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Questions Specifically for Jim, Part 3
Lothy:
--- Quote from: sjsharks on December 05, 2010, 08:19:35 PM ---But when they are alone together, nothing else going on, their like totally cute. Justine wears like these grownup version of footie pajamas so that she can snuggle up next to him on the couch and watch TV without actually burning him.
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FEAR THE POWER OF THE FOOTIE PAJAMA
Yes, I actually do own a footie pajama(s?). It is very cozy.
Kysk:
--- Quote from: cass on December 04, 2010, 03:43:07 AM ---unending guilt & self-recrimination?
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That would be a pretty potent and sneaky death curse indeed :S
Dina:
--- Quote from: Kysk on December 22, 2010, 07:06:30 PM ---How is Gard's name supposed to be pronounced?
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I've never thought of that. For me, it's like "Gardener", without the ending.
Serack:
Kysk, if you haven't gotten a chance yet you should check out the DF WoJ compilation also stickied in the spoiler section. It's linked in my sig as well. In it is a link to Jim's answer to your bolded question below
--- Quote from: Kysk on December 22, 2010, 06:42:13 PM ---Thank you so much for the pointers the answer to my last question! Here is a new one:
In SmF, Harry talks about how the Swords of the Knights of the Cross can be destroyed if someone picks them up when they are, as Lea puts it, ownerless. Destroyed as in not only rendered powerless, but also melted or shattered or otherwise made unable to function as swords normally should.
What does it take for the church to be able to destroy the coins? Not just make a bearer give them up and the fallen to loose it's power over them, but actually, physically destroy the coins?
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In the WoJ compilation under the section "Denarian's and fallen" the WoJ cited is a link to the forum posting
Destroying Denarian coins (+ Denarians are the elite of Hell/why their there)
Jim's post there says:
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--- Quote from: bob ---It seems to me that as long as the Church has some of the coins, those paerticular Denarians are neutralized. Doing a Mt Doom with the coins might free up the spirits housed within to act freely in the world.
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Well. Not quite freely, but MORE freely, certainly. The Fallen bound in the coins are the freaking elite of Hell--everyone the big D didn't want trying to stab him in the back, basically. If they were suddenly freed it would do all kinds of horrible things to about a million balances of power, with repercussions that would last for centuries.
Which assumes that they /can/ be destroyed. I mean, don't think that in 2,000 years, no one has ever TRIED it. And there are still thirty of them kicking around.
Which isn't necessarily to say that it's impossible. But it sure as Hell wouldn't be easy. And given that, while in the coins, they ARE effectively frozen in carbonite without a human agent to assist them, containment certainly seems to be a prudent course.
Funny you should mention that whole notion about redeeming Lasciel . . . > :)
Jim
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Sorry that I don't have WoJ responses to any of your other great questions. However here is a post I started back in August that throughly discusses Harry's propensity to give characters names or nicknames which you might find interesting. (on an aside, thanks for mentioning this stuff, it made me realize this post and a few others of my favorites are now locked and will eventually be wiped from the boards within a year of the last posting or so, so I saved them to my hard drive.)
Kysk:
Thanks Serack!
I kind of guessed that these subjects had been discussed here somewhere, but I didn't find them on my own... It's great that there are so many people here to ask!
I can see why you wouldn't want to destroy the coins, even if you could, and in a way it makes more sense that they are more indestructible than the Swords. The Swords, after all, does not have anyone living in them. I was just kind of wondering what would be the coin equivalent of "betraying" the Swords. An act of truly altruistic goodness? Probably not (after all the road to Hell is paved and so on), but perhaps you see what I mean? But maybe that kind of reasoning does not apply to the coins.
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