Talk:Solomon (True)/@comment-28209103-20161228043618/@comment-112.209.221.81-20161228121058

What it does is 'return all of his magic and wisdom to God' or somesuch. While it doesn't erase him from history like some people previously thought it implied, it does erase him from the throne of heroes preventing him from being resummoned and ensures that his particular magic and miracles, which being a gift from God that he returns when he uses Ars Nova, can never exist again. This causes Goetia to break apart and lose most of its power since it was using Solomon's corpse as a base. But it shouldn't affect the things that he did or the legacy he left behind, that is to say modern magecraft, since it doesn't directly use his power.

It's like receiving a textbook and engine then after using them to perform your tasks (miracles), coming up with your own theories, formulas and blueprints with them as the base. Then returning the textbook and engine in the end. The things you built or wrote down are still there even if you lost access to the original textbook (wisdom) and engine (power). This is how I understand it at any rate.

Interestingly, Ars Nova also frees the 72 demons from the amalgation known as Goetia. While some rejoin with it, some others decide to 'die', some devide to continue fighting seperately, some instead choose to debate with the heroic spirits, while a couple even die protecting the heroic spirits from the other demon pillars.