This makes no sense. You are just assuming this could hypothetically be an example; this is not a literal, physical, in game example. I am asking for examples that can be used as proof, not "what if" situations.
This isn't a what if situation. This is what happened. This is a very clear cut case of what happened. It doesn't need to be thrown in the face of the player for us to know that it's what happened.
First of all, Marethari was a particularly strong practioner of magic. She could send a group of people into the fade by herself, whereas it took how many people from the circle and how much lyrium to send ONE mage?
Irrelevant. That was an ancient Somniari specific ritual that used Feynriel's home as an anchor. No doubt it helped power the spell in some weird way.
Not to mention that the spells used are different themselves. One has people being sent in to the psyche of a mage to save the particular mage from being possessed and snap him out of a coma, whereas the other has you going into the Fade to save a mage child from his willing possession.
Secondly Merril =/= Marethari. Merril is a student, and has potential, as all students do but she is not on par with her master. If she were, then Marethari would have stepped down and let Merril lead, but Merril still have a long way to go.
Marethari said in DAO that Merrill knew the same type of magic as her and it would be enough to have the same effects on Mahariel as Marethari's own casting of said magic.
So.... it's pretty equal methinks if the Keeper was willing to trust her First to use the same magic she taught her to combat the taint and weaken it, as Duncan later stated.
Third, no one except the Devs know the true nature of blood magic; assuming it can do one thing because it can do another completely unrelated thing is illogical.
Blood magic can amplify normal magic. This has been shown in game dozens of times and is made evident itself in the gameplay. Hence the whole 1 point of health = 4 mana or whatever.
Removing the taint off of an inanimate object is completely different from trying to 1)keep someone alive and 2)stop or slow down their progression into a ghoul. Merril may have been able to do something to the shard she wouldn't have been able to do to a living creature without killing it.
Also irrelevant. The taint in a physical body is in the cells and is spread throughout the body, whereas in an inanimate object it is confined to said object. As such, it is easier to cleanse because the object isn't constantly pumping the taint throughout itself.
Comparing Merril to Marethari is like comparing Morrigan to Flemmeth. Sure all of them are great characters but when it comes to sheer power, hands down the older ladies with experience will always beat out the young ones when it's 1 vs 1.
I have never compared Merrill to Marethari. All I did was say that Merrill knows the same magic as Marethari, as DAO established in the Dalish Elf Origin.
I mean a better example to have used would have ben Avernus from Warden's Keep, except he is crazy and killed a lot of people to get where he was at. While he certainly did find a way to use blood magic to combat the taint, I wouldn't really call what he did as a "postive" example.
Actually, Avernus only used his fellow Wardens to discover hidden powers of the taint, whereas he used blood magic to manipulate his own blood and keep himself alive.
He didn't use his fellow Wardens to keep himself alive, as they had all died by day... 83 of his forced confinement in his tower IIRC
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I'm just disagreeing that this "tool" is positive.
