Thankfully even if Harry had failed the roll a surprise attack wouldn't have worked anyway since Molly is here.
I don't agree on the timeline thing for reasons already covered, and still maintain it'll make the game worse to pop them before we have to in any case.
He's a fire caste Dragonblooded, Arthur definitely can't take a celestial exaltation.
A surprise attack on her fails, but only while her Anima is up.
He was in first life.
Is that how that works? It's been unclear if we needed to have it up already for the surprise negator in a few spots. Like when we got that RPG shot at our rental car in Vegas.
Damn, we were pretty lucky that we used a Crown question right before getting ambushed on the Vegas Strip then.
His body never fully died, that strikes me as a significant component for this sort of thing.
Oh, I don't believe that we can direct Exaltations either.
I completely agree with the Arthur point but I do feel the need to delineate this because you keep saying we try to pick who the exaltation exalts that's not actually true it's creating favorable circumstances and then letting it pick it's weighing the odds rather than directing it to whoever we say it goes to which is a canonical thing that just does happen it's not even a question that that happens it's just the truth. The Yozi the Deathlords the Sidereals and debatably the Dragonblooded also do that it is just a phenomenon that exists. Uriel literally does it in this Quest. Also Alchemicals are literally picked like straight up it's from a upstanding reincarnation but it's literally picking a soul and exalting them by mortal hands. We also exalted Lydia functionally speaking using her own and her father's divinity.
We didn't exalt Lydia, and Alchemicals/Dragonblooded are a sort of special case. The alchemicals do get picked, but the guy who invented the idea in the first place designed him that way. Dragonbloods aren't guaranteed to exalt, but their propagation mechanism is also from a collaboration with another primordial and designed to do that.
Abyssals were directly selected by Deathlords. Infernal selection had a strong degree of control. Solar exaltations could be predicted, and if you can predict something, you can control ot to a degree by manipulating fate. It's arguable that Sol directly selects Zeniths.
I would believe that except the only time we've ever seen exaltations get captured their criteria for who they pick immediately got changed to the faction that wanted to pick the candidates. So it undermines your point of we never see it happen because we do see it happen the entire targeting apparatus for 50 of the 300 get completely hijacked to the point where the demon if it doesn't like your answer of serving the Yozi can just kill you or just completely wait for the moment to pass. Another 100 of them are outright literally kept in a cage and then the person they would exalt is just asked the question and if the answer is no you die and then they wait till their next candidate.
