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Chapter 5 Drop
knightedbishop:
My vote is still for Murphy being an Einherjar. One, it’d be badass. Two, it allows her to live on while still dying and causing Harry to have loads of guilt. The Einherjar have been on screen for a long time, so I personally don’t feel her death would be cheapened by her ultimately coming back to fight in the BAT.
About the Shroud: I still don’t think it’s purpose is to heal. Remember, Hades’s exchange with Harry. The vault was an armory, and it exists to contain weapons of terrible power when they are not needed. I like the idea of the Shroud destroying the Nemesis infection. Healing, but in a way that hurts the Enemy.
I’d wager good money that Nicoodemus and Anduriel know Harry is the Warden of Demonreach. Anduriel is too well informed not to know. And there is no way the Denarians are going to step foot on Demonreach now that Harry has awoken it. If they think the coins are confining then they definitely won’t like a crystalline cell. The artifacts are safe until needed.
Speaking of Demonreach, Hades word choice with “containing” sparked my interest. Demonreach has the same purpose. To contain dangerous beings. As Alfred said, they are always dangerous, but locked up they have the least ability to act. Not saying there is any direct connection between Demonreach and the artifacts...but we know an apocalypse is coming. I suspect those locked up beings will get out somehow. And the weapons to fight them are now in circulation.
Dina:
I believe if the Shroud could heal Nemesis, Mab would have asked Harry for it, unless there is a reason why she cannot use it and thinks that Harry needs to do something without knowing its power.
Avernite:
I sort of feel the weapons of the Crucifixion should be weapons for the fight for good against evil, rather than the fight of order against chaos. Sure, Heaven doesn't want the Gates to fall, but the fight there has been about Aesir, Fae and Wizards... while Heaven fights on the field of angels, demons, and souls.
As such just plain healing, or otherwise making a human able to reach the full potential of humanity, seems like a reasonable power for such items. If it must be a magical cure, curing black magic taint seems more reasonable, but then it would feel a bit duplicative of the blackstaff.
Perhaps it really is more of a ward against supernatural threats; when those threats are disease-based (as Nic did with the fake one) it will cure, when they're more direct, maybe it works more like Harry's shield bracelet.
Mira:
--- Quote ---My vote is still for Murphy being an Einherjar. One, it’d be badass. Two, it allows her to live on while still dying and causing Harry to have loads of guilt. The Einherjar have been on screen for a long time, so I personally don’t feel her death would be cheapened by her ultimately coming back to fight in the BAT.
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I think it will take away from the series though. Be careful for what you wish for,you may get it. If she comes back as a Einherjar, she will no longer be Murphy, so what is the point of that? I can see her working with her father with Uriel and we might see her apparition once in a while, while different, she'd still be Murphy.
peregrine:
Yes, it's so much better for her to die than change. Truly, you have Murphy's best interests at heart when you push over and over for her to die.
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