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[CD spoilers] Corruption WAG
wizard nelson:
one thing, harry using the belt without being corrupted back the starborn/nemesis immunity theory.
123456789blaaa:
I partially disagree with this theory. I think the last 3 Laws are Outsider prevention based while the first four are about Free Will.
madness:
--- Quote from: Serack on November 29, 2012, 03:38:25 PM ---I don't have the books on me ATM, but my memory of what Lash said near the end of WN is a part of my paradigm of how magic works where it is a rewriting of reality and that the outsiders coming from a seperate reality have an advantage in rewriting ours, thus making them harder to work magic on. Somehow Harry's Starborn status serves as a potential effective counter for this.
An attempt at an explenation: Starborn means he is more magically in tune with the entire universe/reality?
Time to reread the 2 encounters with HHWB4's mind wammy to see how Harry countered them, as well as the time in WN.
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I like this theory.
It seems to me that Harry has always had an 'easy' affinity for magic that is not 'normal' wizard magic - necromancy, hellfire/soulfire, etc. Something that implies that the traditional barriers between realities and magics don't really apply fully to him.
Maybe 'starborn' means that Harry is connected to the 'sphere' in the whole multiverse analogy rather than limited to a single reality. Perhaps similar to the cosmic level gods he touches upon all realities simultaneously or something.
Elegast:
--- Quote from: knnn on November 29, 2012, 01:50:41 PM ---When Ebenezer uses the Blackstaff at CI, we see those black-tendrils curing him from the corruption. Call me crazy, but those black tendrils remind me a lot of the description we get of Mordite and the Mistfiend at the end of Turn Coat (which Harry reminds us was an Outsider).
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--- Quote from: Death Masks ---"Mordite," I said quietly. "Deathstone."
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dpara:
Wow that's beautiful. It would also explain why any wizard with any Outsider experience gets a real "unexplainable" hardliner stance one anyone violating the laws.
So if you use magic to kill someone, which is what outsiders seem to do they absorb/take/destroy life aka magic, in essence you are directly drawing power from them/bringing them closer to this world.
Similar approach might apply to necromancy, the "gods/representations of necromancy" are probably not exactly the same as the outsiders but in essence ..no one likes them too.
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