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Conspiracy Theorist:

As pointed out if there is a record of Ethnui’s true name the Archive would have it as she is a receiver via her intellectus, and she stores information like a name for a millennium after there is no written record. It is what the Archive was built for. She pretty much wasn’t designed for broadcast. Some beings like Hades true name is out there, it’s use not so much a summons but as drawing their attention. For a being of great power and will the use of their true name may be common usage,  it’s only the small guys who have to be careful about names, but everyone has to be careful about Blood.

Placard definition”a printed or handwritten notice or sign for public display, either fixed to a wall or carried during a demonstration”

Jim is very clear about using the term Placard, presumably for the public display element. If I am right about it’s use, then it must never be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. Not the Black Council, but a group far more evil where the potential for misuse is far greater. Advertising agencies. Imagine if they got hold of it, Harry would be eating MacDonalds and drinking Pepsi without knowing why, only that he was doing something very, very wrong but unable to stop himself.

A Foo Dogs magic is to make everything run more smoothly this is known from Zoo day. Alarm and defence are also part of their functions.

Mira:


Communication, at the end of Peace Talks Harry voices his fears to Murphy that this time the blood and mayhem that is going to result from the invasion cannot be hidden from the vanilla human world. 
 page 340 Peace Talks

--- Quote ---"People will be terrified," Murphy said.
"And they'll set out to destroy what frightens them," I said. "It'll make the Spanish Inquision look like a bouncy castle."
--- End quote ---


The Placard on the Cross announced to the world who Jesus was, or who people said He was.  If people are as frightened as Harry thinks they will be, there has to be a way to communicate to them to calm them so there isn't a severe backlash against the supernatural world resulting in even more blood shed, that is why he needs the Placard.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 13, 2020, 01:35:32 AM ---I believe the Placard is a magical broadcast device, anything written on it gets broadcast to those chosen to be broadcast to, telepathically and with absolute certainty and trust. Not unlike Mouses barking during a fire, bu far larger and far more complex

This would be very useful with all electronic communication down, it can broadcast to the citizenry to stay away from the lake, stay in their homes, it can broadcast to SI and CPD, the Paranet, Marcone’s organization,Eric Instructions and Rally points, and of course with Ivy present they can communicate back by writing down replies, as they have a multitasking magical communications receiver.

--- End quote ---

Isn't broadcasting 'stay in your homes' with the power of one of the artefacts behind it bordering on mental tampering though?

Conspiracy Theorist:
Harry skirts everyone of the Seven Laws WOJ, Sue is one example of this in respect of necromancy, he raises an animal rather than a human.

I suspect the Placards power is such is that it doesn’t tamper, like Mouses bark, so that when someone subject to its influence is examined no signs of tampering are found,  revelation rather than whammy has occurred, and their free will isn’t harmed. Besides this has acted to protect every single person in Chicago, like Harry killed DuMorne with magic  in self defence.

Of course given free will, there will be people who ignore this revelation.

morriswalters:
You don't give instructions unless you first know what's happening.  That's called the fog of war.  No one person can go everywhere and see everything. So other than a general instruction to lay low and hunker down what good is it if you use it that way?

Harry has been playing daddy since Skin Game. When has he had time to figure it out, given that neither weapon comes with an operating manual?  The Lance is fairly obvious in context. You use it to poke holes in things, even Titans with bronze skin. He needs blood so stickee, stickee.  It's described as a weapon, not as a walkie talkie.

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