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Kindler:
I always found the pentacle-comet display at the end of Fool Moon was similar to faith magic in a few regards. The way he describes it sounds awfully like faith, too. Though it's notable that he mentions Hope and Love in his description, but explicitly not faith.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Kindler on June 04, 2018, 07:59:02 PM ---I always found the pentacle-comet display at the end of Fool Moon was similar to faith magic in a few regards. The way he describes it sounds awfully like faith, too. Though it's notable that he mentions Hope and Love in his description, but explicitly not faith.
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That's the thing with the louper: It was more about the silver's inherited nature, though he was able to imbue it with energy by sort of making a casting Circle. I do think there was a certain amount of harry's sort of Faith-In-Magic Faith magic there as well, but it seemed more incidental. Im not sure how much of the light show he put in there was actually needed for that attack, though equally Im not sure it isnt.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 04, 2018, 09:41:27 PM ---That's the thing with the louper: It was more about the silver's inherited nature, though he was able to imbue it with energy by sort of making a casting Circle. I do think there was a certain amount of harry's sort of Faith-In-Magic Faith magic there as well, but it seemed more incidental. Im not sure how much of the light show he put in there was actually needed for that attack, though equally Im not sure it isnt.
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Yeah; he was running on empty, without even any fumes. Hexing a security camera almost knocked him out, and he can normally do that without trying.
He does cast a spell; good ol' Ventas Servitas, and the passage describes the process of pulling out the last spark of magic he had left as finding the core of what he believed in. Seems quasi-faith-y to me, and the light show is precisely the kind of light that shows up when he uses it as a faith symbol in Grave Peril, not the normal blueish light (as I recall) he uses when he needs to see.
Arjan:
In blood rites Harry used his pentacle as a holy symbol against the black court and it worked.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 05, 2018, 03:57:28 PM ---In blood rites Harry used his pentacle as a holy symbol against the black court and it worked.
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Right. So does Charity and I think Susan too. Sainthood takes more than that though, it takes actual magic being blended with Faith.
--- Quote from: Kindler on June 05, 2018, 03:20:35 PM --- the light show is precisely the kind of light that shows up when he uses it as a faith symbol in Grave Peril, not the normal blueish light (as I recall) he uses when he needs to see.
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What passage are you looking at in GP? The one I found was Blue there too. That I recall it's always somewhere on the spectrum from Blue up to a more blinding white (though that might have only been Charity, not Harry)
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