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1. Could Xykon or Redcloak replicate the soul splicing ? And if yes, in a given scenario where one of them slays and forces the soul splicing over the other, could the winner achieve the ritual spell by itself? (XyRed? Redkon?)
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How would they? Neither of them actually own any souls to splice, and even if they killed each other, they wouldn't own each others souls?
Sorry, I should have been clearer here. I mean that either Xykon or Red Cloak captures the soul from the other one. We know that Xykon already can do it (Spoiler
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and it is a good thing he actually can't do the soul splicing due to the couple of souls he has already captured
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They could get a splice if the demons controlling the souls of the splicees would give it to them, yes. The hard part is getting someone to offer it to them. I also don't know it they could be forced to work that way, but even if they could, I doubt one person could do both parts of the ritual even with asplice.
Oh, I didn't remember this part. I was with the idea that the special offer from the arch-demons was the 3 souls at the same time, not the technique (Spell?) itself. Particularly because Red Cloak identifies it properly.
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2. Can the Arch-demons take control of V’s body if its remains in an anti-magic zone? And what would happen if said body remains in anti-magic zone when the demons must return V’s soul ?
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My assumption is that the fiends abuse whatever mechanism moves souls to their respective afterlifes. And as people who die in anti-magic fields still can go to heaven...
Pretty good logic here!
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I'm gonna go with probably. I doubt anything prevents one from teleporting into an AMF and as DM, I'd rule the same for that kind of soul movement.
Plus they are on the higher leagues.
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3. In a normal 3.5ed setting, could an Epic/ancestral piercing an ancient/epic red dragon’s natural armor? (too drunk to remember and books in another continent) I'm with the idea that will be masterwork weapons vs very high natural armor but not sure.
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I am not sure what you mean. Like, a weapon that ignores natural armor? That would need to be one that deals damage with touch attacks. Don't know any, but that doesn't mean any.
Ah sorry, I was speaking from memory. The dragon will still have all its natural armor class, and the weapons from the party would be at much masterworks, so not extra damage. I don't even remember if dragons have some kind of damage reduction, and much less if this persists in ATF (I think so due being a supernatural effect)
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4. If the purple color is added with success, and thus the snarl is forever captured (or undone). If a fifth color emerges, would the gods not dissolve the current world to create something superior to everything that had been done in the past?
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That would give the Snarl another chance at escaping. Why would they risk it?
Mmm, pretty solid point. Even the discussion of doing it or not, may bring more chaos to the creation and make stronger the Snarl.
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Plausible. They'd want to nurse him and TDO until they can survive a world gap.
Yeah, very important point!
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Regarding #4 first I kinda doubt the gods would do that, firstly because if a fifth quiddity emerges after sealing the snarl with 4 color seals if they're really feeling cautious they can probably just try some extra reinforcement on those spots using the fifth quiddity. They would probably make sure both the Dark One and this hypothetical 5th quiddity are kept in the loop about the snarl, why not to poke it, and how to survive if the snarl destroys this world.
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Plus, probably they are already without ideas for a new world
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5. If the gods knew of what they were done and how, why were they unable to figure how to create a new color?
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What is that supposed to mean? What is it that the gods are supposed to know? How they came to be or what? Do the gods know how they came to be?
Ah, when Thor spoken with Durkon on the last book there were two important facts:
1. Gods understand from where they came, and how to persist.
2. Probably, all the gods were unware that new colors were possible
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I can answer 5: If the gods got involved in helping a mortal become a god, then that by definition would mean the new god shares a quiddity with the gods that helped. A new quiddity requires a mortal to ascend to godhood without any other gods helping.
Ouch, this has logic but also reinforce the bad joke about the reason behind the goblinoids races existence in this world.
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I'm honestly not sure what you're asking here. Per what I THINK you're asking, they probably never imagined that it could be possible.
Stubborns and imaginatives with the mortal worlds. BUT, blindfold from their own nature? Sounds more than plausible :)
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As is so often the case when independent creations exist in a setting, mortalkind themselves ended up creating purple quiddity - to do so was outside the scope of the gods.
Yep, pretty good conclusion here.
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If I was in their shoes I think I would try to respark the green quiddity, after all, to their knowledge no other quiddities can exist, so why waste time trying to do make something that may not exist when you can try making something that you know used to exist?
So my guess is they did try to revive the green quiddity at some point or another, and when that didn't bear fruit they just came to believe it was impossible to raise any new quiddity.
Pretty good logic here. After all, the gods tried a lot of things since the first world.
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6. Is the beer of annihilation cannon? And if yes, it was created by Hel?
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IDK if it's canon, but it sounds more like something Thor would make to cheat the system of dishonor. Remember, if the livers die fighting the dwarf gets into Valhalla.
Actually, this is why I think it would had been created by Hel. Instant death from the second most loved thing by the dwarvens, said dead would come from a non-combat scenario. This smells to Hel.
Of course, Thor could also had created it to justify honorable deaths from fighting the impossible saving throw :P
