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The Unholy Consult / Re: The thing we're all missing
« on: August 23, 2017, 11:19:38 pm »I'm on board with Ark still having some degree of capacity, but I think another factor could be the Inverse Fire. It appears to have the ability to sooth Erratics and bring them back to some semblance of sanity and lucidity, at least temporarily. Mek essentially says as much in his scene with Kellhus. So perhaps the Consult simply exposes their Erratics to the Inverse Fire when they need some extra brainpower or flunkies who can function at a higher level than Sranc or Skinspies.
Inverse-Fire->calmed Erratics is one of the ideas that crossed my mind in the previous threads. But I'm not too certain about it, because like Curethan said, it's something that should 'obvious', but the only evidence we have for it is Mek's reaction to the Fire. I myself have no idea what Bakker might consider to be the (supposedly) obvious answer. The author's PoV isn't the same as the readers.