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Hazeel

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It was Saradomin.

-He is overseeing multiple generals, sitting on the Stone of Jas, and dealing with domestic life. There's a lot of crap he has to juggle.

-The amulets are way too powerful. Only a God would have been able to produce them--let alone such a high quantity of them.

-Saradomin only showed up directly at Annakarl because that was the only way to transport Zilyana to the stone and heal her.

-Saradomin is the only one who has to gain from helping Saradomin get the God Sword.

-Gods can communicate telepathically with their followers. Regardless of whether prayer itself is necessary, it's clear from Zaros that it can be used to communicate with them. Whether there's limits to this is unknown.
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19-Feb-2017 02:13:44

Hazeel

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Sliske makes absolutely no sense.

-The amulets are way beyond his power. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Saradomin had to use the SoJ in conjunction with his own power to get it done.

-He has nothing to gain from it. At all. All he's doing is ending the fighting and giving Saradomin an edge.

-He was still Zarosian at the time. Even if he could somehow make all these amulets, he would have given them to Nex.

-This goes off a crazy assumption that somehow Saradomin can't hear Zilly's prayers...but Sliske can. That or he has the most insane luck in the world when it comes to timing.

-Saradomin would have intervened if Sliske was screwing around and tricking his followers in his name.
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19-Feb-2017 03:12:27

Hazeel

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Maiden China said:
what makes you think they're beyond his power? they don't seem especially powerful to me... more like the average magical trinket (not outrageously average, but not above the crafts of the mahjarrat)


Aside from the fact that these were mass produced in the thousands, they give the wearer increased power and allow for mental communication for multiple armies--that's something only Gods are usually capable of doing. If any old T4 Mahjarrat can do this, why not make it an army standard? This would add an INCREDIBLY valuable resource to any army. Again, this is why I think the only reason Saradomin could even do it was because of the stone.

Maiden China said:
edit 2: the amulets seem very sliske-ish... not like something saradomin would do.


The amulets were subtle. This is Sliske, the guy who obnoxiously screams for attention and slams a psuedo edicts sword in the GE just to get people to notice him.

Maiden China said:
saradomin, if he thought zilyana needed help, would show up and start crushing heads, forcing the other gods to show up also to stop him from singlehandedly destroying their armies


...You just answered why exactly he wouldn't do that. Saradomin isn't that stupid.

Maiden China said:
my main reason for thinking it wasn't saradomin is because it doesn't outright say it was... but the book is from zilyana's perspective, she would hav no way of knowing with abosolute certainty


It does outright say it--or rather Zilyana does, but she's the only narrator here. And she knows Saradomin better than any living person except for perhaps his daughter.
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19-Feb-2017 08:36:48

Hazeel

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Pilkie said:
Could the amulets have been given to Zilyana by a god, but maybe not saradomin? Perhaps they were meant to be cursed and other gods saw it as an opportunity to sabotage a vulnerable saradomanist general who was clearly desperate for an edge over an opponent.


Possible, but very unlikely since all this did was give Saradomin a massive edge in the war.
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21-Feb-2017 20:22:50

Hazeel

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Mewzard said:
But did they really? Saradominist and Armadylian forces were united up to the point. This caused a clear split in their forces. Yes, it did hurt Bandosian and Zamorakian forces, but the treachery was also revealed, leading to a complete break in alliances and all out chaos.


This didn't cause a split. All it did was give Zilyana the oppurtunity to better do it. Bandos and Armadyl might have been fighting with Saradomin, but they weren't fighting for him and that was always going to be a problem. It wasn't a matter of "if" they'd split, but "when". And "when" was coming soon with the completion of the Godsword.

Without the amulets, Zilyana would have had to make a stab in the dark as to how to cut the Armadyleans off and take the Godsword. The whole ordeal would have been a lot messier if the Armadyleans were on equal footing and the fighting would have lasted longer.
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21-Feb-2017 22:18:48

Hazeel

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Zulkir said:
Saradomin couldn't set foot on Gielinor, But you've only broken a rule if you're caught, right?


This is the third age, what are you talking about?
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24-Feb-2017 17:37:16

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