Because I don't know if you noticed Molls but I really screwed the pooch in this world." She glances down at Mouse. "No offense."
Rosie is a teenager who is still looking for a way to run away from her problems. And she thinks magic is the answer.
One would think that she would remember the magic notJason who killed her boyfriend, or the things that she saw at the hospital, or even Molly hanging on a tree as a reminder that magic is not just wonder and fluffy bunnies.
The more I see, the more I suspect that Mrs Wilson might know her daughter better than Molly does.
This is precisely the sort of state of mind that makes people make deals with Fae and worse, and come to regret it when the bill comes due. I would really hate for her to become our own Kim Delaney.
