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RobReece:
If I remember correctly, MM takes place in a Universe that split at a decision in GP.  I wonder if we'll ever see glimpses of the universes where Harry chose the Coin or DarkHallow over taking up the Winter Knight mantle.

But on a side note, I think that Jim's posturing over how he didn't know which route Harry would take in Changes is just that, posturing.  He already had the series outline and I think it would have been much more difficult to stay within that original story line if he had made any other choice... but it's a nice line to hear in his interviews...

jonas:
Yep, yep and yep.

Talby16:
We know that Jim had each book planned out via a one to two sentence description from the beginning. The specifics of Harry's actions/changes were probably not planned until much closer to the book that contained them. I think that while it is likely Jim knew that in Changes Harry would have to make a choice to get more power to save someone he loved from the beginning, he probably did not know which path he would choose until much closer to the book. At some point (probably several books before Changes) it became very evident that Harry would choose Mab (the lesser of the evils). Therefore, Jim's posturing is true depending on what point in time he was talking about not knowing which path Harry would take.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: RobReece on April 17, 2018, 05:03:38 PM ---But on a side note, I think that Jim's posturing over how he didn't know which route Harry would take in Changes is just that, posturing.  He already had the series outline and I think it would have been much more difficult to stay within that original story line if he had made any other choice... but it's a nice line to hear in his interviews...

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I think he only meant that the broad outlines like what the case is and which antagonist he's putting Harry up against are planned out. So for example, Skin Game would still have worked if he was directly beholden to Nicodemus but trying to ensure a mission fail, instead of on loan from Mab and trying to ensure a mission fail. Which is an interesting point, because if Cold Days could still have shaken out similarly with Denarian Dresden, it's another circumstantial bit of evidence for the Denarians being anti-Outsider.

Going with the Darkhallow would have been a harder choice to write, because it's virtually impossible to keep the audience rooting for a character who's life-drained thousands to tens of thousands of people to fuel his own power. There's no reason Harry couldn't have gone on to use that power against N-fected Maeve and then Nicodemus, but a Darkhallow probably would have left him overpowered for those to even be interesting adversaries.

Kindler:
Skin Game with Harry as a Denarian would be pretty interesting. It'd be Harry trying to outfox Mab's Winter Knight--maybe even Thomas.

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