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I was reading up on Ceasar’s last words (as one does) and I came upon this one that has the Biggest Miette Energy

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The thing that I'd love to know more about in relation to the question of Magnus' skill set is just what being a cavalier to a Speaker to the Dead entails.

Marta gets powerups from Judith sucking all the thalergy out of people. Babs gets eaten for powerups for his necromancer(s). Jean's role would be to defend Isaac on the battlefield so we can keep the corpsesplosions coming. Colum gets shoved into hell to power up Silas.

Maybe Magnus sits alongside Cam and Pro as having a more generally caring and administrative role, regardless of any specific sword skills.

But what interests me is the possibility that he does have a specific role in supporting Abigail's necromantic practice.

When Abigail is trying to summon Nonius, she echoes (at times word for word) the necromantic ritual Odysseus does in book 11 of the Odyssey to summon the ghost of Tiresias. But if the Odyssey is anything to go by, the things you do to attract the attention of one ghost will attract lots of hungry, angry ghosts. And the ancient understanding of ghosts is that they are not incorporeal: they do literally drink the blood, and you can literally hit them with a sword:

And I myself drew my sharp sword from beside my thigh and sat there, and would not suffer the powerless heads of the dead to draw near to the blood until I had enquired of Teiresias. (Odyssey 11.49-50)

Which makes me wonder whether Magnus' role as the cavalier to a Speaker to the Dead might be to be the chap who makes the other ghosts back off until his necromancer/wife finds the one she wants to talk to. After all, as he has to remind her, she only has a limited amount of blood.

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a lot of people could stand to start viewing the nakba and the holocaust as a continuum rather than as competitive binaries

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please dont torture yourself w reddit. it has some of the saddest and angriest ppl on this planet. its not worth it

but what about this

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PLOTHOLES IN SEVERANCE EXPLAINED (NOT CLICKBAIT!)

Plot hole1. Devon Scout is in a RELATIONSHIP with Ricken

EXPLANATION: Straight man creator

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Not enough people talking about tzatziki

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the ides of march

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my favorite coworker told me the scenario she thinks of to fall asleep is she stumbles upon a baby sheep and has to raise it and it grows up and she has to shear it and she says she envisions shearing it so carefully that she always falls asleep at that part

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Queued right up for it

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Outfit

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Mr Elvis werent you dead

I got better

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reminds me of this tshirt of mine

obsessed with the afab shirt

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Harlem grocer standing in front of his store, 1937.

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me and stevo talk about the commodification of alternative crowds