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Again, No, Spike Can't Just Torch Timberwolves · 7:10pm Mar 10th, 2022
I'm burning brush and logs today.
Yesterday a crew came out and got a very large beech limb (big enough to be a tree in its own right) off my back porch. It was more or less standing on its broken end, and thus it had dried without rotting.
They also disposed of a dead pine tree that had fallen on the back of my property about a year and a half ago. It was thoroughly rotten and wet.
Today the pine, which would burn hot as hell if sound and fresh, refuses to burn. It barely even smolders. The beech wood, on the other hand, went up pretty much immediately.
Remember this the next time someone says that dragon flame ought to turn green, wet or rotting wood into instant ashes.
'Cause it ain't so.
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Kris Overstreet · 348 views
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If he can melt a metal lock the bitch is gonna be in trouble regardless of how wet they are
Heck, that beech would have been good firewood. (Said as a guy who has a fireplace in his house which has not seen a stick of wood in it for the last 23 years because I don't want to deal with it.)
5642827
Bodies don't burn well either (full of water) but he torched that storm king soldier easily enough.
5642828 It was good firewood. The brush, etc. wasn't all that went on the pile.
5642834 Bodies don't burn well. Fur burns VERY well.
Some people headcanon that Spike's messaging fire is essentially due to burning things faster than the laws of physics can keep up with, and even that's ultimately just an extrapolation of dragonfire being vastly hotter than usual.
To repeat, you are accurate when it comes to mundane fire. Spike, however, is spewing something far more dangerous.
What about accidental kisses via flames?
More oxygen and a little magic, plus an accelerant and many things are possible.
hum are you covered in tree sap?
5642837
The guy's armor went up in flames, too. L'il dude breathes napalm when he's angry I guess.
5642827
Not analogous. I can melt hardened steel with an acetylene torch. It would still have trouble setting even dry wood to flame and will, instead, only leave very deep scorch marks. I speak from experience.
5642953 It's also worth remembering that today's trees are descended from roughly a quarter billion years of ancestors who DIDN'T perish in a forest fire before producing seeds. Burning is not in their best interests.
But if it’s magic flame, it should be able to burn whatever it wants.
The better question is how Twilight let a fire-breathing dragon live in a library!
5642908
Should have invested in that armour the Dwarves of Ered Luin used to make. Completely immune to dragonfire (not so much dragon claws though)
5643028 "Yep! The test shows this armor is absolutely immune to dragon flame!" *empty armor clatters to floor* "Shame about the guy wearing it, though."
Dragon fire doesn't really behave the same way as normal fire, though. In Equestria Games, his fire is enough to vaporize several tons of ice in seconds, and with enough control to not kill the pegasi also trying to deal with it. I have to assume that he only figured out how to produce and control that much fire after the timberwolf incident.
5642837 Totally makes sense that a breath from Spike would probably just hurt and/or anger a timberwolf.
The question is how likely they would be to run away once the first one had been lit on fire. Are they magical animals, in which case they might recognize a threat that is still worse than conventional force when they can almost instantly regenerate? Or are they just constructs that don't fear anything less than total destruction?
5642954
I live in Australia here the trees set themselves on fire to kill rivals so they can grow kids in the ash
They have a great interest in burning
5643137
It probably just mails the timberwolves to Celestia, honestly. Paper, wood, same difference right?