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A Fistful of Warlocks (SPOILERS: FISTFUL OF WARLOCKS)
Arjan:
--- Quote from: BigFire on July 13, 2017, 03:07:54 PM ---He's also been in multiple gunfights and walked away from all of them without a scratch. Literally immuned to bullet.
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That only prooves he was a better killer not he was a better man. A bit of wiki reading leaves a lot of questions about the man.
But it is not about the real man, it is about the story that grew around him. The real men behind the stories are often disappointing.
Charlemagne was not a nice man.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Aminar on July 11, 2017, 05:51:33 PM ---I said Legend for a reason. In Dresden legends are truth. Even more recent ones.
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This^^^.
Harry has noted several times over the course of the stories that 'conventional' mundane history is simply often wrong in the DV. In Grave Peril, for ex, he notes to himself that the dark gods, evil spirits, vampires and monsters more-or-less ruled the world up until a few centuries earlier. In another book he observes that the 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' were actually not so far off from the reality of the Middle Ages in some ways.
The 'cynical/realistic' take on history that is widely accepted in the real world today is simply not necessarily valid in the DV. Sometimes, the myth is closer to the truth than the deconstruction of it.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: jonas on July 13, 2017, 06:03:28 PM ---I took it as the adjusting was hers to do mostly. As literally different bodies, different Engines of magic are good at different things. Not that you can't train better but I think she said her new body lacked potential to do so.
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I think the issue is that magic is rooted in both the mind and the body. Which means that different bodies will give different magical potentials even with the same soul. It might be possible to compensate for that to a degree, but probably never completely.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 14, 2017, 03:41:23 AM ---That only prooves he was a better killer not he was a better man.
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But in a combat situation, 'better killer' is often what you need.
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A bit of wiki reading leaves a lot of questions about the man.
But it is not about the real man, it is about the story that grew around him. The real men behind the stories are often disappointing.
Charlemagne was not a nice man.
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Successful rulers and leaders often are not. Sometimes you can't be both nice and successful in politics and war. It's not hard to find examples in history of kings and rulers who were kind, decent...and ineffectual or worse.
jamescagney22:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on July 14, 2017, 04:07:36 AM ---But in a combat situation, 'better killer' is often what you need.
Successful rulers and leaders often are not. Sometimes you can't be both nice and successful in politics and war. It's not hard to find examples in history of kings and rulers who were kind, decent...and ineffectual or worse.
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I believe that is why the moniker of "Great" is earned, Elizabeth, Catherine, Frederick, Alfred, etc.... but alas they are few and far between.
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