how do you visualize the blood wind spell?

[questionmark693]

It says in the spell compendium version the limbs grow slightly in length, but you get 20 foot reach..so how do you visualize these attacks taking place?

[QuickLyRaiNbow]

It says in the spell compendium version the limbs grow slightly in length, but you get 20 foot reach..so how do you visualize these attacks taking place?

You don't actually gain reach. You attack as if using thrown weapons. So you're 20 feet away, I punch the air in front of me, and you reel back with a fist-shaped mark on your face.

[atemu1234]

I visualized it as when you punch a sort of tesseract thing happens, or your arm doing a Mr. Fantastic.

[questionmark693]

My bad, I got mixed up, thanks. But still...I mean, i guess it is magic, that just seems weird to imagine in my head.

EDIT: What do you mean by a tesseract thing?

[Fax Celestis]

Dhalsim.

Or just punching so hard the air punches with you.

[atemu1234]

My bad, I got mixed up, thanks. But still...I mean, i guess it is magic, that just seems weird to imagine in my head.

EDIT: What do you mean by a tesseract thing?

Sorry. Ever read A Wrinkle In Time? Good book. Read it in third grade. Anyway, a research is space folding on itself to shorten distance.

[questionmark693]

I dont know what dhalsim is....ill go look it up. I have read that book, its just been forever, it didnt ring a bell at first. I think that might be the one that feels the most right to me.....

[gorfnab]

Inuyasha's Iron Reave Soul Stealer ability.

[Fax Celestis]

I dont know what dhalsim is....ill go look it up. I have read that book, its just been forever, it didnt ring a bell at first. I think that might be the one that feels the most right to me.....

Dhalsim is the stretchy yoga guy from Street Fighter.

[questionmark693]

Oh! Ok, yeah. Another thing I dont know is anything about inuyasha though.....I feel like Im really lacking in knowledge around you guys xD

[Forrestfire]

For reference, this is Iron Reaver Soul Stealer:

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111015190342/focs/images/b/be/Inuyahsa-4-o.gif

I always imagined it as something similar. Blades/pulses/whatever is appropriate of wind/energy/magic that shoot out in the arc of your attack and hit something, more like Muzaka's attacks from Noblesse:

http://i.imgur.com/qPlnPGk.png

[Averis Vol]

I always picture it as a you punching, and blood just spraying out of your hand into the shape of a fist that socks your enemy in his jaw.

[Jeff the Green]

Kamaitachi. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RazorWind) Your claws are so sharp they cut the air and make it keep cutting until it cuts your opponent. Or you punch so hard you create a shock wave. Or bite so hard that... something happens. Funnily enough, the kamaitachi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaitachi) the name comes from could benefit from the spell: they're weasels with absurdly sharp claws.

Specifically? I imagine Kirby's Up+B move in Super Smash Brothers.

[Vaz]

I've always pictured it as some form of cavitation bubble caused by your magics. I know that's utterly ridiculous, but the idea that you can use magic to simply tear air/water whatever medium you are in apart similar to how a mantis or pistol shrimp create cavitation bubbles which collapse tearing through.

[Piggy Knowles]

I always consider it as a variation on Razor Wind (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RazorWind) (warning for those who don't want to lose an afternoon: TV Tropes link) or Kamaitachi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaitachi). Basically, you claw at the air, creating wind that cuts and slashes.