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Fistful of Warlocks -- Law Notes
forumghost:
I just figured that young hothead Luccio thought she was too good to muck up and kill them with her attack.
Hell, maybe she was right. Even as raw as she apparently was, she still was throwing around those finger Lasers that Harry can still barely do with a dedicated focus.
Really draws attention to how sloppy he is. (Seriously compared to how Luccio, Ramirez, and even Molly do in their short stories, Harry is starting to look reeeeal bad.)
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: forumghost on June 21, 2018, 08:26:15 PM ---I just figured that young hothead Luccio thought she was too good to muck up and kill them with her attack.
Hell, maybe she was right. Even as raw as she apparently was, she still was throwing around those finger Lasers that Harry can still barely do with a dedicated focus.
Really draws attention to how sloppy he is. (Seriously compared to how Luccio, Ramirez, and even Molly do in their short stories, Harry is starting to look reeeeal bad.)
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Eh, it's more that Harry has to be handicapped in some way to even the playing field. Hell, it's like that in the novels, too -- you can count on one hand the number of times Harry gets to the final confrontation in anything like fighting shape, and when he does he's devastating. That's the reason his equipment's always broken, he's short on sleep and concussed, so he has an uphill battle ahead of him.
The threat level of the shorts is a lot lower, to the point where once it comes to blows, it's practically an afterthought.
But Harry's allies are already starting from a lower power level than him -- put against the same dangers, they have to be better than normal to stand a chance, while Harry has to be worse than normal to make it interesting.
Let's say Harry's a 10 in the threat scale, while his allies tend to be around a 5. In the shorts, the threats are always around a 6 or a 7 -- so Harry has to be put at a disadvantage in some way (
forumghost:
I mean Luccio was up against one of Kemmler's top diciples, not some two bit sorceror.
Meanwhile Harry, with all the power of the Winter Knight, can't even handle Pixies and Turtlenecks without backup.
And if the enemies in the shorts are a 6-7, dewdrop faeries are about a 2.
I mean ffs one of the things Harry specifically mentines he's good at is tracking spells, then we get Bombshells and his half-baked apprentice is like "yeah, actually he kinda sucks"
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: forumghost on June 21, 2018, 08:36:55 PM ---I mean Luccio was up against one of Kemmler's top diciples, not some two bit sorceror.
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Luccio didn't know that until after she considered setting them on fire.
--- Quote ---Meanwhile Harry, with all the power of the Winter Knight, can't even handle Pixies and Turtlenecks without backup.
And if the enemies in the shorts are a 6-7, dewdrop faeries are about a 2.
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Hey, dewdrop faeries killed the Summer Lady, remember.
--- Quote ---I mean ffs one of the things Harry specifically mentines he's good at is tracking spells, then we get Bombshells and his half-baked apprentice is like "yeah, actually he kinda sucks"
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She never says he's bad, just that she does things differently, removing steps she sees as unnecessary.
vultur:
The rules having changed is entirely viable, IMO. There's a lot of talk in the books about the White Council being slow to change, but that's on a normal-human timescale (Harry's only in his 30s); realistically there would have had to have been a lot of political change over the last few centuries. Jim's repeatedly described the White Council as historically Eurocentric; bringing in the rest of the world would require a lot of changes. Listens-to-Wind and possibly Ancient Mai would have been trained in non-Council traditions (L-t-W remembers his tribe being dispossessed and then killed/dying of disease after European contact).
I don't think it would be as broad as Wardens being allowed to kill with magic in general, though, because of the corruption thing.
Possibly it was considered at the time that necromancers and other all-the-way-gone warlocks had lost their souls and were therefore not "human" within the meaning of the Laws? That really doesn't seem all that far-fetched; the Wardens don't seem to mind killing Whampires with magic, and they definitely have mortal souls. There's actually a bunch of edge cases like this; Harry kills both MacFinn the loup-garou and at least one Denarian thug with magic, and the First Law isn't brought up - but both of them would have mortal souls.
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