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If you were a Minor Talent?
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 03, 2022, 08:37:51 PM --- ... Harry wouldn’t make a sword.
He would make a gun capable of doing the same.
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I don't think so: I believe the bullets would have to be enchanted, to do the Warden-swords' anti-enchantment trick.
I mean... obviously, the rules work however Jim decides they work. But I think we've seen that Jim has enchanted-ammo as his vision.
You could enchant a gun, but it would just be magically-better at firing whatever ammo gets loaded into it.
Enchanted gun + enchanted ammo would be pretty scary, though!
Fcrate:
--- Quote from: g33k on August 03, 2022, 09:00:29 PM ---I don't think so: I believe the bullets would have to be enchanted, to do the Warden-swords' anti-enchantment trick.
I mean... obviously, the rules work however Jim decides they work. But I think we've seen that Jim has enchanted-ammo as his vision.
You could enchant a gun, but it would just be magically-better at firing whatever ammo gets loaded into it.
Enchanted gun + enchanted ammo would be pretty scary, though!
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Enchanted AK-47 with a bayonet. Problem solved. Although from Even Hand, we know that sufficiently enchanted bullets are hard and expensive to make.
@Conspiracy Theorist: thank you.. Phew.
--- Quote from: Regenbogen on August 03, 2022, 08:36:38 PM ---I completely agree. Especially about the swords! Ever since Luccio told Harry she can't make them any more, I am convinced she would someday teach him how.
Probably she will leave the White Council some day soon. At the latest, when it is destroyed or self-destroyed. Then she could start to teach him. Together they can found a new council with wardens who defend it's members with their new swords created by Harry.
Or Harry might be able to use his talent without Luccio's help to make himself a sword. He is a knight after all ;)
And I believe he would be able to do so, if he learns how to make normal swords first. And every castle needs a smithy, doesn't it?
@ original post 8)
If I were a minor talent, I would like some ice powers. But foresight would be cool, too. Or illusions and veils. That's what I would like.
What I think I would get:
Random mind reading and reading of emotions through other people projecting their emotions on me.
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Ice powers like always getting ice for your drink or like never missing in a Snowball fight?
Regenbogen:
--- Quote from: Fcrate on August 03, 2022, 09:25:27 PM --- Ice powers like always getting ice for your drink or like never missing in a Snowball fight?
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Ice for my drink, of course. And for the snowball fight: they wouldn't even notice I was actually in the fight, because I would be sitting with my icy cocktail just twitching my finger a little and yay snow inside their clothes down the nape and the back. Or if someone pissed me off a little deeper and on the front side... LOL
forumghost:
--- Quote from: g33k on August 03, 2022, 04:47:50 PM ---Actually, Harry is exceptionally good at magical craftsmanship. Bob says most other wizards couldn't have created Little Chicago, for example. And most of Harry's substantive magical growth (tutoring Molly... being trained by Mab...) happened after he created LC!
I bet (for example) that if Luccio trusted Harry -- and Harry would put in the time -- she could tutor him to make new Warden Swords; in fact, once his mundane skills as a smith were good enough, I bet Harry's swords (even without Soulfire) would be at least as strong as Luccio's... of course, just getting the skills would probably take well over a decade of devoted work.
He's just usually too busy, with higher priorities (although that's likely just a lack of judgement).
But no... Luccio isn't likely (nor Harry) to be able to duplicate Angelic-caliber Soulfire! If she were that strong, Peabody would have fried his own brain when he tried to mentally-coerce her.
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It doesn't really matter that Harry is talented at enchanting if he never does it.
Harry has this super cool ability that theoretically lets him do all kinds of shit and he's just like "What if my fire did more damage?" "What if my ice was harder?" "What if my illusions were slightly more realistic?"
He could be using Soulfire to do shit no other Wizard can do, but instead he just uses it as a crutch to make up for the fact that he sucks at being a Wizard because he's more interested in practicing his Parkour or building up his thews.
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: forumghost on August 03, 2022, 12:29:20 PM ---
Like, Luccio is a master Smith, I bet she could use Soulfire to give everyone a lightsaber instead of just Butters.
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Do we know she's a smith or does she simply enchant blades? We've seen different people carrying different sorts of blades - if she were forging them all, I'd expect more uniformity, even if just for the manufacturing setup.
Harry probably does not MAKE his magic rings, he makes regular rings magic. His duster was a gift. He enchanted it. Elaine likely does not make her chain, she just plugs it in.
And Soulfire seems more material than energy field like a lightsaber. Now, can Harry use Soulfire in his shields? Maybe it would not transmit heat?
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