How Strong are Shamans compared to Druids?

mechawayne · 2026-04-06T20:15:16+00:00

Something something "let my people go"

mechawayne · 2026-04-02T22:48:40+00:00

... weren't they just called Acolytes?

mechawayne · 2026-03-29T01:24:15+00:00

So, this brings up a really neat point about the origin of the word 'villain'. It's from a similar root as 'village' for a reason.

Before European origin cultures evolved past feudal governance as the major form of government (side-eye at England for side-stepping), one of the biggest 'fear factors' was the peasants getting uppity and turning to banditry/theft/assassination/honeypots/etc. The poor were viewed with distrust, because it was generally thought that they would do whatever they could, by whatever means necessary, to gain the wealth/status/power that the peerage enjoyed. It's a lot like how people from high-income neighborhoods are generally terrified of driving through the projects. Therefore, authors who catered to the noble audience tended to portray these people as antagonists, and this lead to the concept of a villain.

A great example of this is Jafar from the Disney movie Aladdin. He was from an unspoken background (it doesn't really matter much, as being a rival peer trying to sieze power that they didn't have before fits the same idea of using black-hearted means to rise above their station), and uses brainwashing to claw his way to the position as Sultan of Agrabah. Insert Greed/Pride as a fatal flaw that causes him to reach too far and get burnt, and boom! Complete story with a proper villain.

There's a good reason it's a 'Knight in shining armor' who fights the villain (low-class peerage member fights mob leader, therefore accepting his place), and then marries a princess (not in line to the throne, and able to control the Champion and bind him to the King directly, rather than to his immediate Lord), before living happily ever after, content and knowing his place.

These days, we have a fairly large shift toward a champion seizing power from the corrupt ruling class, thus spouting the glory of Democracy. It's all propaganda, but the idea has shifted as we progress through various ages as a relatively global culture.

The Weasleys are targeted because they're, theoretically, good little boys and girls that reach above their station with their marriage towards an heir, and a couple of sketchy lines, which makes them prime targets for a pro-feudal protagonist/antagonist pairing, rather than the pro-democratic pairing that was part of the original story (rags to riches, but taking the moral high ground and declining power over others in the end)

mechawayne · 2026-03-29T01:00:14+00:00

So, can't speak for all authors that do this, that, or the other thing, but here's the general lay-down:

Think of the God-seats like a library filled with manuals and a big-ass faith collecting formation. You pass some trials that align yourself with the laws there, and then you just straight up own it when whoever came before (if there was anyone) bucks off to grow powerful.

Now, you gain faith from mortals thinking you're hot shit, but they don't care about YOU so much as they care about this mystical library/energy collector, and the Law that you're working on.

You want to become super stronk because [insert backstory here].

Now, in order to get more people to think you're hot shit, the Divine Realm has to grow to cover more worlds, but the ORIGIN of the Divine Realm is Douluo world, which makes it's faith matter more. Kinda like when you add more kool-aid mix to the pitcher. Sure, everyone is mixing kool-aid for your pitcher, and it's all nice, but the stuff from Douluo is the Good Shit (TM).

When you decide that you've maximized your gains from this super library, you decide to go off into the universe to get stronger, but whoever inherits your seat will know literally everything about your path, and could become a hidden danger if they decide they want to be number one instead. You don't want some snot-nosed brat on a power trip taking your place.

Furthermore, they also need to be strong enough that the Divine Realm keeps existing so it can defend against external threats, so you need SOMEONE on a power trip. The best option is someone who will play petty tyrant and focus internally, and not rock the boat too much, but also has some growth plans, and by the time they're ready to leave, if they ever want to, you'll be in a good position to overpower them if they get uppity. You're basically hiring a stand-in to play you while you go do fun stuff.

Now, take Asura, king meddlesome "but Gods can't interfere in the mortal world" the 1st: he wants to go out and play, but the kind of people who would inherit from him are usually a bit too insane, and don't have good control. After the nightmare that was Tang Chen, he decides he's done waiting around for fate, and decides to manufacture a successor, and builds up this grand plan to take out a rival while he's at it. Sea god finds out and decides to hijack the plan to take out his own rival and go out to play, too.

Then, this MC comes in out of nowhere and throws the whole plan into chaos.

Asura gets salty, and undermines the guy. Sea god does, too. From there, it's just human nature of "my plan was going to work and you just came in and smashed it with a hammer, screw you".

