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Fistful of Warlocks -- Law Notes
Mr. Death:
Another thing to point out is that this is early in Luccio's career, well before she made the swords standard issue -- in fact, she seems to be using a prototype, saying that she had to spend most of the evening imbuing her sword with a spell to cut through enchantment.
peregrine:
Other possibility also, the interpretation of the Laws may have changed between then and now.
I don't think it's likely, given how relatively stagnant the White Council seems to be, but a possibility.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: peregrine on June 15, 2018, 02:15:06 AM ---Other possibility also, the interpretation of the Laws may have changed between then and now.
I don't think it's likely, given how relatively stagnant the White Council seems to be, but a possibility.
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It could also be a sign that she has in fact killed with magic, and that her thinking about it is an example of how dark magic becomes easier and easier to use hence it being banned. Harry showed those tendencies and he at the time had only killed Justin.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: WereElephant on June 14, 2018, 02:38:26 PM ---Do we know that for certain?
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JB said at one point that they used magic to incapacitate Kemmler, at the final throw-down, and then executed him with swords. And a gun. And a noose. Etc. Apparently they killed him over and over until he stayed down.
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: groinkick on June 14, 2018, 04:34:01 AM ---How it's supposed to happen.... Probably doesn't always work out that way though. They do have plausible deniability lol... When talking about lighting them on fire it would probably be to neutralize them as you said, and then kill them with her sword as they roll around on the ground screaming in pain from the fire.
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You explanation seems reasonable, but kind of iffy. I've seen (truly gruesome) WW2 combat footage of U.S. Marines using a flamethrower in an area of heavy, dry growth (tall dry grass I think) and seconds later a Japanese soldier engulfed in flames stumbles forward several yards out of the burning grass and falls over dead. Luccio doesn't appear to think she might kill someone before she could use the sword. I would have preferred if Luccio had said she could use fire to incapacite the necromancers and then finish them off with something non-magical. I suspect Jim forgot about the specifics of the Laws of magic.
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