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Salic Law and Harry's Understanding of Magic Genetics

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morriswalters:

--- Quote from: Mr. Death on August 13, 2018, 02:44:58 AM ---I meant in the context of The Dresden Files. That doesn't seem to be how the term is applied in the novels.

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I knew what he meant. Only in this context would I draw my dictionary from its scabbard. ;)

Wizard Sibelis:
He also uses it do describe wereguild, blood money. So his usage is not linear too...

peregrine:

--- Quote from: Snark Knight on August 12, 2018, 06:42:03 PM ---I think Maggie Sr. inheriting her magic from her father's side was even lampshaded in the book as an example that there are exceptions the the usual matrilineal inheritance.

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If it's about in utero magic exposure, even a purely mortal mother who spends a lot of time around a very powerful wizard would probably be enough to do it.

Avernite:

--- Quote from: Wizard Sibelis on August 13, 2018, 05:28:25 AM ---He also uses it do describe wereguild, blood money. So his usage is not linear too...

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That is because Salic Law has become famous because of the French throne (where the term Salic Law was used to refer to the fact that no land of the Salian Franks should be inherited by a woman, and hence, that the English king had no right to the French throne). But Salic Law in general is a broader concept, referring to the whole law of those Salian Franks.

Mind, I still don't know how Jim Butcher meant that law to refer to female-derived inheritance (even if weregild is perfectly logical), since it was primarily just generic relational, with a small male preference for property and a massive male preference for land.

An interesting factoid that I found on the avalon project is that it includes punishments short of death for nearly all cases; rape of a free woman in general, or being unable to cough up weregild for murder yourself or among your relatives, are a death sentence (and a handful if x, then y, then z cases).

Kindler:
OP: catch up with the series. There is information you do not have, and TV Tropes does not adequately cover all events.

Regardless, I don't see the plot hole. Are you saying that Harry's line about magic usually passing down the maternal line (and that it's apparently well-known) not prompting the White Council to promote a conceive-athon is a plot hole? Because there are tons of other lines of dialogue (including quite a bit in White Night, if I remember, or maybe that's Small Favor/Turn Coat) discussing that the White Council does not have the manpower to manage the wizard-level talents that are springing up as it is. Harry specifically mentions that the wizard population is undergoing a massive expansion (though it's still a fraction of the total population, as most subgroups are) at the moment.

Wizards are also extremely long-lived. They have more time to have children than vanilla mortals do. There is less of a need to rush. Couple that with, as Mr. Death pointed out, big talents can spring up from magical have-nots (the typical patrons of Mac's, for example), or even out of nowhere, and you try to manage that with a few hundred people. There are way, way, way more sensitives in the Dresden Files than there are wizards. Not only are there too many for monitoring all of them to be practical, there had never been an effort (or means, for that matter) to identify all of them. That might change with the (click to show/hide)Paranet, but I doubt even that organization will be able to identify those like...eh, you haven't read Changes yet. But there is a side character with a small talent who would never be noticed by the Council, and would be equally unlikely to have ever even heard of the Paranet (at least... well, read Changes.)
Anyway, it's not a plot hole however you look at it, unless I'm completely missing your point.

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