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Shorts set During 12M ?
g33k:
--- Quote from: earthexile313 on January 26, 2026, 11:01:19 PM --- ... a glimpse of what John Marcone and Namshiel have been doing during ...
I want to know what he's thinking.
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Now that Marcone has accepted the Coin and is actively working with an Angelic-caliber Intellectus, I strongly suspect another Marcone-POV story becomes very tough for Jim to write without giving away too much; he's remarked the Mouse also "knows too much" to easily write more Mouse-POV stories.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: g33k on January 27, 2026, 12:14:31 AM ---Now that Marcone has accepted the Coin and is actively working with an Angelic-caliber Intellectus, I strongly suspect another Marcone-POV story becomes very tough for Jim to write without giving away too much; he's remarked the Mouse also "knows too much" to easily write more Mouse-POV stories.
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I have a feeling Fallen Angels don't have intellectus. Just a guess based on how Just m incorporates real world beliefs and how real world theology says demons have less going on than angels. Of course, Jim changed things as he sees fit and real world theology is extremely varied.
Jim has written two Mouse point of view stories since saying that and writes a lot of stories where the point of view character knows a bunch of things they only reference without explaining, like the Morgan pov story, Journal, where we learn the word Destroyer, but are given no further clue as to what that is.
My point is we might still get another Marcone pov story. That story wasn't my favorite, if I'm being honest, so I'm not wish casting the likelihood of another Marcone short story. I'd much rather see a longer Kincaid one than Goodbye. I really want Kincaid and Ivy to make up.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 27, 2026, 12:35:38 AM ---I have a feeling Fallen Angels don't have intellectus. Just a guess based on how Just m incorporates real world beliefs and how real world theology says demons have less going on than angels. Of course, Jim changed things as he sees fit and real world theology is extremely varied.
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Not universal intellectus, anyway. With the possible exception of Big L.
I wouldn't rule out the Fallen having a more limited intellectus over a particular domain, though. Like the skinwalkers over how to hurt someone, or Alfred and the Warden over the island's geography.
I don't think Marcone would be a prohibitive character to do any more POV of, though. Namshiel knowing too much is only a narrative problem writing Marcone's POV if Namshiel is telling him everything, freely and accurately. Any Fallen who leaves their host volitional at all, is presumably lying and withholding as necessary to draw the host ever deeper.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on January 27, 2026, 12:52:31 AM ---Not universal intellectus, anyway. With the possible exception of Big L.
I wouldn't rule out the Fallen having a more limited intellectus over a particular domain, though. Like the skinwalkers over how to hurt someone, or Alfred and the Warden over the island's geography.
I don't think Marcone would be a prohibitive character to do any more POV of, though. Namshiel knowing too much is only a narrative problem writing Marcone's POV if Namshiel is telling him everything, freely and accurately. Any Fallen who leaves their host volitional at all, is presumably lying and withholding as necessary to draw the host ever deeper.
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That sounds about right.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 27, 2026, 12:35:38 AM ---I have a feeling Fallen Angels don't have intellectus. Just a guess based on how Just m incorporates real world beliefs and how real world theology says demons have less going on than angels. Of course, Jim changed things as he sees fit and real world theology is extremely varied ...
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I think the domain over which Angels have intellectus varies; and perhaps not all Angels have it. The Angel of Death likely has intellectus about people who are dying, for example.
I'm pretty sure Anduriel is "Master of Shadows" and that has him hearing out of every shadow. Mostly, he ignores this, but he keeps an ear out for his own name (and likely the other Denarians; maybe all Angelic Names), and certainly kept tabs on Harry for the duration of Skin Game, among other topics he tracks routinely, and/or for specific missions.
Still, I suppose that isn't _quite_ an Intellectus, because it's knowing what "many" but not "all" of what his Shadows can hear.
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