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Mr. Death:
So I just realized something about the Hades sequence in Skin Game. Nicodemus and his crew were doomed the moment Harry beat them to the treasures. One of the most well known supernatural properties of the Spear of Longinus is that whoever is holding it is either literally invulnerable, or otherwise can't be beaten in battle.

And Harry has the head of the spear up his sleeve the whole time.

Curator's edit below:  -Serack
This topic has some great discussion, generally about what the items recovered from Hades' vault are.  Some of the highlights I'll link below.

Quantus shows evidence of what the "Knife" could look like
Eldest Gruff's (EG) equating the "5 items" from Hades' vault to 5 items of significance in the Passion of the White Christ.
Excellent Guesses by EG and Phariah about what the items do.

Somewhere around page 5 or 6 the topic morphs into a discussion of how mantles transferred, and specifically about the dragon Michael killed. I wouldn't provide links except megarows did an excellent writeup of the origins of the queens/Hecate here and an excellent follow up from EG here

For further discussion on the Relics see this topic

Quantus:

--- Quote from: Mr. Death on June 18, 2015, 02:35:04 PM ---So I just realized something about the Hades sequence in Skin Game. Nicodemus and his crew were doomed the moment Harry beat them to the treasures. One of the most well known supernatural properties of the Spear of Longinus is that whoever is holding it is either literally invulnerable, or otherwise can't be beaten in battle.

And Harry has the head of the spear up his sleeve the whole time.

--- End quote ---
Assuming it takes nothing additional to activate?  Yup :)


Im still hoping he mounts in on his Wizard's staff, to get a cool magic spear like Odin

Lawgiver:
Harry seems pretty well versed in occult lore. He probably grabbed the spearhead just on that contingency; wouldn't hurt and might help.

peregrine:
Assuming it was the Lance, and assuming it really does grant invulnerability/undefeatability.

XeroOmega:
Isn't dumb luck Harry's calling card? Harry was likely not considering anything other than keeping them out of Nic's hands, the only thing Nic claimed he was after was the Grail, so that's all he needed to fulfill Mab's bargain.

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