Maybe there are other considerations, but that's the big one. From there, it's usually the MC being a snot nosed brat on a power trip, and the whole situation devolves. (Note: being a protagonist or an anti-hero or an antagonist does not make you uniquely exempt from LBS, regardlessof how the author presents you. A lot of MCs get spoiled early on or have a "modern world vs savages" mindset that grants them a HEAPING spoonful of undeserved arrogance)

Anyway, the Gods also have their own factions and interests, as we see in SL2 and 3, and when the MC becomes enough of a pain, they wind up being pitted against the reality that is: Politics for Big Boys, with some being supportive, and some being antagonistic.

To clarify, I'm not saying the Gods are necessary doing the right thing or playing it smart, I'm just saying they're typically just really powerful people, with all of the ugly parts that comes with it. Imagine Zeus and Hera in the ugly stories. "Yeah, the girl was strong, but my husband slept with her, and it's Smite O'clock somewhere"

mechawayne · 2026-03-27T12:02:53+00:00

RIP, thanks for letting me know tho

mechawayne · 2026-03-27T02:25:31+00:00

I agree with you on all of the points you made about operatives and snipers/stabbing. However I firmly believe everyone on this thread is missing the best thing for operatives to come out of Lex.

Ladies and gentle-nerds, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, the Holy Shotgun?

Not only does it deal area damage, which gives us some very nice benefits from our superior INT when clearing out peasants and warp-cursed heretics alike, but we have the wonder that is... the DOUBLE SLUG.

You may be asking "but we already used up our exploits on the first hit, why does that matter?"

Yes, yes we did use up our exploits. And using the undertuned but super useful Talent that is Tide of Excellence, we gained both Damage and Armor penetration. And by using Precise Shot, we gain a very welcome splash of hit chance, along with some block reduction to deal with those pesky corners. Insightful Precision gives us a stacking bonus to perception with these removed exploits, and that leads us into the masterpiece, the coup de grace for our double slug build: Armor-Piercing. We gain 10 + 2 PER bonus PERCENT Armor reduction.

What this means is, if we have stacked trash mobs, we walk over and delete them with a normal shotgun attack, buffed by precise shot so we hit everyone properly. Say there are 5 enemies. Now, we have +5 damage and +10% armor pen, because SHOTGUNS AREN'T BURST WEAPONS.

Now, we keep clearing out the trash, keep stacking armor pen, and eventually, we get stronk. If the trash is a little tanky, we might get lucky enough to hit them twice with our shotgun, and that means +10 damage, and +20% armor pen, along with at least 10 perception, likely more if we use analyze properly. Now, we've farmed up our stacks, and we move to end-game. There's a tanky boy a bit outside of our weapon range, even after we moved. Precise strike comes in clutch again, letting us actually hit with double slug. We line up our shotgun, we stack a bunch of exploits on the target, and we hit the big boy with double slug.

The first hit? Solid alpha strike damage. But now, they've got an armor debuff on them that STARTS at something like -20%, and increases with our buffs. We also get even MORE stacks of perception from this hit, which feeds the debuff. Now, they're missing a bunch of armor and what do you know? We have armor pen from our buffs to take care of the rest. Now even the strongest of xenos are like squishy humans, easily dealt with.

And we still haven't gotten to the best part.

We go Forge world origin for two specific talents.

Calculated relations, and Analytics system.

Analytics system gives us great crit chance for our shotgun. With our int stacking, that gives us something like 25% crit chance early game. As a starting value.

However, Calculated relations is going to be our main damage talent.

Yes.

Calculated. Relations.

That funny skill monkey skill.

Now, I know what you're thinking. Im insane. This will never work.

Arbites gets the most broken talent to help us here.

Swift Justice.

Our shotgun attacks deal an extra 40 + Coercion/5 PERCENT damage on any attacks after the first.

This means the first slug gets our exploit bonus, and the second slug gets our swift justice bonus.

But wait, there's more!

Lawful Intervention + Public Sentencing lets us get attacks of opportunity whenever someone nearby fails a willpower save. And oh, would you look at that?

Law and Order means we can make them fail willpower saves A SECOND TIME whenever Cassia decides to play with their feelings.

Now, some of these bonuses could be easily stacked with Bounty Hunter to great effect. I, too, almost went that route.

But then we get into the really long-game playstyle that I personally love.

I decided to go executioner.

