The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Peace Talks snippet on Entertainment Weekly
Mira:
--- Quote ---Yes, but if the information is worth writing down and preserving, one has to balance risks of dissemination with risks of the info being lost.
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I think we must also take into account how the journals were handed down. Whether with in a family, which would mean Merlin is Harry's great,great,great, grand something... Yikes, just what would that mean? :o Or more likely handed down from master to the most worthy and trusted apprentice, it would not be done willy nilly. You can bet that Merlin did build in safe guards so
the information would not go anywhere except to the person it was intended to go to. It might be as simple as the language it is written in. We are all debating what language it is written in, what if it is all in a code? Simply put, the abilty to read them is inherited along with the journal. That way no one else could ever read them..
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 01, 2020, 06:02:55 PM ---Simply put, the abilty to read them is inherited along with the journal.
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If it's anything other than some sort of magic decoder ring that gets passed down with the books, then Eb is falling down on the job. I also think the Eb quote Morris posted cuts against that interpretation.
morriswalters:
I'm assuming for my internal reasoning that Merlin is Harry, because of something Vadderung said in Cold Days. But it isn't out of the realm of possibility that we may never know who he was and how he did what he did or where he came from. He may merely be a plot device. The Eb quote could be an indicator that it won't be revealed or that it will be in some kind of knowledge passed on to Harry by Eb as he dies, since it appears that Eb may have read it, or something to that effect.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 02, 2020, 02:08:34 AM ---If it's anything other than some sort of magic decoder ring that gets passed down with the books, then Eb is falling down on the job. I also think the Eb quote Morris posted cuts against that interpretation.
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Nothing so obvious as a decoder ring, something passed mentally not unlike the death curse. When you inherit the journals the ability to read them suddenly enters your head. Hey if Merlin built the prison on Demonreach I wouldn't put that kind of generational spell beyond what he was capable of doing.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 02, 2020, 04:05:03 AM --- Nothing so obvious as a decoder ring, something passed mentally not unlike the death curse. When you inherit the journals the ability to read them suddenly enters your head. Hey if Merlin built the prison on Demonreach I wouldn't put that kind of generational spell beyond what he was capable of doing.
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I don't think an actual "ring" or other item was meant, just a magical mechanism or method, something that could be passed on.
And if you want sudden magical access to language ... Gonna point (again) to Lash, who gave Harry access to 2 utterly dead languages (maybe could have been more, if there was a need ... ).
So we KNOW it's a do-able thing. If a mortal wizard can do it at all, Merlin's our guy! Ermmm... If Merlin is a "mortal wizard" at all (he's a half-immortal Scion in some (most?) accounts).
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