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Chronicles of Amber
raidem:
Walking is a main part of the books. It is something that the Princes, Princess of Oberon can do after they travel a "Pattern" in the capital.
The Walking allows them to travel to parallel worlds. And even if some of these worlds, cities/civilizations are long dead; they can walk and recreate these worlds. They call this a 'shadow' of this other world. Shadows of themselves can even exist. So Corwin's presence in some of these worlds if they leave enough of an impression would leave a shadow of him that would exist aside from Corwin prime.
They simply travel like you and me down a road, etc in a car, a wagon, etc. They add/subtract their surroundings in a way until they get to their desired location. Sometimes they just go out exploring, with no destination in mind. It's a innate ability but one they have to get tuned in with by walking the Pattern.
Harry 'walking' would be him going to Star Wars universe, then to Star Trek universe, Marvel, etc. He can do all that and more. If the Star Trek civilization goes extinct, or maybe the galaxy is eaten by the black hole, Harry could recreate this 'shadow' galaxy. It isn't the same as the orginal but a close approximation. And the shadow, ever so slight, would exist prior to Harry even 'recreating' it. He would just have to strengthen its reflection.
jonas:
*Maniacal Laughing* I see indeed...
Kindler:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on January 22, 2018, 10:02:47 AM ---I never read this series. I'll have to give it a listen. I'm getting a little tired of the Iron Druid series. I just started the sixth book and it feels a little meh to me. The next Alex Verus book doesn't come out until July and I don't know when the next Rivers of London novel will come out. Any other suggestions?
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I had a similar reaction; my sense was that the author knew a whole lot of Irish mythology, and was really, really excited to tell everyone about it, but not much else. Hard to get through some of the books, which feel like "I went to a place, and a thing happened; I went to another place, and another thing happened; I went to a third place, and a third thing happened; the book is now over." And once the perspectives start shifting and the author made the decision to make all the other characters present tense for some ungodly reason, I just started to get mad. I still generally liked them, but there were an awful lot of warts to look past.
Honestly, I guess my biggest complaint was that it just wasn't Dresden, which I suppose isn't fair.
For weirdness (and I do mean weirdness), I'd say check out the John and Dave series (John Dies at the End, This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It), and a third with a name that's too ridiculous for me to remember). The first one was written bizarrely, with no real cohesive plot; a lot of things just sort of happen, because it was originally a web novel with sporadic posting that got picked up for publication. If you can get past that, it's a whole lot of fun. The following two books are tight, linear narratives. They're billed as horror-comedy, but it's Cosmic Horror-Comedy, which makes it closer to urban fantasy than horror, in my opinion. There's not much else like that series.
Most of the straight fantasy stuff I'd recommend that's coming out isn't released yet. But there should be some good high fantasy in the next year for major publishers, and a few urban fantasy things on the self-publishing marketplace that is far better than most of the tripe that's available in the genre.
raidem:
Yeah Jonas, many of our out there theories on parallel realities, time travel, multiple identities of the same person, etc, they all have a firm basis in Amber. So, I think we can run with Amber cosmology as a base for Dresden Files. I think it fits in general.
Corwin and the sons and daughters of Amber even visit Earth. So, we could even have Amber characters on Earth during the Dresden Files. Hey, Mac could be a Amber prince himself. Maybe not, but still.
I'm going to view the Dresden Files as either long after Amber's destruction, or coinciding with Amber's destruction, or something like it.
I really have to read more. I'm still on third book. Haven't listened to more of it, as I chose to argue with EG.
raidem:
I've added The Hand of Oberon.
It touches upon house thresholds, blood rituals, and blood that defiles and makes vulnerable The Pattern. The Pattern and Dworkin's fate, strength, and weakness is intertwined. Dworkin has a child Oberon, who has children, the Princes and Princess, they can have children but do sparingly. Apparently any of these three generation's blood can cause great damage to The Pattern.
I think Jim is using this to create a similar vulnerability to Arctis Tor.
I included a bit about familial relationships in a spoiler in OP
The Hand of Oberon
(click to show/hide)house threshold
blood ritual on pattern
a unicorn
blood of Sarissa on Arctis Tor floor defiles Winter vs. blood of Amber (up to 3rd generation from Dworkin) defiles Amber
the above means blood of the Queens up to 3 generations hence can make Winter/Summer vulnerable
(it can be used to verify bloodlines say if Murphy's blood is spilled or Marcone's for my theory.)
Feints, Attacks similar to Cold Days
Plots, story relying on misdirection compared to Maeve story, plot with Lily relying on her minimal 'lying.'
Unknown father/son relationship:
(click to show/hide)Ganelon is Obelon; so Corwin/Ganelon journey is a father/son one unknown to Corwin. It could support a unknown father/son journey with Harry and someone say Harry/Nic or Harry/MarconeBlood on The Pattern is somewhat similar to blood on Stone Table.
There is a tornado funnel that can appear at The Pattern (Prime Pattern) that is similar to the Darkhallow funnel.
Ooh, thinking more about the blood of the bloodlines. What would have happened if either Molly or Murphy's blood (should they qualify as Queen blood) would have been spilled on/at the tower. It could make sense then that a way to free Lea would be to gut Molly near the Winter Wellspring, (or whoever has Queen's blood (3 generations))
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