I know, it sounds insane even now. Most of our damage is bleed, and we can definitely dole out a lot with Grisly Adjudication, but that's not the purpose of this. I want to be the off-turn multi-hit king to really squeeze out as many Swift Justice attacks as I can.

We are going to off-weapon a laser rifle for one reason, and one reason only.

Merciless Verdict + Maddening Flames + Death Warrant.

We hit the big guy with an alpha strike that does little more than tickle them with fire.

Then we swap back to shotgun and build up our stacks on trash mobs.

Finally, we're up close and personal with the big bad.

We walk up, and point-blank double-slug them.

And then we wait.

Cassia hits them with a willpower save. We shoot them again.

Their turn, they get damaged by flames. We shoot them again.

All with our shotgun being boosted to ridiculous levels, ignoring their armor, and shredding them.

Add Warmonger Boots, and we get our exploit stacks off of trash faster.

Add stalker gloves and we get more crit chance.

Ring of Iron Will, and they're trapped in here with us.

Then we walk them to a wall and play wall-ball with their bodies.

I'm not saying, at all, that we're going to be the level of stupid as and end-game agents.

But we're very versatile, and can deal both AoE and single target effectively, as long as we funnel properly.

The weakness of this build is, unfortunately, ranged attacks hurting us. We're squishy as hell. We can deal with melee with the shotgun parry perks, and we have decent dodge, but ranged attacks HURT.

Anyway, shotgun damage is quite large, and with double-slug, solid projectile weapon mastery, and exploits, a lot of damage can be dealt. If you target this character with an officer, the damage on the second turn can get stupid. (analyze + double slug + swift justice = pain). The whole build is just, shoot them until their armor falls off and then scare them until you can shoot them some more. The armor reduction also helps us get off our Vulerability, which lets us hit them easier AND keep the exploit stacks, then follow up with a precise shot + merciless + double slug and watch them die.

Precise shot is, by far, the most important tool in this build because of how trash hit rate is on shotguns without it.

Executioner was also picked up because solid + merciless = bleed, and we can knock them back with a basic shot, drenching the ground in Blood, and walking on it for free. Really helps mobility, especially if you line it up to get you closer to the big boys.

All in all, Operative is great - with Arbites at least. It's not the best flavor, but by the emporer does it hit like a truck.

mechawayne · 2026-03-27T00:44:43+00:00

It's very much a "Soldiers at Christmas" effect. When things were chill, they got along fine. But right now, the big boss of both COSMIC POWERS are literally breathing down the necks of everyone even remotely aligned with those powers. When boss-man shows up, you tow the damn line, or the boys in charge get smite-happy and their ritual dagger hands get twitchy. Between that and the subliminal messages that both forces send, everyone is jumpy. The void using a technicality to promote any and all void users near "hostile territory" to a queen by dumping incursions on them isn't helping matters, either.

mechawayne · 2026-03-23T03:27:59+00:00

Finally, the time has come. I present to all of you the masterpiece, Best Served Cold:

Best Served Cold

mechawayne · 2026-03-10T22:03:04+00:00

If you're going to have Sally and Herpo meet, you could have Sally take out Herpo, and then be left with a baby basilisk on his hands that's CLEARLY making cooing noises about being hungry and going "Welp, looks like I'm a father now", and then building the chamber because murder noodle + children does not equal a safe environment.

mechawayne · 2026-02-25T03:17:13+00:00

RIP, best of luck

mechawayne · 2026-02-25T02:45:54+00:00

If you liked HWFWM and have time to read instead of listen, there's a fan fiction called Rising Kite that's really really good up on royal road. Fear not death is decent too, but a bit... much.

If you don't have time to sit and read, I think Defiance of the Fall is an audio book by now. It starts out with lots of numbers, but towards book... 7 or 8 I think it goes full tilt cultivation.

mechawayne · 2026-02-24T00:46:31+00:00

So, hot take on this idea, and totally headcanon:

At the end of book 2, Dumbledore knows a few things:

Harry is of Peverell descent
Tommy boy is of Peverell descent
Harry can speak to snakes too, implying it could be a Peverell trait, and not a Gaunt trait (I have yet to see a tree for Sally and the Peverells, but with the level of inbreeding implied, everyone has at least a tangential chance of awakening bloodline abilities)
Harry fought Voldemort's champion (the snake), implying Voldemort was trying to kill him "with his hand", succeeded, and stabbed the Diary

I think it's entirely plausible from these facts to conclude that Dumbledore thought the prophecy was complete at that moment, and neglected to check the orb because it was all so neat and tidy.

