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TT Harry in Proven Guilty
Griffyn612:
Yeah, I'm sticking with the silly putty theory for now. Parallel Merlins working in tandem somehow seems like a longer stretch than a single Merlin doing it five times at once.
Kindler:
If Harry goes back in time to fix Little Chicago, he isn't changing his own past. It's a case of a stable time loop in which the current timeline includes Harry's trip that fixes it. It's the You Already Changed the Past trope; from Harry's perspective, he's ensuring that the events in Proven Guilty play out the way they did for him during the events in Proven Guilty.
About the missing Fae book: Good catch, but it doesn't seem like a book is missing. From Small Favor, page 24 on Nook:
--- Quote ---"I've seen these goat guys, or read about them before," I said. "Or at least something close to them. Where did I put those texts on the near reaches of the Nevernever?"
"North wall, green plastic box under the workbench," Bob provided immediately.
"Thanks," I said. I dragged out the heavy plastic storage box. It was filled with books, most of them leather-bound, handwritten treatises on various supernatural topics. Except for one book that was a compilation of "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strips. How had that gotten in there?
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To me, the exchange indicates that Dresden knows there's an entry in one of the books, but not which one, so he's doing broad research with things that are available to him. The outlier is the Calvin and Hobbes book. Harry eventually finds the entry on the eighth one, so it doesn't look like anything is missing.
WereElephant:
--- Quote from: raidem on February 24, 2018, 06:45:10 PM ---How about this option. Merlin from 5 (or more) parallel realities participated in the same event. They were linked in purpose and synced w/ some merged mind.
Think of what Harry could do with the other Harry's he encounters in Skin Game in his dreamscape with Molly. If Harry could work with them, together they could each do separate jobs, in different times, all at once. If Harry and they are able to learn to time travel. They could each go to different times to do a similar thing that Merlin was able to do.
It definitely makes things more understandable if the working is distributed and coordinated with his 'Shadow' selves.
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Modification: One Merlin from our timeline, travels to 5 different parallel universes, at a different time in each. Effectively, this makes Demonreach a 5D Pentagram, able to keep in entities that could travel in time as well as parallel dimensions.
raidem:
That works too. It bypasses him affecting 5points in a single timeline. It's far more reasonable to include parallel worlds in its creation since many of these entries do span across multiple realities and times.
It then means that to undo demonreach, demonreach needs to be destroyed in multiple parallel realities and/Or times.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: WereElephant on February 26, 2018, 04:36:15 PM ---Modification: One Merlin from our timeline, travels to 5 different parallel universes, at a different time in each. Effectively, this makes Demonreach a 5D Pentagram, able to keep in entities that could travel in time as well as parallel dimensions.
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Except he did all five at once. What you propose would be five builds at five different times.
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