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Adaptation Do's and Don'ts
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 26, 2022, 06:07:45 PM ---The Knights of the Cross are still ordinary vanilla humans. Butters has trained hard, but he has a lot to learn, he is far from being a Jedi. The Holy Knights are still subject to injury and death.. So yeah, with the help of the Holy Swords they step up, but they are limited.
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Subject to injury and death, maybe. But also able to walk into a Dragon's lair and walk out with its hostages. Or to pronounce Judgement on whole Courts of evildoers.
In other words: they may technically be limited, but it really is convenient-level limited than power-level limited.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Avernite on May 26, 2022, 06:31:05 PM ---Subject to injury and death, maybe. But also able to walk into a Dragon's lair and walk out with its hostages. Or to pronounce Judgement on whole Courts of evildoers.
In other words: they may technically be limited, but it really is convenient-level limited than power-level limited.
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No, they cannot pronounce Judgement on evildoers, that is the mistake Murphy made and got a Sword broken. It is for the Almighty to judge, not them, they try to pursued the evil doer to seek redemption in the case of the Denarians... And they can kill in self defense or to save others, that gets a bit complicated, but they absolutely cannot judge.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 26, 2022, 09:04:37 PM ---No, they cannot pronounce Judgement on evildoers, that is the mistake Murphy made and got a Sword broken. It is for the Almighty to judge, not them, they try to pursued the evil doer to seek redemption in the case of the Denarians... And they can kill in self defense or to save others, that gets a bit complicated, but they absolutely cannot judge.
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Details. Sure, for the individual, but when the Almighty wants to use a handy tool, they get the necessary power-up.
vincentric:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 26, 2022, 06:07:45 PM ---The Knights of the Cross are still ordinary vanilla humans. Butters has trained hard, but he has a lot to learn, he is far from being a Jedi. The Holy Knights are still subject to injury and death.. So yeah, with the help of the Holy Swords they step up, but they are limited.
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It's not so much that Butters got a power up over Michael but the Sword he wields is a definite upgrade that covers his inexperience. Evil foes can't parry it and things like walls and doors a speed bump where they could trap or stop Michael or Sanya. And he has 2 werewolf sidekicks to watch his back.
Conspiracy Theorist:
The Knights are weirdly powered, the Swords allow them to chop up a Titan, but not to harm a street thug. In Grave Peril Michael, sans Sword was still able to generate a repulsive effect to the Rampires suggesting it isn’t all the Sword, something confirmed in Little Things, his presence healed a child so he has a direct line to the almighty, something Murphy did not.
It will be a thorny question adapting the White God, I actually think Butcher has handled it well with the books, initially your not quite sure whether Michael is a nice lunatic with a magic sword or the real deal. It’s the way he interacts with people at the party which shows the latter, his faith is a genuine thing to him, and they the monsters accept it.
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