The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Denarians and/or Circle in Storm Front?
Bad Alias:
The sight is one thing with three aspects. The two g33k pointed out and soul gazes. According to the Paranet Papers, all wizards have the sight, but not all who have the sight are wizards.
Storm Front is the only time Harry opens his sight and sees the future. This hasn't ever happened again.
Mira:
--- Quote ---The sight is one thing with three aspects. The two g33k pointed out and soul gazes. According to the Paranet Papers, all wizards have the sight, but not all who have the sight are wizards.
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Yeah, all too true..
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 12, 2020, 03:48:18 AM --- The sight is one thing with three aspects. The two g33k pointed out and soul gazes.
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I'm willing to believe that a Soulgaze is related; but it isn't the same.
You can only have it once per person; it begins, happens, and ends. If you don't avert your gaze, it is unavoidable.
It is something mutual, so even if the other party has no Sight, they still join in... just as if they had initiated it themselves, and did have the Sight.
These each seem to be different things. I'm willing to believe the three are related, to believe they have some common causal feature. But I'm not convinced of it; I don't think we have in-'Verse canon, or WoJ.
As you say -- it doesn't take a Wizard to have "the Sight," the true-seeing aspect of it. But IIRC you do have to be a Wizard to do a Soulgaze; not just anyone with Sight can do that.
I'm unclear on the involuntary-precog thing... it's something that happens after a while of wizarding, but can it happen to others? It's not quite Cassandra's Tears... but it's not entirely dissimilar, either.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote ---And when a wizard looks into a person's eyes, it's just another way of using the Sight.
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Grave Peril - Chapter 35.
--- Quote ---Jim:
You got to have some serious magical chops before a soulgaze is an issue–and yes, it’s one of the markers that the Council uses to see if you make the cut, though it’s far from the only one. There are folks running around who can do it who aren’t on the Council, but not many of them.
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I'm assuming that "on the Council" and wizard are synonymous here, but I could be wrong on that.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 12, 2020, 11:48:21 PM --- Grave Peril - Chapter 35.
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TYVM! Provisionally, then, I guess a Soulgaze is a specific form of "the Sight." I say "provisional" because it's early enough in the series to be Early Installment Weirdness (and as I noted, Sight-vs-Soulgaze have some notable differences); but then, it hasn't AFAIK been explicitly contradicted, so I'll go with that.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 12, 2020, 11:48:21 PM --- I'm assuming that "on the Council" and wizard are synonymous here, but I could be wrong on that.
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I think the Council tries to make them synonymous, but doesn't always succeed. Kemmler wasn't on the council (AFAIK), but was "a wizard" by every measure except that neither party would accept the other. I bet Elaine isn't the only wizard who intentionally failed her entry-exams. Etc.
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