Taint: what do we know?
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:09 pm
A fairly simple question, though it doesn't have a simple answer, as far as I can tell. So I'll start us off with what I know, and draw some suppositions between FO:E and PH.
1 - Taint is prevalent throughout the wasteland. When it is most obvious, it appears as a strange rainbow-colored liquid ooze.
2 - Taint causes severe, sometimes fatal magical mutation, as evidenced by the tentacled horrors.
3 - Taint was in part Twilight Sparkle's Impelled Metamorphosis Potion, (I.M.P.) which was an attempt to engineer artificial alicorns. This is also the origin of the Goddess.
And a little guesswork here based off of Project Horizons chapter 37,
- Hippocratic Research developed "Flux," a magical substance processed from gemstones and rainbow extract.
- Flux bears a physical resemblance to Taint - a rainbow liquid ooze.
- Flux causes severe mutation - something Hippocratic Research used to develop a great many peculiar creatures/products.
- Twilight Sparkle knew of Flux - perhaps it was based off of the I.M.P., or Twilight took the early concept of Flux to develop the I.M.P.?
- Because Flux was apparently used to make everything in the Hoofington area, from toasters on up, perhaps it is related to enervation?
Just throwing a few things out there. Most of this is tenuous linkage from the latest PH chapter, but I would like to know more about Taint itsself. If it was mostly from the I.M.P. project, why can it be found around the wasteland? Was it a byproduct of balefire megaspells as well? Ideas? Comments? throw in your own two bits, if you have them.
1 - Taint is prevalent throughout the wasteland. When it is most obvious, it appears as a strange rainbow-colored liquid ooze.
2 - Taint causes severe, sometimes fatal magical mutation, as evidenced by the tentacled horrors.
3 - Taint was in part Twilight Sparkle's Impelled Metamorphosis Potion, (I.M.P.) which was an attempt to engineer artificial alicorns. This is also the origin of the Goddess.
And a little guesswork here based off of Project Horizons chapter 37,
- Hippocratic Research developed "Flux," a magical substance processed from gemstones and rainbow extract.
- Flux bears a physical resemblance to Taint - a rainbow liquid ooze.
- Flux causes severe mutation - something Hippocratic Research used to develop a great many peculiar creatures/products.
- Twilight Sparkle knew of Flux - perhaps it was based off of the I.M.P., or Twilight took the early concept of Flux to develop the I.M.P.?
- Because Flux was apparently used to make everything in the Hoofington area, from toasters on up, perhaps it is related to enervation?
Just throwing a few things out there. Most of this is tenuous linkage from the latest PH chapter, but I would like to know more about Taint itsself. If it was mostly from the I.M.P. project, why can it be found around the wasteland? Was it a byproduct of balefire megaspells as well? Ideas? Comments? throw in your own two bits, if you have them.
