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The Lighthouse

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g33k:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 02, 2020, 10:10:19 PM ---One simple solution is that it was a light house, built at the same time as the town and taken over after running the people who lived there off.  Why build when you can appropriate.
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Except that the structure is rune-scribed by Merlin.

So unless one of the instances of Merlin's five-fold temporal casting was modern-ish (after the construction of a lighthouse), it had to have been there first.

Of course, appropriation works the other way, too -- why build a new lighthouse when you find a big ol' stone tower already sitting at the top of the hill?

Yuillegan:
Interestingly, one of the things about Wards in the early books is that you need a solid threshold to put them on. This Lighthouse would likely have a very flimsy one, if it has one at all. Merlin threw out the rulebook when he created the prison. So I suspect whatever the tower was originally for, it had less to do with limits and requirements and more to do with the purpose of Demonreach which (we assume) was to lock up all the old monsters. Unless you're a conspiracy theorist who think that maybe what he really wanted was a great big battery of power to tap. *Checks tin foil hat is secure*  :o

Bad Alias:
I recall that other things can be used to anchor spells. I remember stone being one of them. I can't remember enough to find the source.

didymos:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on March 03, 2020, 03:30:08 AM ---I recall that other things can be used to anchor spells. I remember stone being one of them. I can't remember enough to find the source.

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It's from a Word of Jim.  Not just any stone though:


--- Quote ---No wards on the office.  To build a ward, you have to use a threshold of some kind.  (Well, you can use other kinds of similar energy structures, like ley lines, ogham stones, etc, but you can't just slap them down anywhere.)  No wards on Harry's office in the books for that reason.
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Bad Alias:
Outside of having an inscription in Ogham script, I don't know how an Ogham stone is different from any other stone with an inscription on it.

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