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If I ever sat down with JB I would ask...
Graves:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on April 20, 2018, 10:22:56 PM ---Chicago has a mystique with its dark and bloody history. Imagine Harry setting up shop in say....Dallas or Nashville.
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chicago has no sense of itself. Boston has a certain pugnacious glee, new York a sense of motion and purpose, Philly a vague sense of inferiority, LA and DC sooo sure they are important while everyone else mocks them. Seattle has a sense of humor to itself but I could get NO feel for "Chicago." it's a cluster of different neighborhoods that happen to be next to each other. It's history is a serious of riots and mistakes that it absolutely refuses to learn from.
wardenferry419:
I, respectfully, disagree.
AndiSue:
I'll take a stab at some of these for the sake of conversation...
--- Quote from: TheJrade on April 10, 2018, 08:28:58 PM ---
• Sidhe don’t have souls, right? I'm pretty sure it's been said in the books that they do not have souls because they are not human, which is why Harry can't soulgaze them. But then again, Harry is an unreliable narrator.
• How did Harry’s father die? supposedly a brain aneurysm
• Is Marcone all human?My guess is that Jim's answer to this would be the same as his answer to the same question regarding Mac - he has never done anything a vanilla mortal can't do
• What do Black Court vampires eat? Are they Anne Rice vampires? Is it the whole blood-drinky thing Buffy talks about to create one? I think this is yes - they are blood drinkers
• What are the names of the various Courts of vampire? Black, Red, White, Jade
• Who wants the Blackstaff back? The Celts or Fomor perhaps? Is it Mother Winter’s walking stick? The Blackstaff as Mother Winter's walking stick is, I think, the prevailing fan theory
• Did any Rampires survive? Is it possible for a Rampire to simply not eat after turning? Many people think the Eebs may have survived as they were in the Nevernever. If a Rampire did not feed it would starve to death.
• Faith cannot possibly be just a little girl. *I* barely know what a coat from the set of El Dorado looks like, let alone her. Here I will share my big WAG. **THIS IS JUST MY THEORY** Faith Astor is the biological daughter of Charity Carpenter. Let me back up a bit...Mr. and Mrs. Astor are high society and very concerned about appearances and other people's opinion of them. Charity is their biological daughter who embarrassed them by being a witch and running off with a dragon cult. Charity became pregnant while in the cult - possibly by the dragon - but somehow managed to get the baby (Faith) out to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Astor raise Faith because it makes them look good/helps them recover from the embarrassment of Charity. My theory continues that Charity was already pregnant with Molly when she was rescued by Michael - thus making Faith Astor and Molly Carpenter full siblings. Also - and this is where I haven't been able to connect all of the dots - there has to be a reason that we have Faith (Astor), Hope (youngest Carpenter daughter) and Charity (Carpenter) (
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Ananda:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on April 20, 2018, 10:22:56 PM ---Chicago has a mystique with its dark and bloody history. Imagine Harry setting up shop in say....Dallas or Nashville.
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Some authors really give you a sense of place, but I’ve never gotten that from the DF. The city just seems generic “city” with a few Chicago details thrown in. He’d never been there till quite a bit into the serial from what I’d read, so that makes sense. For contrast, Anne Rice gives quite a sense of place in her works, especially New Orleans and San Francisco.
wardenferry419:
The RPG section on Chicago adds to the mystique.
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