Sorcerous Artifacts

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« Reply #60 on: November 25, 2014, 03:38:25 pm »
Don't mind my embarrassing failures to discern the correct homophone to use.

Anyway, thats another possibility, but still doesn't explain why a chorae couldn't do the trick...
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« Reply #61 on: November 25, 2014, 03:39:55 pm »
I guess it technically could, but why would someone throw a tear of the gods at something they couldn't see?

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« Reply #62 on: November 25, 2014, 03:53:10 pm »
Lol fair enough, but if they knew it was there, why wouldn't they? At the very least, Mek new where it was. Why not just give a Chorae to one of his sranc and have at it and see what happened? Seems like it should work.
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« Reply #63 on: November 25, 2014, 05:13:47 pm »
Seems reasonable. Once the magic is broken, its just a physical barrier...
Why not just through a Chorae at it then?

Agreed, I think that's a real mystery presented by this. But that problem arises regardless of whether it's a sorcerous artifact or just a standard spell, right? Either way, a chorae should should unravel the magic no problem.

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« Reply #64 on: November 25, 2014, 05:14:30 pm »
Sorry I wrote that while you guys were posting so I repeated a couple of things you said sort of

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« Reply #65 on: November 25, 2014, 05:31:04 pm »
Good thoughts. That would explain away the chorae, sufficiency for me at least.

When Kellhus had his spinning rock armor, I believe the rocks fell away as they got hit by chorae. I imagine that if the magic was somehow manipulation space-time, you would need an infinite number of chorae to effectively disable the spell.
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« Reply #66 on: November 26, 2014, 09:44:02 pm »
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« Reply #67 on: November 28, 2014, 09:11:35 pm »
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As far I can tell, we saw that technology in field action:
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« Reply #68 on: December 02, 2014, 01:15:35 am »
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Localized, impenetrable,  invisibility shields. Slap the psuke in there and it bears no mark.
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« Reply #69 on: December 13, 2014, 10:09:24 am »
As far I can tell, we saw that technology in field action:
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« Reply #70 on: December 13, 2014, 03:53:05 pm »
On the other hand akka has an onscreen dream that says the heron spear did not work.

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« Reply #71 on: December 18, 2014, 10:22:33 am »
perhaps a chorae could not work on the Barricades because of their 'magical magnitude'?  i'm think of Akka musing that Mimara shouldn't have been able to do anything to the Seal with only a single chorae.  surely there's got to be something along these lines, it will be so disappointing if Kellhus yokes War to the world and War is immediately dismissed by a single chorae shot!

if this kind of chorae protection exists, it will be neat to see what Kellhus/Consult do with it

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« Reply #72 on: December 19, 2014, 08:13:36 pm »
The no god was destroyed by the heron spear
Actually, as a consult fanboy, I hope that No-God was not destroyed, but launched. Like the carapace was less a body or an armor and more a mobile launching pad or a sort of metaphysical egg. That's why there is no "first" or "second" apocalypse, there is just apocalypse and it's purely successfull phases. >:з

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« Reply #73 on: December 20, 2014, 02:40:00 pm »
On the other hand akka has an onscreen dream that says the heron spear did not work.
Hmm, good catch. I totally forgot about that. Could you tell me where

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« Reply #74 on: December 21, 2014, 05:45:34 am »
I think it's his last dream in TTT, right at the end of the book when he wakes up in some hut and then walks back to shimeh.

EDIT: i'm sure i remember Akka thinking, this isn't what happens...