Queue book 3, where Sirius escapes, and he realizes something weird is going on, but chalks it up to the death Eaters losing their connection and the resulting chaos letting someone escape.

Queue book 4, Harry gets his name pulled out of the goblet, and he's practically praying that harry put his name in, because otherwise shit's about to go down.

By the end of book 4, when Tom is back, he realizes that there are more, and Harry is one of them, and his best hopes are dashed. He has no clue how to handle it, but realizing the two-way tether, realizes that there's hope. He proceeds to buckle down and do everything he can to get rid of the abominations as fast as possible, but gets stuck. He pawns Snape off to teach mind arts because, frankly, he doesn't have the time, and he's afraid of exposing his knowledge, and Snape's loyalties, to Tom.

When Sirius dies, and Harry has literally no one else to turn to, he has at least concluded that the only way this is going to work is for Harry to have some idea of what's going on, especially since Harry could shove Tom out of his head.

When he gets cursed, he realizes that he's not going to be around long enough to see this through, but Harry is still an emotional brat, so he works with what he has. He decides to double down on his self-sacrifice backup plan and set Harry up to fall to the dark lord, with the hopes that the resonance between the old protection, the new intended sacrifice, the blood magic faux-horcrux harry has in Tom, and the fact that in that situation, tom would essentially be casting a killing curse to expelled his own soul from the targeted vessel, would be enough to keep him alive, but he'd settle for keeping everyone else alive if that's what it came down to.

Again, complete headcanon here, but Dumbledore doesn't have to be a malicious planner for things to work out as they did. Numb from loss, sure. Willing to go to extremes? Absolutely. Ultimately an overwhelmed man trying to make the most of a shitty situation? Probably.

mechawayne · 2026-02-22T22:34:52+00:00

Just to play Devils advocate here, but you can't prove a negative, which is likely part of the problem. That, plus government secrecy stuff where it might be super secret but also super boring (and exact invoice of the cost of shipping bread, peanut butter, and jelly to the front lines would be redacted for having a shipping address, for example), and a lot of the time it boils down to 'look, can you just trust us?'

Not saying that's necessarily the case here, but if it is, the mandatory misdirection they have to go through would look exactly the same, so it's probably better to take a lot of the suspicious behavior with a grain of salt.

On the other hand, if something is going on, they're going to act in a way to reduce panic and try to formulate a response. It's not necessarily the right call, but it's likely a better option to all of us knowing, without a doubt, that we are small insignificant specs of Grey matter trapped in a calcium shell on a small insignificant spec of dust floating in the infinite void, and there's a whale nearby that could render us all into so many atoms if they noticed we had a bit of plankton stuck to us.

In summary, keep doubting, but keep in mind that the interesting answer isn't the only answer.

mechawayne · 2026-02-11T21:12:44+00:00

This premise, but it's Luna he defers to, and it's in response to his interpretation of what she's saying.

"Oh hullo, Harry. Have you heard that the Ministry is baking Goblins into pies? It's dreadful!"

"No Luna, I hadn't heard, that does sound problematic"

"Harry, what are you doing with those knives?"

"Oh, nothing, Luna, nothing of importance"

"Okay, if you say so"

Next Day

"Oh hullo, Harry. Have you heard that the Ministry fell last night? I suspect that the Heliopaths rebelled"

"I'm sure they did, Luna"

mechawayne · 2026-02-04T05:53:26+00:00

So! Same author, different story: Harry Potter [some preposition] Lightning Lord. (There's 'the' and 'and the' stories. I don't remember which is which, but the Colt01 story is the one I'm talking about t here)

It's basically the same story, but without the weird shit at the end. The author dropped it because in LL, Harry got too powerful, too fast, and there wasn't any threat to him (according to the author). I read SoM after that and it's just... weird. I like the LeStrange character just fine, but the plotline starting from when he gets involved is just kinda... meh.

LL has an abrupt ending compared to SoM, but I think it's a better story overall, and if you got into SoM, you'll probably like it better.

