Mr. Cryptic wrote:Hmm... Hector thinks Prospero's capture of but then losing Ishtar in Adventures of Ishtar demonstrated that Prospero's not an effective villain. CL thinks that Prospero capturing Ishtar demonstrated that Ishtar is not an effective hero. You can't both be right .
This storyline has gone on a long time now. We're closer to the end than the beginning!
Hello Mr. Cryptic. The biggest reason that Ishtar being defeated by Prospero standout for me is this,Ishtar is a magical being a sorceress, her powers are magic based!! She has hundreds of years of training and experience, hundreds of years of magical knowledge. All her people have training and access to magic. Magic being common place amoung her people, as a war Goddess i'm sure she has faced magical based attacks many times. Which lead me to believe that she has learned many way to defense against magical attacks and would have a high resistance to magical based attacks! Especially the low level magic prospero was using on her at the time!! I could understand why she couldn't overcome the effect of the hypnotic microchips or the irridite energy, things she have never faced before, but magic something she knows and has faced many times!! A sorceress with her experience and knowledge of magic beaten by a novice!!
That why i question her abilities, i know Prospero surprised her, with her experience i thought Ishtar would be able to handle a inexperienced novice using simple magic!! I was surprised and i'm still shocked at how she reacted in that battle! Prospero looked like he was the one with the hundreds of years of experience and knowledge of magic, Ishtar looked like the novice.
Ishtar is my favorite victory City hero!! I could understand if Ishtar was defeated by a team of wizards from the powerful Crimeson Coven, but beaten by a novice mage in one on one combat!! A powerful Goddess of love and war, a being with vast magical powers, who's magical powers dwarf Prospero power, I couldn't believe how bad Ishtar looked!! The point being that he was just a novice, Ishtar is beaten by a Novice mage!! As least for me, that make me question her abilities and how effective of hero she really is!! C.L.