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How was “the Well” on Demonreach filled with inmates?
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: SerScot on January 01, 2023, 10:16:52 PM ---Because Lake Superior is where the rifting was taking place… not Southern Lake Michigan.
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Actually according to Fig 2 the Mezoprotozoic rifting took place on three sides of Lake Michigan and the Grenville Techtonic front runs parallel to Lake Michigan which is between it and Superior, it’s bedrock is also geologically more recent than Superior. There have been multiple geological events in the Great Lakes Basin
Which resulted in the current formation, so seeking to ascribe a particular feature to just a single event would appear to be pointless. The whole region has be geologically active for a considerable period.
SerScot:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on January 02, 2023, 02:37:11 AM ---Actually according to Fig 2 the Mezoprotozoic rifting took place on three sides of Lake Michigan and the Grenville Techtonic front runs parallel to Lake Michigan which is between it and Superior, it’s bedrock is also geologically more recent than Superior. There have been multiple geological events in the Great Lakes Basin
Which resulted in the current formation, so seeking to ascribe a particular feature to just a single event would appear to be pointless. The whole region has be geologically active for a considerable period.
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The point I’m trying to make is that the rifting was well north of where Butcher has Demonreach placed. Lake Michigan around Demonreach (where Demonreach purports to be) is not the formerly geologically active part of the region. That the UP of Michigan, Northern Wisconsin, and North Eastern Minnesota. Geologically all Demonreach could be is a lens of very hard rock that survived the most recent glaciation and was tall enough to be partially above water in the current Geological epoch.
Ed0517:
Why do we presume Merlin or the Dragons created the ley line network around Demonreach? Maybe the network was not created by Merlin when he built the jail, maybe Merlin built the jail here BECAUSE the ley lines were here. Like founding New York because there was a good harbor there. They didn't build the harbor. They wanted to settle, and decided "This harbor looks good. We'll go here". Merlin sees Lake Michigan as a moat, defuses a lot of the magic of someone approaching. Has ley lines as a power source.
Looks like a good building site!
I'm not sure Michael could not kill Siriothrax - heck, in later cases, he seems to think that maybe it could kill Nic. He's more aggressive with Nic, less defensive. Nic can be killed by the Noose. Divinely endowed? Siriothrax may be immortal to HUMAN weapons, but the Swords are divine.
Do we know that Naag came back from the A bomb? I was assuming they are not immortal, just semi-immortal, and it might be a fission bomb is enough.
Conspiracy Theorist:
The Swords can’t kill the Fallen only the hosts. The noose protects Nick, not Anduriel. The Fallen can heal their host and can stem the ravages of time.
If immortals were so easy to kill Demonreach wouldn’t exist. We know:-
1. All immortals can be killed on Halloween (immortals do not like this to be known)
2. The Faerie Queens can be killed on the Stone Table
3. Repeated blasts from the Eye of Baelor can kill an immortal, probably by breaking reality in relation to them and their immortality.
Indeed there is no reason for Michael not to think that he killed Sirriothrax rather than disincorporate him, Harry only finds out about killing immortals in Summer Knight because Bob found out this information and had to flee Winter. Ferro isn’t going to set him straight and it may explain why he was so forgiving of Michael in GP he knew Sirriothrax had only been disincorporated and not killed or imprisoned in Demonreach, and would be back. Michael is less clued into the supernatural than Harry, so he wouldn’t know.
Not all the Fae or monsters The Knights deal with are immortal, they are ageless or long lived, durable but not immortal. The Swords can kill them no problem. For an immortal like Ethnui they can injure or discorporate her if they can get in sufficient blows to their physical form, like nuking a Naagloshii the swords are that powerful. Not so sure about the Faithsaber though it may require less blows than then other swords to discorporate an immortal, it can do far more damage spiritually and may make the period to reincorporate much longer but they would eventually return.
The Faithsaber versus the Fallen would be interesting, is the Faithsaber enough into the spiritual now to disincorporate a Fallen if it were to bisect a coin? Cutting them loose from their coin? The coins were impervious to physical damage presumably even the swords in their material form couldn’t harm them so they couldn’t be disincorporated.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: SerScot on December 30, 2022, 08:07:43 PM ---We saw how difficult it was to get Ethniu into the Well. We saw how difficult it was for Harry to fight Shagnasty… how did the inmates on Demonreach get there? Who put them there? When did they get there?
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Before you go down this road consider what purpose it serves in the narrative. It obviously is meant to serve as a power source. Rashid had hinted at that. Otherwise there is no reason for the place to exist. It's too dangerous.
Also consider that Demonreach lied to Bob when he reveled what and who built it. You should know by now that Demonreach is concealing something.
Odin had something to do with it. Interesting maybe. Does Rashid wear Odin's eye? Interesting question 2. Who were LTW and the River Shoulders so frightened of that they wouldn't tell Harry about Drakul and Starborn?
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