The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Is Mac God?
Kindler:
--- Quote from: jonas on April 06, 2018, 06:45:48 AM ---That could mean they have orders to stay away too though... God and Lucifer want the Sandbox intact, His 'out' being respected by Denarians even should say WORLDS about his affiliations...
Id insist he is one of the angels whose Graces power the swords. Most likely the sword of love, cause of the Arthur connotations in his DR visit.
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I could buy him actually being King Arthur (or maybe Gawain?) who found the Grail and drank from it, before ceding it to Hades. I do think he's mortal, in the sense that he was a regular (but important) guy, he's just got this healing thing that happens to him when he's unconscious. Not full immortality, more like rapid reconstruction. He's "Out" because he's seen it all, and all of his efforts to preserve the world looked like a bunch of nothing when he saw the Outer Gates.
My only doubts concern his divinity. Pretty much anything else I could buy.
raidem:
Hey. In the Amberverse, Corwin's son Merlin best friend Luke is likely one of the ones to go into the newly created multiverse. So, if Corwin=God=Mac in Dresdenverse, Merlin could possibly be Corwin's son. But the interesting one is Luke. If he was one of the earliest to enter the newly created multiverse, he could turn out to be Lucifer. Luke vs Lucifer.
Anyways, I do like the idea of taking Ambers multiverse that Corwin created and was never explored or touched due to the Author's death, and then have Jim use this untouched multiverse as a foundation for the Dresdenverse. It allows Jim to hide these Amber characters behind these mythological/religious/cultural characters.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: groinkick on April 06, 2018, 01:42:32 AM ---I don't think Mac is God because I think he'd be more active in the Denarian story line. It would be very subtle, of course. But he seems more involved with the Sidhe, Outsiders, and Demonreach possibly.
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Involvement with the Sidhe fits the Manannan Mac Lir theory well.
raidem:
We have precedence in Abrahamic religions that God does and can walk the Earth, so it isn't entirely out of reason for God to walk on Earth in Dresden Files. So, it is plausible for Mac to be a disguised God. Even if Mac is God, he may have multiple disguises such that not even Vadderung or Mab know Mac is God, they may believe him to be something else, just another of other masks God uses when walking the Earth.
--- Quote ---At this point, without explanation, we read Genesis (32:24-25):
… a man wrestled with [Jacob] till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
We realize that Jacob was wrestling with God in a way that took Jacob to the limits of his strength – and beyond.
WEAKNESS TO BLESSING
In this crisis, Jacob’s strength is broken. All Jacob can do is hold on: “I will not let you go unless you bless me” (32:26). He can no longer grasp and take; he can only receive.
Jacob receives a new name and blessing (32:27-29). His new identity is now “Israel.” The meaning of this name is somewhat difficult to discern, but it probably means God prevails; he struggles with God; or God perseveres.
Bruce Waltke writes:
… at daybreak [Jacob’s] antagonist changes his name, and Jacob comprehends that the man is none other than God. Finally, as the sun rises above him (32:31), he walks away, better, limps away, a new man.
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Kindler:
I can buy Jim being inspired by the Amber Chronicles, or using some ideas based on them, but there is zero chance that the Dresden Files is literally connected to another series altogether, for the same reasons that the Hulk won't actually show up, even if he has Hercules's mantle.
Dresden, the Cinder Spires, and Alera—the three series Jim actually has intellectual property rights for—maybe, but definitely not something that he doesn't own. Speculation in that direction is a dead end.
You can draw as many parallels as you like, and that's perfectly valid, but Corwin is not going to show up in the Dresden Files any more than Cyclops.
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