The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
Dina:
Yes, you are right, didymos, Yuillegan. I misread. It says "all but infertile" not "infertile". I my first reading I did not see the "but".
About the protection, as Bad Alias says, perhaps the vulnerability to love only appears when the host comes of age.
And of course all happens in Chicago because that is where Harry lives. It's like all crazy villains gathering in Gotham :). But as many said, yes, Harry is one reason of Marcone's success.
forumghost:
Speaking of the near-sterility of Wampires, can I just take a second here to say I totally called it?
--- Quote from: https://www.paranetonline.com/index.php/topic,40670.msg1996848.html#msg1996848 ---Unless there is some Biological Limitation on the White courts reproduction. Which is my personal theory, because otherwise there would be a lot more of them.
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didymos:
This revelation about White fertility kind of throws a wrench in the "Margaret had Thomas on purpose" theory (not that Jim hadn't already thrown a wrench in it when he said Thomas was unplanned). Kind of hard to pull off when your odds of getting pregnant are so very low. Also screws up the "Harry is really Lord Raith's kid" notion a bit. Again: hard to pull off when the odds don't favor you in the least.
Mira:
--- Quote ---"All but infertile" is not the same thing as "most vampires are sterile". It just means they have children rarely given how often they, um, hook up. But keep at it long enough, like over centuries of time, and the number of kids can add up. In this case, Thomas and Justine just got lucky. Or unlucky, as they might see it.
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Yet, their numbers are very low, so probably most are sterile, the few that are not, become dominant. It might also explain why Lord Raith's wives weren't vamps, perhaps two vamps cannot reproduce. Also we know for example that a male donkey and a female horse can have a baby, it is called a mule.. Mules are sterile.. If that is the way with White Court Vamps, it is understandable why Thomas would believe he is sterile, thus thinking it safe to have sex without protection.. However consider who his mother was, Margaret was a wizard, that might be the exception to the rule.
didymos:
--- Quote from: Mira on March 27, 2020, 01:04:17 PM ---Yet, their numbers are very low, so probably most are sterile, the few that are not, become dominant.
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Pure conjecture. We don't know that.
--- Quote --- It might also explain why Lord Raith's wives weren't vamps, perhaps two vamps cannot reproduce. Also we know for example that a male donkey and a female horse can have a baby, it is called a mule.. Mules are sterile..
If that is the way with White Court Vamps, it is understandable why Thomas would believe he is sterile, thus thinking it safe to have sex without protection..
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Thomas never believed he was sterile. Just "all but infertile", per the text. Also, they did take precautions:
--- Quote ---I scowled. “I mean, weren’t you careful?”
“Yes,” Thomas said. “And my kind are all but infertile to boot. Happened anyway."
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