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WAG: why Nicodemus wanted the knife
Cozarkian:
--- Quote from: DonBugen on April 01, 2019, 11:49:24 PM ---I don't think that Nicodemus would go through all that trouble, especially with sacrificing his daughter, if the grand prize was an item which had a slight improvement over the noose already around his throat.
Honestly, with this guy, I think there's only one or two things that he would give about anything for. My best guess is that the knife (if it IS the same spear which pierced Christ's side) is a conjunction, much in the same way that Halloween is - it's an item which allows the user to slay an immortal. Only instead of having to wait for a particular time, or approaching a being while IN the flow of time, it just gives them the ability to kill.
No real evidence, but it fits thematically both with who Nicodemus is, the small list of impossible things he'd sacrifice his daughter in order to accomplish, and known potential powers given the history of the item in question.
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I agree with that. In fact, I would say either you are right and I'm wrong, or we are both right. I think Nicodemus wants to kill Lucifer. Your theory makes sense in that it gives him the power to accomplish that task. My theory could also be true - because Nicodemus needs the knife to actually win (the noose wouldn't be enough), but my theory isn't necessary.
peregrine:
I'd point out that being able to always win a fight does not mean someone would always succeed. If Harry's goal is to find something out, or protect someone, or convince someone, the knife isn't necessarily going to help him. Maybe he can fight and defeat one enemy, but if there's two more going around him entirely, that doesn't do him much good.
DonBugen:
Kill Lucifer? Why would Nicodemus want to kill Lucifer, when it's clearly TWG that he's so bitterly impassioned against? Furthermore, why would Lucifer help Nicodemus in Small Favor, if Nicodemus has ever displayed any issue at all?
Not arguing against you, per se; I just love twisty theories. Straight and narrow ones generally don't have a chance of happening.
Slowpool:
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on February 26, 2019, 06:11:44 PM ---Just imagine using it as an athame in a ritual!
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I'd bet a dollar he sticks it to the end of his staff. Odin makes it look so fashionable.
Mira:
--- Quote from: peregrine on April 02, 2019, 12:17:57 AM ---I'd point out that being able to always win a fight does not mean someone would always succeed. If Harry's goal is to find something out, or protect someone, or convince someone, the knife isn't necessarily going to help him. Maybe he can fight and defeat one enemy, but if there's two more going around him entirely, that doesn't do him much good.
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It is about power on a huge scale, Harry may need that kind of boost in the BAT, that is what the Knife will give him. Though I doubt he has much of a clue at the moment about how to use it or if he should use it.
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