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[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
didymos:
--- Quote from: Mira on March 28, 2020, 04:40:31 AM --- If I remember correctly it was a gathering of all the clans and it only amounted to a hundred or so.
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It was the three major houses: Raith, Malvora, and Skavis. It's implied there are also some minor houses that haven't been named:
--- Quote ---“It’s one of the greater Houses of the White Court,” I said, nodding. “Raith, Skavis, and Malvora are the big three.”
Butcher, Jim. White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) . Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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As to the number of vamps there:
--- Quote ---We entered the cavern and found it packed with pale and startled beings, the entire place a wash of beautiful faces and gorgeous wardrobes—except for twenty feet around the entrance, where everyone had hurried away from the blazing herald of our presence.
Butcher, Jim. White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) . Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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We then get a number on how many are seated, and that is about a hundred:
--- Quote ---Furniture had been arranged in three large groupings, with a large open space in the center of the floor, and they were occupied by what I could only presume were the leading members of the three major Houses—somewhere near a hundred vampires in all.
Butcher, Jim. White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) . Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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There's some ambiguity there. It may have been only a hundred total after all, or there may have been some vamps standing instead of sitting. In any case, most of them were only the "leading members of the three major Houses", which would mean there were a bunch of Whites who weren't in attendance.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on March 28, 2020, 04:40:31 AM ---I agree, but if he were, she shouldn't have gotten pregnant.
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He did. She did.
Mira:
--- Quote ---There's some ambiguity there. It may have been only a hundred total after all, or there may have been some vamps standing instead of sitting. In any case, most of them were only the "leading members of the three major Houses", which would mean there were a bunch of Whites who weren't in attendance.
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Or in reality, there are not that many White Court Vamps.. Consider, they feed on emotion, sex is part of that, often until death if it goes that far.. So either there should be a lot of them, creating babies as they feed, or not that many because they are mostly sterile, and if they have sex it usually ends in death for the partner. Say only Lord Raith is fertile in his House, he has had more than one wife in his long lifetime, while he only fathered one with Margaret, we don't know how many he fathered by his other wives, that adds up over the centuries. Especially unless killed vamps live a very very long time.
morriswalters:
Since they speak ancient whatever, assume 2000 years. Assuming one partner a day times 3000 years. And then every time he beats the odds he creates a new potential breeder, assuming it breaks towards males. So over time it adds up. It looks like Lara's demon would consider a fetus as a competitor and kill it. So no baby Lara's. On the other hand Wraith's strategy of killing male children is a birth control strategy in and of itself. Thomas speaks to that point.
Certainly the same strategy that the Whites tried against the wizards would make a nasty suspicious mind like mine think in those same terms about the Whites. And if my guess was right it would be open season on the males of the White Vampires. You know, sauce for the goose so to speak.
Bad Alias:
Vittorio Malvora was the son of Cesarina Malvora according to the wiki. https://dresdenfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Vittorio_Malvora. That was my recollection.
--- Quote from: Mira on March 28, 2020, 03:50:28 PM ---So either there should be a lot of them, creating babies as they feed, or not that many because they are mostly sterile.
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There's no reason it can't be somewhere in between "a lot" and "not that many."
--- Quote from: Mira on March 28, 2020, 03:50:28 PM ---if they have sex it usually ends in death for the partner.
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Uhm ... no it doesn't.
--- Quote from: Mira on March 28, 2020, 03:50:28 PM ---Say only Lord Raith is fertile in his House.
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He isn't. There's old whats his name from Bigfoot on Campus.
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