Totems (even "dark" and the truly corrupt ones) take the Long Run perspective, and given how few followers the Adversary has relative to the number of Awakened (waiting to be turned or ruined), I doubt 'It' would be in any hurry to dispose of such a useful agent over one mistake. In fact, I'd guess that unless Harrow outright rejects the Adversary, only death or severe essence loss will bring an end to his magical shenanigans.
As for Free spirits, well, if you're looking to bind Free Spirits like a proper evil bastard, one probable step any sufficiently high grade Initiate can take is to journey to the Metaplanes in search of information; specifically, looking for the spirit's True Name. It's very difficult and VERY dangerous (both in metaspace and in the real world) but the results are quite potent, to say the least.
Very interesting, thank you.
I must have completely missed the "True name" factor, but it makes tremendous amount of sense now that I've read up on it a bit.
So basically - Harrow would set up a cult, and then go on a quest in the Metaplanes to enslave and corrupt a spirit for more easy brainwashing like before.
Does he have to do it on his own, or can he bring someone else with him along the way, say.. maybe a powerful magical assistant or maybe one of his magically inclined "wives" (who would have to be equally powerful or maybe even more)?
Also one more thing I do not get:
When the purified spirit gets bound to Glory in her "good" outcome, how exactly does it work? (It asks for a vessel touched by magic but more dead than alive, which obviously refers to her) Since she "bounds" it to herself, isn't it in fact a possession in which case she would lose control over her body? Or maybe I am just reading it wrong and it's actually implied that the spirit gets bound to her Chrome or something like that? Can she "talk" to it (in her mind etc.)?
