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Denarians and White Council
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 04, 2017, 02:19:24 PM ---I agree 100%. That being said, the whole mystery of Tunguska was that it didnt have any obvious source, spawning all kinds of weird scientific theories for how that much energy could be released without a trace.
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Haven't they narrowed it down to some kind of meteorite strike by now?
jonas:
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 04, 2017, 01:21:28 PM ---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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Perhaps, and I could be goofing my connections cause it's been interpreted a few ways, as Auranos's daughter her mythological precedent is it's HIS scythe used to cut off his ah, danglers. ANd it's in fact, the raven banner, Dagda's staff and other mythological items of similar power.
Honestly though the above woj from Knnn(*thanks btw) and that specific thematic action 'laying of the cattle', is why I originally started to look at it as a placeholder for the power of death, deaths weapon (click to show/hide)Or his prison? The left to right motion of reaping the 'grain' was very thematic for me.
Most evidence for this is wrapped up in Baba Yaga, her ability to travel anywhere and her connection to death.
Con:
What about the fact that Jim has said it mostly just stops the user from going crazy and the magic was all Ebenezar.
--- Quote from: jim butcher ---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.
@4:30
--- Quote from: jim butcher ---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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All that says that the Blackstaff isn't the power but Eb is that the Blackstaffe just "insulates the user" from going crazy from black magic.
However there is this quote.
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The Blackstaff is not sentient per se it’s just really, really, really powerful and tapped into like some serious elemental powers in the universe. But basically all it really is is insulation from using those powers.
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Which would suggest that the Blackstaff does have power of it's own that allows for it to insulate the user.
Zohak:
Or simply the black staff like the stone table is used to
transfer energy from or to some ONE or thing. MS=Death MS=life
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on August 04, 2017, 02:44:54 PM ---Haven't they narrowed it down to some kind of meteorite strike by now?
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More or less that's the prevailing view. There's some debate about whether it was a meteorite or a bit of cometary matter, the difference is mostly semantic.
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