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Re: Something Absurd (to Absurd to be a spoiler)
Post by kbus888   » Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:16 pm

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A very good theory IMO.

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Icarium wrote:There's precedent for bits and bobs of technology scattered about.

I think it's very possible she might have some sort of limited communications technology. With how it works, I doubt it's as broad as Merlin's, though. My guess is some sort of 'spy' device from the temple that monitors one location, and if she needs information, they put a message there and she can read it.

Something like that.
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Re: Something Absurd (to Absurd to be a spoiler)
Post by dwileye13   » Tue Apr 29, 2014 4:40 pm

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kbus888 wrote:=2014/04/29=

A very good theory IMO.

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Icarium wrote:There's precedent for bits and bobs of technology scattered about.

I think it's very possible she might have some sort of limited communications technology. With how it works, I doubt it's as broad as Merlin's, though. My guess is some sort of 'spy' device from the temple that monitors one location, and if she needs information, they put a message there and she can read it.

Something like that.


Agreed but how does she have it, this leads us back to my favorite - another hidden circle. Bits of technology are heresy or forbidden knowledge. Maintaining them over time requires a conspiracy. Conspiracy over time requires organization QED Secret Circle (if any bits of Technology do exist)
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Re: Something Absurd (to Absurd to be a spoiler)
Post by Starsaber   » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:02 pm

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dwileye13 wrote:
kbus888 wrote:=2014/04/29=

A very good theory IMO.

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Agreed but how does she have it, this leads us back to my favorite - another hidden circle. Bits of technology are heresy or forbidden knowledge. Maintaining them over time requires a conspiracy. Conspiracy over time requires organization QED Secret Circle (if any bits of Technology do exist)


Not if it has a "divine" or "mystical" origin. We already have the Stone and Key of Scheuler. Maybe she has the "Monocle of Sejin Kody" or something like that.
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Re: Something Absurd (to Absurd to be a spoiler)
Post by dwileye13   » Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:55 pm

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Agreed but how does she have it, this leads us back to my favorite - another hidden circle. Bits of technology are heresy or forbidden knowledge. Maintaining them over time requires a conspiracy. Conspiracy over time requires organization QED Secret Circle (if any bits of Technology do exist)[/quote]

Not if it has a "divine" or "mystical" origin. We already have the Stone and Key of Scheuler. Maybe she has the "Monocle of Sejin Kody" or something like that.[/quote]

Back to the ‘any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’ theory I think. Superstition and Mysticism are not what I would expect from Aivah. RFC’s Comment “. . . she was born with the primary capability . . .” is pernicious to our understanding on it’s face, subterfuge at best!
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