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Archive & Oblivion War -- who knows?
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 22, 2020, 02:52:47 AM ---Everybody half decently informed knows enough about the Archive to know she is dangerous. The only evidence we have that any specific individual character, aside from Ivy, has any knowledge of the Archive's involvement is evidence that some characters have intellectus.
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You don't know what you don't know. Who could know? The Mothers for one. Every time that the Archive buries the knowledge of some entity it changes the future since they are no longer in it. Archangels should know and the White God. And whoever created her. Anybody else could know, but no one has been revealed as knowing.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Avernite on May 22, 2020, 10:09:49 AM --- Granted, but to me it's probably straining credulity if none of them intellectus-ers wondered 'why did someone make the Archive'.
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Except that Intellectus seems to be kind of domain-specific. On the island, Jim can know everything about the island, that he actively considers or thinks to wonder about. He couldn't ask about Ivy or the Archive.
And he doesn't know everything about visitors to the island; in fact, he hardly knows anything, really, other than their presence. He can notice footsteps, but cannot probe the details of the people making those steps. Rounding a corner to confront an intruder, he doesn't know if it'll be one of Binder's mooks, or a top-tier supernatural assassin, or something else entirely.
Whose Intellectus would cover the Archive, let them automagically know anything/everything about it? Whose even could?
We don't know, really. It isn't something Jim has developed in the stories, spelled out in AMA's/etc in the WoJ's (AFAIK).
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 27, 2020, 08:55:51 PM ---automagically
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Nice.
Speaking of intellectus, I've long thought that even Toot has intellectus when it comes to languages and Winter Law. After Harry asks Toot how he speaks Russian, Toot says "you just speak it, don't you? I mean, come on." When Harry asked Toot where he (Harry) could learn Winter Law, Toot responded "I don't understand."
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 28, 2020, 01:30:57 AM --- Speaking of intellectus, I've long thought that even Toot has intellectus when it comes to languages and Winter Law. After Harry asks Toot how he speaks Russian, Toot says "you just speak it, don't you? I mean, come on." When Harry asked Toot where he (Harry) could learn Winter Law, Toot responded "I don't understand."
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I think it's something more primal/instinctual than "intellectus."
A faerie doesn't even have to think about it -- it's just part of them.
Bad Alias:
Molly has to think about it. I don't know it that would mean that you're wrong or that Molly is less solidly a fairy than we have been led to believe.
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