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Motive for giving out black magic? [CD spoilers]

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aShorty21:

--- Quote from: Cenphx on December 31, 2012, 09:56:56 PM ---           The Outsiders can be drawn in the same way as the fetches. In BR, during the ritual entropy curse, Madge summoned HWWBh stating, “Let our need become the traveller’s road.” Her use of the black magic ritual became a destination point for the Outsider to travel to the mortal world.
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Mortal magic can summon an outsider, but this isn't what the ritual Madge used did. She didn't summon the walker. The ritual used HWWBh to power the curse because Madge didn't really have any magic of her own to power the curse. HWWBh was the battery/power plant.

EDIT: Though this is a fine point and open for discussion. We've gone back and forth on it before. :)

Homer:
I was thinking of the handing out black magic as kind of like the Joker. They don't need to have any particular plan behind giving a particular mortal access to a particular spell, ability, or ritual. Just knowing each time they do it its going to cause some level of trouble that somebody on this side is going to have to take the time and effort to stop and clean up could be reason enough to do it..

breck:
I suspect it might also be used to tie up council resources. Couple that with identifying the more combat capable wizards, namely, the wardens allowing nemesis to get a good read on how the council is likely to react in a given situation. From something like that response times and number of personnel in a given area and their capabilities can be ascertained. Create a big enough problem and allies get called in and marked and leaders and champions begin to stand out. Morgan and luccio come to mind. The captain of the wardens and morgan who almost got the red king himself. Luccio is lessened and for the time being cannot make any more swords and morgan is dead. All of those small things are adding up.

Arjan:

--- Quote from: breck on January 03, 2013, 12:23:02 PM ---I suspect it might also be used to tie up council resources. Couple that with identifying the more combat capable wizards, namely, the wardens allowing memesis to get a good read on how the council is likely to react in a given situation. From something like that response times and number of personnel in a given area and their capabilities can be ascertained. Create a big enough problem and allies get called in and marked and leaders and champions begin to stand out. Morgan and luccio come to mind. The captain of the wardens and morgan who almost got the red king himself. Luccio is lessened and for the time being cannot make any more swords and morgan is dead. All of those small things are adding up.

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That and a lot of the warlocks killed could have become wardens if just properly coached. It hurts the council double. Not to speak about the potential descendants with magic.

Phobos:
I believe it is a strategy designed to achieve multiple effects:

1. Handing out black magic to low level talents creates more unstable, increasingly power hungry sorcerers to potentially call up more outsiders (mortal magic needed to summon). This gives the outsiders more ways to enter reality and further their plans.
2. Sow chaos in the supernatural community. More rogue talents, more havoc sown, more chaos among the supernatural nations. Rogue talents also bog down the WC in warlock hunting among other problems they are currently facing. A divided enemy is easier prey.
3. Identify more candidates with the potential to wield magic. Maybe thats what the 3-Eye was intended for, not just as a narcotic.

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