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Okay Rivven, let's look at this. NPC, non player character. You want an NPC to defeat a character which has trounced TWO PCs, player characters? That just doesn't work. For some reason I think bagging Morgan has made you a little more cocky.

As far as I'm concern Fischig is a PC, given one that will die, and NPC is a character which is referenced to but no one really controles but one that everyone can have do little things, like we could say we hired out workers to fix the bar, or the soldiers Fischig brought with him. As for introducing other characters keep in mind that the guild is under attack so any new comers are most likely not going to be viewed too well. Which will be nice when Tacitus crashes into the ladies dorms.

You'll have to talk with Reaper or Ultima about him, ow and Rivven if you want I can let you be the one to maim Fischig.

I was saying the character Rivven maiming Fischig, not your NPC which would probably thank him if I'm reading what you say correctly for making it easier for him to get about and do whatever it is they are doing.

Ultima and I have been discussing what we could possibly do to Rivven and we have come to the idea that it may not be in your better interest to fight Fischig. Seeing how Rivven is a construct with a Daemon inside him even if he doesn't know it, Fischig will know it because bannishing Daemons is what he does.

Yes, but you see, then Rivven finds out he has a demon in him. So long as he doesn't die quite yet, I've no problem, I expected Fischig would inflict quite some pain on Rivven, but I'm sure Rivven might be able to do something about the pesky soldiers he carries around no one else has been able to touch. And I really do think it would be nice to have a shot, let Rivven go on the offensive, as opposed to where everyone else has ignored the fact that these men are in the wilderness up until they get ambushed, and then try to take them on alone and head on. Seems a long string of tactical errors made even by people who knew of the soldiers in the woods. But anyway, while Fischig might be able to sense the demon, he couldn't banish it I wouldn't think; it's inactive, and not in Rivven by choice, but bound there so as to stop it from getting loose again, and the most he could probably do is cut Rivven off from what tiny sliver of power he draws from it for a time (tiny in comparison to what power the demon has, it would definately be a blow to Rivven in his current state to lose that extra support).

As to the soldiers, yes, I'm aware that several have been hurt, but thank you for clearing up how many. I'd thought you only had three of the twelve unable to function, though I do recall that Quin killed at least one so... I had been thinking I would need to ask about that, but it is my mistake for that part, yes.

See, here, you've been ignoring what I've been trying to tell you over and over. It isn't necissary to put a demon into the vessel, in this case a dead body, in order to animate it, just a soul. In this case, both Rivven's soul, and the demon's reside within the body, Rivven's soul linked to the demon and the body, the demon linked to Rivven's soul and the body, and the body linked to both souls. The fact is that with the demon gone, Rivven still lives, however much he can be said to do so now, but simply loses a sum of his power, speaking mostly in sense of his magical compacity and capabilities. And the demon wouldn't put up a fight as it's inactive, true, but consider that, the only thing it's sort of already been banished; only, instead of back to where it orignally came, it was put more or less in a prison caught between Rivven's soul and his body, it's own sort of dimension of holding where those two are the only doors out, and firmly shut, so all it can do is try to stick a finger out under the crack between door and floor at the bottom, figuratively speaking. It's caught, and can affect things with the entrapping enchantments and bonds active only through affecting Rivven.

No, this was actually my idea long before I saw Naruto, though I admit to the unseemly similarities. And as I've said it, though I made it up on my own and left it up for objections if anyone thought I should change it, a construct was a vessel animated by use of a soul, a human construct being the unliving body of a human reanimated, often through use of it's own soul, but not always. The fact is, either way, it's a soul being drawn and forced into a vessel, added with magical energy to bind them, but for reanimating a once active vessel, it's easier to use the soul orignally residing in it, as it already has some bond to the body, making it easier to draw back to and force into it, strengthening bond weakened severly by death rather than creating a new bond. Could Rivven's soul or the demons be put into a new vessel instead of his body? Certainly. But for now they reside within the body originally corresponding to his soul. If you do not believe he is to be considered a construct while his own soul provides some of the force which animates his body, then you certainly may think of him as whatever you like.