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jonas:
--- Quote ---I dunno - it definitely keeps him from going crazy, but I'm not at all convinced that that's the only effect it has.
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I though there was something on this that mentions it's basically using it to do the magic in order to do the insulating. But I've yet to find that woj, been looking as this convo developed.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: jonas on August 04, 2017, 07:02:36 AM ---I though there was something on this that mentions it's basically using it to do the magic in order to do the insulating. But I've yet to find that woj, been looking as this convo developed.
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I dont recall one that sounds like that, but Id be fascinated (dont recall anything that actually addressed the mechanism of insulation).
There is this one that indicates it doenst have any other discrete powers (at least none in eb's hands?) beyond the insulation properties:
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--- Quote ---2010 Dragon*Con @ ~1:45
When Eb does his "Laying of the Cattle move" at the major battle near the end of Changes, is that a power of the blackstaff?
The Blackstaff is what keeps that kind of thing from driving him insane and turning him into a giggling villain. Yah you don't go messing with black magic in the Dresden Files, it's very very bad for you. At the same time, Magic is something that happens because you truly believe that when you set out to do it that you should be able to do that sort of thing. That says a few things about Eb that really Harry hasn't run into in any other forum other than right there. Yah Poor guy, He's got a tough job.
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Does the blackstaff have any powers that relate to the dead?
Other than making people dead? Really, that's kind of the point [Crowd Laughs] Really but the staff itself what it really does is it keeps Eb sane while he's doing insane things. Lucky him, he gets to deal with a hideously guilty conscious and nightmares later, but that's better than later being like *Muahahahahahahahaha* Which is sort of the other option if your going to go around using magic like that.
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jonas:
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 04, 2017, 12:25:20 PM ---I dont recall one that sounds like that, but Id be fascinated (dont recall anything that actually addressed the mechanism of insulation).
There is this one that indicates it doenst have any other discrete powers (at least none in eb's hands?) beyond the insulation properties:
(click to show/hide)
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Ya, i'm almost positive it's been addressed since then, somewhere. Iirc sometime around the KC signing. Need to remember to start putting Woj vids on for background when i'm bored. It's just not my first thought to alleviate it. But it usually does lol.
knnn:
Take a look at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-Phtpvm8s
At the 27 minute mark.
--- Quote ---How did Ebenezer's instant Death Spell in Changes work?
That had to do with Ebenezer's stick. That was all to do with the Blackstaff.
Any more to elaborate?
Well, there are a few who have speculated where the Blackstaff came from. That should explain it, for those who pieced it together.
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The fact that it's "Real Life" history is important makes it sound that the "Making Death" is a real part of its power (and has mythological precedent).
Quantus:
--- Quote from: knnn on August 04, 2017, 12:56:27 PM ---Take a look at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-Phtpvm8s
At the 27 minute mark.
The fact that it's "Real Life" history is important makes it sound that the "Making Death" is a real part of its power (and has mythological precedent).
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Hmmm, if he's saying that the fan-theory for the blackstaff should explain it, I think that sends me straight back to it being the primary tool of Atropos: She who Ends Life. Prior to the appearance of Hades she was the closest thing to an incarnation of Death we'd seen, and even then the Fates were always above the Gods in most respects (at least in the sense that Fate itself was a Force even the Gods could not contradict).
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