Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
Let me be as clear as i possibly can be. I am not claiming that hearing the gods are afraid of the Plan is what convinces Redcloak to abandon his fixation on using Xykon to rationalize everything he's done, as opposed to doubling down by using the possibility that gods actively watching means targeting any arcane casters Redcloak might try to tap.
In that case, what are you claiming convinced Redcloak to abandon his Xykon rationalization fixation? It definitely existed,
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Xykon wielded it against Redcloak himself at the book's climax, even against Redcloak saying he could still destroy the phylactery
; so if it's not there now, what do you think caused the change? I know you said he was committed when he took the phylactery and gave Xykon the fauxlactery, but he had to have made a decision to commission the fauxlactery in the first place; what do you think prompted it?

If nothing else, it's bound to be more interesting that what Libris Mortis says about phylacteries.