The sword is essentially a power conduit, designed to channel the energies associated with immortality away from the target and into the tesseract crystal. It shouldn't, technically, even kill the target, but instead render them mortal and powerless, thus leaving them vulnerable to conventional attacks. It's sorta like how Kryptonite weakens Superman. The best defense against the sword would probably be to infuse the armor with some sort of power that the sword could drain instead of draining Arch directly, or simply making it out of some kind of powerful anti-magic material that would block the draining enchantment.
Interesting. I do wish to point out, the reason Arch did die, was because of a stab wound in his chest. He couldn't recover due to no immortality... And I did have issues with it, but I'm working them out.
You know, it is very possible to survive a chest stab. He could probably have held on until he got his powers back, or come to see Dusty failing that.
The body died. It couldn't "hold on". It was pretty much an old quilt, held together with magic stitches, remove the magic, it falls apart. If you get my analogy.
I didn't actually intend for Silver to kill Arch. He was actually just trying to prove that he could, if it came down to it. I was trying to go for a Batman vs. Superman type of conflict between the two, pitting Silver's strategic mind and limitless resources against Arch's intellect and raw power.
(Chuckles softly) well, there is that other thread.........please don't post anything from it or reveal it here.
I don't think I can do much else with Violia right now. Unless there is a story tie someone can think of for her heading down to the underworld.
If you think that'll work. Violia already left on her way. I was thinking of a reason for her to be needed to be honest.
