That is a fair guess, but I'm thinking that the closer proximity to the Lands of Always Winter make them more powerful or something. Apparently they needed to be stabbed with the Sacrifice Spear to actually be killed. That's considerably tougher than the wight Valaena fought.
Yeah, that's pretty unavoidable, the exact steps can't be replicated.
well they can it just would require time travel. Not the point moving on.
Somehow even with the horror of what you are seeing you still have the presence of mind to realize the thing thinks the ravens are Bloodraven's. In a sense you suppose they are, for you felt his featherlight touch upon the spell. You had thought it merely to allow the staff to function in such an accursed place, but now you see that like with so many workings of the Last Greenseer's mind the true purpose was deception.
"Did you lead some foolish goatherd into looking here, hoping for glory or power?" the dreadful voice asks mockingly. Then rising to a dreadful screech like the full fury of a blizzard hurled out in an instant it calls, "Arise now and redeem your failures, kill the fool's tools and then slake yourself upon all who cross your path!"
The icy plinth in the center of the room shatters and out of it emerges a figure out of nightmare. Its flesh is blackened by frostbite and withered upon its bones, its form wreathed in pale flame, its eyes burning with the same dreadful light as the once children, bearing a sword of cursed ice... only the remnants of ancient bronze armor still marks that this had once been a man. From dreams old as flame and ice you know this thing, not by whatever name it had once borne and befouled in the days of Dawn, but by the purpose its foul masters would put it.
The horror turns to the ravens and says in a voice like death: "I suppose I aught to thank you, meddler. Had you not interfered my penance would not have ended until Nightfall."
Okay, from the above:
'Lash' was not the real Fallen angel, she was just a imprint or shadow of the original thing on Dresden's mind, her existence as a mere imprint on a mortal mind is what made her malleable to some extent. The same is likely not true of the real thing.
... This sounds like a perfect place to level people up when the Thenns are evacuated.
Also, I am very excited about this gear. He's probably rocking a whole bunch of runecrafted stuff.
Something that will take centuries, even if it works and considering the power of White God's servant, it might just decide to let The Arch-angels work slightly more freely to shut down Viserys, if it actually cares Enough. Multiple Arch-angels with intellectus is not something Viserys can outscheme ever.
Well, Lya is absolutely studying those Land-Wards soon. I want the strongest set we can manage covering Sorcerer's Deep.
They Fell.
We have fuck-thousand research projects right now, so that will have to wait a bit longer.
Do you have a rough order of priority worked out for Lya's research? I was thinking we save ourselves the sacrifice and have her poke at it when we return the visiting Thenns back to their holdfast and prepare for evacuation.
I mean the white god would be an overgod in this context so worship doesn't really matter. Not that viserys would know that.
Dresden files describes their fall basically as pre destined. As god never gave them free will in the first place.
Will add that in an hour or so.
No, there's just a hundred notions about what to research floating around. And this isn't even getting into the bits I would like to prioritise.
