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Who really killed ... BG spoilers!!!!
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on October 16, 2020, 03:25:59 PM ---Denarian meddling is quite possible.
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Yes, or Harry is so ashamed by what he did, he imagines he smells something from the burn. Notice he doesn't dismiss it, he brings it up again and again, he knows it was a warning, he knows how close he was to going over the cliff. If the order truly came from evil inside of him, I don't think he'd feel such remorse.
Dina:
I see no reason to think that Harry is imagining things. If there is a smell, there is a smell. Specially sulfur, you cannot really confuse it with anything (but rotten eggs, I guess). I don't know what it means, but I do think Harry's loss of control was truly fueled by the mantle. I mean, of course he was angry and seeing red by himself, but I think that without the mantle he wouldn't have actually attacked the Knights (except for a pushing or something like that). His anger at them was the mantle furious because they were denying it its prey.
Back to the smell, of course it hints infernal. Denarian, Lucifer agent, whatever, but I think the simplest explanation is that the evil in Harry became so bad that the angel of the sword considered it demoniac. And it produced the smell.
Rereading PT, I've noticed than when Butters touches Fidelacchius blade he feels "a little warm", while when Harry does the same he feels "unconmfortably warm but bearable". I guess that is because Harry is more in the darker path than Butters. When he is in full rage mode, the sword actually burned him hard. It is just interesting, like a detector of evilness.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on October 16, 2020, 07:33:09 PM ---I see no reason to think that Harry is imagining things. If there is a smell, there is a smell. Specially sulfur, you cannot really confuse it with anything (but rotten eggs, I guess). I don't know what it means, but I do think Harry's loss of control was truly fueled by the mantle. I mean, of course he was angry and seeing red by himself, but I think that without the mantle he wouldn't have actually attacked the Knights (except for a pushing or something like that). His anger at them was the mantle furious because they were denying it its prey.
Back to the smell, of course it hints infernal. Denarian, Lucifer agent, whatever, but I think the simplest explanation is that the evil in Harry became so bad that the angel of the sword considered it demoniac. And it produced the smell.
Rereading PT, I've noticed than when Butters touches Fidelacchius blade he feels "a little warm", while when Harry does the same he feels "unconmfortably warm but bearable". I guess that is because Harry is more in the darker path than Butters. When he is in full rage mode, the sword actually burned him hard. It is just interesting, like a detector of evilness.
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Yes, Butters has lived a purer life than Harry has, but if the Sword really thought Harry was evil, it would have simply cut his hand off at the wrist, end of story. It didn't, it burned him and it instantly stopped him in mid-rage, guess it took an angel to do that. What is weird about what he smells or thinks he smells is the word, somehow, that says Harry isn't sure. As you said, one should smell it or not, not think that it is "somehow laced" with sulfur and brimstone. He was seeing himself through Rudolph's eyes, the sulfur and brimstone, would be something that Rudolph could easily imagine about Harry. Not saying it is, just throwing it out there. The burn also begins just above his shield bracelet.. I also agree the mantle magnified Harry's rage, that is why he beat up Sanya and Butters to try to get to Rudolph. Butters put it in perspective, they need Harry, "the good man." Not the killer of Rudolph.
Dina:
I agree, and yes, the "somehow" is weird.
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---some·how (sŭm′hou′)
adv.
In a way not specified, understood, or known.
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Most people would parse it as saying "I smell it among other smells but don't understand how it got there.". His imagination could be the source since it isn't specified, but it just moves the question downstream. Why would he imagine it?
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