The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Did Harry focus the Tank?
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Lost Merlin on February 16, 2018, 03:26:15 PM ---
I am getting two different thoughts here from this, maybe you could help me understand.
The last sentence makes sense to me.
This is the part that has me confused.
Are you insinuating that Merlin was responsible for building the Genius Loci as well as the prison on Demonreach?
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I think it was the opposite, that the Merlin used a Genus Loci that was already present.
raidem:
This is Merlin in the Amber series defeating an attack by the Logrus (Chaos) on Corwin's Pattern (Corwin is Merlin's father). Merlin is a son of both Order and Chaos, who later becomes King of Chaos. Corwin created a new universe/multiverse in walking/creating his Pattern while the Prime Pattern existed. As to parallels on identity of Merlin with Amber chronicles, they may be two distinct people with same name. If same person, then whoever sired Merlin would be the 'creator' in a sense of this multiverse. It also follows that the bloodline of this 'creator' is extremely important to undue the multiverse. In my guess guess that Corwin is Mac, Mac would have functional immortality and invincibility even on Halloween, etc, etc. He is safeguarded as 'god/God of this multiverse' as long as the multiverse exists. Only the person who created the "Corwin Pattern" or "Dresdenverse Pattern" would have this innate protection. The first few of his generations blood would only be what could damage it.
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--- Quote ---"We seem to have a problem," he said, "with rather extreme ramifications." The ground shook once again, twigs and leaves fell about us, pebbles bounced, dust rose, the fogs were agitated.I heard a dish break in the vicinity of the heavy red and white cloth about which Luke, Dalt, Coral, and Nayda sat eating. I drew them back on.There came another tremor, and I leaned against the tree for support. "Or is something bigger about to eat it?" Then, "Back when I drew the Pattern," he said, "I'd no way of knowing that this area was faulted, or that something like this would one day occur. If these shocks should crack the Pattern, we've had it-in more ways than one. As I understand it, that spikard you wear can draw upon enormous sources of energy.Is there some way you could use it to defuse this thing?"
"I never tried anything like it." "Find out fast, okay?" he said. Then I seized upon the one possessed of the most juice, drew hard upon it, filled myself, body and mind, with its energy. Ignition completed and engine idling, with me in the driver's seat, I shifted into gear then, extending a line of force from the spikard down into the ground. I reached for a long while, seeking a conversion metaphor to the subjective for anything I might discover. Wading out from the beach into the oceanwaves tickling my stomach, my chest-feeling with my toes the rocks, the strands of sea-weed...Sometimes a rock would turn, slip, bump against another, slide... But I saw the rocks, the wrack, in their disposition and movement, just the same, beheld them as clearly as if the bottom were fully illuminated. Feeling, feeling my way now, down through the strata, single toe soft as a flashlight's beam running along rocky surfaces, testing the pressures of one upon another, isostatic kisses of mountains beneath the earth, orogenic erogenies of slow movement, flesh caressing mineral in the darkest of secret places My body follows... I race ahead, pouring forth heat, cracking rock, splintering new pathways, outward, outward....It was coming this way. I broke through a wall of stone, another. Another. I was not certain this was the way to divert it, but it was the only one I knew to try. Go that way! Damn it! That way! I accessed two more channels, a third, a fourth I opened another channel. Within my metaphor the rocks grew stable beneath the waters. Shortly thereafter, the ground ceased its vibration. Feel it, feel it carefully. Describe a vector. Follow. Follow it to the point of original pressure. But no. This point is but a confluence of vectors. Trace them. More junctions. Trace them. Access more channels. The entire pressure structure, intricate as a nervous system, must be described. I must hold its tree within my mind. It may not be possible. I may be courting infinity in my topographic branchings. Freeze frame. Simplify the problem. Ignore everything beyond the tertiary. Trace to the next junction. There are some loops. Good. And a plate is now involved. Better. No good. Too big a picture to contain. Discard tertiaries. Yes. Vectors of transmission simply drawn-back to plate, almost. Pressure exerted less than full pressure extended. Why? Additional point of input along second vector, redirecting shear forces this valley. "Merlin? Are you all right?" "Let me be," I hear my voice respond. Extend then, input source, into, feeling, transmission signature... Is this a Logrus that I see before me? I opened three more channels, focused on the area, began heating it. My newly created magma flowed down fault lines. A hollowed-out area occurred at the point whence the precipitating force had originated. Back. I withdrew my probes, shut down the spikard. "What did you do?" he asked me. There's a small grotto there now.If it collapses it may ease the pressure even more." "So you've stabilized it?" I don't know the limits of the Logrus, but it's going to have to figure a new route to reach this place.Then it's going to have to test it out. And if it's doing a lot of Pattern watching just now, that may slow it." "Of course, the Pattern may move against us next." "I've brought everyone here because I thought they'd be safe from both Powers." "Apparently you made the payoff worth the risk." "I guess it's time to give them some other things to worry about." "Such as?" I looked at him, Pattern ghost of my father, guardian of this place.
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The above text points out that Corwin unknowingly built his Pattern upon an Earthquake fault. In parallel to Amber Chronicles, Demonreach Prison was built on an area susceptible to glaciers. This then could tie into time travel attacks on Demonreach with glaciers being one part of teh equation. However I'd say glaciers are part of the natural state of things and formation of topography, there still could be an unnatural attack could have used the same. So, I do think there was a glacier that was part of the assault on Demonreach that wasn't simply 'natural'. This would then be consistent with Harry linking Rashid to Demonreach's limp and subsequent link of his limp to glacier.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Quantus on February 16, 2018, 03:54:09 PM ---I think it was the opposite, that the Merlin used a Genus Loci that was already present.
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Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Genius Loci can appear naturally, from what I remember. I think that Merlin's construction of The Well included changing the genus loci into something with greater awareness, and with a specific job.
Lost Merlin:
--- Quote from: Kindler on February 16, 2018, 04:17:53 PM ---Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Genius Loci can appear naturally, from what I remember. I think that Merlin's construction of The Well included changing the genus loci into something with greater awareness, and with a specific job.
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--- Quote from: Quantus on February 16, 2018, 03:54:09 PM ---I think it was the opposite, that the Merlin used a Genus Loci that was already present.
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Thanks makes more sense that way.
raidem:
You know, it seemed like the island or was it just the Prison was said to have been "placed there."
--- Quote ---“What I mean,” he said, “is that I know about your island. I know where it came from. I know what it does. I know what’s beneath it.” “Uh,” I said. “Oh.” “I’m aware of how important it is that the island be well managed. Most of the people who came to your party in Mexico are.” By which he meant the Grey Council.
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To me, it seems like Demonreach Island was transported to the Lake from somewhere else. It may have come from something near Avalon.
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