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groinkick:
Just posting for people who might not have heard it.
 
Black Gate Magazine Interview w/ Jim Butcher - ConFusion 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJU5NwFiXk

Harry in Changes had 3 choices:
Book of Kemmler, and full on Necromancer
Summon Lasciel's Coin and go full Denarian
Deal with Mab.


I like where he discusses villains.  That there is something "missing".  "They have this hole that is bottomless that they keep trying to fill."  This does give some insight into people like Nicodemus, and Cowl.  Like Nicodemus wanting to save the world...  What is his definition of saving it?  Is it like Skywalker telling Obiwan that from his perspective the Jedi are evil?  Which would mean saving the world would be more like destroying it to the average person....  Maybe saving the world means ending Free Will, and Choice.

Harry's strength's: Direct magic, and magic that requires time, investment, and love.  "his gadgets are second to none in the wizard world even though he's a punk kid".  Surprised by that one, didn't realize the stuff he made was such a high level in comparison to more advanced wizards.

Love how Jim describes how he builds wizards, and how their magic is like martial arts.  Different people are suited for different things, and if you want to be good you need to find what you're good at, and focus on it.

raidem:

--- Quote ---I like where he discusses villains.  That there is something "missing".  "They have this hole that is bottomless that they keep trying to fill."  This does give some insight into people like Nicodemus, and Cowl.
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Ooh. I could make an Amber comparison here, but it for Amber is a rather specific case.  Julia and Brand and any others that walk a broken Pattern, touching the broken pieces rather than the whole ones get attuned to a magic that has something 'missing', something from the void.  This really isn't such a moral thing except that in Amber those that touch this magic with a bit of the void get changed by it and negatively so.  I had wondered if Jim was going to take Outsiders as coming into or manifesting from the void via those that walk broken Patterns.  So, I've made comparisons to those that summon Outsiders to in some way touching broken Patterns.

Of course, I don't think this can generalize to simple villains, but some of the villains in Amber Chronicles had this 'magic' and property.

Now, in Jim's other series, Cinder Spires, the 'magic wielders' actually do have something missing as they become more adept at their craft.  These missing pieces though manifest as psychological disorders like OCD and other peculiarities.

Oh and on OCD, ect, I've made progress on likely identifying the partial cause of my psychiatric disorder.  I hit my head at age 15 during a flip turn at a swim meet. So, essentially I slammed my head into concrete.  THis would be a mild traumatic brain injury that I didn't seek treatment for but left lasting unseen effects.  It took me awhile to think that a nonpsychological issue like hitting my head could be part of the problem. Also, in my history psychiatrists don't ask if you have hit your head.

Sorry for derailing the thread after mentioned the OCD of the characters in Cinder Spires and it reminding me of my own (computer games, etc).

Argonometra:

--- Quote from: groinkick on May 06, 2018, 05:08:26 PM ---Harry's strength's: Direct magic, and magic that requires time, investment, and love. 
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moar skull babies down the line?

Quantus:

--- Quote ---Harry's strength's: Direct magic, and magic that requires time, investment, and love.  "his gadgets are second to none in the wizard world even though he's a punk kid".  Surprised by that one, didn't realize the stuff he made was such a high level in comparison to more advanced wizards.
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This is a little surprising at first, but when you think about it I think it fits for the most part.  Harry always had a major leg up on crafting thanks to having Bob as both mentor and magical sensor package.  His early potions were deceptively effective, some of the lesser used and/or not maintained designed could have become a lot more effective with continued development (the Bear Belt chi storage, the Murphionic Suppression charm, etc), unfortunately he always had to prioritized his combat gear over broader research.  But his duster enchantments are legitimately pretty hardcore, his 2.0 shield has been complimented by several wizards who are nominally his superiors in magical skill, and most recently he even managed to successfully build a skull Spirit Sanctum, without bob's help and literally using stone age tools by the sound of it.

And then there was Little Chicago, and whoooBOY that one could have been a biggun. 

Snark Knight:
Well, his bulletproofing enchantment on the duster is demonstrably second to at least Ebenezar's work, which protects the head and ankles even if they're not physically covered. Though I'm not sure whether he's actually marking up his robes with spells, or doing it some entirely different way.

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