A warden is sent to investigate the situation and witnesses Fix burning the killer. What happens next? Does the warden try to arrest Fix?
What happens if its Harry freezing the guy to death?
What happens if its Harry freezing the guy to death, but he is no longer a member of the white council?
Do the laws of magic only count for people who are using their own power? If a mortal makes a pact with a dark god and uses the power he or she gained to kill some one is it a violation of the law? They aren't really doing anything different than one of the knights, but they aren't members of the accords.
Fix is a mortal (sort of) and he kills some one with magic, which is a violation of the first law. Does it not count because Fix is an extension of Titania's will? Does it not count because Fix's power is an extension of Titania's? Does the council have jurisdiction over changelings or only standard humans. When you are a mortal and take on a fairy mantle are you now considered a fairy? Do the laws of magic only count for people who are using their own power?[/quote]
The Laws of Magic are enforced by the White Council. They can enforce them against their own members, obviously. They can also enforce them against your average sorcerer, mortal practitioners who aren't members of the White Council, because they have no other Accords nation representing them - the White Council claims jurisdiction and nobody powerful is contesting that claim.
Fix the Summer Knight is a member of the Summer Court, an Accords nation. The White Council enforcing their internal laws against him just isn't going to fly.
I agree I don't think Fix would be corrupted at all.Slowing or speeding up does not change the direction, you don’t swim against the stream so it is ok.
I think intent matters at first, but repeated use is probably bad no matter what.
I think you have a point about the time thing. I wonder about the law, it sound like it prohibits changing the past, but i don't know if it prohibits the slowing or speeding of time if a mortal could do that.
The whole point of the Laws of Magic with regard to killing people, messing with their mind, compelling them, is to prevent the practitioner from being subject to black magic creep which damages their mind.
- Is Harry protected now that he is a Knight? Is he immune to the concerns about black magic eating at his soul?
- To what extent does the breaking of the laws corrupt the mind? Are some more dangerous than others?
Can the corruption be "healed" with time or is a permanent stain on the soul?
Arjan: Slowing time is kins of like swimming against the current, so I don't know. It's probably a grey area. I think there is something to be said for free will and one's ability to change. Atleast it matter to Uriel.But that happens all the time if you go to the nevernever and back. Start executing half the council.
I'ma little surprised Harry can BE the Winter Knight. That's an agent of Winter. Not an employee. I can WORK for, say, a Canadian company, but I can't be an envoy of their government... I don't think I could get diplomatic immunity for them.
Both the White Council and the Winter Court are much older than the modern concept of nations, which is basically 17th century European in origin.The concept of the nation-state began to emerge with the Treaty of Westphalia. At one, before that, point England's ambassador to Spain was Spain's ambassador to England, if I'm remembering the countries right.