You are correct sir!
Pretty much everyone can see better than a human!
- Wizards have Wizard Sight (spell)
Priests typically have a couple different seeing rituals they can do.
Animages...well depends on what type of animages they are, but Seers see it all...or just enough to be frustrating
The Alvar and many of the other Sidhe have SidheSight (pronounced SheeSight)---they often like to use their SidheSight to See SeaShells by the SeaShore...over and over again.
Dwarves and goblins have extremely good low light vision and a few other differences in acuity.
The Aetos have extremely sharp vision, similar to an eagle/human hybrid. Oddly enough.
Demons of Demon Sight and can see Animus and in some cases mana and telescopic and microscopic. Plus several other frequencies. Some demons even have Heat Vision like Superman (which really makes no senses as it's not at all a vision related thing)
Now, however, to Rosver's point.
Certain types of radiation are particles and some are waves. And at the root of reality, particles are also waves but..we won't go into that here.
So from a nuclear explosion of various sorts you are going to see Alpha and Beta radiation (particles) and Gamma radiation (waves--e.g. light aka Hulk food)
His point was they human eye can't detect particles due to the eyes' size. The authors point was, correct you can't actually detect the particle with your eye, but you can detect the particle by the secondary radiation that it emits when traveling faster than the speed of light through the liquid in your eyes, so you could detect it (depending on energy level--how fast it was going), but it wouldn't look like normal light.
Similarly, radio waves, tv waves, wifi waves, cordless telphone waves, microwaves are also light. However we can't really detect them either because the length of the waves (i.e the distance from the start of the wave to where it repeats) is much longer than the size of the eye so we can't "see" the whole thing at once. You might be able to detect it going through, but you'd need a physically different sort of "antenna" to capture and measure the wave. The rod and cone mechanics wouldn't work (not as they are in humans)
Now this doesn't mean a creature can't have "radio vision" or Beta Ray vision or something, it might, it just wouldn't be using the normal rod/cone method for detecting it, it would have to have something else.
In the case of Wizard Sight and Priest Sight the spell is translating the thing detected into vision or maybe a "feeling" (see truth spell).
Dwarves, Aetos, etc those are truly enhanced normal sight. Same is true for Infravision (infrared) and (UV light detection)
Seeing animus and mana like Sidhe and Demons do (and wizards/priests do with a translation spell) may like be something different that's tied to "vision" since what the "see" is superimposed upon their vision. But I'm not an expert, I'm just an ordinary demon. I'd ask a trained Animage. I suspect whatever it is that the Animages do, that's what demons are doing. Demons might have 'rods/cones/towers' and whatever towers are detects animus, but I know that animages wouldn't since they are otherwise mortal (human, elf, dwarf etc).
That being said, Animages have to conciously try and see animus and mana. Demons have it on by default, all the time, it's just that they may not always be paying attention to it. So again, might not be the same.
Edited by user Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:58:14 PM(UTC)
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