The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Was there a Dragon in Changes?
jonas:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on October 05, 2017, 05:26:05 PM ---The butcher isn't dedicating those animals as sacrifices to anything. The Rawhead just grabs the dead flesh, as I recall.
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exactly, plus a little power from each animal. Proof an intent isn't required for someone to gain from a 'sacrifice'/death. iirc Rawhead spirits themselves form around such places itself, they don't just collect the corpses. No preexisting entities.
--- Quote ---And even if the Dragon was gaining power from it, you don't think it would've shown up to defend this supposed source of power when it was under attack?
Let's be real here -- if there was a Dragon anywhere near Chichen Itza, there are a dozen reasons it should have shown itself during the huge, apocalyptic battle taking place over the huge, apocalyptic spell that was being prepared. The fact that no such thing occurred means that there just plain was not a Dragon involved.
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Drikonn:
You gotta look for the man behind the curtain with all of Dresden’s enemies. Who’s to say that CI isn’t the home of a dragon that was using the Red Court for its own ends? Jim is a self-proclaimed lazy writer and it’s very much his style to drop little things like that way in advance. I could totally see Harry having to go back and having crazy amounts of PTSD
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Drikonn on October 06, 2017, 05:37:24 PM ---You gotta look for the man behind the curtain with all of Dresden’s enemies. Who’s to say that CI isn’t the home of a dragon that was using the Red Court for its own ends? Jim is a self-proclaimed lazy writer and it’s very much his style to drop little things like that way in advance. I could totally see Harry having to go back and having crazy amounts of PTSD
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Again: Why didn't he show up?
If a Dragon made CI its home and was using the Red Court, why didn't it show up to protect its home and its investment?
There isn't any hint to a Dragon. He didn't "drop" anything. There's a vague description of the leyline having old power, but nothing that suggests a Dragon has anything to do with it.
Drikonn:
For any number of reasons. The time wasn’t right, it was just a small piece of a larger picture, a Xanatos Gambit. There’s lots of reasons why not. It could also be that it was asleep or wounded or otherwise couldn’t appear.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Drikonn on October 06, 2017, 07:11:08 PM ---For any number of reasons. The time wasn’t right, it was just a small piece of a larger picture, a Xanatos Gambit. There’s lots of reasons why not. It could also be that it was asleep or wounded or otherwise couldn’t appear.
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The fight was happening right on its doorstep. Some people are suggesting it had an active benefit from the Red Court, or was even helping it.
That's the kind of fight you show up to.
There's no suggestion a Dragon is involved. Hell, there's no suggestion of a Dragon being involved at any point in the decade of Red Court war. And we would know. A Dragon is something that could take on Mab. If a Dragon were in the Red Court's corner, they would have won.
And frankly, I don't see how it adds to the series or the battle to have a Dragon "behind the scenes" apparently doing not a damn thing for the place that's supposedly its home turf.
Seriously, the threads these days are like someone is throwing darts at a board filled with random nouns from the series. "Hm, Peace Talks still isn't out, but we need something to talk to... so I wonder if... *toss, THUNK* a Dragon was at ... *toss, THUNK* Chichen Itza!"
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