Because I am unfamiliar with the mechanics and powers ghost!Choi operates under, can someone give me an explanation on how dangerous a Deathlord is?
Alice did damaged Choi, and Harlan is far far deadlier than she is.
I don't know enough to actually answer this question in full, but i have some bits of half-remembered insight...
- He's dead. That means that there are very few things that can actually kill him. DSci can do it, wielded properly, and Death can do it, and from the tools we have, that's about it. He's also way out-of-paradigm for many of the focuses we might want to bring to bear.
- Wraiths have this thing where they have their own worst enemy in their head, with a resource pool (angst) that the wraith can fill as a cost paid to get other things. The enemy (the shadow, I think?) can take control, and burn angst as a resource to do resource things. That means that if you beat a wrath down to near-nothing, there's a decent chance that instead of folding they'll yield position to the Shadow, who suddenly has a full resource pool to play with. The more in tune with each other the two are, the easier and more efficiently this goes. Given that Choi is at a point where he'd be pretty cool with Ending All Things if it meant he could get revenge on Jamelia, there's a good chance they're getting along pretty well with one another right now.
- Wraiths who are walking around with bodies of their own are known as "Revenants". (This is different from the wraiths who are possessing people, which I know almost nothing about). I believe that in order to become a revenant, you *have* to be getting along pretty well with your darker self. Also, damage to the body is not hugely significant, unless you annihilate it utterly - anything less than that, and the wraith or shadow can just reassemble the thing, and it doesn't slow them down nearly as much as standard damage would to normal people. They can sometimes fake being a vampire well enough to fit in more or less, but their blood is rotted and clotted and will cause vampires to vomit.
- Just because you can't touch them doesn't mean that they can't touch you.
So... basically the issue is that this guy has a lot of resources and a lot of mooks, and a deep knowledge of how Jamelia's head works, and a number of strange spiritual powers, and he's bloody hard to kill, and reasonably hard to *find*, and the mooks that actually matter also have spiritual powers (or possessing entities with spiritual powers) and hating Jamelia is literally one of the pillars of his existence.
I'm remembering very little about fetters, though (the hate thing). I know that the fact that she's a fetter for him lets him do stuff with respect to her that he can't do just anywhere, and I suspect it lets him find her a lot easier, but I'm not at all sure about the details.
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