Lambert sensed Cole in Evas room where Eva only slightly noticed when Cole made a sound. There wasn't detective work then, and he had no reason to believe anyone else would have been in there with Eva originally unless he's like that with every room he walks into. Which would be a funny image to imagine Lambert stepping into a room and then staring at the corners for five minutes each...
Yes, but that has no relation to your previous post. You asked ""Why would Lambert be able to sense Cole when Wynne couldn't" which, from my view, implied that that was the evidence Lambert used when it wasn't. It was just detective work.
Yes, Lambert is capable of sensing things even Archmages couldn't. Probably one of the reasons he is Lord High Seeker.
Cole only started murdering people a year after he met Rhys after the Kirkwall event like I said. It probably was blood magic/spirit/demon magic he was doing when he was feeling the 'pull' to mercy kill those people, or it could have been the spirit/demons left over remorse of being unable to help Cole having seeped in. Cole at the end of the book pulled a distressed face when he mentioned being unable to help the original Cole in the dungeon.
A year or a day, the fact that he hadn't commited a murder in all the time he spent in the tower before meeting Rhys presents the possibility that he needed a "host" or a "puppet" in order to do so regardless of the reasons why he felt the need to murder.
And what if Cole hadn't actually been in the tower for that long? Cole said he didn't remember when he got there, the Ghost of the Spire rumors where never established to have been there for years considering that it didn't seem to be that common to the others. The way it's worded in the book it sounds like it could have just started up when Rhys first saw Cole in the lecture hall, Rhys had been there his whole life and had never heard about the rumors of the ghost until he saw Cole? Cole could have been there for not that long but had already quickly learnt the layout of the areas below (after all, he's not human and wouldn't have a human level of memory, and he was 'quick to learn') For all we know, Coles actually only been at the tower for a year, since Cole had no idea how long he's been there and Rhys has only known him for that year. So his weakening feeling could have been a years worth being in the physical realms taking it's toll on him.
All theory crafting here, but it's been bothering me for a bit why Rhys wouldn't know the Ghost of the Spire tales having grown up in the tower for 40 some years.
That could be easily explained by the fact Cole's ability is to make people forget him. Before meeting Rhys, he had never murdered thus, he never left behind traces of his existence. Logically, only after the bodies started to show up could anyone have created the stories of the Ghost of the Spire
And he might have began murdering others because he suddenly had someone who could see him and thus someone he could, through pure instinct, mind control into killing for him.
Cole may have been unconsciously making people forget him, but he had to focus a ridiculous amount to get it to the point where he could kill a person without them realizing it, so the idea of Cole controlling Rhys to that levels makes zero sense. Not when Cole was using his magic to mask Rhys, Rhys felt it and knew it was being done on him. Not when Cole has such little control of himself. Not when the idea of Rhys being controlled to stab someone really difficult for Rhys to do when the circle was on lockdown after Kirkwall, stabbing a person up close would leave blood on his robes and a dagger that is never shown in Rhys hands until the very end of the book. If Cole was there to clean up the mess, then it wouldn't be unconscious levels.
Cole's power is very mysterious. There are a great number of things he didn't even know he could do before he tried. Making other invisible is already withint his skillset therefore, it's not impossible he could cover up evidence of the murders commited by Rhys.
Fantasy is filled to the brim with children using hidden powers without meaning to and these powers being a lot stronger when used by instinct.
It could even be that he didn't need Rhys to stab his victims, only to perform the blood magic needed to sustain him.
Why would Gaider write the book through Coles point of view if it's completely unreliable? Gider never struck me as a writer who would have the 'he was dead the whole time and everything around him was a lie' twist, certainly when there's no breadcrumbs for the reader to come to that conclusion.
But there are bredcumbs. In fact, Lambert himself gives us the basket of bread where they came from.
Gaider already proved most of Cole's POV was unreliable by revealing that he was a spirit impersonating the original Cole. Why can't it also be unreliable on the extent of Rhys' involvement in the murders.
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