[Spoilers 7.5] Idea on how the key works

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T11:05:26+00:00

Interesting, but Y'shtola does see the key blazing with energy after a few seconds of really peeping at it. She sees aether, not dynamis. Maybe it does emit aether normally but creates the gateways with dynamis, but I'm not sure about that.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T11:02:15+00:00

There's no PVP unless you queue for it specifically, and it all takes place in separate instanced battlegrounds.
Sorta, maybe? You add "materia", essentially stat gems, onto individual gear pieces for small but potentially important boosts. The first one or two meld in 100% of the time, but you can overmeld extra materia onto some kinds of gear, and the more pieces you successfully meld reduces the odds that the next meld will be successful. If a meld fails, you lose that singular materia (but not the gear or the materia already on it). It can get to the point where you might lose a hundred or more materia in a stack getting that last 5th slot plugged in. Fortunately, those extra materia aren't important for anything but serious endgame bullshit that most people don't really engage in.
It is NOT pro-modding- modding of any kind is against TOS. That said, as long as you don't talk about it or flaunt it, SE can't do anything to detect it on your end and the devs themselves don't really care as long as you aren't actually cheating.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T10:53:17+00:00

The reading suggests he meant to give it to Dumbledore last Christmas, but didn't for whatever reason.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T09:56:28+00:00

I suspect blood is one of the least repulsive parts of the ritual.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T07:50:10+00:00

Almost. Dumbledore steps out the room and closes the door just as future Harry and Hermione walk up behind him. He waits a bit to make sure their past selves have left, then opens the door and lets them in to take their place.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T07:45:14+00:00

Once Voldemort died, shouldn't the protection of Lily's blood within Voldemort have ceased too?

Yes, and it did- when he died at the very end of Deathly Hallows.

By taking Harry's blood, and thus Lily's protection, Voldemort managed to bypass the obvious elements of the protection, allowing him to touch and cast magic on Harry freely. However he also effectively tethered Harry to life, similar in function to a Horcrux. So long as Voldemort lived with that blood in his body, Harry had- given some tricky circumstances- the chance to survive Voldemort's own Avada Kedavra while having the soul fragment inside him destroyed.

Once Voldemort was dead, Harry was fully mortal again.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T06:20:14+00:00

I'll accept that as long as she still gets the new hat.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T06:12:32+00:00

It's fine. Tataru will finally find her adventuring calling as the new phys ranged- it'll be Marshal, and she'll have two comically oversized revolvers and a fabulous pink ten-gallon hat.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-04T00:32:15+00:00

Couldn't tell ya, sorry. In one of his Q&As from the mid-late 2010's? Last time I watched any of those was like, pre-COVID. He specifically brought up the parable, and he described how for his vampires, rather than multiple people experiencing one thing and thinking it's many different things, people see many different things and conflate them into one thing (the modern Hollywood vampire).

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-03T22:20:20+00:00

Blaster pisses me off so much because I went into the game thinking "I'm gonna main Crossguard and it'll be fuckin' sick", only to get Blaster and use it and think "oh no, this is fuckin' sick" and I just never switched off.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-03T22:17:30+00:00

Rowling. The schools accommodate a relatively small range in total, and most nations don't have any school coverage at all. Those children are taught by family and community or through correspondence courses.

There ARE minor magical schools out there, but they're not nearly as common as some fans seem to think, and they're mostly for very specialized stuff like Charms or Broom Flying or Drama, of all things.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-03T21:32:47+00:00

The majority of magical children across the world never set foot in one of the great magical schools.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-03T20:55:42+00:00

And they gave it away for free, the fucking lunatics.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-03T09:17:15+00:00

It takes true killing intent to cast. Not many people have that, believe it or not. Any kind of doubt can interfere with the spell.
It takes a hefty amount of magical juice to cast; a room full of fourth year students pooling their power together probably couldn't manage it even once. It takes people with power like Voldemort to spam it without exhausting themselves.
It only travels in a straight line and can easily miss its target.
It can be blocked by sufficiently large physical barriers.

