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Can Animages summon demons, and how would their process differ from normal? Since animages manipulate manna directly, how would they summon a demon, since demon summonings seem to be all about spells and pentagram designs. What would an animage that specialized in demon summoning be called, a demonimaster? ( ADHD moment- is an animage that controls the dead a necromaster?) BAck on topic, would an animage just think about which demon he wanted and create a bond to him? I can see one way that could work, if the animage was a astromaster or spatiomaster, or whatever its called, he could reach into the abyss and form a link with a demon. If this is how it works I can see how the anilords were so feared. So, how would an animage summon a demon and would he need a pentagram?
Is there any one besides the demons who know the truth about them? or does everybody automatically assume that they are all lying? It just seems like every demon claiming to come from somewhere else and that they weren’t always a demon, would have been noticed by some scholar or scribe at some point in history. So either most of the demons lie about where they come from, or the wizards are just that paranoid about sharing their knowledge that they took any stories with them to their graves. or at least to their demon’s stomachs.
Another question, since demons don’t need to eat, and don’t um,… have certain bodily functions that occur after eating, is any food they eat converted directly into manna or animus?
Well that’s disappointing, too bad demons are famous for their honesty and keeping their word. I’ll never be able to get you to reveal your secrets.
Is Rupert, Rupert’s real name? If I was a young, vulnerable half-demon ( bit of an oxymoron there) going to a wizard school run by someone like Lenamare, I would never give them my real name, just in case they somehow found out. Actually if I was ANYONE getting close to a school run by someone like Lenamare, I would use a fake name. You cant trust wizards.
The just seeing magic thing is a good point.
I missed the thing about time travel with the world gate. That seems much more likely. What if the time travel occurs in the far future, where Tom is more of a stereotypical demon, and is fine with leaving Ruperts mother. Or if in the past, something happens and Tom is bound by someone and is forced to leave her. Or worst case scenario, Tom goes to the past, meets Rupert’s mother, fathers rupert, and then gets killed so badly that it takes years to reform, or is even completely destroyed.
Or maybe Tom never meets Ruperts mother, and it is all somehow orchestrated by Tizzy, using an incubus. No matter what, Tizzy was probably the first to know about it.
I have been looking around, and having seen much speculation about Rupert, and rumors and speculation seems like the best place to ask, Is it possible that in the future tom becomes a Chronomaster or temporamaster or whatever the time warriors had and Rupert is his kid? It makes a lot more sense than there being a demon that looks similar to Tom, that is powerful enough to have a greater demon son and still be unknown. OR an even crazier idea: the cocordenaux has been travelling the planes as a mortal for millenia, he has had several kids, maybe in low mana planes they don’t manifest as demons unless they are summoned. Tom and Rupert are brothers and their father is the concordenaux, the only demon powerful enough to have a greater demon half-demon son. I know there are a few holes, but it is a fun theory. So, would a half demon kid on earth necessarily manifest as a demon, or could it lie dormant?
This is an idea that I doubt Tom would come up with by himself, but I could easily believe the D’orcs recommended to him.Tommus has an Incubus working for him, and followers that literally worship him in multiple planes. He should have Reggie do whatever it is that he does, to impregnate someone with someone else’s kids, hopefully, it is just taking a bit of animus, if it is more detailed I don’t wnat to here about it. But he should have Reggie get an orc or two in each clan pregnant with Tom’s kids. The orcs would love, it, Tom’s kids would be some of their strongest warriors, plus, THEY WORSHIP HIM. Once again, I don’t think Tom would ever think of this , but I think the D’orcs would consider it an awesome idea.
Also, I would find it hilarious, if in the middle of this, while still carrying Tom’s animus or whatever, Reggie was summoned by his accursed mistress, and given that circle of life juice or whatver it was that the Nyjyr Ennead intend to use to increase the population of their followers. Their would be tons of little half demon babies. or at least one or two. This would actually be great for the Nyjyr Ennead since they would have a bunch of followers with abnormally high animus and manna. It might be a bit embarassing for Tom, plus the child support might be a little much, but Tom can handle, he has rooms full of gold and precious gems, plus, only the oostemothians would be dumb enough to go to the abyss to force him to pay child support if he missed a payment ( I am assuming that Tom would not be a deadbeat on purpose). Either way, it would be a pretty good story.
What happens to an avatar or Archon that is defeated in Tierhallon? Are they permanently destroyed, or are they invincible?
On a completely unrelated note, since the Tom’s shaman links are similar to a priest link, will he eventually be able to set up a system like tiernon’s if he wants to? Where his followers constantly send him power, but can occasionally access his power for a miracle? If so, he really needs to set that up, because a self sustaining system like that could be very beneficial. plus, free manna is free manna, and it will help his followers too. He can include his friends in the system too. Tizzy should enjoy this because it would mean a lot free manna for him.
That’s how I was thinking, I don’t see any possible way for her to betray Tiernon, but I really don’t want to see her killed or anything. And it really seems like Tom is going to end up directly fighting Tiernon or at least some of his avatars or archons, which means he might have to kill her.
I believe that this discussion went way off track. This is mostly likely Tizzy’s fault. He knew we were getting close to the truth about him, and had to step in and distract us. It may appear to not be Tizzy’s fault, in fact it may appear that this conversation naturally reached the point it did, but in reality it is all due to his demonic influence. Tell us the truth!
… or an interesting lie, whichever works for you.
Yah, I am pretty sure that the orcs/d’orcs will be expecting to go out and start conquering. It will be fun to see how Tom deals with that, since he is just going to want to work on improving things around Mt. Doom and helping the tribes.
I am excited for whatever appears in the next book, but has there been any information released on when it is expected?
I just started re-reading the book, and I noticed that the person who sold Reggie the weed sounds a whole lot like Tizzy. The man who sold it to him, was only described as smoking the same weed from a tobacco pipe. If it was Tizzy, it opens up a whole lot of questions, but it makes a lot of sense.
What really bugs me is that I just realized that Oorstemoth is probably the best place to live for normal people in Astlan. Sure, the freedom of mana users is limited, but I bet that there is a proper licensing procedure for any magically act or experiment you could want to try. And if your just citizen A minding your own business and some random wizard or demon kills you, you can rest assured that your military will pursue them through the depths of hell to hey justice for you. All of your rights and duties as a citizen are explicitly listed out, and you have a higher standard of living then peasants in other kingdoms.
The orcs have a good reason to hate lawyers and Oorstemoth, but they are great for humans.