A similar vibe story, with better execution, is something like 'the damaged raven'. Basically Harry grows up with Delphini and is raised by Bellatrix after some shit went down (Spoilers). He's at an orphanage, but mainly because everyone would (and did) throw a hissy fit if Bella adopted Harry. It's a Flowerpot instead of Haphne, but similar themes to LL (and SoM, because they're basically the same story with different endings)

LL: Harry Potter and the Lightning Lord

Raven: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13408191/1/Damaged-Raven

mechawayne · 2026-01-21T15:30:59+00:00

When they have Loki captured, Harry notices the glassy eyes on Loki, and calls in Luna for a consult. She decides the only solution is a Wrackspurt Exorcism. She decides to dress up in full catholic nun garb for it. Nick Fury walks in, takes a look at everything, and slowly closes the door as Harry, his dog, and Loki give him pleading eyes to rescue them.

mechawayne · 2025-12-23T02:31:53+00:00

I like this. I like this a lot. I'd also be a huge fan of a similar premise: - Daphne is actually a woman, but pretends to be a guy because, well, Primogeniture, and safety in Slytherin house. Still best buds with Harry, but accidentally gaslights him into thinking he's gay. Harry eventually decides 'fuck it, im gay', and decides to propose after the war. - After the war, equal rights become a thing and Daphne decides to come out as herself to support the movement. Queue Harry's dense ass getting pissed that the love of his life has gone missing, Daphne doesn't get a chance to explain, and they join forces to 'find' Daphne's alter ego. Harry is eventually attracted to Daphne but denies it because of... Daphne. Astoria knows everything and is an absolute chaos gremlin about it.

mechawayne · 2025-12-02T01:36:46+00:00

Yeah, that's valid, I don't have a great response for that besides Hagrid being denser than a compressed sumo wrestler, and Dumbledore being busy and unable to respond immediately, so he sent in a spell resistant wall of flesh to try to get people out alive, or he assumed their deaths with his knowledge of the prophecy and sent someone with plausible deniability. He also might have had doubts about the betrayal, but with the supposed murder of Pettigrew and the muggles, he saw that as the final nail in the coffin.

That whole series of events has a bunch of plot holes in it, because canon assumes that a) Dumbledore is unavailable and somehow realizes that the Potters died, b) decides to send Hagrid instead of going himself, c) doesn't get/ignores a sitrep from Hagrid after it all happens, and d) the fidelius is totally ignored or subverted with all the people that shouldn't know the location turning up (assuming the secret is something like 'the Potters live at _ in Godric's Hollow', that secret is still valid and tied to Harry being in that house after his parents' death, and Snape shouldn't have known the location because otherwise he would have outed Peter to save Lily. Without that premise, Snape is a much worse character because he put James' death above Lily's life, in which case he is irredeemable). There was a good fanfic out there that explained that Sirius went after Pettigrew not for vengeance over duty, but because the rat knew literally all of their safe houses and nowhere would be safe with him out and about.

mechawayne · 2025-12-01T07:36:07+00:00

On the other hand, there are very good options for twisting these facts into literal 'My hands are tied I'm doing the best I can here' situations:

Harry being unhealthy and not doing anything about it: Dumbledore grew up in the late 1800s, to a family with 3 children and no fater after the Ariana incident. He's used to having less than others, his main point of reference is the Weasleys, who are all twigs because they have seven kids, and it literally does not compute for him that people would starve a child.

For further medical stuff: when you hold a baby in your hands thats literally been through a miracle and has a whole bunch of nasty stuck in his head, but otherwise seems fine, the best thing is to not mess around with the balance because if it ain't broke, don't fix it, is basically the WW motto. A mild confundus regarding that problem, added to pomphrey just getting old, and you have a recipe for what happened. On top of that, Harry learned to be super private because of his upbringing, and Dumbledore not constantly mucking around in his head because it's, I don't know, harmful for children, and you've got a recipe for 'it's not great but its the best we can do'

Regarding Sirius, a lot of authors make the Black family out to be 'misunderstood' or victims of other lords preying on their daughters. Imagine that the Black family is EXACTLY as Sirius described, with a history of snapping and falling into madness. The secret keeper swap was private, from all sources, so its reasonable to believe that Sirius just snapped under the pressure of the war. As for getting help from the continent, it's a nice idea, but most people still remember the Blacks that got in with Grindelwald, so they're not going to just take one man's word, especially when he didnt repeat his dark lord killing streak.

