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Any news on Peace Talks
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 10, 2019, 05:07:23 AM ---The fact that Harry carried the Spear of Destiny (or Longinus) is definitely worth remembering. The power to warp reality and probability so that all conflicts go your way? Greater than any of those swords or any spell that we have seen. Perhaps it supercharged Butter's sword, perhaps not (which is likely considering it functionally worked the same in the short story). But the fact that Harry carried it with him in hopeless odds, and won, should not be overlooked.
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I'm not proposing Fidelacchius needs to be in the immediate presence of the spearhead to function every time - it clearly doesn't. I'm proposing that the presence of the spearhead helped with its initial recovery / transformation.
morriswalters:
OK, you asked for a release date, here's the announcement.
--- Quote ---Speaking of Peace Talks, a release date has been set, and we should be able to announce it VERY soon! Join our snazzy new mailing list to ensure you’re among the first to know. (If you were a member of our old Yahoo Groups mailing list, you’re good! Your subscription has been automatically transferred.)
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Weirdly this is an announcement about an announcement, and had you been following on Reddit it had been rumored that the date was set, just not announced. Go figure.
This tasty from Reddit.
--- Quote ---priscellie
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This is the only comment I'll make about the timing of the release date, as I don't want folks to press me into splitting hairs, but YES, the release date will be announced before Christmas.
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Now we can all say awomen to the WG.
For those like me who are calendar challenged, that's 12 days.
Yuillegan:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on December 10, 2019, 03:23:38 AM ---I'm not proposing Fidelacchius needs to be in the immediate presence of the spearhead to function every time - it clearly doesn't. I'm proposing that the presence of the spearhead helped with its initial recovery / transformation.
And I think Fidelacchius starting to act like a lightsaber all the time when it was thrown to Butters may have just possibly been influenced by the fact that the one throwing it had the very probable spear of destiny - which is legendarily supposed to confer victory on the side that carries it - stuffed up his sleeve at the moment.
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Just how you put it gave me the impression that the spear supercharged Fidelacchius in that moment, but not that the spear's presence for the Fidelacchius's new lightsaber form to function altogether. But fair enough to the theory. I think that a variety of factors came together to allow Fidelacchius to be "reforged" into its new look - but I concur that it seems likely that the spearhead may well have been one of the more significant factors. One wonders how many times the swords have been broken...they each have at least two names and likely a few more.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on December 12, 2019, 07:40:15 PM ---Tiny quibble: I recall Jim saying something along the lines of how would one know the difference between the creator of the universe and a being potent enough to retcon the universe/creation story.
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Interesting information. Do you remember where he said it? I always love to go digging! I also remember a fan once asking if the Creator was always the Creator as the fan felt the Backup short story implied entities can retroactively gain power. Jim's response was that the fan was assigning limits where there arn't any - that it is mortal's understanding of the entities that changes, not the entities themselves. We Name them, but the being is always the same being, in a cosmic sense. Also, Uriel (who makes it a point of necessity that he does not lie - and has intellectus, and Jim called him a Executive VP of Creation) told Harry that the Almighty is everywhere, see's everything from everyone's POV and experiences it too. I mean he COULD be wrong...but I would say that if the being (his boss and father) that he is referring to is not in fact the Creator and running the show then I shudder to think of what is. Maybe Azathoth - the "Blind Idiot God"...
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on December 12, 2019, 07:40:15 PM --- Tiny quibble: I recall Jim saying something along the lines of how would one know the difference between the creator of the universe and a being potent enough to retcon the universe/creation story.
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I'm pretty sure I recall seeing that WoJ!
I'm also pretty sure Mr. Butcher is kinda infamous for playing geeky wordgames with his fans.
If "The White God" actually had enough power to retcon Creation, and that's how he BECAME the creator... it's kind of like a cyclic pre/post BigBang universe, in a mystic sense.
Maybe THAT is the secret of the Outsiders -- they were in charge of everything, and TWG retcon'ed them out of existence. 8)
Arjan:
--- Quote from: g33k on December 13, 2019, 07:35:43 AM ---I'm pretty sure I recall seeing that WoJ!
I'm also pretty sure Mr. Butcher is kinda infamous for playing geeky wordgames with his fans.
If "The White God" actually had enough power to retcon Creation, and that's how he BECAME the creator... it's kind of like a cyclic pre/post BigBang universe, in a mystic sense.
Maybe THAT is the secret of the Outsiders -- they were in charge of everything, and TWG retcon'ed them out of existence. 8)
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I also remember something about the current holder of that mantle not being the first one.
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