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| Topic Started: May 21 2008, 10:09 PM (2,264 Views) | |
| Vinr Alfakyn | Jun 26 2008, 05:58 AM Post #31 |
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Utukku
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Dansariki! Anywho, I don't think so. A demon's essence doesn't change, just it's appearance. They would look like silver, but not be silver, you know? |
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| Nero | Jun 26 2008, 03:45 PM Post #32 |
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The Canadian
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Somebody's gotten wiser lately.
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| FuzzyLobster | Jun 26 2008, 09:27 PM Post #33 |
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Marid
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Thank you! That's what I've been trying to say this whole time. They can look like something, but can never actually be it. It's just an illusion. A complicated illusion, but an illusion. |
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| Vinr Alfakyn | Jun 27 2008, 02:41 AM Post #34 |
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Utukku
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Well, it says in the books somewhere (too lazy to bother) that the essence of a spirit doesn't change. And what is that supposed to mean, Nero?
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| Nero | Jun 28 2008, 12:15 AM Post #35 |
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The Canadian
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Nothing....
Edited by Nero, Jun 28 2008, 12:15 AM.
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| Dansariki | Jun 29 2008, 11:41 PM Post #36 |
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ummm Hi Vinr. Oh, right I was gone for awhile... The comment you're thinking of was in Golem's Eye, when Bart comments on Honorious' form, "It is a simple fact that, upon materializing in the human world, we have to take on some form or other, even if it is just a drift of smoke or a dribble of liquid. Although some of us [spirits] have the power to become invisible on the lower planes, on the higher, we must reveal a semblance: that is part of of the cruel binding wrought by the magicians..." "What we don't do is "possess" material objects..." "...anyways, this procedure is strictly forbidden by the terms of our summoning." Spirits cannot, by there summoning and their nature, connot possess or become any material object in our world. Honorious is a first, though the combonation of the procedure and great loneliness in the tomb robbed him of his sanity as a result. |
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| FuzzyLobster | Jun 30 2008, 01:01 PM Post #37 |
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Marid
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Uh, Dansariki, just because they can't possess material objects, it isn't said anywhere that they can't look like an inanimate object. |
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| Nero | Jun 30 2008, 04:31 PM Post #38 |
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They can't and don't want to. There's no use for them to possess anything except freedom. |
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| nathanielandbartimaeus | Jul 1 2008, 02:16 PM Post #39 |
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Marid
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On the whole, I think they can turn into inanimate objects, just an outer illusion like so many of you guys said. But they find it of no use when other exciting prospects are present. What's scary about turning into a stool or chair or something? Even in battles, turning into a rock & hurling themselves at an opponent seems idiotic when they can fire detonations instead. |
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