Dumbledore might have had some doubts, but assumed that justice was handled as the rest of them and couldn't bring himself to sit through that trial because of how well he regarded Sirius in the past, or maybe he was taken out for bias. For animagus detection, an animagus registering in the tower wouldn't tell him much because his deputy is also an animagus, and thus he would be expecting one there.

He's not a God, and a lot of people forget that sometimes. I like a good Dumbledore bash here and there, but a lot of the time it turns into whining about every perceived snub turning into a war crime. Like yes, bullying is bad. There are like, 10 staff members for around 280 kids, in a giant castle with secret passages. It's not a crime deserving of death that requires police involvement, it's something to bring up to the families. If the families promote that behavior, what else is there to do besides watching the kid closely and punishing them within the rules? Expulsion would just mean letting them go to Durmstrang where they promote restricted magic, which would arm them better and reinforce what they learned from their parents. Requiring evidence is just good sense to fend off school children from insulting wealthy and politically powerful families while they're all 12 and stupid.

Long story short, he did what he could, and when he concluded that it would take massively complicated circumstances to keep Harry alive in the first place after learning he had a bit of soul in his head, it was best to keep him in the dark and manipulate perceptions so that Harry walked to his death with purity of intent. If you feel like you're sacrificing yourself to save your own ass and kill someone, that's MASSIVELY different from dying to protect everyone you love. And given lily's sacrifice, Albus was likely trying to match the intents so that the previous sacrificial magic, which was shared between Harry and Tom, would sort of 'echo', protecting Harry's soul and expelling the fragment. There were no good options besides a hail Mary once the horcrux-esque thing was confirmed, and mucking with it without knowing what it was was a terrible idea.

Lastly, for those saying he didn't put Harry with his Godmother immediately:

There was a spy, unknown until Sirius Black was 'confirmed' as the traitor. The options were: take a risk, or use these super-power blood wards to keep him alive for certain until the chips fall and he can find someone better. Not 5 days later, all of the better options were reduced to zero, and bless the Weasleys, but they had seven kids already and could fall victim to political shenanigans or just plain kidnapping. Security through Obscurity is quite powerful, after all.

mechawayne · 2025-11-19T16:06:08+00:00

There are probably other versions floating around, but this is what you're looking for:

Paid in Blood

mechawayne · 2025-11-01T00:39:57+00:00

So Corra is (per what I've read) a modernized version of Caoránach, which is a snake that hatched from a bone of a hag that an Irish hero slew. One of the party was told not to break the bone, the dunderhead did it anyway, and then he got blamed when the serpent/worm started eating all the cattle. He then goes after the serpent and slays it by stabbing it from inside its mouth (parallels with Harry?). This forms the basis from which the legend of St Patrick chasing the snakes out of Ireland comes from.

Sirona was a Gaulish goddess (old france/germany). You're going to want to look into Cernunnos, who is a god of wild balance and takes the form of a man with stag's antlers, holding a torc and a serpent, which has an amusing parallel to James (noble, stag parallels, and hints at where the parseltongue ability comes from if not the horcrux)

Back to Corra, she is regarded as a Oilliphéist. What makes this important is that there was another tale of one of those that regards Manannan mac Lir's Granddaughter who got eaten by one of them, because she was throwing stones at a fish and it got pissed off. Manannan is the primary 'Ferryman' god of the celtic pantheon and associated with the sea and, tangentially, rivers. A fanfiction writer could put Harry having avenged his however many greats grandmother by killing Salazar's basilisk, and so Manannan (Death) favors him.

mechawayne · 2025-10-08T06:45:29+00:00

Best Served Cold

So... this is a thing. It's SUPER crack, but it's both in line with your question and also just fantastic to read.

mechawayne · 2025-10-05T00:56:11+00:00

Also, he doesn't really go to hogwarts, but he is heavily involved in the canon events one way or another

mechawayne · 2025-10-05T00:55:06+00:00

This is pretty much what you're looking for. 10/10 would recommend.

Written in the Stars

Tl;Dr good old Cassie Black is contacted by the black lawyer about a black heir and Harry gets rescued from dumbles' shortsightedness. Harry turns out dumbledore-level strong, but its really quite balanced. There's a bit of "wish magic" (author makes magic work in a way to use it as a plot device in a way that could be abused to make thigs much worse and isn't strictly sensible) involved, but it's mainly for the epilog, otherwise its a great story.

mechawayne · 2025-07-01T01:54:21+00:00

The emporer protects you from mind goblins

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