Platinumoxicity on 28/1/2015 at 15:21
Quote Posted by Jarkko Ranta
Actually there's an unused sound clip in the game resources where the Eye tries to warn the Trickster ("Master! Something is amiss!" or something like that). That made me believe that the Eye was created by the Trickster as a sort of a conduit to spread his influence outside the Maw (like creating the Haunts, etc.), but that was of course proven wrong in TDS.
Edit: Location of the sound file: RES/snd/EYE/English/EYE09
Of course that can't be considered canon.
Well, it was already disregarded as non-canon in The Sword, where you can find Constantine's research regarding sentient artifacts. The reason why he hired Garrett is that he had just discovered an alchemical formula of some sort of magical drug that could be used to incapacitate sentient stones. He knew that the Eye would not submit to any authority, probably having witnessed the Old Quarter cataclysm, where the artifact flooded the city with undeath and fire just to mess with a couple of hammerites trying to contain it in a safe.
The Eye was probably specifically created to be disobedient, because the only one who should be able to use it for anything was the one resposible for the activation of the Failsafe. It wasn't exactly friendly to him either, locking him up inside a haunted cathedral just for the hell of it, but it did do exactly what it was designed to do when the time was right.
TriangleTooth on 30/1/2015 at 10:37
Well, Garrett wasn't exactly doing his job right when he took it from the Cathedral either. That said it did tell him how to get in, it might have been testing him.
Jarkko Ranta on 1/2/2015 at 10:19
Quote Posted by Platinumoxicity
Well, it was already disregarded as non-canon in The Sword, where you can find Constantine's research regarding sentient artifacts. The reason why he hired Garrett is that he had just discovered an alchemical formula of some sort of magical drug that could be used to incapacitate sentient stones. He knew that the Eye would not submit to any authority, probably having witnessed the Old Quarter cataclysm, where the artifact flooded the city with undeath and fire just to mess with a couple of hammerites trying to contain it in a safe.
Hmmm, I have a vague memory of seeing text like that, but sounds reasonable. (Of the in-game texts in The Sword I mostly recall the book about nature's magic [Rakel's Tome of Magic, Introduction] and the letter about Constantine's huge supply of gold.)
