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Margaret and The Circle

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Bad Alias:
Uriel's gift of Soulfire to Harry and Hellfire and Soulfire being the two sides of the same coin at least hints that a mortal wizard good be gifted Hellfire.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on March 01, 2020, 05:53:17 AM ---Uriel's gift of Soulfire to Harry and Hellfire and Soulfire being the two sides of the same coin at least hints that a mortal wizard good be gifted Hellfire.

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I suppose that might be possible. There's the matter of power sources, though. With the Denarians, the Fallen is supplying the power. If they were to empower random humans, they're going to have to either sponsor the energy requirements in hellfire for each spell - in which case Heaven gets a reciprocal move to each spell, rather than just one marker for initially enabling the human's access - or the human has to be twisted enough to generate Hellfire by burning their own soul.

Either way, I think they'd need a more compelling business case why it's worth handing heaven the opportunity for balancing action(s) than buying the souls of punk warlocks and sorcerors. Anyone deep enough into black magic to want to sell their soul for access to hellfire is headed downstairs anyway, so unless there's an apparent likelihood they're going to manage a Margaret-esque redemption arc, it's cheaper to just wait for their natural damnation. And even if a human is particularly interesting, the pitch for Denarian recruitment sounds a lot better than openly trading for their soul.

So while I guess I wouldn't rule out the possibility, it's probably a rare enough scenario that I'd still bet on a Denarian being behind the AT attack over a human.

Bad Alias:
Totally agree that it's extremely unlikely that it wasn't a denarian at Arctis Tor. I would like to say that gifting of the power isn't necessarily for the benefit of the recipient. To quote Bob's final words on the subject of Uriel's interests in Harry in Small Favor "[y]ou just know that can't be good!" If heaven or hell is that interested in you, it's probably not just for your own soul.

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