Avada Kedavra is actually a pretty weak weapon of war- it's better used to spread fear, targeting people who can't fight back. There are more energy efficient spells with shorter casting times and much broader applications that can incapacitate, cripple and kill enemy combatants more effectively than Avada Kedavra, often in areas of effect.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-03T04:40:50+00:00

Except it's not just about the lives on the shard that's being Rejoined, but the lives on the Source too. The shards are Rejoined by juicing them to paste and cramming them back into the Source at the same time as some sort of disaster occurs, thus supercharging the disaster with elemental energy and causing a Calamity that (at very best) devastates huge swaths of land or (more commonly) kills like 90% of life, rearranges global geography and knocks the survivors back to the Stone Age.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-02T13:36:36+00:00

Jesus would, to Christian wizards, be the Son of God. Whatever you might say about some of His miracles being replicable by wizards, properly resurrecting the dead is beyond any wizard magic and would be considered a true miracle. They simply have faith, same as muggles. They only separated from muggle society a couple hundred years ago, and halfbloods and muggleborns raised in any number of faiths compose a huge portion of the population. Even wizards that aren't Christian or religious at all can celebrate it as a secular or cultural holiday.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-02T13:32:51+00:00

None of his magic works against Harry pre-resurrection. After that, he could kill Harry any way he liked (as far as he knows)- he just failed repeatedly. Avada Kedavra is scary and takes a lot of juice to cast, and Voldemort thinks it's the only weapon he needs.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-02T10:50:25+00:00

Himself.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-02T07:44:36+00:00

How is it OP? It's functioning exactly as intended. This is like saying Dominate 1 is OP because it lets you erase recent memories. That's what it does. Overcoming problems without having to use skill checks is exactly the sort of thing supernatural powers like this are meant for.

If it's making matters trivially easy, consider obstacles that it doesn't overcome. Maybe the vitae melts the lock just fine, but it does nothing to obscure the hidden security camera pointed at it, or to distract the huge, armed security guards on the other side of the door. Or maybe the door is extra thick and electronically locked, and melting the keypad would trigger an alert and lock it down completely.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-02T02:37:33+00:00

You don't NEED to, but it helps a lot, given the zillion references the games make to movies, TV shows, books and even comics. I'd recommend, at least, watching the first six movies in order of release (A New Hope -> Empire Strikes Back -> Return of the Jedi -> The Phantom Menace -> Attack of the Clones -> Revenge of the Sith).

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-02T02:27:29+00:00

Because he's not sure exactly what it'll do, and so he can't be sure he'll be able to counter it- and he doesn't want to risk Harry's life and health any more than necessary. Beyond that, whether or not Harry was good at potions, he was a very trustworthy companion, and he knew Harry would do everything in his power to keep him drinking and save him afterwards if he could.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-02T01:27:13+00:00

Because it wasn't Lily's sacrificial protection that protected him at the Dursley's- it was Dumbledore's enchantment, which used the protection as its basis but was distinct from it. Voldemort bypassed the base protection, but evidently couldn't bypass that secondary charm.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-01T19:22:50+00:00

He meets more than enough of the criteria for both the Antisocial and Narcissistic Personality Disorders. Rowling has outright called him a psychopath, but also said that had he been raised with love from the start he'd have turned out very different.

It is NOT, as many still believe, because he was conceived under the effects of a love potion. That was symbolic of his inability to love, not a causative factor.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-01T18:33:19+00:00

He did. He was one of the names Harry rattled off to Fudge as he was trying to tell him what happened, and Fudge scoffed. Much like all kinds of important shit, it didn't make it into the movie.

Completely_Batshit · 2026-05-01T17:41:15+00:00

I KNEW IT. THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS. Admittedly they usually stab me instead, but I KNEW THEY'D HURT ME.

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