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A system change could potentially make "empower" more powerful, if there are fewer/different restrictions on what spells an immortal can give (can give people spells they don't want more easily) and/or if it's possible to give people powers they can't control or turn off or predict. Of course, it could just as easily go the other way, with more restrictions (which seems more likely given that magic doesn't want too many people to use it). It could also make "guide" more powerful, if humans can't predict what a given spell will do or how it works but immortals can.

She was first referred to and shown as a catgirl 2007-11-16, and 2007-09-29 (just 3 comics after she's first shown) reveals her name (Catalina) and has cat paws in the background of one panel.

Voltaire, what exactly do you mean by "Elliot"? (I mean, the fairy-doll spell didn't consider Cheerleadra to be Elliot... although Cheerleadra dying would result in Elliot being dead, so maybe there isn't a loophole here... but would that could as Elliot "being killed"?) Even if there aren't any exploitable loopholes here, there's still plenty of damage he could do (like getting anyone else killed, including other major characters and random innocent bystanders, and doing things that could harm Elliot in some way without getting him killed). Or he could break the vow and deal with the consequences. If the consequences are the same as breaking immortal law, then they include all immortals knowing why he did what he did, and if he truly believes what he's doing is for the greater good and that other immortals will find his reasons convincing, he might see that as a positive (i.e., he has to reset, but not only does he get another chance to kill Elliot, but he also gets to tell every immortal why killing Elliot is necessary to stop Pandora's plan and how evil Pandora's plan is (or whatever he believes) in a way where it's potentially harder to lie and therefore more believable).

Now I'm wondering: does Catalina know Elliot's cat?

"Knowing my basic nature, I will do my best to keep that promise." — I interpreted that as being more of a personality thing (he knows that he's the sort of person to keep promises, and that that's a trait he'll keep if he resets, rather than something he acquired later in life; other immortals might have different basic natures and be less inclined to keep promises), though it could be a part of immortal law. On the other hand, Edward would probably know whether a vow made by an immortal is binding, so him asking Voltaire to make a vow would imply that it is binding in some way.

I'm aware of that theory; that was just an alternate possibility that I thought of.

A possibility that I've thought of: So there are villains in the spirit plane (Voltaire and Sirleck), which would make it hard for the main characters to defeat them; and Magus's revival involves (indirectly) the Dewitching Diamond, though it involves it enough to get Abraham involved... so what if, when Magus returns to the physical plane, he gains the ability to switch between planes at will, and a duplicate Magus is created stuck on the spirit plane who can pull others into the spirit plane?

Not ΞΕΡΟΞ? In any case, one could perhaps copy a spell from one spellbook to another fairly easily, but that doesn't mean that the other person could actually use the spell. It hasn't been shown what happens if one tries to write in a spellbook, but the only magic attribute of spellbooks we've seen so far is that magic automatically adds to them, so my assumption is that other than that they're just ordinary books.

Cheerleadra looks like Ellen, which would imply that the form the superhero takes is based on their normal appearance, so Wolf using the spell would look like a combination of Wolf and Cheerleadra (and same for other wizards). Also any immortal, though I'm not sure if this would be allowed by immortal law. It only contradicts this (from a Doylist perspective) if Edward's plan ends up actually working. My guess is something will go wrong.

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Ellen will spill these beans, if she already hasn't. The only other candidates I feel would be right would be Elliot and Ellen's parents, which would fit in with Diane spending the night at their house. Diane knows enough that, if she learned about the diamond's effects in general (including the powers it gives), she could probably deduce (or at least guess) that that's where Ellen came from, so it could also be someone who doesn't know about Ellen's origin but knows about magic stuff (e.g., I've imagined situations where Diane learns about the diamond from Charlotte, who learned about it from her spooky forums or something, and then one or both of them realize that it fits with what they know about Ellen).

That wouldn't explain them being identical, though. Too identical to be fraternal implies too identical to be half-siblings, even if (as someone else suggested) Susan's mom has an identical twin. Also, this tweet. Edward and/or Jerry could be wrong.

Not sure where to post this, but some speculation about Susan and Diane: Susan and Diane were born on different days, which seems like a setup for a plot where characters think they can't be twins for a while until they realize that they could have been born around midnight—a plot that, of course, never happened. But what if someone in-universe was trying to cause such a plot, to hide the connection between them, someone who had the ability to choose or change either their actual or official birth times? (In which case, they could actually be twins, or it could be that "they're twins" is their alternative cover story after "they have no connection" fails.) Even more speculative: If this is the case, then perhaps the woman with Susan's face is also part of this plan (perhaps she's transformed to look like Susan); that incident caused Susan to change her appearance, making her look less like Diane. Of course, that would require someone who could predict something like that and wouldn't care about other consequences (an old immortal?).

