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New Blackstaff discussion
kazimmoinuddin:
I wonder if McCoy went after lord Raith using the Blackstaff. It is believed that relic is an epic one, yet the protections that Wcv stood against it. A staff that allows the seven laws being broken, yet it was held back. The thing is that it is believed the protections are outsiders based, so a staff that could freely break the seventh law, should be able to counter it.
Phobos:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on June 28, 2017, 09:51:01 PM ---I wonder if McCoy went after lord Raith using the Blackstaff. It is believed that relic is an epic one, yet the protections that Wcv stood against it. A staff that allows the seven laws being broken, yet it was held back. The thing is that it is believed the protections are outsiders based, so a staff that could freely break the seventh law, should be able to counter it.
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That would work only if McCoy was foolish enough to think it would be worth the risk/cost of summoning an Outsider to tangle with Raith's sponsor. Also considering Harry's statement in CD about how the Outsiders work in complete concert I do not believe it is likely they would have given Raith that kind of protection if he wasn't a part of there larger goal(s). The fact McCoy didn't go that route, based on his statements in BR, I think shows why he has the staff in the first place.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on June 28, 2017, 07:00:37 PM ---He didn't hit it after Archangel. He hit it a solid year or more after Archangel, and his stated immediate reason was that Ortega was coming to kill Harry. It's right there, still on the page.
Everyone else's motives aren't really germane.
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As I recall it, Death Masks fell in the autumn of the same year as Summer Knight. Four or five months is easier to reconcile with taking a while to figure out who to hit back against.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on June 28, 2017, 09:18:21 PM ---The White Council is capable of fielding hundreds of Wardens.
If you're going to wipe out an enemy "root and branch," you send those hundreds. Not 12 guys.
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Normally, yes. But Arianna had got the bulk of their numbers too sick to fight effectively.
That most of the SC were among those who avoided exposure to her thanks to their ploy with using decoys on stage at least circumstantially favours the possibility that some of the uninfected Eb found to help with the raid might have been other SC members.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on June 28, 2017, 07:00:37 PM ---It's not going to be in a book as far as I know. It was WOJ. I don't have the link, but I'm looking for it. I know it's out there. Maybe I need to summon Serack...
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All I've got on hand is that she was around during Eb's adventures during the French and Indian War, and that she probably died around 1810, but that his recollection of it is vague.
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