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Unidentified Winter Knight Abilities

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Mira:

--- Quote ---I wonder if Jim is telling us something here. Harry has been getting lectures from Uriel about the importance of free will. Maybe Harry will finally get that confidence in himself someday and actually take up Lasciel's coin, but be the master of the coin, much like Nicodimus is the master of Anduriel.
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Don't see that happening,  and for the record, Nic isn't the master, he just thinks he is.

Kindler:
I'd like to add that Mab smashed Harry's head into an elevator hard enough to leave a Harry's Head-Shaped dent in it, and Harry walked away without a problem.

Blows to the head like that are pretty damn dangerous. I've seen my share of concussions over the years, and that's the exact kind of hit that should have caused one (sudden, a hit for which Harry could not brace, and with likely much more than the 60 g's typically cited as the approximate amount of force to cause a concussion on impact). Plus all of that force was focused on Harry's head. The elevator denting robbed the hit of some of its force, but not enough for Harry to just... get up and walk away a minute later.

From that one example, I hypothesize that either:

1. Harry did get a concussion and he simply didn't notice it (that happens; one guy in my old HEMA group didn't realize he had a concussion until a couple days later) until some time after Skin Game;
2. Harry got a concussion, but the Winter Mantle suppressed the typical symptoms immediately (dizziness, memory loss, etc.) and it accelerated the healing process so much that he recovered quickly, before the suppression stopped working;
3. Harry was not hit hard enough to get a concussion;
4. The Winter Mantle has some kind of... durability enhancement ability, so Harry can withstand more punishment. Meaning he actually IS more resistant to injury, not just the pain that comes with it.
5. Harry has been hit on the head so many times that this new concussion just blended into the background of his old head injuries (if he wasn't a wizard, he'd be a poster child for CTE).

I think two and four are most likely.

spiritofair:

--- Quote from: Mira on December 27, 2019, 07:46:21 PM ---Don't see that happening,  and for the record, Nic isn't the master, he just thinks he is.

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You may be correct, but saying it is so doesn't mean it is. Unless there is a WOJ to that effect, I prefer to not just assume.

Arjan:

--- Quote from: spiritofair on December 27, 2019, 09:18:56 PM ---You may be correct, but saying it is so doesn't mean it is. Unless there is a WOJ to that effect, I prefer to not just assume.

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Jim does not have to say it explicitly. It is shown in the story. He is damned as long as he keeps the thing and a whole order of knights can not save him from it.

You can of course trust the alternative facts brought to you by the fallen but I would't advice it. They lie.

g33k:

--- Quote from: spiritofair on December 27, 2019, 09:18:56 PM ---You may be correct, but saying it is so doesn't mean it is. Unless there is a WOJ to that effect, I prefer to not just assume.
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. It's pretty clear in the scene near the end of Skin Game.  Harry and Michael are about to fight Nic.  You see their arguments begin to sway him the regrets & doubt... And then you see the Pride sweep in, and lock him onto his path...  Pride, of course, being the defining sin of the Fall, and a key recurring element of Nic's as he has faced Harry through the years.

Nic is given so much free rein because he has bought in to Anduriel's agenda as his own:  Nic does the stuff Anduriel wants, on his own initiative; Anduriel never needs to use the Big Stick, because bunny-Nic is happily eating the carrot out of his hand...

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