Lillie
26-08-2008, 12:27 AM
This is really an add on to a discussion over on the old forum.
We were discussing (amongst other things) why The Gentleman and Stephen Black were taken to Vinculus and/or the hawthorn tree. Was Vinculus his greatest enemy or was it something else.
Well, yesterday I was reading that bit and I realised there was something that Vinculus did that pretty much sealed The Gentleman's fate.
What he did was to stop him telling Stephen Black his real name.
Vinculus's arrival does not come a moment too soon. One sentence more and the Gentleman would have said the fateful word.
If Black had learned his name he would no longer have been the Nameless Slave, the spell would not have given him power over the trees and stuff, The gentleman would not have died, instead he would have killed Lady Pole and probably Segundus and Arabella and Black would have continued under the enchantment.
Though how this would have affected the restoration of English magic...
I don't know.
I could never work out how the whole Stephen Black becoming king of Lost Hope fitted into that anyway, unless it was just to get rid of The Gentleman.
We were discussing (amongst other things) why The Gentleman and Stephen Black were taken to Vinculus and/or the hawthorn tree. Was Vinculus his greatest enemy or was it something else.
Well, yesterday I was reading that bit and I realised there was something that Vinculus did that pretty much sealed The Gentleman's fate.
What he did was to stop him telling Stephen Black his real name.
Vinculus's arrival does not come a moment too soon. One sentence more and the Gentleman would have said the fateful word.
If Black had learned his name he would no longer have been the Nameless Slave, the spell would not have given him power over the trees and stuff, The gentleman would not have died, instead he would have killed Lady Pole and probably Segundus and Arabella and Black would have continued under the enchantment.
Though how this would have affected the restoration of English magic...
I don't know.
I could never work out how the whole Stephen Black becoming king of Lost Hope fitted into that anyway, unless it was just to get rid of The Gentleman.