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The 5 gods of Lovecraft
peregrine:
The mistfiend is not just mordite, but rather some sort of spirit/creature connected to and animating the mordite. While Ivy's mordite thing was simply enchanted to be affected by Will, but otherwise inanimate and non-sentient.
Not to really argue against the main premise, just clarifying that they're two different things.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: peregrine on June 22, 2018, 05:01:18 AM ---The mistfiend is not just mordite, but rather some sort of spirit/creature connected to and animating the mordite. While Ivy's mordite thing was simply enchanted to be affected by Will, but otherwise inanimate and non-sentient.
Not to really argue against the main premise, just clarifying that they're two different things.
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According to the interwebs:
Mordite or Deathstone, is congealed antilife not of our World. It's first seen in Death Masks. In Death Masks, Harry Dresden describes it as congealed antilife, "a chip would make nuclear waste look like second hand smoke. Not from our reality, it's from Outside and sensitive to applied will.
peregrine:
I'd have to double check the book, but I'm pretty sure the "sensitive to applied will" was an extra add-on for the purposes of the duel.
jonas:
--- Quote from: groinkick on June 22, 2018, 04:01:57 AM ---Nyarlathotep is a bad guy. Do you think Gatekeeper is as well?
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Heinrich Kemmler is a bad guy... except Harry is his 'light' version and manifest's his proper version through the Walkers manifesting in response.... Hwwb4's cloak, made from sackcloth strips of Harry's duster which Molly spread around the fear for, is the exact same enspellment found upon Kemmlers robes proper...
--- Quote ---Cloak of Mists and Shadows: Kemmler is surrounded by a dark cloak that swirls and twists with a life of its own.
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The antichrist is a bad guy, except Harry is going to manifest the second coming with Marcone picking up his more mundane and evilish aspects, is Harry evil? Predications of limitations based on perspective are of little value, nothing in our own mythology of Mab implies the greater good she serves in the DF or the reasonings then behind their actions and motivations are anything but their nature... Is Mab 'evil'? Is Chaos itself? Cause that's what your asking anyway. Can an uncarved block contain 'evil'? Naturally, the uncarved block represents every possibility all at once, every shape and form it can be shaped into, but despite containing these countless, unfathomable possibilities, NONE of them define the block itself. Wuji, no shape, no form, no change, the goal of the outsiders... is and uncarved block for reality itself. GK contains that idea as its representation, and they cannot gainsay it so long as he exists... Same thing with the Walkers trying to kill or corrupt their current formations in the light.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: peregrine on June 22, 2018, 05:01:18 AM ---The mistfiend is not just mordite, but rather some sort of spirit/creature connected to and animating the mordite. While Ivy's mordite thing was simply enchanted to be affected by Will, but otherwise inanimate and non-sentient.
Not to really argue against the main premise, just clarifying that they're two different things.
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Good point. I'll still go with the idea that the congealed anti-life could be physical manifestation of Ialdagorth, in the sense that it's an aspect or unconscious avatar of the being itself.
I do find it interesting that a "mistfiend" (I'm going to assume Langtry knows what he's talking about) is compatible with mordite, and able to be in contact with it without dying. It must be a creature that has no physical form, and isn't alive, but still has a consciousness and the ability to manifest a "form" that looks like a smokey mist.
Makes me wonder about its origins.
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