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peregrine:
The Fae cannot lie, but they can be mistaken. Does being fae grant one absolute self knowledge, or can they be mistaken about their own intentions and motivations, and thus "lie" to themselves?
Re: the above question, when Lily said she had not chosen, was she correct that she had not chosen her human or fae heritage, but that in accepting the Mantle, that choice was made for her? (see also actions determining other Scions choices)
At this point in time, can you give us a general rundown of Harry's strengths as a magicican? He was especially skilled at thaumaturgy in the beginning, not so much evocation. Has that changed with a decade or more of being in novels? Are his multiple necromantic feats evidence of any special skill in that field, or just stuff he gets away with because of special circumstances/it's awesome?
Would you say that in general, Power and Purpose are linked? That creatures that are outrageously powerful are so because they attach themselves to a specific purpose, like a train that is incredibly powerful, but only on train tracks, vs a car that can go on any roads? (The metaphor being expandable to derailing being entirely intentional.)
What would happen to someone who spends a year or more in the nevernever, eating nevernever food, breathing nevernever air, then returns to the real world? Do they get sick/die as all the ectoplasmic stuff in their bodies turns to goo, or does it metaphysically become one with them?
Just how pissed will Charity be?
Are we going to see any stories from Morgan's PoV? Set a while back, obviously, but I'd love to see him do a Dungeon Crawl on some magical bad guys. Kick in the door, and apply sword, fire, and boot to ass all up and down the battlemap.
If Harry had had the presence of mind to throw a Death Curse, would that have caused problems for him re: meeting Jack, and setting the plot of Ghost Story in motion? Or would it have progressed the same, + changes from the affects of his curse?
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?
Will we ever see some of the Supernaturally clued in mundane authorities in action? Or does that not fit Harry's idiom?
rad:
Free will as humans have it has more to do with the range of choices and the ability to go against one's nature. A human can go around changing their mind, act in whatever way, and then change again with incredibly different repercussions. Other creatures, like the Fey, can't go against their nature. The Great Tit can't go around being cold and calculating just like Mab can't go around being all flowers and sunshine (without some sort of Mabish plan in the background). As far as the fallen go, when they chose to rebel they became that choice. That choice completely changed what they were on a certain level. It is the same way that the messengers of the holy people became skinwalkers. They were angelic beings and when they changed they became like shagnasty. A human, however messed up, would still be a human.
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote ---At this point in time, can you give us a general rundown of Harry's strengths as a magicican? He was especially skilled at thaumaturgy in the beginning, not so much evocation. Has that changed with a decade or more of being in novels? Are his multiple necromantic feats evidence of any special skill in that field, or just stuff he gets away with because of special circumstances/it's awesome?
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It's changed, Harry has gone from "my fire evocation sucks (and evocation in general)" to the quote below.
--- Quote from: Cold Days Chapter 21 ---I hadn’t used much fire magic lately, obviously. You don’t go messing around conjuring up flame when you’re at the heart of Winter. There are things there that hate that action. But fire magic has always been my strongest suit. It was the first fully realized spell I ever mastered, and on a good day I could hang around in the same general league as any other wizard in the world when it came to fire magic.
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peregrine:
I'm not crazy though, right? In the beginning, his evocation wasn't so hot, because even though he used it in fights, he only had a small handful of spells he actually used. Or that's how I remember it.
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: peregrine on January 03, 2013, 06:17:17 AM ---I'm not crazy though, right? In the beginning, his evocation wasn't so hot, because even though he used it in fights, he only had a small handful of spells he actually used. Or that's how I remember it.
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You're not crazy, he's changed from a shoddy evoker to a rather good one.
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