The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Souls and Ghosts.
toodeep:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 18, 2020, 01:49:13 PM --- For example she no longer was able to make Warden Swords. She didn't forget how to make the swords, but she no longer had to the skill either to read the new warden to match the sword or apparently to make them. Was this simply the lack of nerve pathways for the skill built up over a century or more of being a wizard or something else? In my opinion in her new body she was also more vulnerable to the manipulation of Peabody.
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Just as a very, very fine nitpick- it is not canon that she can't make the swords. It is canon that she has told Harry she cannot, and that we can infer that the council accepts that. I believe she told Harry she was not as strong (magically) in her new body and that is why she cannot. I only make this point because when she told Harry this she was under the influences of Peabody. A man who may have very much wanted to stop having the council wardens wander around with cool magic swords. If he dropped a belief in her head that she couldn't, and you can't do magic you can't believe in, then voila' no more magic swords being made.
So we know the effect, but we have only claims as to cause.
Mira:
--- Quote from: toodeep on January 20, 2020, 04:09:25 PM ---Just as a very, very fine nitpick- it is not canon that she can't make the swords. It is canon that she has told Harry she cannot, and that we can infer that the council accepts that. I believe she told Harry she was not as strong (magically) in her new body and that is why she cannot. I only make this point because when she told Harry this she was under the influences of Peabody. A man who may have very much wanted to stop having the council wardens wander around with cool magic swords. If he dropped a belief in her head that she couldn't, and you can't do magic you can't believe in, then voila' no more magic swords being made.
So we know the effect, but we have only claims as to cause.
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Very true, also goes to how effective Peabody's ink was in numbing the mind to infiltration. However the ink seems to be limited to Peabody because either or both Morgan and Luccio seemed
to be aware when Molly attempted to have an unauthorized peek into their minds.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 20, 2020, 04:18:08 PM --- Very true, also goes to how effective Peabody's ink was in numbing the mind to infiltration. However the ink seems to be limited to Peabody because either or both Morgan and Luccio seemed
to be aware when Molly attempted to have an unauthorized peek into their minds.
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They both knew her by reputation so they were probably more on guard. Molly simply did not know about the ink but Ebenezar was aware, they recognised several chemical and alchemical stuff when searching peabodies rooms.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 20, 2020, 06:43:15 PM ---They both knew her by reputation so they were probably more on guard. Molly simply did not know about the ink but Ebenezar was aware, they recognised several chemical and alchemical stuff when searching peabodies rooms.
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Huh? I agree that both Luccio and Morgan would know why Molly was under the Doom... They might look for her to try and get into their heads, but the point is, they knew when she did, which has nothing to do with her reputation. No, Molly didn't know about Peabody's ink, but that isn't the point or important.. Peabody used his special ink, no one knew he was playing in their heads. Molly had no such ink, both Morgan and Luccio knew instantly when she had her little peek..
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 20, 2020, 09:26:40 PM ---Huh? I agree that both Luccio and Morgan would know why Molly was under the Doom... They might look for her to try and get into their heads, but the point is, they knew when she did, which has nothing to do with her reputation. No, Molly didn't know about Peabody's ink, but that isn't the point or important.. Peabody used his special ink, no one knew he was playing in their heads. Molly had no such ink, both Morgan and Luccio knew instantly when she had her little peek..
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The point is they might only have known because they were watching for it. Nobody suspected Peabody.
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