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A Fistful of Warlocks (SPOILERS: FISTFUL OF WARLOCKS)

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Aminar:

--- Quote from: Serack on July 05, 2017, 04:36:00 PM ---I've never spent a lot of time reading up on the Wild West, so when I beta'd the story, I looked up information on Earp and Dodge City, and landed on the "Dodge City War" as the timing for the short story, since it pretty closely resembles Earp's description of the tensions in the city/saloon.  Hence my estimate of the timing between the two events.

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It looks like some of the history is fudged. Jim changed Luke Short's name to Bill Short if that's right. While the story seems to match up with the one I saw.

kazimmoinuddin:
There is a tv show and comic about wynnonna Earp, descendant of Wyatt Earp. It would be cool if we saw a cross over at some point.

Say someone succeeds in some kind of dark Ascension ritual, what would happen if the staff then consumed the corruption? Would it restore their mortality or something.

Magnus:
(click to show/hide)"Of course, fire magic was the only thing that would do for that kind of work—and it would leave the crowded building aflame. Tarred wood exposed to a blast of supernatural fire would become an inferno in seconds. Not only that, but such an action would violate one of the Council’s unspoken laws—wizards were expected to minimize the use of their abilities in the presence of magic-ignorant mortals. It had not been so long since our kind had been burned at stakes by frightened mobs."
The above passage I found interesting when reading the story.

(click to show/hide)She is talking about killing people with fire (At least that was how intepreted it). Yet she doesn't mention anything about it being a law against killing with magic. Instead the big worry is that she might use magic in presence of magic-ignorant mortals. When was the 7 laws of the white council defined?

Zaphodess:
I was wondering about this too. Is it possible that Ana has a somewhat more relaxed attitude towards the 1st law?

jonas:
Supposedly laid down by Merlin weren't they? Technicality, fire started with magic burns without magical interference, so perhaps she didn't consider collateral from an ongoing fire part of the 1st law? Like drowning someone by immobilizing them for instance? 'I put you in a burning building, but I didn't kill you!'

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