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Chronicles of Amber
raidem:
Check out this link. It has a compilation of tvtropes as applied to Amber.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheChroniclesOfAmber
raidem:
We Create Our Own Shadows
One of the main points in Amber, and in the Dresdenverse is that mortal thought/belief create these parallel worlds. Well, Jim is the prime originator of the Dresden Files. Roger Zelazny is the prime orginator of the Amber series. Now to take it up one step, we discussing the Dresden Files postulating our theories arguing about them, etc are creating our own worlds within the Dresdenverse.
Mine would be a "Raidemverse" within the Dresdenverse that I believe lies within the Amberverse. It is a property of Amberites that we can reach the shadows, cause them to be via our imagination and the property of walking in the shadows.
So, like I said. Jim is the person who has "Walked the Pattern of the Dresdenverse." I, a Amberite or mortal whose thoughts create parallel worlds, have created a subset within the Dresdenverse whereby my theories prove true. Other people on the forum have theories that in their subset are also true. That doesn't mean they correspond to the "truth" in Jim's Primal Dresdenverse. Our multiverses are but 'shadows' of the one true "Primal Pattern" as written by Jim.
I ask now. What does your personal "multiverse" look like? What quirks, imaginings, preferences, accuracies, misunderstanding, have imprinted upon these 'shadows.' By virtue of us imagining our worlds, our multiverses, innacurate as they may be within the Dresdenverse, Jim can reach into these worlds and have Harry walk into our quirks, imaginings, preferences, accuracies, misunderstandings, etc.
Jim has mentioned he loves reading Fan Crack theories. I think he is doing just like what I'm suggesting. He is roaming these shadows, peaking in to see our worlds, our shadows that we have created of his Primal Pattern.
raidem:
Thinking about Demonreach, I could imagine Harry finds himself as an inmate in Demonreach. He talks with his prior self, and tells him to piss off. And of course, our Harry wants to piss on him as a joke :)
The prisoner Harry at some point needs to exchange positions with our Harry, with our Harry going along the course of events that Prisoner Harry went through.
This would add another goal in Cold Days. To either jail brake a not ready PrisonerHarry, or kill the PrisonerHarry with the banefire.
raidem:
We have known for some time that if someone has your 'true name' they essentially have you. And to give them your true name, you need to speak it.
After reading the Amber series and encountering the character Victor Melman, I began wondering about both Victor Sells and the mailman (Victor Melman) we see in Storm Front. I wondered if the mailman, having thought of Peabody, had Harry sign his name for the letter/package. Does this signing of one's name give some part, approximation of the 'true name'. After this, I then thought of those wizards that Peabody had compromised within the White Council. We know part of the compromise was the blue ink. I wonder though if there was another vector for compromise in having your name, placed by you, on print being given to another. As an example, say a wizard is mute. This person has a true name. How would they give their 'true name' out? Anyways, what do you guys think?
By the way, if this Victor mailman vs Victor Melman parallel holds between Amber and DF, it would mean Harry is 'Merlin' or at least his shadow. Nor, have we seen the last of Victor Sells. Victor Melman attempts to sacrifice Merlin atop an altar crying out for his Master.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: raidem on January 31, 2018, 01:46:23 AM ---We have known for some time that if someone has your 'true name' they essentially have you. And to give them your true name, you need to speak it.
After reading the Amber series and encountering the character Victor Melman, I began wondering about both Victor Sells and the mailman (Victor Melman) we see in Storm Front. I wondered if the mailman, having thought of Peabody, had Harry sign his name for the letter/package. Does this signing of one's name give some part, approximation of the 'true name'. After this, I then thought of those wizards that Peabody had compromised within the White Council. We know part of the compromise was the blue ink. I wonder though if there was another vector for compromise in having your name, placed by you, on print being given to another. As an example, say a wizard is mute. This person has a true name. How would they give their 'true name' out? Anyways, what do you guys think?
By the way, if this Victor mailman vs Victor Melman parallel holds between Amber and DF, it would mean Harry is 'Merlin' or at least his shadow. Nor, have we seen the last of Victor Sells. Victor Melman attempts to sacrifice Merlin atop an altar crying out for his Master.
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I have theorized the mailman was more than just a mailman but at this far I don't think that's the case. I'd love for little things all the way from the first book to matter in later books but I don't know. I'd believe there are parallels between Amber, and Dresden Files but I don't think it would play out so closely.
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