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BrainFireBob:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 14, 2022, 12:17:54 AM ---I posited something similar several years ago, that The Warden is actually an automatic Senior Council post.

However to do that Kemmler would have had to be a Member of the Senior Council gone rogue as the WOJ of him being the Warden before the last came after I posited this.

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I did as well- my take is that 7 Laws and 7 Council members aren't coincidental. We know

The Merlin
The Warden
The Gatekeeper
The Blackstaff

Means there are three we don't know. Guessing that LtW is something like The Shapeshifter

EDIT:

Furthering this. The Senior Council selects its own members. Say they're supposed to secretly keep these roles filled. The gerontocracy is either the best candidates, or placeholders.

This would mean the value of the Council, in supernatural terms, is preparing and incubating baby Blackstaffs, Wardens, etc. I've also considered that the Wardens may have originated as backups- example, the Captain doesn't know this, but when The Warden dies, they're expected to present themselves to Demonreach. If they fail, their top lieutenant, etc.

I'd considered that the Round Table was intended to do the same for KotC.

I also would be interested in Harry undies OG Merlin's work and recollects all 7 mantles.

BrainFireBob:
New post.

Law: You shall not kill
Responsible enforcer: Blackstaff
Powerup: Can do whatever he wants to you as easily as the most corrupt warlock without backlash
Held by: Eb

Law: Don't shapeshift people
Responsible party: "The Shifter"
Power: Boosted, effortless shapeshifting- see Merlin's wizard duel in Sword in the Stone. Can also shapeshift you with your permission.
Held by: LtW

Law: Don't invade minds
Power: Telepathy, letting you predict others
Held by: The Merlin
Can you imagine? Dresden's intuitive flashes would drive him nuts. He's glaring at Dresden, trying to read his mind. He reaches out, and hears "Diiiiiiiiiiiiccccccckkkk...." Does Dresden know?

Fourth Law: Don't enthrall
Held by: No idea
Power: No idea

Fifth Law: No necromancy
Held by: Martha Liberty
Powerup: Soulfire, which allows true resurrection
Allows Angelic support

Sixth Law: Don't muck with time
Held by: The Warden via total mastery of Demonreach (can leave the island at its different connection points in time)
Allows access to denizens

It's why everyone was a bit iffy with it veing Dresen. He's a bit linear for timey-wimey shenanigans

Seventh Law: Don't open the Outer Gates
Held by: Rashid
Power: Can bring the power of the Outer Gstes to you.
Commands Fae allegiance

BrainFireBob:
Last one for now.

The WC let some roles "gap" to expand beyond Europe, swallowing up other organizations. It let them offer rival leaderships a Council seat.

It is possible the Warden is instead enthrallment- backlash accruing to the island nod not the warden.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Aha someone has adopted my conspiracy theory that Martha Liberty has Soulfire! And that only true resurrection requires it!

It kind of makes sense from the little that we know that she communicates with the Loa and hints of being a voodoo priestess, with its links to Catholicism. LTW was able to recognise it so it makes sense he had seen someone else use it, most likely senior Council with that degree of power up, most likely Martha. The only other person is Odin.

Neither

Ed0517:

--- Quote from: Basil on July 14, 2022, 02:53:20 AM ---
Given Wizard secrecy, it's easy to see them losing "tech" that was held as individual trade secrets, but not losing public customs. 


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Like them still unable to truly recreate Damascus steel? Loss of tarce elements in the raw material? techniques? We are not quite there even now

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