The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
BrainFireBob:
Few comments:
If female WCV are fertile, then they're having periods. Males are still superior in terms of 24/7 fertility. I rather suspect Papa Raith keeps a few other males around specifically so they can breed 24/7 if necessary.
Also, I have long suspected, given that WCVs are never White Council level, that their Hunger fundamentally feeds on their magic. Corollary; all WCVs would be at least Paranet-level talents if not for their Hunger. Those like Thomas who have some serious magic anyway- opening portals to the Nevernever, tracking spells- are the ones who would have been White Council level.
Further potential corollary; the stronger your gift for magic would have been, the stronger your Hunger. Thomas's is particularly strong; which tracks having a mother who was a wizard.
I would posit that without latent "talent", they simply don't survive conception. So their birthrate is constrained by this. Since additionally most of them don't use magic, their own talents wouldn't influence their offspring a la Charity and Molly versus Molly's siblings.
This would explain the following:
1) Why the WCV haven't tried going after the Paranet talents before- their elders are aware this is cutting off their own population.
2) Why Lord Raith was interested in the not-quite-sex-goddess Margaret Le Fay- she's guaranteed offspring.
Dina:
I like many of that. I don't know if it is exactly like that, but I think you definitely are into something.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 29, 2020, 02:48:58 AM ---There is an interesting idea lurking around this conversation. If it is the first fatal feeding that turns a white, does the infant who kills his mother during gestation come out a full fledged vampire?
And this is covered to some degree in PG at the Fool Moon Garage.
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I think it is a bit more complicated. The fetus is the host of the Hunger Demon, but since a fetus has no emotion, it's demon cannot feed upon it, so it feeds on the mother's emotions. Apparently with a few exceptions, Margaret survived being pregnant with Thomas, the demon feeds to the point that the mother dies either in child birth or shortly after. I don't think the child is born a full fledged vampire simply because a child, while it loves, usually doesn't have the kind of passion/sexual love for lack of a better way to describe it that it's demon feeds upon. So like a lot of parasites and some other creatures, it goes dormant until it's food source becomes available, that is the first time it's host has sex. Since the demon hasn't eaten in several years, it's hunger is such, it feeds on the person the host is having sex with until it dies. That at least is my theory on how it works in House Raith, however we also know that in the case of other White Court Vamp Houses, the Hunger Demon parasite feeds on different emotions.
Arjan:
As a wizard Margaret had more life energy than normal humans and she might have had a few tricks to get hold of even more power.
didymos:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 04, 2020, 01:12:07 PM --- Apparently with a few exceptions, Margaret survived being pregnant with Thomas, the demon feeds to the point that the mother dies either in child birth or shortly after.
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It's not a few exceptions. It's about 50/50, per the chapter.
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