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Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
Mira:
--- Quote from: SerScot on May 06, 2025, 01:44:04 AM ---What about the chickens who personify “evil”?
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Yeah, everyone thinks chickens are pretty benign, scratching and clucking away peacefully, occasionally laying an egg.. However they do peck on one another, if they create a wound, they will gang up on the wounded one and peck at it till it dies...
Talby16:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 05, 2025, 09:53:01 PM ---I believe Merlin built the Guardian magic atop the (pre-existing) Genus Loci spirit.
I know of no WoJ specifying/clarifying this issue... not really even any hints, alas!
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I agree with that perspective. A confluence of ley lines should be enough to generate a Genus Loci spirit. I would hazard to guess that the creation of Demonreach and resulting power contained there would have a corrupting influence on a spirit over time. Therefore, I hypothesize that Merlin altered/bargained with/molded the original genus loci into Alfred in order to make sure it would not be corrupted and could fulfill its role as the Guardian.
prince lotore:
I always figured that Harry was a direct descendant of merlin. We know that Ebenezer's journals go back to merlin what if the journals are passed though a family but wizards being wizards no one realizes that they were all related. We don't know who taught eb what if it was an estranged parent. Ebenezer had to learn it from someone and acts like it's the only way to protect his family
g33k:
--- Quote from: Talby16 on May 06, 2025, 08:37:50 PM --- ... A confluence of ley lines should be enough to generate a Genus Loci spirit ...
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I'm pretty sure the prisoners in the well are the origin of the ley-line confluence; it's all radiating-out from them, rather than outside lines randomly "just happening" to cross there.
Talby16:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 07, 2025, 10:11:08 PM ---I'm pretty sure the prisoners in the well are the origin of the ley-line confluence; it's all radiating-out from them, rather than outside lines randomly "just happening" to cross there.
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Maybe. In Small Favor Captain Luccio states that a ley line runs right through the island and that it could be used to power a "greater circle" to trap the Archive. That means that ley lines in and of themselves throw off enough power and given enough time and some additional events a genus loci could develop. I interpret Harry's talk with Alfred in Cold Days to mean that the prisoners are creating a well of energy (referred to as the body heat they throw off) that supercharges the ley line that is already present.
All that being said, as I am typing this, I realize that this prison was established by Merlin in the beginning days of the White Council. The White Council mapped the ley lines. It is possible that the prisoners are the original source of the ley line. Merlin could have created the prison and the ley line developed as the prisoners were added or he could have created the prison on top of an existing ley line and the prisoners supercharged it with their body heat.
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