Some thoughts on the possibility of the Dewitching Diamond being the cause of this, as mentioned by a few people here: If this is the case, their birth times aren't necessarily going to be informative of which is the original and which is the duplicate, since duplicates aren't really "born", and whoever decided their official birth time isn't necessarily going to care about that. (This could also apply to other supernatural explanations—someone like Edward could have chosen a fake birthday/time to make it look like they were twins.) There are two different possible ways the diamond could produce a copy of something: either Susan or Diane touched the diamond (problem: what is the curse?), OR someone could have used a Susan/Diane clone form and then touched the diamond (problem: how do we account for the magic affinity?). It's also possible that BOTH of them are duplicates made by the diamond, but then you'd have to account for the hospital records somehow. One of them, of course, would need to be able to spread the curse. Diane was shown in the Q&A as an example of someone who's "sleeping", and Susan has a spellbook (which Jerry has also seen) and therefore would presumably know about it. (Unless "being summoned" is a curse, and they spread the curse by summoning things? But I don't think the ability would be an affinity, then.) If they were made by the diamond, then Abraham would probably know about them—but he's said that the diamond's spawn have always been monsters! My guess would be, if they're not twins, then alternate-universe (or alternate-half-universe) counterparts; we know such counterparts exist (though we don't yet know if counterparts exist in the other half or just in completely separate universes), and an alternate half-universe has been relevant recently (griffins) and Magus is likely to be relevant soonish and I think he's from an alternate universe, too; plus, alternate-universes seems most plausible to me of the supernatural explanations that I can think of in terms of "why would someone do this?".

He still could have deduced they were sisters based on their appearance/affinity before the party. Plus, why would he know? We don't have any reason to believe he was paying attention to Susan when she was born, and if he has any other family detection powers, alternate universe counterparts or similar might still look similar to twins to that, especially if he didn't consider alternate universes—he didn't seem to already know about other paranormal things the main characters went through, and Tara thought Elliot and Ellen were twins based on their aura. "Can't really tell which of ya could summon The Bane one day" — would seem to imply that it is actually a summoning affinity. It might still be a different summoning affinity—I don't know how specific affinities are—or maybe it's actually Charlotte who has that affinity (but then Diane would still have some vampire hunter affinity).

I don't think immortals are infallible either. Yeah, they can watch everyone from another plane of reality, but he'd have to have been watching Susan and/or Diane around the time of their birth to know that for sure, and he was wrong about Susan etc. knowing that immortals die. He might have just figured out that they were sisters the same way that Ellen and Nanase did (same appearance, he can probably sense magic affinities, and he may have seen/heard Ellen and Nanase's reaction when Diane mentioned her birthday).

Someone should put an evilness spell on Ashley, then get her to touch the Dewitching Diamond. Then give her new evil twin a mark. (...although that would give her the power to make people evil, and I'm not sure if one could get a mark as well as the spread-the-curse power...) (...unless the conflictedness already is the result of a curse, and it's possible to get a pure-good and a pure-wanting-to-transform-everything version of Ashley from that...)

Perhaps because it's just one thing and knowing about it doesn't really give much indication that there are other spells/other ways to get magic, or much information about how other aspects of magic work (like awakening and magic marks and such)? (Especially if Jerry powering the hammers meant that using hammers didn't build up energy that could be used for awakening.) How about "Theodore Clark"? Re: Evil Monkey American: Regardless of whether African-American etc. are good terms to use/make sense/etc., I think that's probably what he was referencing. In any case, he seems to be following the letter of the law regarding political correctness, and either not understanding well or not caring about the reasoning behind it (he knows one should accept gay people, but doesn't think about why it might be a bad idea to basically say "I accept you being gay" publicly to someone who either isn't gay or isn't out about it), so even if the term African-American isn't preferred it would still be in-character for him to use it.

Just thought of something (theory that I don't necessarily consider likely)... the way that magic contacted Grace, perhaps to actually contact Pandora, seems convoluted, like something that an old immortal (like Pandora) might do. And if that's the case, if magic itself is (or was created by) an immortal, then he/she/they/it resetting would probably change how magic works.