Calc The Hippie way of selfdestruction (Eragon)

Eragon saw from Glaedr an image of the crater by the city, and the dragon said,During the battle with the Forsworn, one of our own, an elf by the name of Thuviel, killed himself with magic. Whether by design or by accident has never been clear, but the result is what you see and what you cannot see, for the resulting explosion rendered the area unfit to live in. Those who remained here soon developed lesions upon their skin and lost their hair, and many died thereafter .

Concerned, Eragon cast the spell?which required little energy?before he said, How could any one person, elf or not, cause so much damage? Even if Thuviel?s dragon helped him, I can?t think how it would be possible, not unless his dragon was the size of a mountain .

His dragon did not help him, said Glaedr. His dragon was dead. No, Thuviel wrought this
destruction by himself .

But how?

The only way he could have: he converted his flesh into energy.

He made himself into a spirit?

No. The energy was without thought or structure, and once unbound, it raced outward until it
dispersed.

I had not realized that a single body contained so much force.

It is not well known, but even the smallest speck of matter is equal to a great amount of energy.
Matter, it seems, is merely frozen energy. Melt it, and you release a flood few can withstand.? It
was said that the explosion here was heard as far away as Teirm and that the cloud of smoke that followed rose as high as the Beor Mountains.

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135.703406 megatons of tnt

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1.7208413 gigatons of tnt

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