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The Gatekeeper in Summer Knight
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 10, 2019, 06:07:33 PM ---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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Attention, Harry caught the attention of Heaven when he resisted the shadow of Lasciel... He was gifted with soulfire, but no instruction manual, because technically Heaven isn't supposed to interfere.. Excuse to balance the scales, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense... Hellfire existed before Harry had it, then he had it, there was no one out there with "balancing" soulfire except the angels... But it is something he needs for the fight....
I imagine Rashid caught the attention of the Fates, when he was chosen for a particular job, what is useful for guarding the Gates and making sure the sneaky Enemy doesn't invade? Yeah, he was gifted with a very important tool...
Bad Alias:
I think Harry had the attention of Heaven before that. Michael shows up pretty hard in Harry's life just before Grave Peril. Then a fairy queen "buys" Harry in the next book. In the next book, an angel sends the Knights a message about him, and the Denarians mess with that message at considerable effort. Then the Nicodemus tries to recruit him.
Then there are all the mysterious visitations Harry has. The feminine presence in Storm Front, his dad's visitation, Butters saving him in Dead Beat. I'm probably missing several before Harry "converts" Lash in White Night.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 10, 2019, 08:17:11 PM ---I think Harry had the attention of Heaven before that. Michael shows up pretty hard in Harry's life just before Grave Peril. Then a fairy queen "buys" Harry in the next book. In the next book, an angel sends the Knights a message about him, and the Denarians mess with that message at considerable effort. Then the Nicodemus tries to recruit him.
Then there are all the mysterious visitations Harry has. The feminine presence in Storm Front, his dad's visitation, Butters saving him in Dead Beat. I'm probably missing several before Harry "converts" Lash in White Night.
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No doubt, he is a star born after all. I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out that Rashid is also a star born. I don't think it a coincident that he'd be friends with, and a protector of his mother. I also wouldn't be shocked if Rashid was in on all the machinations leading up to Harry's conception.. That he was also the main reason why she managed to elude the Wardens for as long as she did.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 10, 2019, 10:57:18 PM ---No doubt, he is a star born after all. I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out that Rashid is also a star born. I don't think it a coincident that he'd be friends with, and a protector of his mother. I also wouldn't be shocked if Rashid was in on all the machinations leading up to Harry's conception.. That he was also the main reason why she managed to elude the Wardens for as long as she did.
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I imagine Eb had something to do with her eluding capture, too.
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 03, 2019, 04:43:58 PM ---The Gatekeeper is able to track Harry in some fashion.
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--- Quote ---"What are you doing here?"
"Looking for you," he said.
"You've been watching?"
He shook his head. "Call it listening. But I have had glimpses of you. And matters are worsening in Chicago."
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The Gatekeeper may not be tracking Harry directly. We have so little information to work with. For example, if I were to ask forum members to give an explanation of what the Gatekeeper meant when he said, "Call it listening," I bet every response would be unique, and we wouldn't have a way to confirm any of them. (So please don't try unless you can quote something directly from one of the novels to back you up.) To get back to my main point, whatever the Gatekeeper may be perceiving, it's possible Rashid is looking for black magic, or to steal a Star Wars term; "a disturbance in the Force," or Mab might call it, "A disturbance in the balance of forces," and Harry is often at or near the center of those disturbances, so that could be how the Gatekeeper gets glimpses of, and eventually finds Harry.
Only in Turn Coat, after Harry called the White Council and told them he had Morgan, can we safely assume the Gatekeeper was directly looking for Harry. Even then, we don't really know if Rashid saw where Harry was, or if he saw, heard or felt something that told him to go to Demonreach without knowing; I mean having having 100% knowledge, that Harry was there. It could have been, the Gatekeeper's search only revealed to him that he had to get to the dock on Demonreach to learn the truth. He could have easily guessed that Harry would be there, but that's not the same thing as being certain that Harry would be there.
Unless the Gatekeeper gives us a more detailed explanation of how he gets these perceptions; which seems really unlikely, or Harry gets to use the Outer Gates material himself to do some kind of magic search; which could happen in a future story, we don't have a solid explanation of what the Gatekeeper does or what he's looking for. By the way, I'm fine if we never do. Not everything in the Dresden Files requires a detailed explanation.
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