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A Fistful of Warlocks (SPOILERS: FISTFUL OF WARLOCKS)
Zaphodess:
--- Quote from: Anubissama on July 11, 2017, 02:13:04 PM ---Any thought on Luccio's sword? There are two quotes regarding it:
(click to show/hide)The sword at my side was tingling with power I’d invested in it over the course of the evening, ready to slice apart the threads binding enemy spells together, and I held ready a shield in my mind to prevent attacks upon my thoughts and emotions.
And later during the fight:
(click to show/hide)Grevane parried the blow on a shield of his own, and countered with more lightning. I caught part of it on the sword, but what got through was enough to drive me down to one knee and send agony racing back and forth through my nerve endings.
None of this quotes make it explicit if this is already the Enchantment Cutting Sword she will be making for all the Wardens later. The way it is used here, it could be a simple focus she uses to fight.
Anyway, it would suggest that either Luccio was an outliner as a Warden using a sword, which later gave here the idea to make the enchanted swords which all Wardens would carry.
Or there is a tradition of Warden using sword regardless if they are enchanted or not, which begs the question why didn't the new Baby Wardens and Harry got normal swords.
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My guess would be that she had the idea to use a sword not just as a sword but also as a focus. Maybe other Wardens did so too, but we don't know if it was a tradition. Would make sense, because swords used to be common weapons that everyone carried, so why not use something you carry around anyway as an additional focus.
She just developed the technique so far that she was able to create the Warden swords later for all her colleagues. What we see in the story is an early version of those though, imo.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Zaphodess on July 11, 2017, 10:18:34 AM ---Luccio isn't the usual crusty old wizard in the books either. She's very open-minded about modern technology. Her hobby is reading about computers, after all.
I think that might actually be the reason she made Captain in the first place. She wasn't particular about how the job got done, she did it.
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Absolutely, In fact, I was very happy to see such a modern girl, wearing special glasses, and guns (like Harry himself) and knowing about scientific ideas like nature of light.It's very consistent with the Luccio who reads about computers. I am hoping new young wizard Luccio can find a way to actually use a computer (I've been saying for years than wizards need to do a protective circle around a computer another person (not wizard) is using and then the wizard could read above his/her shoulcer, suggest things to do, things like that. Luccio may be able to find something better. For instance, use a desktop PC. Put a circle around the CPU amd another around the monitor. Lastly try to wear the oldest keyboard you can find. Another option is using a voice activated software. Your voice can cross the circle but your magic can´t)
I agree with your post about her sword.
Aminar:
--- Quote from: Anubissama on July 10, 2017, 02:51:27 PM ---Isn't that mostly due to Stuart Lake's heavily fictionalised "biography" of Earp?
In reality, he was an occasional law enforcer and gambler who was accused of murder after the O.K. Corral shootout and got off because he hired a famous defence attorney. Doesn't really scream "zombie killer" material to me.
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I said Legend for a reason. In Dresden legends are truth. Even more recent ones.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Anubissama on July 11, 2017, 02:13:04 PM ---Or there is a tradition of Warden using sword regardless if they are enchanted or not, which begs the question why didn't the new Baby Wardens and Harry got normal swords.
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Harry already had several swords (his magnetism focus, and I believe a few ordinary ones) before he got drafted.
Carlos and most of the younger cohort probably just don't think mundane swords would be worth carrying next to staffs and guns and grenades. When everybody else still carrying swords would have decades to centuries of experience over them anyway, it's hardly worth the trouble to carry around and conceal swords if they can't sever spells or be charged to cut through tree trunks and stuff.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 11, 2017, 06:26:10 PM ---Harry already had several swords (his magnetism focus, and I believe a few ordinary ones) before he got drafted.
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He only had the earth-magic Cane sword of his own, unless you count the Swords in his keeping. Murphy had a katana, and the Carpenters obviously are well-armed but those are the swordsfolk on the good-guy side.
Oh, Hendricks has a Magic Sword these days, though no Idea what it does.
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