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What does this mean?
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: groinkick on June 22, 2021, 07:06:38 PM ---Maybe that Harry fucked up.... That one action has set in motion something that cannot be stopped, resulting in the apocalypse.. Perhaps this is what the time travel stuff will be about in the end. Stopping this.
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If it was such a cataclysmic fuckup to use the bloodline curse there wouldn't be so many powers who were just setting him up to do it.
morriswalters:
This has come up multiple times in the books ion different fashions.
--- Quote from: Blood Rites ---I didn't care about that, either. The power felt too good—too strong. I wanted it. I wanted Raith to pay. I wanted him to suffer, screaming, and then die for what he had done to me. And I was strong enough to make it happen. I had the power and the resolve to bring such a tide of magic against him that he would be utterly destroyed. I would lay him low and make him howl for mercy before I tore him apart. He deserved nothing less.
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In these cases something else takes over and he can seemingly draw on power that doesn't seem to be his. Maybe it's the Outsiders power, considering that Raith used an outsider to fire his entropy curse.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on June 22, 2021, 11:00:51 PM ---That dream is pretty specific. Unless I have misunderstood what Jim wrote, the curse was meant to kill Eb's bloodline. Not all wizards, everywhere. If the power levels were this high it was like hunting mice with an elephant gun. That makes my WAG generator go off the rails.
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However, the reversal of that curse did kill off another bloodline, a race of vampires that were dispersed world wide.. So Harry could have heard their cries as they died. You leave out the fact that the originator of the spell was the Red King, that power level was his, magnified by the gods of C.I., not Harry. However it did trigger a horrible vision.. What you quote is from Blood Rites, from an angry injured young wizard who has discovered the murderer of his mother.. That is a nasty quote, he felt that, but it was impotent, he didn't kill a mouse with an elephant gun, his efforts had no effect on Lord Raith..
I think being a star born puts one on a razor's edge, like an archangel or a god, awesome power, that can create as well as destroy. Harry has felt and wielded the power of both hell fire and soul fire, he rejected one, he is still exploring what the other is and it's uses.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on June 23, 2021, 12:17:04 AM ---If it was such a cataclysmic fuckup to use the bloodline curse there wouldn't be so many powers who were just setting him up to do it.
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I see the battle between the Outside, and Inside like a game of chess. Both sides are so dangerous its like check, move counter check. This may have been a miscalculation on the Insides part. Thought that the destruction of the Red Court was the right call, not realizing it was the Outside setting up a trap.
If Harry had simply saved his daughter, and got out, things would have been ok... But the spell going off, and killing all the Red Court (Not humans but demons) may have triggered something else. I kind of think that so many demons being killed would send a signal into the Never Never, like a homing signal... Or a dinner bell.. Or an alarm clock for something sleeping.
BrainFireBob:
Various ideas:
1) Harry's shade spent two minutes teleporting everywhere heart-busting vamps.
2) Harry had to power the spell, and the difference between a Destroyer and whatever the alternative is is love vs. hate- and Harry is a man with great capacity for both.
3) Expanding on 2- this is why the archangels helped. Salvation from love using destruction they could support.
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