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CD Spoilers: The Case of the Stolen Walking Stick
KevinSig:
--- Quote from: AcornArmy on November 29, 2012, 06:43:55 PM ---Maybe something happens to Harry in the future to turn him into a super-genius(less Wile E. Coyote, more Stephen Hawking on mental steroids) which allows him to make spells like that-- but barring that, I can't believe it.
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Harry technically could be around for a very long time. The notion that he could get to that level isn't beyond possibility. Plus, if not Harry, then I don't see how Jim could leave us hanging on the events that created Merlin.
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: AcornArmy on November 29, 2012, 06:43:55 PM ---With magic like what we saw in the creation of Demonreach? I love Harry, but nothing human made that spell, imho. Or at least nothing human designed it; it's too difficult for us to think in more than three dimensions at once. Four dimensions is doable, we guess at that when we try to picture black holes, but setting up spells to run across multiple dimensions beyond our three physical ones + time? Egh. Not when Demonreach had to dumb it down in order for Bob to understand it. Theoretical physicists imagine plenty of other dimensions, but they don't try to describe what it would be like to actually move around and do stuff in them, other than maybe a fourth physical dimension.
Maybe something happens to Harry in the future to turn him into a super-genius(less Wile E. Coyote, more Stephen Hawking on mental steroids) which allows him to make spells like that-- but barring that, I can't believe it.
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Would Lash be able to do anything to help with the understanding of dimensions required for spells like that?
But yeah, Harry isn't going to be pulling any spells like that on his own.
Serack:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on November 30, 2012, 12:50:20 AM ---Would Lash be able to do anything to help with the understanding of dimensions required for spells like that?
But yeah, Harry isn't going to be pulling any spells like that on his own.
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Come to think of it, Harry's time spent amongst the shadows of death and all these portents about it opening doors and paths that weren't previously available might be pointing to this type of stuff.
That is, his experiences in GS might be the key to this type of understanding.
DaBear:
I like the idea of the Blackstaff coming from Mother Winter and the Merlin's White staff having come from Mother Summer.
The BlackStaff works like Winter magic as a tool of destruction and the other as a tool of growth or construction.
Didn't the Merlin hold off the Red Court for a long period with just a ward?
Don't know how the White Council came by the staffs but it makes sense that if Mother Winter had one then so did Summer.
lazaros742:
Im starting to have a bad feeling that there is a second item of power from the mothers. Maybe Summer had a similar item, of the opposite nature, in other words creation? An item which was used by the original Merlin to create the prison on Demonreach. In order to counter the loss of power from Winter and to balance it out, Summer gave its item to a powerful wizard in order to check the power of Merlin? Eventually passing on to those holding the blackstaff position? I just feel so far every thing in summer and winter has been balanced. Summer has less forces, but Winter has an additional responsibility so why wouldnt summer also have an additional responsibility... it would also explain why Lily was the one to counter demonreach not Maeve... as Summers power created the Island... ofc im just thinking and speculating so you never know! Jim's mind is kinda a crazy maze imo and you never know whats gonna be around the next corner!
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