Re: cold iron
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Originally Posted by whswhs
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But I just thought of a couple of interesting possible implications of this:
1. The specific nails used at the Crucifixion took on magical (or anti-magical) powers from contact with Jesus's blood, and are now potent relics.
2. That contact granted special powers not just to those particular pieces of iron, but to the metaphysical essence of iron. Since then, iron has had that potency—but if you lived in or travelled to the past, before then, iron had no special magic. Nor would it have such magic in an alternate timeline where Jesus never lived, or wasn't put to death, or was put to death in some other way, assuming such timelines are possible.
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That sounds like a great way to introduce a Fey faction in a world jumping setting. Initially, characters may assume The Cabal for some other magical reason.
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