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new soulfire though
toodeep:
It's been discussed before that using soulfire in the making of a magic object (like a wizards staff) is dangerous because then there is something out there that may actually work as a direct connection to you/your soul thaumaturgically. But then on the flip side we hear that all the active einherjar are actually some form of necromancy combined with soulfire, which would seem to bear the same risk (if you're ballsy enough to try to make a thaumaturgical link with Odin). So I've still been thinking about soulfire uses, and had one thought on a side effect.
1. Wondered if it would work to imbue Harry's new home with soulfire as he reactivates the magic. Bob once described it as using rebar in concrete to make the whole stronger than the sum of its parts. It seems like buffing up your home defenses would be a great place to use it, and reasonably safe as well assuming the home defenses are significant enough. I would love to see someone really lay siege to his castle sometime and see it just hold everything off thanks to soulfire being built in.
2. Harry made the bear belt buckle that literally held magic/mana in it. Wonder if he could make something similar to hold soulfire. Probably would not be worth making considering the fear of losing it... but just wondering what could be done with it!
Then I had my side thought: Home is where the heart is. Home is part of you, and the more it is really part of you, the more you are invested in it, the more of yourself you put into it, the stronger the threshold. what if the threshold effect of homes is really a soulfire kind of effect? Not everyone uses magic, but everyone has souls. I wonder if homes of things without souls have thresholds? That would ruin that idea, but I think it worth discussing.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: toodeep on July 23, 2021, 01:31:18 AM ---I wonder if homes of things without souls have thresholds? That would ruin that idea, but I think it worth discussing.
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I'd lean no on that. The framing was always for human homes. Near-human species like forest people or whampires might be able to form a threshold (though I'm not sure the latter have fixed built homes, and the latter would presumably form extremely weak thresholds unless they're an unusual personality like Thomas').
toodeep:
I'm pretty sure Castle Wraith has a threshold that Harry mentions at one point, though mortals also seemed to live there, and Whampires do have souls (or else wizards couldn't soulgaze them), so that's nothing definitive.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: toodeep on July 23, 2021, 01:31:18 AM ---It's been discussed before that using soulfire in the making of a magic object (like a wizards staff) is dangerous because then there is something out there that may actually work as a direct connection to you/your soul thaumaturgically.
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And Harry used Soulfire to make Demonreach his........
Mira:
--- Quote from: groinkick on July 24, 2021, 05:59:07 AM ---
And Harry used Soulfire to make Demonreach his........
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Yes and no, he used a drop of Soulfire to strengthen his summons to call Alfred forth, but I don't know if you can call it using it to make it his. After all it wasn't till he woke up at the end of Ghost Story that he realized what he had done made him Warden of the place. He also used Soul Fire when he fought Shaggy on the island, but again at that point in time he had no clue he was now Warden, if he had, he could have easily have handled Shaggy with Alfred's help.
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