The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Jim Butcher interview from 2 months ago
jonas:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 11, 2018, 07:00:44 PM --- If its the scene Im thinking of, I dont think he did (at least not in the strict subconscious Free Will sense). He was "instinctively" moving to save Mort and tripped.
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Yea, and Mort instinctively didn't fight it cause he knew Harry's experience and power was greater.
--- Quote ---This was always something of a point of debate on that: whether there was any qualitative difference in the Energies behind the Ectomancy that Mort does and actual Necromancy.
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I'd say absolutely... but it does start to get a bit nuanced in it's reasoning and intention. Like Stu surviving longer intact basically because of his purpose towards a part of life, his familial connections... Something eerily similar to the Rent paid elsewhere and the balances kept as well.. That's why I use the logic of the yin-yang and Bagua design literally everything started as wuji, one state, then yin-yang which spins the five elements out into the 8 manifestations(Mountain, Ocean, ect) into the 64 variations and so on. Which a cross with a nice mythos, I think Maori or somewhere close, that states basically the same thing except that all things that exist in the light exist first as shadows in the endlessly dividing darkness that seeks to reform as one state/being,whom I also cross here with Cronus/Chronos as well as the mentioned Slowest Terror/Hunter of Shadows. It sets a nice frame work so it doesn't boggle me to think about, and is not at all inaccurate in most ways. It's just finding what he actually did with the idea.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 11, 2018, 11:29:15 AM ---It implies that Necromancy is not innately Black Magic
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Of course it's not. Kumori used it to keep injured people alive.
--- Quote ---as we'd been led to believe. Id always considered that one one of the more simlistic Laws since it was more banning a qualitative Energy rather than an Act; it banned the Method rather than the motivation. Id taken it to mean that Necromancy was in itself a Black Magic energy that innately Tainted you (comparable to say Outsiders), and that eventually he'd pay some Price for Sue
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Time travel isn't "black" magic but it's punishable by death.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: groinkick on May 11, 2018, 07:45:04 PM ---Of course it's not. Kumori used it to keep injured people alive.
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And harry used it to raise a zombie dinosaur. Which I been under the impression had still stained him with detectable black magic, same as his earlier run-in's with Black Magic had stained him in a detectable way.
--- Quote ---Time travel isn't "black" magic but it's punishable by death.
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And stabbing a Senior Council Member in the face is punishable by death but is not Black Magic Council "Justice" is a wildly different topic. :P
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 11, 2018, 07:53:52 PM ---And harry used it to raise a zombie dinosaur. Which I been under the impression had still stained him with detectable black magic, same as his earlier run-in's with Black Magic had stained him in a detectable way.
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I don't think so... Maybe though.
--- Quote ---And stabbing a Senior Council Member in the face is punishable by death but is not Black Magic Council "Justice" is a wildly different topic. :P
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Actually it's not. There are no laws against killing senior council members. It doesn't happen for 2 good reasons: 1. They would probably kill you first, and 2. Someone close to them is probably gonna come looking for you.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: groinkick on May 11, 2018, 09:13:13 PM ---Actually it's not. There are no laws against killing senior council members. It doesn't happen for 2 good reasons: 1. They would probably kill you first, and 2. Someone close to them is probably gonna come looking for you.
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You mean except for the guy that they hunted down and put on trial with full intention of executing for stabbing a senior council member? :P
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