Quote:One of these days, I'm going to write my short story about the Rainmaker, a weather controlling superhero who spends all his time in the American Midwest, slowly and carefully keeping the planet's weather from going off the rails because of the other weather manipulators treating it like it's their personal toy.Eddings did something like that in The Malloreon, when Belgarath tore a strip off Garion regarding all the time and effort he and Beldin had needed to put into fixing the worldwide weather patterns after Garion conjured up a localized thunderstorm to stop a single battle -- it wasn't even a whole war, just a stupid knightly skirmish between Arends (of course, since it was between Arends, it might've turned into a war after all).
Six months it took two of the world's most powerful sorcerers to fix it all: "Your one tiny little storm in the right place at the right time came very close to altering the weather for the next several eons -- all over the world -- you blockhead! ... Do you know what the term ice age means?"
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.