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If orcs hide by day, wizards hide by night. Easy enough. :smallsmile: And wizards are safer when camping, too!
Their is not day anymore, Sauron blots out the sun.
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For specific issues, wizards can bweem daylight. Summoning flame shields (yes, there's always Fiendfyre, but wizards make *normal* fire too, a la Dumbledore in HP6) is functional *and* pretty.
They make pretty good targets two
Avery-Damn it, i can't see a thing
Malfoy- Just keep quite, we need to steal some food
(Malfoy's foot gets caught in a rabbit hole)
Malfory- Ah, damnit my foot,)
Orc Bob- Hey did you hear that
Orc-Joe- I don't know, just shoot in that general direction
Avery- Slick Malfoy (teleports)
Malfory- Wait what is going on, ouch, i don't deserve this
(arrow goes into his eye, he vanishes)
Mean while, Avery shows up the next night
Avery- Ok, i'm not going to stumble around in the dark, i'll use Lumos
Orc Bob- Hey look a target
Orc Joe- I'll shoot it
Avery- Die inferor scum (shoots some nasty spells in the general direction of the camps, AK's Joe
Orc Bob- Joe, no, JOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeee, i didn't even like you
(Orc Bob shanks Avery
The end.
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I'm sure they could rig up some sort of darkvision spell, but human transfiguration isn't taught til 6th or 7th year so a little Lumos is just a cleaner way for everyday use. If Sauron blots out the sun, that's an issue for targetting to be sure, but the best kinds of spells against an army are AoE, right? You don't have to be too precise.
But you can't see arrows in the dark very easily, or Nazguls for that matter
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I don't recall ever putting too fine a point on finding the targets, let's see... I believe there's a 'Prying Eyes' analogue... I can't put my finger on it, but I want to say it was used notably in the 5th book. I believe Patronuses could serve the purpose of scouts (if this team weren't all evil).
I'm gong to reveal something somewhat amazing, but team death eaters is evil
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Flying around on a broomstick under an Invisibility Cloak or disillusionment charm would be good, too.
Cloaks are in limited surpply, and disillusionment can be risky for the purpose of communication
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Hominem Revelio might be adaptable into a narrow cone instead of a radius burst. And the orc army is generally easier to find than a few dozen wizards are due to the size of the force alone. I don't think it's one of the main issue here, really.
But all orcs can see in the dark
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Corrupting is another tack, I suppose, but it ultimately comes down to who has the most souls to steal, and that's unquestionably the thousands-strong Sauron team. It's not about who's more evil among evils; when forced to choose the good guys or the evil guys, they'll go with the evil guys because they're a bit looser with their prisoners, nothing more.
Sauron can offer his own men as sacerfices, without any of then trying to fight back, Voldemort can't
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EDIT: Dementors are the manifestations of fear. Nazgul are men. Nazgul are men with a supernatural ability.
1. Dementors are still creatures
2. When you become a wraith, you are no longer a human with supernation abilties, your just a wraith
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"Soldiers aren't happy"? Well, duh. You need to talk to some soldiers, friend... not enjoying foxholes is different from the sudden certainty that life is not worth living. You're also pretty flip with the 'rip out your soul thing'... when you get stabbed, you can get better. :smalltongue:
OKs only seem to be happy when somebody else is suffering
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Balrogs are, literally, shadow and flame, but they don't come into play here as after Gandalf defeated Durin's Bane there probably aren't any left. (Tolkien changed his mind about them over several drafts, the latest version that I'm aware of had less than 10 of them ever. Earlier drafts had them as more numerous, but less invincible).
The fact that Duran's bane is dead is irrelevant, by that logic the WK and Voldemort are dead as well. So you really can't use them being dead as an argument.
Also, the number of Balrogs is unknown, just that Duran's bane isn't the last, but i doubt the make difference
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Yes, there were dragons into the 3rd age, but they're all dead. Smaug was the last we have any mention of.
Re-read the Hobbit, they live in the Witherned Hearth. Oh and the apendix in the Return of the King, they are still alive, they just don't serve anyone but them selves, an exception being when they destroyed the dwarf kindoms for Sauron, but that was a deal
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Morgul blades, poison darts, black breath... these assume you get anywhere near the enemy. That isn't happening, remember? The Nazgul are men with their lives incredibly extended, as I've quoted repeatedly. They've been corrupted in all manner of nasty ways, but no matter how many templates you stack on they're still men.
Call me old fashion, but souless empty undead spirts who's sole purpose in life is to serve the lord of evil don't seem like humans to me anymore. They were ONCE men, no longer.
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