Watch the trailer for Battle Ground. Mab tells Harry,Yeah just did, further confirmation to me that Jim is laying breadcrumbs. I think we might learn what Morgan was referring to, at least partly, when he called Harry a Destroyer.(click to show/hide)
I guess it's how you use that destructive ability that's important.
Actually that speaks to the limitations of the eye. Harry has encountered all manor of soothsayer and none ever had an issue except that one time.In DM, it was prophesied that either Harry would die, or everyone would. That's not what happened.
Harry is an unravelling on two legs, he laughs at prophecy, eats death curses for breakfast and defecates upon entropy curses. He is a destroyer and force of chaos in that he can avoid destiny and create new futures where none exist.
Example on Demonreach where he asks the GateKeeper to look at him again after he has stepped on the island, Harry has demolished the pre-ordained future replacing it with new previously unforeseen options my marrying Alfred. Clairvoyants and prophets must really, really hate Harry even if they haven’t met him yet (which is what normally happens) because he is a blind spot, all they can see is general details of war and bloodshed, no specifics. Chandler’s bonhomie to Harry is therefore forced and phoney.
DM, it was prophesied that either Harry would die, or everyone would. That's not what happened.
In DM, it was prophesied that either Harry would die, or everyone would. That's not what happened.
Harry dying didn't *happen*, but it did become a thing that was unavoidably going to happen until Shiro invoked his once-a-lifetime-substitute-sacrifice super power to die in Harry's place.
There must be some limit or Nic would just curse all the Archangels to die.
Or the Knights. Or their families.
I'm wondering if it's actually "just" a really strong entropy curse and the idea that it's unavoidable is a product of the Knights' relatively limited knowledge base (like the idea that there's no way to get a Shadow out of your head other than accepting the Coin or giving up magic). If Harry as of DM can build wards that keep it out of his apartment, then a really skilled wizard might be able to redirect it (like Harry did with the Outsider-powered entropy curse in BR).
I'm wondering if it's actually "just" a really strong entropy curse and the idea that it's unavoidable is a product of the Knights' relatively limited knowledge base (like the idea that there's no way to get a Shadow out of your head other than accepting the Coin or giving up magic). If Harry as of DM can build wards that keep it out of his apartment, then a really skilled wizard might be able to redirect it (like Harry did with the Outsider-powered entropy curse in BR).
I'm not actually convinced that the Denarian entropy curse is particularly more formidable than the one in BR sponsored by a Walker. The curse in DM didn't seem all *that* badass - the attempted strike before getting behind the wards was dangerous, but avoidable even exhausted and battered. It's primarily dangerous because it keeps trying if the first hit doesn't succeed, not because it hits overwhelmingly hard. The Walker's curse hits like a truck, but if it's avoided or redirected, that's it until the summoner can set up to cast it again.
I'm not actually convinced that the Denarian entropy curse is particularly more formidable than the one in BR sponsored by a Walker. The curse in DM didn't seem all *that* badass - the attempted strike before getting behind the wards was dangerous, but avoidable even exhausted and battered. It's primarily dangerous because it keeps trying if the first hit doesn't succeed, not because it hits overwhelmingly hard. The Walker's curse hits like a truck, but if it's avoided or redirected, that's it until the summoner can set up to cast it again.
The Knights just seem to probably be overestimating it from dangerous to autokill because they don't know any countermagic other than to jump on the grenade.
The curse itself might not seem all that badass, but it was turbocharged by the Shroud.
Oh sure, with the Shroud it's a whole other issue. I'm talking about when Shiro says the Noose allows Nicodemus to mandate "a death that cannot be avoided". There's just got to be some way to avoid/block/flat out resist it if you're powerful enough.
I'm actually thinking the Noose may be a kind of life-battery; twisted, but still a battery.
So I'm thinking the curse may be a kind of 'life for a life' and the only way to abuse it is to find someone to take the life off to extend your own. Nic has found the way to use it to steal rather than trade lives, and the Knights/Harry have no idea how to counter it, but maybe understanding it steals life rather than cursing could help gain insight?
The noose's connection to Judas has been refuted? I missed that. I thought that was explicitly confirmed in the text in Death Masks, although Michael just says that they believe it to be the one Judas used.
The curse itself might not seem all that badass, but it was turbocharged by the Shroud. The Knights only had the first part of the prophesy, Shiro taking Harry's place saved Harry, but to save everyone else, Harry had to get the Shroud away from Nic because he was using it to eventually give everyone the plague.
The plague curse is different from the Barrabus curse. The entropy curse tried to drop a live electrical wire on Harry before he and Susan got behind the wards.
Or perhaps it does have something to do with Judas, that it was actually Nic who betrayed Jesus, so the noose that Judas hung himself with is around Nic's neck because he tricked Judas into thinking he was the blame? I know it isn't even high grade tin foil..
I've wondered before if Nic might *be* Judas... I rather doubt "Nicodemus Archleone" is his real name, Archleone doesn't sound right for that part of the world at that time.
I've wondered before if Nic might *be* Judas... I rather doubt "Nicodemus Archleone" is his real name, Archleone doesn't sound right for that part of the world at that time.Didn't the Archive describe real details of his life? Or was that only Tessa?
I've wondered before if Nic might *be* Judas... I rather doubt "Nicodemus Archleone" is his real name, Archleone doesn't sound right for that part of the world at that time.
I think he's doubting Thomas, who often gets confabulated with Judas. No particular reason that I can recall atm🤔