Thread:Ursuul/@comment-30270234-20170705114048/@comment-28083312-20170706081200

I’d certainly like to find out more :) Potential energy or energy at his disposal automatically? Sure if he took up the Darkhollow or a Coin then definitely, but he was almost out of gas after freezing the lakebottom, & he completely exhausted himself burning down the Vampire Ball in Grave Peril, which resulted in only one section of the manor being burnt to a crisp until he got the Ghosts to burn the rest. I don’t think he could take down a whole city.
 * 1) It had not. The symmetrical battering has yes, but not that it was done for a purpose. It wouldn’t be uncharacteristic of Butcher.
 * 2) I suppose Butcher might have such a thing up his sleeve in regards to a mantle for her, it would certainly tie in with a lot of Vadderung’s hinting. Maybe she’ll pull off a darkhollow, but a darkhollow in the middle of a fomor headquarters so that she both eliminates them in the same way Harry did the Reds while also ascending. There’s loads of possibilities, but it has happened so rarely (the only two times its happened is with new Ladies) that I think it’s a bit of a stretch.
 * 3) About the swords; it’s said that anyone can use (expel) magic, such as when making love, but that not everyone has the raw power to gather & expel enough of it in a way that has much direct effect on the world around them. It’s why Butters was able to use magic with Bob acting as that “fuel” source, & why he needed his blood (very magically potent) in order to close a circle when someone like Harry can just close it with will. So about the swords, I don’t think it is very significant that the Knights can use the swords because the swords themselves are likely that fuel source (or as Harry said numerous times, simply multiplying their faith magic a thousandfold which I’ll address in a theory about faith magic here). It may be possible that you have to have power before you can take it up, as opposed to simply channeling it from elsewhere, because each of the people who took up the Faerie Mantles were either changelings or wizards who were specifically prepared to take up such a mantle. Even with the Darkhollow they were all wizards & they all prepared themselves extensively.