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[CD Sample Chapters - Spoilers] Suggestion Box for the Upcoming Q&As
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: AcornArmy on November 15, 2012, 06:01:20 PM ---Okay, stricken from the record.
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.
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You know I'm just going to gather every question I asked over the course of that thread right? And you could just read the question posts rather than all 22 pages.
(click to show/hide)How old is Rashid in terms of years lived (not how many years ago he was born)?
How old is Margaret in terms of years lived (not how many years ago she was born (e.g. coming out 100 years later after a day in the NN only counts as a day for her age rather than 100 years))?
Does being a witch affect how long you are fertile (hopefully this settles the fertility threads once and for all)?
What were the other massive incidents Ebenezar referenced when talking about his acts as Blackstaff (we know he did Krakatoa and Tungska as two examples of massive incidents) and why did Ebenezar cause each of these incidents?
What are the abilities of the swords of the cross?
Is it possible for wizards to use body altering magics to extend their lifespans?
Do wizards gain power (not just skill) with age (i.e. is a 300 year old wizard more powerful than at 20 years old?) like every other supernatural group seems to?
What did the Red Court use Chichen Itza for when Cortez was there?
Are there wizards among the ranks of the Einherjar?
How many Einherjar are there? (specific number please, not just millions)
Will the Shapeshifting Guru from the Ukraine mentioned in the list of freeholding lords in White Night play a role in the series or will it be like the Jade Court and not appear in the series?
What are Harry's specialties in magic (there have been some inconsistencies about what he is skilled at)? How skilled is he with evocation?
Did Mab rewire Harry's brain to be better at ice magic like speculated? If no, how was he flinging around the precision ice magic in Changes?
Was the moment when Harry lost control of Sue in Dead Beat the moment that Butters got out of the polka suit to go treat Luccio's injuries and having Morgan replace him as drummer?
Was the shadow of death seen behind Kincaid under Harry's sight in Blood Rites Mavra?
Are the White Court, Red Court and Black Court types of phages like Shagnasty and Titania's messenger in Summer Knight imply?
How old are the senior council members?
Did they find Simon's body at Archangel after the Red Court attack?
Will we ever see that short story with Klaus the Toymaker back in WWII?
Will we see more of Klaus the Toymaker?
How many people alive in The Dresden Files have power over Outsiders?
Does Harry have an incorrect understanding of the Darkhallow and other parts of the Word?
Why did the half-turned Red Court and Cassius experience sped-up aging the moment they lost the thing stopping their aging? Shouldn't they have just gone back to aging at normal rate?
Did the Wardens find Justin's corpse?
What are Rashid's specialties in magic?
What are Nicodemus' abilities when there isn't a sword limiting him to vanilla mortal like levels? Can he use magic like Harry does?
What is the general layout of Demonreach? How big is it?
Did He Who Walks Behind slow down time around the clerk who tried to run? If no, how was he slowed down?
How long did it take the Wardens to find Harry and how did they do so?
Could you elaborate on the various activities mentioned (pyramid sitting, getting real married etc) when they were picking out a new senior council member in Summer Knight?
What happened to the lightning taser and the shield crystal?
How did Ebenezar's instant death spell in Changes work?
What are the names of all the factions and freeholding lords in the Accords (excluding the ones whose existence is a walking spoiler)?
And another question, where did the power for the Hellfire come from? And if it came from Lasciel, how did it get through all the barriers Harry put between himself and the Coin?
Why do the Wardens seem so understocked in homemade foci like equivalents of Harry's duster?
Was the chant to call He Who Walks Behind in Blood Rites actually in English or was that Lash making it sound like English so that Harry could understand it?
How does He Who Walks Behind speak English? (with a British accent no less)
In Changes, Odin talked about the power of the Lords of the Outer Night's blood being spread among thousands of offspring, what did he mean by this? How does having offspring weaken the LooNs?
Why did Milwaukee, Wisconsin vanish from the face of the Earth for two hours in the Unseelie incursion of 1994?
How many people died because of the events of Dead Beat (the hex and people's reactions, the Wild Hunt, the Necromancers and their zombies running around)?
How did the Necromancers find out about the Word? Corpsetaker's Anthropomancy?
Here we see a few examples of what happens when wizards skilled in particular areas draw in power, can we get a comprehensive list for what happens for wizards of each specialty draw in power?
Is Joe the janitor at the train station in Small Favor actually just a janitor, or is he, like Uriel, an angel in disguise? And if so, is he Autobot or Decepticon?
And this is the shortened list with some questions cut entirely and others fused into one.
AcornArmy:
Argh! Fine! I'll just drop the questions into your thread.
LordMelvin:
--- Quote from: AcornArmy on November 15, 2012, 05:31:31 PM ---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.
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Re: Your three points:
-- We've seen the fae wreaking mayhem on multiple occasions, but the only real bodycount was in PG, where they were acting via Mollys' choice. It was, essentially, Molly's decision to indulge in black magic that opened the way for the horror movie fetches to go wild at the convention, while at Arctis Tor, anyone present had clearly chosen to involve themselves in the events, I. E. become involved in matters directly related to the dealings of the court.
-- In Summer Knight, Harry as Winter Emissary was an open target, since he was - temporarily, to hear him tell it - a part of Winter, while Murphy was, as a vanilla mortal who happened to be standing nearby, not a legitimate target, and therefore the Chlorofiend had to pull its punches.
-- Take 1 part wishful thinking, 2 parts assisted delusion via [GS thing], and 1 part not-thinking-straight-due-to-having-just-been-permanently-injured. Garnish with inaccurate phrasing and unreliable narrator to taste.
AcornArmy:
--- Quote from: LordMelvin on November 15, 2012, 07:03:09 PM ---Re: Your three points:
-- We've seen the fae wreaking mayhem on multiple occasions, but the only real bodycount was in PG, where they were acting via Mollys' choice. It was, essentially, Molly's decision to indulge in black magic that opened the way for the horror movie fetches to go wild at the convention, while at Arctis Tor, anyone present had clearly chosen to involve themselves in the events, I. E. become involved in matters directly related to the dealings of the court.
-- In Summer Knight, Harry as Winter Emissary was an open target, since he was - temporarily, to hear him tell it - a part of Winter, while Murphy was, as a vanilla mortal who happened to be standing nearby, not a legitimate target, and therefore the Chlorofiend had to pull its punches.
-- Take 1 part wishful thinking, 2 parts assisted delusion via [GS thing], and 1 part not-thinking-straight-due-to-having-just-been-permanently-injured. Garnish with inaccurate phrasing and unreliable narrator to taste.
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That's useful speculation, but my problem with it is that we have to speculate in the first place. These are supposed to be hard rules which have to be followed by the Queens. I just want a clear, straight answer from Jim on the subject. If nothing else, it'll make things easier for the DFRPG folks.
Direwolf513:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on November 15, 2012, 06:14:04 PM ---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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Something nagging at me from another thread - why don't the Fae have an issue with the iron in human blood? The answers in the other thread (ranging from there's not enough iron to make a difference to blood having its own metaphysical significance and weight that cancels out the metaphysical significance of the iron) are all well-thought out and plausible, but I'd just be interested in Jim's take on it.
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