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Golem Question
Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 07:08 PM (3,098 Views)
rubberchickenben
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Are the earth spirits in elemenal spheres related to golems?
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the spheres don't use spirits, elemental force is compressed into them.

Technically Golems can be destroyed by blowing them up.
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However, since they're walking rocks, with extra magic, blowing them up needs a lot of force.
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I remember that in the book elemental spheres had spirits...
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They do have spirits.
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Tell that to Post...
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Imma pass on that.
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yeah, umm golems usually crush dont they? and anyways barty says that he cant get near it because he is a being of fire or air and golem is earth. arent marids also fire or air? i doubt that the amulet could help against it
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i don't think that any spirit could kill a golem as the golem doesn't have anything inside it. its basically a walking rock with a spell to make it walk. it relies on brute strength and the controllers will to make it animated. And also i seem to remember that spheres had spirits in which cause chaos because they hate each other and when they fly out they are in such a rush to get away from each other. I don't think i would like being in a ball with thre other people for years. Woud you?
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Ten for Ten, good answer Kavka.
And you'd be correct, Golem's are simply rocks with animate spells and an eye for control.
Take the spell away, the Golem returns to the master or crumbles trying.
Correct on the sphere as well.
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See, i do know what i am talking baou. Most of the time anyway.
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Haha, very true.
However, I have another question for you: Can something as simple as a Detonation destroy a Golem? Say Nouda loosed the most power Detonation he could, would it do anything?
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I'd say so. Honorius got close with Brute Magic Power, and he was just an afrit.

And on the elemental sphere thing, yup, the spirits of different kinds get bored of their 'limited conversation material' or something on those lines, according to Bartimaeus.
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Dec 17 2007, 05:32 PM

However, I have another question for you: Can something as simple as a Detonation destroy a Golem? Say Nouda loosed the most power Detonation he could, would it do anything?

I doubt it. Then the magicians would have obviously tried that. I think it's resistent to all sorts of magic.
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As for Nectanebo's answer, I'd say that Honorius used most of his energy just so particles of the golem would come apart. So probably a dozen afrits would get a small pile of clay. But the magic might regenerate the clay, as it did for the shadows that covered the golem.
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