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Some personal theories I want to get feedback on.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on April 23, 2023, 01:21:49 AM --- Plus, the blessed kerchiefs the Knights wrap dropped coins do in seem to be able to block the summoning. And that's just a portable field measure to secure them for transport, so it stands to reason that their coin jail monasteries have better countermeasures. On the other hand, it's also possible they're mistaken about it being the kerchiefs (they do get a fair bit wrong about the Lash situation) and it's actually the presence of the Knights themselves, or near-saintly priests like Forthill, who are jamming the summoning like they jam Anduriel's listening. Rotate the wrong dude out of the monastery, and the merely averagely-good personnel no longer pose a problem to Nic and Tessa rubber-banding their crews back to them?
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I present to you a hypothesis:
The Holy Hankies (and the Penalty Boxes maintained by the Church, and everything else they do to keep the Denarii of Darkness out of circulation) don't do anything at all to block the Denarians or summoning a Coin.
There's enough infighting amongst the Denarians, that they could very well be willing to leave an "uncooperative" Fallen to languish for a decade, or a century. Similarly, some of the more-picky of the Fallen may want a really well-qualified host, before they bother pursuing an agenda.
The Fallen find it useful to have the Church spend all this time & energy on "collecting" and "protecting" the Coins, which could be better-spend (by the Church's lights) on something effective. So they cultivate this delusion amongst their foes within the Church.
When they don't have anything better to do, they "stir the ants' nest" by summoning more Coins, more often... "Oh noes! We haz a traitor amongst us!" & yet more time/energy wasted, distrust sown, as they try to track down a "traitor" and implement new/better security measures.
Conspiracy Theorist:
We really need to see Nicky take out a purloined holy hankie and blow his nose into it noisily in front of the Knights.
Melriken:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 24, 2023, 09:08:35 PM ---We really need to see Nicky take out a purloined holy hankie and blow his nose into it noisily in front of the Knights.
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Yes please.
This sounds like something he would do, even if he had to have a fake one made (because a fake one would help confuse the issue).
Mira:
Actually I think the holy hankies do work.. If the example of Harry and Lasciel holds true, the only reason Harry would have been able to summon her is the fact that her shadow was in his head. Also not until Lash sacrificed herself, and he thought he still heard her voice afterwards did he once and for all reject the coin. Before that he never accepted nor rejected her coin, he thought he was protected because he had buried it and put a magic circle around it. Yet her shadow managed to get in her head and up to the moment of her sacrifice she was still trying to get Harry to accept the coin. In Death Masks, the coins are picked up with the holy hankies mainly to prevent inadvertent contact with them, which could lead to the one picking up the coin getting a shadow of the holder in his or her head, which usually leads to acceptance of the coin. When the coin is picked up with the hanky it is because the coin has been rejected by the holder or the holder is dead, so no connection with a would be host.. Since the hanky prevents the contact, it is effective.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote ---My theory is that this imbalance created by free use of Angelic power is balanced out by returning more power from the Fallen to the mortal world. So mortals choose to employ Angelic power outside the balance, and "coincidence" causes a balancing Fallen force to be expressed, freeing a coin. It would be wonderfully ironic that by being the people they are, the Knights are perpetuating the struggle
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pretty much think the same thing. They balance each other out on a ten to one scale. Part of the reason, is they aren't actually the mirror opposite of them, they simply take up that space. Balance within reality seems of paramount importance because imbalances tend to lend that weight to something not part of reality. Hence the perfect balance between the fae. Although, consider. Angelic beings cannot interfere without someone doing something already. The perfect balance to that is beings whose sole purpose is to DO those things. Starts to get a bit of the chicken vs egg parabol.
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