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Elegast:
--- Quote ---What do you think of me creating "compilation threads" for each of the theories that don't have sources (and are either Strong evidence Very strong evidence) and aiming to get them into the DF Reference Collection? I'd like to at least try. Not having sources for those theories bugs me (I may also try ones for Speculative if the previous attempt works).
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That would be a great idea.
--- Quote ---If I created a new poll and it goes the other way, would you than change it (though there's the slight issue that I don't know how to create a poll...)?
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Sure. Click on the button "New Poll", near the new topic button to create a poll.
--- Quote ---You don't trust me :'( :P.
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I do. ;) I just want to see the context.
--- Quote ---Requesting that you also add "(the walker could also be Nemesis)" beside it.
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Done.
--- Quote ---You forgot to add my name to it (how do you do that anyways?)
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Like that:
--- Code: ---[sup][url=http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php?action=profile;u=40787]Cenphx[/url][/sup]
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Will add your name.
--- Quote ---Which one?
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It doesn't exist.... :-[
--- Quote ---Also, could you add the "Drakul is the scion of a demon"? (
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Done.
123456789blaaa:
You missed a few things I edited into my post.
Elegast:
--- Quote from: 123456789blaaa on January 02, 2013, 08:32:28 PM ---I'm wondering how to add sources for theories that only have a slice of text from the RPG to support them. I could use the method I proposed at the top of this post but creating a thread for such a small piece of evidence seems wastefull...getting threads like them into the DF Reference Collection would just clutter it up. Maybe we could make one thread for all the theories that only have small amounts of evidence (this could also work for Speculative and Highly Speculative theories)?
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We could. It would be cool to make one post per theory. I had the same idea, and already have made such a post as an experiment:
--- Quote from: Elegast on December 08, 2012, 09:12:44 AM ---Faeries speak gaelic
(Arjan, Elegast)
Fairies and language
--- Quote from: Changes ---someone whispering to me, something in a tongue I didnt understand-but I knew my queen's voice
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--- Quote from: Summer Knight ---Maeve drew herself up, her face shining with a sudden terrible beauty. She lifted her right hand, ring finger and thumb both bent, and murmured something in a liquid, alien tongue.
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--- Quote ---My godmother spoke something, a string of liquid syllables in a tongue I could not understand-but it made my knees turn rubbery and my fingers suddenly feel weak.
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About speaking Russian:
--- Quote from: Changes ---"Harry", he[Toot-toot] said, as if the question made no sense at all, "you just speak it"
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--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---The word fairy derives from Middle English faierie (also fayerye, feirie, fairie), a direct borrowing from Old French faerie (Modern French féerie) meaning the land, realm, or characteristic activity (i.e. enchantment) of the legendary people of folklore and romance called (in Old French) faie or fee (Modern French fée). This derived ultimately from Late Latin fata (one of the personified Fates, hence a guardian or tutelary spirit, hence a spirit in general); cf. Italian fata, Portuguese fada, Spanish hada of the same origin.
Fata, although it became a feminine noun in the Romance languages, was originally the neuter plural ("the Fates") of fatum, past participle of the verb fari to speak, hence "thing spoken, decision, decree" or "prophetic declaration, prediction", hence "destiny, fate". It was used as the equivalent of the Greek Μοῖραι Moirai, the personified Fates who determined the course and ending of human life.
[...]
Latin fata comes from the Indo-European root *bhã- "speak".
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From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy#Etymology
Gaelic
--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---Most consonants have both palatal and non-palatal counterparts, including a very rich system of liquids, nasals and trills (i.e. 3 contrasting l sounds, 3 contrasting n sounds and 3 contrasting r sounds).
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From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic#Pronunciation
The daoine sìth are described in gaelic litterature after all:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidhe
Harry doesn't speak gaelic:
--- Quote from: Death Mask ---Ebenezar spat something in what I presumed was Gaelic.
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Mac Aodha (MacCoy) means son of Fire in Gaelic! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_(surname)) I wonder if Harry's predilection for fire is a common trait in his bloodline.
Mab and Maeve are both forms of an old irish name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb
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123456789blaaa:
--- Quote from: Elegast on January 03, 2013, 08:21:57 PM ---That would be a great idea.
Sure. Click on the button "New Poll", near the new topic button to create a poll.
I do. ;) I just want to see the context.
Done.
Like that:
--- Code: ---[sup][url=http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php?action=profile;u=40787]Cenphx[/url][/sup]
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Will add your name.
It doesn't exist.... :-[
Done.
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The context:
--- Quote ---MAVRA
Mavra first appeared in the casefiles during the events of the Grave Peril case, working with Bianca St. Claire and Leonid Kravos to stir up trouble for both Harry Dresden and Michael Carpenter. And, as an old and powerful Black Court vampire, she can stir up a lot of trouble. She hates Michael for destroying her “children” and “grandchildren” over 20 years ago, so she planned to use the blood of an innocent (Lydia) to unmake his Sword Amoracchius. Thwarted in this, she disappeared for a time. She popped up again in the Blood Rites case, creating Renfields (page 84) in a homeless shelter. She was taken down by the efforts of Harry, Kincaid, Karrin Murphy, and Ebenezar McCoy. During the events of the Dead Beat case, she showed up again, forcing Harry to find The Word of Kemmler for her, under threat of sending blackmail photos of Murphy—taken while Murphy was working on the Blood Rites case—to the authorities. When Harry provided the book, he threatened her, and she initially laughed it off—until Harry outlined the lengths he’d go to just to get her, if she persisted. In addition to the vast Black Court vampire powers she has, Mavra seems to be skilled in magic. She is ridiculously adept at using Veils and is responsible for the “barbed wire” spells that afflicted Agatha Hagglethorn and Micky Malone. Furthermore, her command of mind magic is extensive.Mavra slender and pallid, with blue lips and hair like dried straw and bread mold. She looks exactly the same to the Sight as she does to normal vision.
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Does that help?
Also, when you say that the WoJ doesn't exist, do you mean that it's like the "black court/council typo" WoJ?
--- Quote from: Elegast on January 03, 2013, 08:35:53 PM ---We could. It would be cool to make one post per theory. I had the same idea, and already have made such a post as an experiment:
About speaking Russian: From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy#Etymology
Gaelic
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic#Pronunciation
The daoine sìth are described in gaelic litterature after all:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidhe
Harry doesn't speak gaelic:
Mac Aodha (MacCoy) means son of Fire in Gaelic! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_(surname)) I wonder if Harry's predilection for fire is a common trait in his bloodline.
Mab and Maeve are both forms of an old irish name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb
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Oooh that works pretty nicely (could use a little cleaning up though). One possible roadblock is that we'd have to reserve a TON of posts considering how many theories like that there are and how many could come in the future. Perhaps some theories could be in the same post as other's?
Elegast:
--- Quote ---The context:
Does that help?
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Thx.
--- Quote ---Also, when you say that the WoJ doesn't exist, do you mean that it's like the "black court/council typo" WoJ?
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No. The part about Drakul being son of a Dragon was in a the question, not the answer from Jim...
--- Quote ---Oooh that works pretty nicely (could use a little cleaning up though). One possible roadblock is that we'd have to reserve a TON of posts considering how many theories like that there are and how many could come in the future. Perhaps some theories could be in the same post as other's?
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Not such a big problem: you can put several theories in the same post and do several threads. And I can split/merge threads if necessary. Reserving 10 posts would probably be largely sufficient.
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