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Infected by Nemesis. What do know about how and when. What we don't know.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 28, 2023, 03:01:50 PM --- Yeah, but again, we need more information.. So Nemesis is limited to infecting 13, a more important question is can each of those thirteen pass the infection on to thirteen others and so on?
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How many Nemvectors can there be?
Must a Nemvector be one of Nemesis' instances (whether that number is 13, or 7, or 713, or whatever)?
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on October 28, 2023, 09:43:48 PM ---How many Nemvectors can there be?
Must a Nemvector be one of Nemesis' instances (whether that number is 13, or 7, or 713, or whatever)?
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I'm thinking in terms of how infectious disease spreads. If one Nemfected being can spread it to 13 other beings, and each of them are able to spread it to thirteen others, you can see where this is heading pretty fast. However so far there is no little or no evidence of how quickly it spreads, beyond what we are told. We know or assume that Lea got infected through direct contact with the knife, and Mab as well, because she also had direct contact, we don't know however how Maeve or Cat Sith got it.. It is possible that before she realized it was the knife that was the vector that Mab gave the knife to her daughter. That might be another really good reason why she was so pissed with herself, "it was the knife." None of that explains Cat Sith though, did he have contact with Lea, Mab, or Maeve? Would he have had any contact with the knife? Or did his infestation come from somewhere else?
vincentric:
Nemesis has to be limited to a small number of hosts or it would have won already. This is an entity that has been around since the beginning of human history. If it spread like a virus and just doubled every year, it could have infected the entire population of earth by now.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on October 29, 2023, 03:41:46 PM ---Nemesis has to be limited to a small number of hosts or it would have won already. This is an entity that has been around since the beginning of human history. If it spread like a virus and just doubled every year, it could have infected the entire population of earth by now.
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I agree for the most part, yet one reason why it hasn't spread is the Winter Court and the Gate Keeper have been so good at keeping it out.
g33k:
I think the WoJ is that it has an absolute cap on how many simultaneous Nemfected beings there can be at any given time.
Some speculate the cap is 13.
Some have wondered if there's a total power-level it can control, so maybe 13 mortals, but fewer total if it's enforcing its will on beings like the Leanansidhe, Aurora, Cat Sith, etc.
I'm also wondering if inanimate Nemvectors (like the Athame) count against that cap.
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