The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Why a fortress? And why at Harry's old boarding house location?
Wizard Sibelis:
You realize it almost directly matches up symbolically to Mab's fortress in CD's then? It's Harry's apartment AND a giant fortress at the same time...
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: groinkick on August 25, 2018, 07:45:27 PM ---Gard may have examined the location and found that it had magical protections on the NeverNever side (That leah had placed), and told Marcone that it was a secured area worth having.
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The mapping between physical address on earth and location in the NN is based on what kind of place it is, though, not just a 1:1 mapping. Burning it down and rebuilding a castle over Harry's old place couldn't help but chance what kind of place it is. Leah's garden wouldn't protect Marcone's building.
Also based on SG, the mapping between realms is even somewhat fluid based on who's creating the opening, and even down to their state of mind when they cross over. The commonly used Ways seem to be points where the NN is particularly close and gates connect the same locations with a high level of reliability, but in the case of the vault heist, it was functionally important for making the connection that Harry believe it was a sincere robbery rather than a setup with the connivance of both Marcone and Hades to hurt Nic.
Wizard Sibelis:
no, it was necessary the vault in question actually BE a secured one and not blown wide open lest it change the integrity of the way... had nothing to do with harry believing it was a heigst or not.
exartiem:
Just as the intellectus of Demonreach creates a field to make people want to avoid it, perhaps that location has something similar that draws people of a defender's type. Maybe because of what Harry was doing there or perhaps Harry was drawn there himself, but there is something about that spot that people subconsciously want to defend.
Perhaps it is a thin spot between this reality and another. It drew Lea to plant her garden there in the NN. Odin, when Harry was gone, may have given a 'suggestion' to Marcone to build a fortress there and Odin manned it with Einherjar.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Wizard Sibelis on August 26, 2018, 02:07:56 AM ---no, it was necessary the vault in question actually BE a secured one and not blown wide open lest it change the integrity of the way... had nothing to do with harry believing it was a heigst or not.
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Even if you read it that way - and I'm not convinced one should, given Harry's narration that two practitioners might hit different parts of the NN opening a gate from the same earth location - it still means the site isn't going to connect to Lea's garden any more after burning down and then having a castle built over it by new ownership. The connection only existed in the first part thanks to fairly significant work on Lea's part. Once she was no longer required to put in the work to keep up with changes by her bargain to protect Harry, the connection would be lost.
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