This is a thread for discussing my luminous!Twilight fic, Luminosity (inferior mirror here), its sequel Radiance (inferior mirror), and related topics.
PDFs, to be updated as the fic updates, are available of Luminosity (other version) and Radiance. (PDFs courtesy of anyareine). Zack M Davis has created a mobi file of Radiance.
Initial discussion of the fic under a Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality thread is here. The first dedicated threads: Part 1, Part 2. See also the luminosity sequence which contains some of the concepts that the Luminosity fic is intended to illustrate. (Disclaimer: in the fic, the needs of the story take precedence over the needs for didactic value where the two are in tension.)
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(Rch25) Given that Siobhan is interested in the motives of various key players, I am surprised that she's not asking Elspeth what Elspeth would say to them in order to communicate to them the value of turning against the Volturi. (At least the ones Elspeth has met; I'm not clear on whether merely having memories of having met them counts, for purposes of Elspeth's power).
Were it anyone but Siobhan, I would assume she just didn't think of it, but given Siobhan that seems to imply that it wouldn't actually be useful to do.
But I can't figure out why it wouldn't be. Given how Elspeth's power seems to work, Magic is a far better judge of what a given target would find convincing than Elspeth is, and that seems almost a royal road to the sort of information Siobhan wants.
What am I missing?
Elspeth's power helps her convey facts and her own feelings. She could comprehensibly explain to people "the Volturi performed the following actions and I feel like so about it", but she has no magical advantage beyond that at convincing anyone to adopt her values.