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Could a Wizard make a Coin?

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groinkick:
We've seen that Angels can be locked in Coin's, or that Spirits of intellect can live in objects.  Also that wizards can swap bodies.  So here is a question.  Could a wizard looking for a form of immortality send their mind/soul into an object (coin) in which they can possess people?  I guess kind of like a horocrux from the HP series.

wardenferry419:
Seems like a very limited existence unless they can control the owner of coin?

groinkick:

--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on April 14, 2018, 09:21:01 PM ---Seems like a very limited existence unless they can control the owner of coin?

--- End quote ---

Well similar to a Fallen...  Using their power to call out to mortals, and when they are touched they can then influence the person.  Unlike a Fallen a wizard is not bound from taking someone's will.  So a wizard could then force the person to swallow the Coin, and then basically take over their body the same way Corpse taker did.  But unlike Corpsetaker they don't die just because the physical body dies...  At least in my theory.

wardenferry419:
How about something similar to Raistlin in Dragonlance?

Snark Knight:
Well, Harry can make a new skull for a spirit of intellect. And anybody walking around as a "naked soul" like he was in GS can inhabit such a skull.

But I tend to think a human wizard would have trouble with the part about dominating the soul of whoever picks up the object they transferred their essence into. The Fallen can do that because they're vastly stronger, smarter and trickier than any human, not because of a spell on the coins - and even they need the host to somewhat agree to partnership or surrender.

An artifact vessel might be of some help to a necromancer spirit like Corpsetaker's, but the fundamental limit of having to either convince someone to give up (like she was attempting with Mort) or be crazy enough to manifest for a forced swap is seems like a pretty hard-coded limit in how things work.

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