The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
The Gatekeeper in Summer Knight
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Ulfgeir on February 07, 2019, 07:56:02 PM ---Well, he took down the Mad Arab, who according to H.P. Lovecraft wrote the Necronomicon...
We also know that he is not the strongest wizard, but the most dangerous.
/Ulfgeir
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Given that it appears that he can open a portal to almost anywhere in reality, that would make him pretty dangerous.
And if Outsiders are in a realm outside the flow of time it isn't unreasonable to think that he doesn't age at the wall at all.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 08, 2019, 05:31:34 PM ---Or he could be regular wizard old, but has spent so much time in the Nevernever, that he has skipped hundreds of years. On the other hand, he may have spent hundreds of years in the Nevernever, but less time passed in the real world.
This and the "Our" thread by Yuillegan brought to my attention that Rashid says "a bit of questionable attention from the Fates and a ridiculously enormous tool." Then he taps his fake eye. In the "Our" thread, we were discussing how Harry summoned Mother Winter using the names of one of the Norse Fates (Norns) and one of the Greek Fates (Moirai). Moirai actually translates to "apportioners," not fates. At least according to wikipedia.
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That line from Rashid I took to mean when he took up the role of Gatekeeper or it was thrust upon him he was given the "gift" of the eye not unlike Harry getting the gift of Soulfire..
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 08, 2019, 09:52:10 PM ---That line from Rashid I took to mean when he took up the role of Gatekeeper or it was thrust upon him he was given the "gift" of the eye not unlike Harry getting the gift of Soulfire..
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Well I know I'm nit picking but Soulfire was not a gift. It was just a balancing of the scales. Harry would not have gotten it if not for hellfire
Mira:
--- Quote from: groinkick on February 09, 2019, 02:35:07 AM ---Well I know I'm nit picking but Soulfire was not a gift. It was just a balancing of the scales. Harry would not have gotten it if not for hellfire
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Perhaps, but it was still a gift..
Bad Alias:
My point is only that I had never really noticed that he is saying that the Faerie Queens did whatever to him. Whether that was taking his eye, giving him the new one, or offering him the role of Gatekeeper. While it may have been something he chose, it was also something done to him by the "questionable attention from the Fates."
Kind of like how Harry is what he is at this point because of the choices he made and attention from powerful supernatural beings.
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