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Saints
jonas:
--- Quote from: Fcrate on June 02, 2018, 06:48:04 AM ---Did he? He has used faith magic, yes, but he didn't combine it with his normal magic that I remember.
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In FM it was his faith IN magic that let him conjure more of it then he had. He's a Magic Saint, or has the potential to be so.
Fcrate:
When was that exactly? I don't recall it.
peregrine:
He charged up his pentacle necklace with his faith before he slung it at the Loup.
Which was sorta what I was getting at, that under a suitably tortured reading, Harry could count.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: groinkick on June 02, 2018, 08:02:01 PM ---Well this is the Dresdenverse. Jim pretty much laid out what a Saint was. A wizard who also happens to have devout faith. Didn't say the person needs to be a Christian. Just like a KoTC that is an Atheist or Jewish.
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Yeah, the answer was pretty clear that in-universe it applies to anyone combining faith and magic practices, and the only real difference between belief systems is that Catholicism actually uses it as a title.
Given that the Church system recognizes saints based on testimony from people who asked them to intercede with the Almighty in prayers for miraculous healing after the saint had died, which is completely outside the domain of wizard magic, I think it's fair to say the Catholic definition would only sometimes overlap with the hybrid practitioner definition.
Fcrate:
--- Quote from: peregrine on June 03, 2018, 01:52:04 AM ---He charged up his pentacle necklace with his faith before he slung it at the Loup.
Which was sorta what I was getting at, that under a suitably tortured reading, Harry could count.
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Faith? I didn't get that vibe, I just thought he used the amulet to create a circle in the air, focused all what's left of his magic in it, and used a simple air spell to propel it toward the loup garou, just like gunpowder. The inherited silver did the work.
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