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Wormwood
Avernite:
I dunno, I am mostly in favour of Wormwood just being a horrible disease. Not all that is bright is good (White Court, anyone?), and I can totally understand disease being in Mother Summer's province.
Mind, this is a very straightforward interpretation, so it is a bit surprising attention is paid to it in the book, but maybe it was there to emphasise that while Winter is harsh compared to Summer, it may not be any more or less evil/deadly.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Avernite on January 09, 2019, 07:02:11 PM ---I dunno, I am mostly in favour of Wormwood just being a horrible disease. Not all that is bright is good (White Court, anyone?), and I can totally understand disease being in Mother Summer's province.
Mind, this is a very straightforward interpretation, so it is a bit surprising attention is paid to it in the book, but maybe it was there to emphasise that while Winter is harsh compared to Summer, it may not be any more or less evil/deadly.
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There is plenty of nasty deadly weather in the summer, hurricanes, heat, drought, tornadoes, floods.. We just don't think of summer in those terms usually. However wormwood isn't a disease, where as the other labels clearly were.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 09, 2019, 08:08:32 PM --- There is plenty of nasty deadly weather in the summer, hurricanes, heat, drought, tornadoes, floods.. We just don't think of summer in those terms usually. However wormwood isn't a disease, where as the other labels clearly were.
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Or maybe there is a disease called Wormwood in the Dresdenverse, sometime in the future.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Avernite on January 09, 2019, 07:02:11 PM ---... maybe it was there to emphasise that while Winter is harsh compared to Summer, it may not be any more or less evil/deadly.
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Which is a theme brought up continually since Summer Knight.
--- Quote ---"[If Summer wins, it could] set off an era of rampant growth."
"That last one doesn't sound so bad."
"No. Not if you're an Ebola virus. You'll have lots of friends."
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Chapter 10
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 07, 2019, 08:05:03 PM ---In the Bible, the book of Revelation tells of a star named Wormwood that plummets to Earth and turns a third of the rivers and fountains of waters bitter.
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Just a guess, but I think that if there was a supernatural nation that lived and spent most of it's time underewater, cough, cough the Fomor, Wormwood wouldn't be very nice for their home. Just as it has been speculated that Nicodemus has a dooms day, scorched earth strategy to deal with the Outsiders, perhaps Summer has a doomsday startegy to deal with the Fomor.
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