That's why it's such a simple spell!

I guess so, but it's not exploding too hard, I think the point of the spell is to make it explode harder.

Apprentice mages usually begin by aiming at their own feet and yelling the incantation, some immediately turn to aim at the sun "just because"

oh god early career, coding on a 20 year old program

using makefiles to compile while on a remote host

lack of target resulted in trying to programatically delete the remote hosts root

thank good i did not have the permission

why is defaulting like this a thing instead of a syntax error?

that's why the sun is always exploding

Me too but only because I look better in purple

Which end of the wand do I blow through to make it do the magic?

K8 namespaces

And sometimes they use the "turn the sun into cheese" spel.

Easy, it was another, greater mage. It's mages all the way down

there have been a lot of suns

In the early days, mages were less powerful because there was less power in the Aether. Their most powerful spells could only destroy small houses. Plenty of small houses were destroyed as these mages learned their skills, but it was mostly their own houses, and they learned from their mistakes. Over time, these mages not only became more skilled at their craft, they also improved the power all mages had to draw on, weaving isolated pockets of Aether together into one large Aether-net.

Through this, the mages were able to accomplish much, much more. But it meant that new mages could draw on power far greater than a new mage knows how to control.

Any idiot can cast rm - rf /

It takes real power to limit user permissions and have backups from which to restore.

You see there used to be two suns before the first mage was made.

The Sun was created by some mages that come from a realm where magic is way less powerful...

Also from HOMM3, it's the tower hero sprite during combat

FREEZE!