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Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Yuillegan on September 30, 2020, 04:40:13 AM ---1. The Brit (if he has Free Will - implied he might) can't be held by Demonreach forever as Demoreach cannot hold any being with Free Will indefinitely. Including Thomas

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I haven't finished BG yet, but if his free-willed choice is that he needs to be where he is, and he doesn't want out, "not indefinite" can still be "pretty long", no?

TheCuriousFan:

--- Quote from: vultur on September 30, 2020, 06:56:53 PM ---Yeah the Kemmler thing really surprises me. If the Warden can release the prisoners (as Alfred/Demonreach told Harry) why didn't he release some Ethniu-level power on the condition that it swore a magically-binding oath to destroy the White Council?

Maybe something to do with the 'starborn cycle' made Ethniu more freely able to act in the mortal world than would have been possible a century ago?

Still, even a half-dozen naagloshii assassins could have seriously messed up the White Council's war efforts, likely enough for Kemmler to win.

I thought it was what Corpsetaker tried to do in GS, except that Kemmler succeeded where she failed.

He definitely did do some kind of "low-level Darkhallow" however, since Mab says that eating spirits was the secret of the power that let him defy the Council. It's not just something he knew how to do but never got a chance to use - he actually gained power from it.

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I mean, Jim mentioned that the fighting was focused on preventing him from returning to the island at all after he went bad so I think it's a safe assumption that he didn't have access to Demonreach after he went full necromancer.

vultur:

--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on October 01, 2020, 01:12:45 AM ---I mean, Jim mentioned that the fighting was focused on preventing him from returning to the island at all after he went bad so I think it's a safe assumption that he didn't have access to Demonreach after he went full necromancer.

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Sure. It just seems like Kemmler was a long-term planner, not just a destructive thug (Bob mentions 150 years of planning going into WW1) and it seems like using Demonreach to destroy the Council should have been his first move, IE before the Council knew he was a warlock.

Now maybe something went wrong and he was revealed early... but it seems like he was an active villain for something like 150-200 years. Was the Council really able to keep him off the island that long? How could you even do that, given that Kemmler had various supernatural allies and could travel through the NN?

Conspiracy Theorist:
Jim in the Q& A goes heavily into teleportation, that Harry should be capable of it. We saw Drakul and Namshiel teleport and Harry had tried to check out a book on it by the White Council (presumably Bob didn’t have the info) but Bonea should have it) are we I wonder  going to see Harry learning to teleport? Mab and Molly obviously teleport. Of course it takes energy so he isn’t going to do it for everyday, but teleporting between the Castle and Demonreach would be useful, and may be at the upper limit of what he can manage. The Water Beetle has now been sunk.

He has got his lab back, so the first thing he may build is a teleport focus, to stop him arriving as an undifferentiated pile of protoplasm. Maybe something like a compass but working in three dimension ? It would give him an edge next time he takes on Eb.

And of course we know the focus word he will use “Bamf!”

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