Ice Age Manipulation

Ice Age Manipulation
A severe Ice Age
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate Ice Age.

The power to manipulate ice ages. Not to be confused with Eternal Winter Inducement.

Capabilities

The user is able to create, shape and manipulate ice ages; a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the planet's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Ice ages can be devastating on a planet’s climate and ecosystem. An ice age isn't simply an elongated winter, but a dramatic decrease in global temperature. It doesn't lock a planet into a season, but instead will make all seasons colder.

They can also cause and control the length and frequency of glacial periods (more info); periods of lower temperatures and glacial advances; or interglacials; warmer periods between glacial periods.

Applications

• Arctic Creation
• Disaster Manipulation
  • Global Drought Creation
  • Global Extinction Inducement
  • Global Famine Inducement
• Evolution Manipulation - Freezing the planet and causing global extinctions will likely halt evolution on that planet, or force it in a specific direction.
• Global Climate Manipulation
• Global Cold Weather Manipulation/Cold Air Generation
• Global Environmental Manipulation
• Global Freezing
• Global Season Manipulation - By making every season cold/colder.
• Ocean Manipulation, Lake/River Manipulation - Shrink or deplete the seas, oceans, lakes and rivers around the world, by converting them to, or trapping them in ice.
• Terraforming/Biosphere Destruction

Associations

• Climate Manipulation
• Environment Creation

Limitations

• If the planet is too close to it’s star, it might be impossible to, or require more effort to use this power.
• Might require constant effort to stop the planet warming up naturally.
• Might be irreversible.
• If it is reversible, it will have lasting effects on the planet.
• May not have the ability to induce an ice age.

Known Users

• Icicle (Valkyrie Crusade)

Known Objects

• Ring of Winter (Forgotten Realms); via its full power

Gallery

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Icicle (Valkyrie Crusade) can both induce and control an ice age.