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Future Darkhallow
groinkick:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on March 09, 2018, 04:35:16 AM ---I have a strange idea, could this ritual be used as a weapon/trap? Some one forced or tricked into taking in the energy, just so it can be used against them.
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I think so... If you wanted them to turn dark side, or a bad guy to become good (if they swallowed up a bunch of good power).
Quantus:
--- Quote from: groinkick on March 09, 2018, 05:47:46 AM ---I think so... If you wanted them to turn dark side, or a bad guy to become good (if they swallowed up a bunch of good power).
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Im not sure there actually /is/ any straight "Good" Power, at least not in the sense of a Power that would Push you towards Goodness the way Dark & Violent powers push you toward a fall; Hell, literal Angels can go bad. I think that sort of think is supposed to go in one direction only.
Which makes sense since one of the WOJ definitions of "Good" in the DV is specifically that the Good Side respects Free Will, so by the nature of DV Goodness it would not Push you the way Evil does, since Evil doesnt respect your Right to Choose.
Kindler:
Maybe you can trick someone into swallowing more power than they could handle, with the sheer amount of energy ripping them apart from the inside out.
Still a hell of a lot of people would have to die to pull it off. I'd rather just shoot them. (Assuming that would work.)
Lost Merlin:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on March 09, 2018, 04:35:16 AM ---I have a strange idea, could this ritual be used as a weapon/trap? Some one forced or tricked into taking in the energy, just so it can be used against them.
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One way that you could apply this is that you could have them absorb power that stuck them with a purpose thus taking away their free will or ability to act without consequences. Think if you had Nic absorb the power of the summer lady, then he would beholden to fae laws and be limited in how he applied his powers.
toodeep:
Reading this has made me wonder more about the evil (necromantic?) ley line coming out of Demonreach. Have we had a good description of the type of line it is? Is it necromantic? We know it is essentially the "body heat" or evil residue being put of by the prisoners. It seems to be a source of power that Harry could feast on ala "darkhallow" without actually killing anything, and hopefully without any sentience behind it to drive him crazy. But if that were possible than one would think that people would be comsuming the power from all kinds of ley lines to become more powerful, and we don't see that happening. Still, we know he was admonished by the Gatekeeper not to touch that power _yet_ so it will probably play a big role at some point...
Also, I think the roleplaying game paranet files expansion implies that Rasputin became the winter knight for a while. He wasn't a full fledge wizard, but a specialist like an ectomancer, only instead specializing in biomancy or something of that ilk. (I'm going off of memory here) It is implied that with the power of the mantle he might have managed to regenerate himself from being shot in the head. Not a full white council wizard becoming a winter knight, but something close...
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