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[CD Sample Chapters - Spoilers] Suggestion Box for the Upcoming Q&As
AcornArmy:
With the online Q&A sessions coming up today and on the 20th, I thought it might be helpful if we had a place to pool question ideas. If you want to ask a question, but for some reason can't remember any of the thousand questions you've had about the series over the years now that the pressure's on, or if you have so many questions that you feel like you need to spread them around so that other people can share some of the burden, then this thread's for you.
Some of mine, to start off:
1) Angels are apparently all soul. So:
1a) Can angels be soulgazed?
1b) Can the Fallen in the Denarii be soulgazed through the second pair of eyes which sometimes show up on the foreheads of the Denarians? And, if so:
1c) Will the soulgaze be different than the one you would see if you simply soulgazed the Fallen's Denarian host?
2) Would you(Jim) please clarify exactly who the Faerie Queens can personally kill and who they can't? At various times in Summer Knight and in the rest of the series, we've been told or seen evidence that:
-- The Sidhe Knights are the only ones allowed to act in matters not directly related to the Faerie Courts. (SK, Ch. 10)
-- The Queens are not allowed to kill anyone who isn't a member of their own Court. (SK, Ch. 10)
And yet:
-- We've seen fae servants of the Faerie Queens kill and attempt to kill mortals many times.
-- Aurora was able to try to kill Harry just fine, but was unable to harm Murphy. (SK, Ch. 20-21)
-- When Harry is preparing to deal with Mab to become the Winter Knight, he thinks to himself that Mab can't kill a mortal, only make them wish they were dead. The implication seems to include the Winter Knight. (Changes, Ch. 30)
So which mortals can the Faerie Queens kill? Bob tells us one thing, but evidence in the books indicates something else.
3) Can Changelings be soulgazed?
4) Since Lash is apparently some sort of spirit-being, can she take on a physical-seeming form while she's in the spirit world, the way ghosts can?
Questions From Other People (from a more-or-less identical thread I made last year, which, alas, came too late):
Vairelome:
From one of the recent threads concerning Maggie, there was some discussion about her official last name right now (post GS, staying with the Carpenters).
So: "What is Maggie's official last name right now?" and if clarification is needed, "Under what last name is she registered at the local elementary school (assuming that's where she's placed)?"
Karley:
1) How and when did Harry and Michael meet? Would you consider writing a short story about their first encounter?
2) How long has Arthur Langtry been the Merlin?
3) How does one become the Merlin? [ Already answered. ]
4) Is the Winter Lady Maeve the same person as or was she some way involved with the old Irish Queen Maeve of Connacht?
5) If Harry ever does put his full effort into universe-hopping, can you make him go to Discworld?
6) What are the names of the other three minor vampire courts?
7) How did Justin DuMorne find out about Harry?
8 ) When did the old Mother Summer retire and why won't Mother Winter retire?
9) How old is the Gatekeeper?
10) How did the White Council annex the New World shamans and what were the reaction of the Natives?
Eleyctra:
Is it significant that the eyes of Lea changed from gold in the earlier books, to green in Changes? Is Mab controlling Lea more than we think?
jeno:
1) How old were Eb and Maggie Sr when they first manifested a talent?
2) How many sisters does Thomas have? [ Already answered. ]
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote ---jeno:
1) How old were Eb and Maggie Sr when they first manifested a talent?
2) How many sisters does Thomas have?
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These ones have already been answered.
--- Quote ---3) How does one become the Merlin?
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This one was also answered, the senior council pick out a new Merlin from amongst themselves.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I have a bunch of questions in the relevant thread, but only one of them got asked, I'd want it to be whether Talos is still alive after the end of SK, because that is one that for some reason irrationally nags at me and seems unlikely to connect to anything that would lead to an "I'm not going to tell you".
I'd also really like to know
1) When was Kemmler's last stand, 1961 as per DB or WWII as per GS ?
2) If Harry had known about Lea's bargain with Maggie, could he have just demanded her help against Justin instead of selling himself for it and:
2b) if the answer to 2) is yes, is Harry ever going to find/figure this out ?
but I suspect that 2) might well get an "I'm not going to tell you", and there have been rumblings that some of the apparent series inconsistencies are part of a larger plan so 1) might as well. Indeed, I can see 2) being resolved in CD.
AcornArmy:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on November 15, 2012, 05:43:13 PM ---These ones have already been answered.
This one was also answered, the senior council pick out a new Merlin from amongst themselves.
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Okay, stricken from the record.
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on November 15, 2012, 05:46:48 PM ---I have a bunch of questions in the relevant thread, but only one of them got asked, I'd want it to be whether Talos is still alive after the end of SK, because that is one that for some reason irrationally nags at me and seems unlikely to connect to anything that would lead to an "I'm not going to tell you".
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You mean the Questions for Jim 2012 style 2 thread? Yeah, that'll work, too. The reason I started this thread, though, is because that one has 22 pages, and a whole lot of random questions in it that no one's going to care enough about to ask at a Q&A. I didn't think most people were likely to spend that much time on the subject. And one of the Q&As is tonight, so a short thread to put the questions we care about most into seems easier than sifting through the other thread looking for ideas. I guess I wanted a distilled version of the QfJ2012 thread.
Second Aristh:
The question I'd enjoy having an answer to the most at the moment is
Do all faeries have a weakness to iron and if so, has it always been that way or is it more like wizards and murphyonic fields? What is considered iron/cold iron (i.e. is it the amount of iron that matters or some sort of metahysical signifigance)?
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