Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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We don't see Lash inside Harry? And he himself doesn't count as a creature of darkness despite technically holding a coin. Interesting.
No, he is not
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Hmmm... who made it probably isn't helpful. Who has wielded it before, maybe? How many like this are there? I think your question is decent.
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I was more curious about being unable to see Lash at 6 successes.
Surprised that we didn't get a stronger reaction to Madrigal's plot, assuming that was included in the party explanation.
As far as he knows no one died. 'Monsters planning to do monstrous things' is situation normal for him.
Harry is not a Creature of Darkness, therefore the power does not work on him and cannot look deeper. It's like you have Auspex but only for CoD and much more through
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SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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I imagine 'the girl he thinks of like a niece is going to be in a building where at least three concurrent cocaine-fueled S&M orgies are occurring during all business hours' is the higher priority. Lets be honest, eighteen isn't old enough to be within a mile of this stuff. Ebenezer McCoy isn't old enough for this stuff.
Whatever Denarians are metaphysically may not be on Sol's shit list either.
If whatever they're made of post-dates him, then they may simply not have had chance to be entered.
Angels are unlikely to be, and just because these particular angels are having a political disagreement with their creator may not have changed their essence to be something the UCS had expressed his disapproved of.
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WoD Demons are CoDs, despite also being Angels and falling without the Big Yellow One's notice.
I'd rather assume that Lash doesn't count as CoD because she's build from Harry's mind, than believe that Lasciel is not a CoD.
Oh and some news before I forget, the day after tomorrow I'll be traveling most of the day. I'll try to get an update up in the evening, but I can't promise anything.
That's fair, but this is a little bit different in that for all his issues this was supposed to be targeted violence against what's effectively his nationality and ethnicity for lack of a better term.
It's kind of like the difference between gang violence and hearing that someone was trying to set up concentration camps targeted at getting you. Or at least any of your people too weak to defend themselves or flee.
Even if the killing is nothing new the motive is still unsettling to say the least.
To be fair, Sol's shit list isn't the only force here in the current age.
From page 83 of ExWoD, in the solar section:
So the criteria seem to have been updated with the changing of the world to something more fuzzy than one god's opinion.
Per the description you just have to have a strong connection to one of a few things or be inherently evil.
Which, if I'm tracking her character arc correctly, she still is. She's getting better, but there are still some significant things they need to go through together to push her redemption plot measurably forward.
For my part it makes more sense that she isn't showing up because she's hidden inside Harry, sort of like nemesis.
I bet if he started channeling hellfire or something she might show up a bit, but right now the power she's exerting is entirely contained within Harry body and is low energy anyway.
A more interesting question is if EDS would see her:
In the literal mechanical sense it doesn't, but we do have other charms/abilities that more more off fluff than system text alone.
Seeing as mortal minds partially interact with the nevernever while doing things like dreaming, which we know from the dream magic path, wizards definitely passively interact with the magical energy around them, and Lash has multiple* outgoing connections, it's possible that we don't see her as a CoD because she's shielded from the perspective we're looking at but would show up as a disturbance in Harry's normal interactions with the environment relative to his prior/the standard wizard baseline.
Not as something screaming what she is or how she's feeling like HC can see, but something noticeable at least.
* but likely subtle
Harry kind of considers all of humanity his nationality, it is always humans and non-humans with him, not talents and non-talents.
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But using HF to detect possessing entities is about half the reason we got it and it worked on Nemesis even who is hiding far better then Lash.
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[X] Commission Harry to look into the Akuma's sword (Cost Paid Automatically from Resource Background; Risk that he will feel duty-bound to destroy it if it is too bad)
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Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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Good minion you get a cookie.
If Lash were in control of him that or infusing him you would see her. Right now his soul is in the way.
For thematic reasons I doubt it would be the case, but sometimes wonder if these things are Lunars
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Why would that matter? The criteria for detection is standing in the presence of a COD which we are. It wouldn't matter if they had all the forces of heaven between us.
That's was sort of a bad metaphor on my part.
In terms of nationality I was thinking about how for all his troubles he still respects the council and believes in its mission, so the prospect of a new shadow war against it would be particularly unsettling.
I agree that he doesn't exactly view other mortals as outsiders or something, but being a wizard is a cornerstone of his identity. Seems to me that something targeted specifically at erasing them from humanity would press his buttons in multiple different ways that "standard" violence wouldn't.